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About

Weekly Session

Take-home Exercises

Geospatial Analytics Project

Course Resources

 


Content

  • What is geospatial analytics?
  • Motivation of promoting geospatial analytics
  • Case study
  • An overview of Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • GIS versus Geospatial Analytics


Must do

Read:

O’Sullivan, D., and Unwin, D. (2010) Geographic Information Analysis, Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons Inc., New Jersey, Canada. Chapter 5-6.

“4.3.4 Density, kernels and occupancy” in De Smith, M. J., Goodchild, M.F., and Longley, P.A. (2018) Geospatial Analysis: A Comprehensive Guide to Principles Techniques and Software Tools (6th edition) [1]


In-Class Exercise

  • Hands-on Exercise 8. The handout and data sets are available at course eLearn.


R Packages

  • spatstat: Spatial Point Pattern Analysis, Model-Fitting, Simulation, Tests [2]
  • Getting Started with spatstat [3].
  • Handling shapefiles in the spatstat package [4]


References

Methods

Brunsdon, C. & Comber, L. (2015) An Introduction to R for Spatial Analysis & Mapping, SAGE, London. Chapter 6.

Applications