The Esri Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 1: Geographic Patterns and Relationships

The Esri Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 1: Geographic Patterns and Relationships

by Andy Mitchell
The Esri Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 1: Geographic Patterns and Relationships

The Esri Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 1: Geographic Patterns and Relationships

by Andy Mitchell

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Overview

Do more with your GIS and understand the foundation of spatial analysis: geographic patterns and relationships.

A geographic information system (GIS) enables so much more than mapping. A GIS inherently enables spatial analysis that can give you a better understanding of your geographic data. GIS analysis reveals answers to questions like:

  • Where is it?
  • Where’s the most and least?
  • How much is where?
  • What’s inside?
  • What’s nearby?
  • What’s changed?

But how do you get started? The second edition of The Esri Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 1 shows you how and more.

With easier to read maps and text, The Esri Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 1, second edition, updates a classic text and teaches foundational spatial analysis patterns that provides geographic insights. Learn the basic concepts of spatial analysis and GIS. Build on that understanding with essential map-building skills to unveil and display patterns and relationships. The Esri Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 1, second edition, also includes a guide to online lessons that reinforce the concepts and demonstrate GIS application.

Written for both new and experienced GIS users using an easy to follow format, the second edition of The Esri Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 1 helps you build a foundation of the basic tasks needed to handle a wide range of analysis applications and prepares you for more advanced GIS skills.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781589485792
Publisher: Esri Press
Publication date: 05/26/2020
Series: The Esri Guide to GIS Analysis , #1
Edition description: Second Edition
Pages: 312
Sales rank: 699,710
Product dimensions: 7.60(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Andy Mitchell is a technical writer with more than 30 years’ experience in GIS. He is the author or co-author of several books, including The Esri Guide to GIS Analysis series and Zeroing In: Geographic Information Systems at Work in the Community.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the second edition vii

Foreword to the first edition ix

Acknowledgments xi

Chapter 1 Introducing GIS Analysis 1

What is GIS analysis? 3

Understanding geographic features 5

Understanding geographic attributes 14

Chapter 2 Mapping Where Things Are 23

Why map where things are? 24

Deciding what to map 25

Preparing your data 27

Making your map 29

Analyzing geographic patterns 46

Chapter 3 Mapping the Most and Least 51

Why map the most and least? 52

What do you need to map? 53

Understanding quantities 57

Creating classes 63

Making a map 79

Looking for patterns 99

Chapter 4 Mapping Density 105

Why map density? 106

Deciding what to map 107

Two ways of mapping density 109

Mapping density for defined areas 113

Creating a density surface 118

Chapter 5 Finding What's Inside 133

Why map what's inside? 134

Defining your analysis 134

Three ways of finding what's inside 145

Drawing areas and features 148

Selecting features inside an area 153

Overlaying areas and features 160

Chapter 6 Finding What's Nearby 181

Why map what's nearby? 182

Defining your analysis 182

Three ways of finding what's nearby 189

Using straight-line distance 192

Measuring distance or cost over a network 217

Calculating cost over a geographic surface 229

Chapter 7 Mapping Change 241

Why map change? 242

Defining your analysis 242

Three ways of mapping change 257

Creating a time series 259

Creating a tracking map 268

Measuring and mapping change 275

Where to get more information 289

Data credits 294

Index 295

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