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Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
SGO1910 & SGO4930 Fall 2006
Karen O’BrienHarriet Holters Hus, Room 215
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Missed last week? See course web site for course outline and lecture notes
Labs begin next week (three options)
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Review
What is a GIS?
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What is a GIS?
1. A computer system capable of holding and using data describing places on the earth’s surface.
2. An organized collection of computer hardware, software, geographic data, and personnel designed to efficiently capture, store, update manipulate, analyze, and display all forms of geographically referenced information.
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Geographic Information System
Organized collection of– Hardware– Software– Network– Data– People– Procedures
PeopleSoftware
Data
Procedures
Hardware
Network
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A GIS is a computer-based tool for mapping and analyzing things
and events that are spatially located.
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A GIS integrates common database operations with
visualization and geographic analysis through the use of maps.
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A GIS stores information as a collection of thematic layers that
can be linked together by geography
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GIS helps people to:
Integrate information Visualize scenarios Solve complicated problems Present powerful ideas Develop effective solutions
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Today’s lecture: Spatial Data Models
How can we represent geographic information, conceptually and digitally?
What are rasters and vectors? What are attributes?
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The Nature of Spatial Data
Distributed through space Can be observed or described in the real
world and identified by geographical location
Change through space and time
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Sensing the World
Personal experience limited in time and space– One human lifetime– A small fraction of the planet’s surface
All additional knowledge comes from books, the media, movies, maps, images, and other information sources
From indirect or “remote” sensing
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Representations
Are needed to convey information Fit information into a standard form or
model Almost always simplify the truth that is
being represented We create representations to satisfy specific
needs and objectives.
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Are Representations Neutral? During military activities in
Iraq, OSEI program analysts collected imagery of Iraq and the Persian Gulf area for the period from March 23, 2003 through April 15, 2003. The visible channels on AVHRR, METEOSAT, and MODIS were able to detect smoke from burning oil wells, airborne sand from sandstorms, and airplane contrails. The thermal infrared channels on the AVHRR and MODIS detected hot spots from oil wells and other fires.
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Representations Occur:
In the human mind, when information is acquired through the senses and stored in memory
In photographs, which are two-dimensional models of light received by the camera
In written text, when information is expressed in words
In numbers that result from measurements
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Digital Representation
Uses only two symbols, 0 and 1, to represent information (e.g., 1111 = 15)
The basis of almost all modern human communication
Many standards allow various types of information to be expressed in digital form– MP3 for music– JPEG for images– ASCII for text– GIS relies on standards for geographic data
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Box 3.1: The Binary Counting System
Two symbols (0,1) represent numerical information
Text is transformed to numerical information according the ASCII system (2 has the code 48, = has code of 61)
Binary representation of 2 = 2: (001100000011110100110000) 8 binary digits is a byte, 1024 bytes is a kilobyte,
1,048,576 bytes is a megabyte
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Why Digital?
Economies of scale– One type of information technology for all
types of information Simplicity Reliability
– Systems can be designed to correct errors Easily copied and transmitted
– At close to the speed of light
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Accuracy of Representations
Representations can rarely be perfect– Details can be irrelevant, or too expensive and
voluminous to record It’s important to know what is missing in a
representation– Representations can leave us uncertain about
the real world
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Global Income Distribution
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Decreasing inequality?
Global income inequality is probably greater than it has ever been in human history. There is some debate about whether it is getting worse or getting better. Currently, the richest 1% of people in the world receives as much as the bottom 57%. The ratio between the average income of the top 5% in the world to the bottom 5% increased from 78 to 1 in 1988 to 114 to 1 in 1993 (Milanovic 1999).
See http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/income.php
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The Fundamental Problem
Geographic information links a place, and often a time, with some property of that place (and time)– “The temperature at 34 N, 120 W at noon local time on
12/2/99 was 18 Celsius”
The potential number of properties is vast– In GIS we term them attributes
– Attributes can be physical, social, economic, demographic, environmental, etc.
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The Fundamental Problem (cont.)
The number of places and times is also vast– Potentially infinite
The more closely we look at the world, the more detail it reveals– Potentially ad infinitum– The geographic world is infinitely complex
Humans have found ingenious ways of dealing with this problem– Many methods are used in GIS to create representations
or data models
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Discrete Objects and Fields
Two ways of conceptualizing or modeling geographic variation
The most fundamental distinction in geographic representation
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Discrete Objects
Points, lines, and areas Countable Persistent through time, perhaps mobile Biological organisms
– Animals, trees Human-made objects
– Vehicles, houses, fire hydrants
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Fields
Properties that vary continuously over space– Value is a function of location– Property can be of any attribute type, including
direction Elevation as the archetype
– A single value at every point on the Earth’s surface
– Any field can have slope, gradient, peaks, pits
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Examples of Fields
Soil properties, e.g. pH, soil moisture Population density
– But at fine enough scale the concept breaks down
Identity of land owner– A single value of a nominal property at any point
Name of county or state or nation Atmospheric temperature, pressure
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Social Phenomena: Discrete or Field?
Population Poverty Political rights Language Other?
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Representing Geographical Information Digitally:Rasters and Vectors
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How to represent phenomena conceived as fields or discrete objects?
Raster– Divide the world into square cells
– Register the corners to the Earth (known positions)
– Represent discrete objects as collections of one or more cells
– Represent fields by assigning attribute values to cells
– More commonly used to represent fields than discrete objects
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A raster data model uses a grid
One grid cell is one unit or holds one attribute. Every cell has a value, even if it is “missing.” A cell can hold a number or an index value standing for an
attribute. A cell has a resolution, given as the cell size in ground
units.
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Generic structure for a grid
Figure 3.1 Generic structure for a grid.
Row
s
Columns
Gridcell
Grid extent
Resolution
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Legend
Mixed conifer
Douglas fir
Oak savannah
Grassland
Raster representation. Each color represents a different value of a nominal-
scale field denoting land cover class.
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Characteristics of Rasters
Pixel size– The size of the cell or picture element, defining the
level of spatial detail– All variation within pixels is lost!
Assignment scheme– The value of a cell may be an average over the cell, or a
total within the cell, or the commonest value in the cell– It may also be the value found at the cell’s central point
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The mixed pixel problem
W GW
W W G
W W G
W GG
W W G
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W GE
W E G
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Water dominates Winner takes all Edges separate
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Vector Data
Used to represent points, lines, and areas All are represented using coordinates
– One per point
– Areas as polygons Straight lines between points, connecting back to the start Point locations recorded as coordinates
– Lines as polylines Straight lines between points
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The Vector Model
A vector data model uses points stored by their real (earth) coordinates.
Lines and areas are built from sequences of points in order. Lines have a direction to the ordering of the points. Polygons can be built from points or lines.
Vectors can store information about topology.
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Raster vs Vector
Volume of data– Raster becomes more voluminous as cell size decreases
Source of data– Remote sensing, elevation data come in raster form
– Vector favored for administrative data (boundaries)
Software– Some GIS better suited to raster, some to vector
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Building complex features
Simple geographic features can be used to build more complex ones.
Areas are made up of lines, which are made up of points represented by their coordinates.
Areas = {Lines} = {Points}
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Areas are lines are points are coordinates
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The vector model: information about points, lines and polygons are encoded and stored as a collection of x,y coordinates.
The raster model: made up of a collection of grid cells, each holding a piece of information.
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Properties of Features size distribution pattern contiguity neighborhood shape scale orientation.
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Basic properties
of geographic
features
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Attributes
Can vary slowly or rapidly Physical, economic, social, cultural, etc. Can identify or measure them
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Types of attributes
Nominal (named, e.g., placenames, ID numbers, colors)
Ordinal (ranked, e.g., soil quality, income category)
Interval (differences between values are real) Ratio (100 kg is twice as much as 50 kg) Cyclic (e.g., compass direction, longitude,
months) – problematic in GIS?
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In an infinitely complex world…
representation must be partial (limited detail)
it is necessary to generalize
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Methods of generalization
Simplification Smoothing Aggregation Amalgamation Merging Collapse Refinement Exaggeration Enhancement Displacement
Each technique resolves a specific problem of display at a coarser scale to result in an acceptable version