The Esri Guide To Gis Analysis Geographic Patterns Relationships

Backed by the collective knowledge and expertise of the worlds leading Geographic Information Systems company, this volume presents the concepts and methods unleashing the full analytic power of GIS.

The Esri Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 1, second edition, updates a classic text that lays the foundation for all GIS users to find spatial patterns, relationships, and trends that lead to better decision-making.

The Esri Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 1, second edition, lays the foundation for all GIS users to understand and engage in spatial analysis to find patterns, relationships, and trends that lead to better decision-making.

As the tools available through commercial GIS software have grown in sophistication, a need has emerged to instruct users on the best practices of true GIS analysis. In this sequel to the bestselling The ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 1, author Andy Mitchell delves into the more advanced realm of spatial measurements and statistics. The premise of The ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 2, targets GIS technology as having been well used as a display and visualization medium but not so widely used as an implement for real analysis. Covering topics that range from identifying patterns and clusters, to analyzing geographic relationships, this book is a valuable resource for GIS users performing complex analysis.

Learn how to get better answers in map analysis when you use spatial measurements and statistics. Spatial measurements and statistics give you a powerful way to analyze geospatial data, but you don't need to understand complex mathematical theories to apply statistical tools and get meaningful results in your projects. The Esri Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 2: Spatial Measurements and Statistics, second edition, builds on Volume 1 by taking you to the next step of GIS analysis. Learn to answer such questions as, how are features distributed? What is the pattern created by a set of features? Where can clusters be found? This book introduces readers to basic statistical concepts and some of the most common spatial statistics tasks: measuring distributions, identifying patterns and clusters, and analyzing relationships. Updated with the latest and most useful software tools and revised explanations, each chapter in The Esri Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 2 is organized to answer basic questions about the topic. Explore how spatial statistical tools can be applied in a range of disciplines, from public health to habitat conservation. Learn how to quantify patterns beyond visualizing them in maps. Examine spatial clusters through an updated chapter on identifying clusters. Use The Esri Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 2, second edition, to understand the statistical methods and tools that can move your work past mapping and visualization to more quantitative statistical assessment.

"Understand the foundation of spatial analysis: geographic patterns and relationships. The second edition of The Esri Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 1 features easier to read maps and text, plus it provides a guide to online lessons that reinforce the concepts. The Esri Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 1 shows how geographic analysis with GIS can identify patterns, relationships, and trends that lead to better decision-making. Using examples from various industries, this book focuses on six of the most common geographic analysis tasks: mapping where things are mapping the most and least mapping density finding what is inside finding what is nearby, and mapping what has changed. Written for both new and experienced GIS users, this book builds a foundation of the basic tasks needed to handle a wide range of analysis applications"--