Module Title:
GIS and Spatial Statistics
Module Code:
DSC6331

Module Content

• Unit 1. GIS
  GIS concepts: GIS definitions, GIS applications in urban planning and environmental management, GIS software.
• Representing geographic features: Primitive elements (point, line, and polygon); vector data structures; raster data structures; layers.
• Spatial data and sources: data definition, types, format, standard, conversion, precision and accuracy.
• Data entry and preparation: creating and editing features and attributes, data cleaning, topology, GPS data collection, recording and integration, data quality.
• Map projections and transformation, geo-referencing of data.
• Practicals: Introduction ArcGIS GIS (ArcMap, ArcCatalog, ArcToolbox), Open source GIS softwares
• Unit 2: Spatial statistics
  Introduction to spatial statistics: point level models, areal (lattice) models, spatial point processes
• Estimation and modelling of spatial correlations: estimating variogram, fitting parametric models (matern class), maximum likelihood estimation, restricted maximum likelihood
• Spatial prediction and Interpolation (kriging): spatial regression, kriging, frequentist corrections for unknown covariance structure, model misspecification in kriging