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What is Spatial Analysis

Methods and Applications of Geospatial Technology in Sustainable Urbanism
Refers to statistical analysis based on patterns and spatial relations between variables, human and/or natural.
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Spotting Premium Hot Spots for Urban Tourism Based on Facebook and Foursquare Data Using VGI and GIS
José Gomes dos Santos (University of Coimbra, Portugal), Liliana Raquel Simões Azevedo (University of Coimbra, Portugal), and Luís Carlos Roseiro Leitão (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2249-3.ch006
Abstract
Spatial modeling always involves choices. The existence of constraints, the uncertainty and even the reliability of the data, the purposes and the applications of the studies make these reflections a kind of guiding compass for GIS analysts. Building on a previous exercise of data acquisition (check-ins) based on two digital social networks (DSN – Facebook and Foursquare) and on the awareness of the use of volunteered geographic information (VGI) generated by tourists through DSN, this work aims to evaluate the contribution of spatial analysis applied to urban tourism in the “Alta and University of Coimbra” area. Concepts and procedural tasks related to density determination, cluster analysis, and identification of patterns have thus been implemented with the purpose of evaluating and comparing the results obtained through the application of two techniques of spatial analysis, kernel density estimation (KDE) and optimized hot spot analysis (OHSA) and inverse distance weighting (IDW) interpolation.
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Predictive Expert Models for Mineral Potential Mapping
A formal techniques for studying entities relative to their geographic or geometric components.
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Addressing the New Pragmatic Methods in Urban Design Discipline
A research paradigm to explain the patterns of human behavior and their spatial expression through analyzing the events of a location or place, by focuses on two ways: buffering and overlaying.
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Hydraulic Planning in Insular Urban Territories: The Case of Madeira Island – Porto da Cruz
Is the process of extracting or creating new information about a set of geographic features to perform routine examination, assessment, evaluation, analysis, or modeling of data in a geographic area based on pre-established and computerized criteria and standards.
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Spatial Autocorrelation and Association Measures
In a broad sense, the analysis of spatial phenomena performed to find and describe order and patterns (or confirm their absence) and to understand their underlying structure.
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GIS: Changing the Economic Development World
The computing of spatial relationships such as distance, connectivity and directional relationships between spatial units
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Remote Sensing and GIS for Modelling Green Roofs Potential at Different Urban Scales
Methods and techniques that produce knowledge from data with geographic representation.
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Leveraging GIS for Environmental Planning and Management
This refers to a set of techniques used to analyze the spatial relationships, patterns, and trends of geographic data. Spatial analysis tools within GIS software allow users to identify clusters of features, calculate distances and network connectivity, and model spatial processes.
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Unveiling Urban Oasis: Insights From OSM Data on Green Spaces
Spatial analysis is a set of techniques that are applied in order to analyze geographic data, with a goal to reveal spatial relationships, patterns, and processes. It consists of a study of the spatial distribution of features, the detection of linear or cluster trends, and forming predictions on the spatial processes. Spatial data analysis tools include buffer analysis, hot spots analysis, kriging, and spatial regression.
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Geography and Public Health
Using geographic data to mathematically model the relationship between measures such those mentioned previously, that is, alcohol outlets and violence.
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Geospatial Influence in Science Mapping
Spatial analysis or geospatial analysis includes approaches to applying statistical analysis and other analytic techniques to data which has a geographical or spatial aspect, most notably in the analysis of entities using their topological, geometric, or geographic properties (source: Spatial Analysis, 2016 AU57: The in-text citation "Spatial Analysis, 2016" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ).
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Geospatial Influence in Science Mapping
Spatial analysis or geospatial analysis includes approaches to applying statistical analysis and other analytic techniques to data which has a geographical or spatial aspect, most notably in the analysis of entities using their topological, geometric, or geographic properties (source: Spatial Analysis, 2016 AU57: The in-text citation "Spatial Analysis, 2016" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ).
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