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• 1.3 Spatial-Temporal data model

• What are spatio-temporal data models?

  They are ways of organizing representations of space and time in a GIS

• What are spatio-temporal analysis?

  Consideration of changes of spatial and thematic attributes over time

• What is object motion?

  Both spatial and attribute domains are variable and consider how fields or objects have changed over time

• 1.4 Webbook: Spatial data models and methods

• Where should you be aware of with data manipulation?

  Almost always will the data in both expected and unexpected ways, in many instances resulting in some loss of information

• What is T-mode data?

  The recording of complete spatial fields at distinct points in time, views as a set of time slices (typically in fixed time intervals)

• What is S-mode analysis?

  Is complete spatial fiels recorded at distinct points in time, viewd as a set of point locations or pixels, each of which has a temporal profile --> space-time cube

• What is Agent Based Modelling?

  The application of a range of microsimulation techniques

• 2 Raster Analysis

• 2.1 Vector Measurements

• What is distance measurement?

  The computation of the minimal distance between a location occupied by the first feature and a location occupied by the second feature

• What is area size measurement?

  Is associated with polygon features.

• 2.3 Thiessen Polygons

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• What are Thiessen polygons?

  Polygons that make use of geomeric distance neighbourhoods. This is useful if we have a spatially distributed set of points as target locations and we want to know the closest target for each location in the study. . This technique will generate a polygon around each target location that identifies all those locations that “belong to” that target.