Abstract
Using Spatial Statistics and Geostatistical Analysis as Educational Tools Track: Education Author(s): Konrad Dramowicz The paper demonstrates how some Esri products are used for delivering the Spatial Analysis and Geostatiscs course offered for post-university students at the Centre of Geographic Sciences in Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia, Canada. Some customized tools for this purpose have been created with a scripting language. Other useful tools include such ArcGIS components as the Spatial Statistics Tools and Geostatistical Analyst extension. The entire half-semester intensive course is divided into three parts. The first part, spatial analysis, includes such issues as point pattern analysis, global and local spatial autocorrelation, G-statistic, and hot spot analysis. The second part, spatial statistics, deals with measuring geographic distributions. Finally, the last part, geostatistics, incorporates such issues as determining the type of kriging and best kriging model, neighborhood search, studying global trend, errors as well as creating and analyzing output maps. Konrad Dramowicz Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS) PO Box 172 Lawrencetown , Nova Scotia B0S 1M0 CA Phone: (902) 584-2078 Fax: (902) 584-7211 E-mail: konrad.dramowicz@nscc.ca |
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