Spatial analysis on the cheap
by Andrew Long
This is the meat of a lightning talk I gave at the IRE CAR conference a couple of weeks ago called, “Beyond Mapping: Spatial Analysis on the Cheap.” Download a PDF.
TEXTBOOK
Geospatial Analysis: A Comprehensive Guide to Principles, Techniques and Software Tools
SOFTWARE
OpenGeoDa
STARS (Space-Time Analysis of Regional Systems)
GeoViz Toolkit
SAGA (System for Automated Geoscientific Analysis)
PASSaGE (Pattern Analysis, Spatial Statistics and Geographic Exegesis)
CrimeStat III
Qgis with ftools, manageR
R
There is a Spatial Cran Task View that will load up all the R Spatial modules. These include:
Classes, reading, writing, handling spatial data
Point pattern analysis
Areal data analysisSpatial regression.
In R (case sensitive) type this code:
install.packages(“ctv”)
library(“ctv”)
install.views(“Spatial”)
Two useful packages are:
PYTHON
PySal is a Python library for spatial analysis functions.
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