Spatial Analysis and Synthesis with Gis

Chapter 6: Analysis of GIS Data by Simple Examination

• Information
• Computer Hardware—What a Computer Does
• Continuous and Discrete Phenomena
• Some Implications of Discrete Representation for GIS
• Scientific Notation, Numerical Significance, Accuracy, and Precision
• Precision vs. Accuracy
• Basic Statistics
• Putting Values into Classes
• Measurement Scales

Chapter 7: Creating Spatial Feature Classes Based on Proximity, Overlay, and Attributes

• Generating Features Based on Proximity: Buffering
  Generating Features by Overlaying
  Overlaying with Line and Point Feature Classes
  Spatial Joins in General
  Deriving Feature Classes by Selecting Attributes: Extraction

Chapter 8: Spatial Analysis Based on Raster Data Processing

• A Really Different Processing Paradigm
• Facts about Rasters
• Coordinate Space
• Rasters with Integer Cell Values
• Rasters with Floating-Point Values
• What Is Raster Storage and Processing Good For?
• Rasters and Features
• Rasters: Input, Computation, and Output
• Where Raster Processing Shines: Cost Incurred Traveling over a Distance
• Proximity Calculation with Rasters
• Human Activity, Cost, and Distance
• Euclidean Distances on the Raster
• Euclidean Distance and the Spatial Analyst
• Proving Pythagoras Right
• Finding the Closest of Multiple Source Cells
• Excluding Distances beyond a Certain Threshold
• Other Factors That Influence Cost
• The Cost Distance Mechanism
• The Cost Distance Calculation
• Path Calculation in Euclidean Distance and Cost Distance
• Understanding How Total Costs Are Calculated
• Getting More Information: Paths and Allocations
• Direction and Allocation Rasters for Euclidean Distance
• Direction and Allocation Rasters for Cost Distance
• A Major Application of Raster Processing: Hydrology
• Basic Surface Hydrology
• Basic Surface Hydrology Concepts
• Calculating Flow Direction
• The Ultimate Destination of Water Is Off the Raster Area
• Flow Accumulation: Drainage Delineation and Rainfall Volume
• Nonuniform Rainfall
• Calculating the Length of a Potential Linear Water Body
• Assigning Identities to Streams
• Vector vs. Raster Representation
• Assigning Orders to Stream Links
• Watersheds and Pour Points

Chapter 9: Other Dimensions, Other Tools, Other Solutions

• Two Different Third Dimensions: The Temporal and the Vertical Spatial
• The Third Spatial Dimension