Lesson 7

SMT201 Geographic Information Systems for Urban Planning

About

Weekly Session

Take Home Exercises

GIS Project

Course Resources

The Science of Mapthematics and Cartographic Modelling

Raster-based GIS Analysis

Introduction to Raster-based GIS Analysis

• The basic concept of raster GIS data model
• Raster database
• Characteristics of raster
• Raster resolution
• The composite weight

Map Algebra Methods

• Local functions
• Focal functions
• Neighbourhood functions
• Zonal functions

Cartographic Modelling

• A process of map analysis

All About QGIS

• Working with Raster Data
• 8.3. Lesson: Terrain Analysis

References

Core Reading

• Chapter 10 Map Algebra of Intro to GIS and Spatial Analysis (online version)
• Berry, Joseph (1987) "A mathematical structure for analyzing maps", Environmental Management, Vol.11(3), pp.317-325.
• Cartographic Modeling [1]

Additional readings

• Map algebra
• GIS Modeling and Analysis