Spatial Analysis vector data analysis

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Spatial Analysis vector data analysis

• Lecture 8
• 10/12/2006

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Spatial Analysis tools in ArcToolBox
Shapefile Feature class
Coverage
Raster
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Details
Coverage
Shapefile and feature class
Raster
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Extract

• To create a new subset from the input (features
  and attributes in a feature class or table) based
  on spatial intersection or an attribute query.
• Clip
• Select
• Split
• Table select only

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Clip

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Select
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Split
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Overlay

• Joining two existing sets of features into a
  single set of features to identify spatail
  relationships between the input features.
• Erase
• Identify
• Intersect
• Symmetrical difference
• Union
• Updata

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Proximity

• Identify features that are closest to one
  another, calculate the distances around them, and
  calculate distances between them.
• Buffer
• Multiple ring buffer
• Near
• Point distance

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How to form Thiessen polygons

• Also known as 'Voronoi networks' and 'Delaunay
  triangulations', Thiessen polygons were
  independently discovered in several fields of
  study, including climatology and geography. They
  are named after a climatologist who used them to
  perform a transformation from point climate
  stations to watersheds.
• Thiessen polygons can be used to describe the
  area of influence of a point in a set of points.
  If you take a set of points and connect each
  point to its nearest neighbour, you have what's
  called a triangulated irregular network (TIN). If
  you bisect each connecting line segment
  perpendicularly and create closed polygons with
  the perpendicular bisectors, the result will be a
  set of Thiessen polygons. The area contained in
  each polygon is closer to the point on which the
  polygon is based than to any other point in the
  dataset.