Lesson04

IS415 GeoSpatial Analytics and Applications

About

Weekly Session

Take-home Exercises

Geospatial Analytics Project

Course Resources

Spatial Autocorrelation and Spatial Weights

Content

• Tobler’s First law of Geography
• Principles of spatial autocorrelation
• Concepts of Spatial Proximity and Spatial Weights
• Measures of Spatial Autocorrelation
  • Join count, Moran’s I, Geary’s c
  • Moran scatter plot
  • Spatial correlogram
  • Nonparametric spatial correlogram

References

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

Getis, A., 2010 “B.3 Spatial Autocorrelation” in Fischer, M.M., and Getis, A. 2010 Handbook of Applied Spatial Analysis: Software Tools, Methods and Applications, Springer.

Anselin, L. (1996) “The Moran scatterplot as an ESDA tool to assess local instability in spatial association”