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

References

Core Reading

• Cartographic Modeling [1]

=Additional readings

• Map algebra
• GIS Modeling and Analysis