Lesson 5

SMT201 Geographic Information Systems for Urban Planning

About

Weekly Session

Take Home Exercises

GIS Project

Course Resources

Beyond Mapping: Vector-based GIS Analysis

Content

Geoprocessing Techniques

• CLIP
• DISSOLVE
• APPEND
• SPLIT
• APPEND
• ERASE

Proximity Analysis

• Buffering
• Thiessen Polygon

Spatial SQL

• Spatial relationship

Readings

Core readings

• Searches and Queries
• Geospatial Analysis I: Vector Operations
• Vector Spatial Analysis (Buffers)

QGIS Methods

• Vector Creation
• Vector General
• Vector Geometry
• Vector Overlay
• Vector Selection
• Vector Analysis

Use Case

Take-home Exercise 1