Final Project

The final project is worth 20% of your course mark, 4% for each question. Question 1 A key element in the k-means analysis is the choice of the appropriate number of clusters, k. Unless otherwise required, the analyst will try several values for k and the resulting clusters are then compared Read more…

Lab 09 | Bivariate Analysis

Assignment Part B Part B: Validation of Interpolated Surfaces In this part, you will generate two surfaces from the same sample points using three different methods, Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW), Spline and Kriging. You will create rainfall surfaces, and compare these to points of known rainfall to determine how good Read more…

Lab 08 | Moran’s I

Review Today’s lab is relatively short, before we begin we will do some interactive review of the lab material we have covered to date. Open the following link on one of the lab computers to follow along https://poll.gis.unbc.ca/p/31359493 Moran’s I In today’s lab we will be looking at calculating Moran’s Read more…

Lab 04 | PostGIS

For today’s lab, we will be expanding upon the skills for PostgreSQL and performing analysis inside the database using the PostGIS Extensions. PostGIS has already been installed into the database you are using for this course, on a new database adding the extensions requires superuser privileges and is accomplished with Read more…