Spatial Analysis: Terms and Concepts, Quizzes of Geography

Download Spatial Analysis: Terms and Concepts and more Quizzes Geography in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Spatial Analysis DEFINITION 1 A process of investigating the patters that arise as a result of processes that may be operating in space TERM 2 Types of Spatial Analysis (6) DEFINITION 2 1) Spatial data manipulation/analysis2) Statistical spatial analysis3) Spatial modeling4) Exploratory spatial analysis5) Geostatistics6) Geocomputation TERM 3 What is Geocoding? DEFINITION 3 The process of assigning a georeferenced location, usually in the form of coordinate values, to an address TERM 4 Steps of Geocoding DEFINITION 4 1) Prepare Data: Create an event table where addresses are recorded in a style supported by the address geocoding software2) Geocoding (address matching): Parse and compares an address in an event table to the addresses of a reference dataset TERM 5 What are the (2) elements of a network? DEFINITION 5 1. Junctions2. Edges TERM 6 Possible Problems in Geocoding (4) DEFINITION 6 1. Variations in street names2. Data entry errors3. Missing street information4. Place names (UMD, UMCP) TERM 7 What are the (4) data classification methods? DEFINITION 7 1. Equal Intervals2. Natural Breaks3. Quantile Breaks4. Mean- Standard Deviation TERM 8 What is Dissolving? DEFINITION 8 Combination of spatially adjacent features within a data layer with a common attribute (the "dissolve" attribute) TERM 9 What do proximity functions do? DEFINITION 9 Modify existing features or create new features that depend in some way of distance TERM 10 What is Buffering? DEFINITION 10 The process of creating buffersA buffer of a feature is a region that is less than or equal to a specified distance from one or more features