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Practical GIS
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Practical GIS

by Gábor Farkas
June 2017
Beginner
428 pages
10h 2m
English
Packt Publishing
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Vector analysis

We can get a partial result by only considering our vector layers, and running some vector analysis tools on them. There are different methods for different type of analysis; however, we can group the most frequently used methods into the following four groups:

  • Overlay analysis: Analyzing features according to their spatial relationships to other features. Common use cases are spatial queries and spatial joins.
  • Proximity analysis: Analyzing the relationship of features based on some distances. The heart of this type in a traditional desktop GIS software is the buffer tool, while the rest of the work is basically overlay analysis.
  • Neighborhood analysis: Analyzing (more often, statistically) neighbouring features of some input ...
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