Below are some of the most common GIS functions
broken down by the type of analysis they perform but it is also common
to group GIS function into 4 major categories.
Which of these functions do you think are important for environmental
applications? Which could help address the sort of spatial and temporal
analysis discussed in Theme 1?
Relating functions
to purpose
List some of the possible functions you might need to use if you
wanted to look at the distance between patches and produce a map
of your results.