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In the diagram 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.
Think!
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?
Dothis - Relating functions to purpose Why?
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.
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http://www.geog.ubc.ca/courses/klink/gis.notes/ncgia/u15.html
See NCGIA notes, this provides further reading on 'Spatial relationships in spatial analysis.'
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