The Esri guide to GIS analysis. Volume 3, Modeling suitability, movement, and interaction / Andy Mitchell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitchell, Andy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geographic information systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (434 p.)

Place of Publication:

Redlands, California : Esri Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The third volume in the Esri Guide to GIS Analysis series, Modeling Suitability, Movement, and Interaction describes practical applications of modeling concepts in a geographic information system (GIS). Modeling allows users to explore different scenarios and the impacts of various options, before making a decision. This book covers a broad range of methods for spatial interaction, site selection, routing, and scheduling, and explains the theory behind them so users can better interpret the analysis results. It also describes how a particular method is implemented within a GIS. With full-color maps and illustrations and sample applications, this book will help students studying GIS and professional GIS analysts better use models to evaluate locations and analyze movement.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introducing GIS modeling

The GIS modeling process

Modeling and GIS data

References and further reading

Finding suitable locations

Designing a Boolean suitability model

Finding suitable locations using selection

Finding suitable locations using overlay

Rating suitable locations

Designing a suitability model

Rating locations using weighted overlay

Rating locations using fuzzy overlay

Modeling paths

Designing a path model

Modeling a path over a network

Modeling an overland path

Modeling flow

Designing a flow model

Modeling accumulation over a surface

Tracing flow over a network

Modeling interaction

Designing a model of interaction

Allocating demand to facilities

Modeling travel to facilities

Appendix

Data credits

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 19, 2014).

ISBN:

1-280-87809-6

1-58948-339-1

9786613719409

OCLC:

893683582