Geog 405: Advanced Spatial Analysis © J.M. Piwowar1Spatial Data Models Characteristics of Raster Data Longley et al., Geographic Information Systems and Science. Wiley.
Geog 409: Advanced Spatial Analysis & Modelling © J.M. Piwowar2Spatial Data Models How do we represent spatial information in a computer? The rules to convert real geographical variation into discrete objects.
Geog 409: Advanced Spatial Analysis & Modelling © J.M. Piwowar3Spatial Data Models
Geog 409: Advanced Spatial Analysis & Modelling © J.M. Piwowar4Spatial Data Models Davis, B.E., GIS: A Visual Approach (2nd ed.). Albany, NY: OnWord Press.
Geog 409: Advanced Spatial Analysis & Modelling © J.M. Piwowar5Spatial Data Models Aronoff, Geographic Information Systems: A Management Perspective. Ottawa : WDL Publications.
Geog 409: Advanced Spatial Analysis & Modelling © J.M. Piwowar6Spatial Data Models The Vector Data Model Feature Representation points vertices nodes label points lines lines arcs areas polygons Davis, B.E., GIS: A Visual Approach (2nd ed.). Albany, NY: OnWord Press.
Geog 409: Advanced Spatial Analysis & Modelling © J.M. Piwowar7Spatial Data Models The Raster Data Model Feature Representation all geographic features - points, lines, areas - are represented by grid cells grid resolution - the minimum linear dimension of the smallest unit of geographic space sampled Davis, B.E., GIS: A Visual Approach (2nd ed.). Albany, NY: OnWord Press.
Geog 409: Advanced Spatial Analysis & Modelling © J.M. Piwowar8Spatial Data Models Raster Data Layers Lo & Yeung, Concepts & Techniques of Geographic Information Systems. Prentice-Hall.
Geog 409: Advanced Spatial Analysis & Modelling © J.M. Piwowar9Spatial Data Models The Raster Data Model Field representation Object representation
Geog 409: Advanced Spatial Analysis & Modelling © J.M. Piwowar10Spatial Data Models Raster Resolution 30 m resolution 3 m resolution 0.6 m resolution
Geog 409: Advanced Spatial Analysis & Modelling © J.M. Piwowar11Spatial Data Models Raster Resolution Davis, B.E., GIS: A Visual Approach (2nd ed.). Albany, NY: OnWord Press.
Geog 409: Advanced Spatial Analysis & Modelling © J.M. Piwowar12Spatial Data Models Raster Resolution 30 m resolution 625 cells 3 m resolution 62,500 cells
Geog 409: Advanced Spatial Analysis & Modelling © J.M. Piwowar13Spatial Data Models Raster Advantages Davis, B.E., GIS: A Visual Approach (2nd ed.). Albany, NY: OnWord Press.
Geog 409: Advanced Spatial Analysis & Modelling © J.M. Piwowar14Spatial Data Models Raster Disadvantages Davis, B.E., GIS: A Visual Approach (2nd ed.). Albany, NY: OnWord Press.
Geog 409: Advanced Spatial Analysis & Modelling © J.M. Piwowar15Spatial Data Models Vector Advantages Davis, B.E., GIS: A Visual Approach (2nd ed.). Albany, NY: OnWord Press.
Geog 409: Advanced Spatial Analysis & Modelling © J.M. Piwowar16Spatial Data Models Vector Disadvantages Davis, B.E., GIS: A Visual Approach (2nd ed.). Albany, NY: OnWord Press.
Geog 409: Advanced Spatial Analysis & Modelling © J.M. Piwowar17Spatial Data Models Vector vs. Raster Vector the location of each vertex needs to be stored explicitly sparse partitioning of geographic space Raster the geographic location of each cell is implied by its position in the cell matrix complete partitioning of geographic space
Geog 409: Advanced Spatial Analysis & Modelling © J.M. Piwowar18Spatial Data Models Vector vs. Raster Vector provides for precise positioning of features in geographic space intuitive representation of geographic space Raster the cell size determines the resolution at which the data are represented linear features are hard to represent
Geog 409: Advanced Spatial Analysis & Modelling © J.M. Piwowar19Spatial Data Models Vector vs. Raster Vector more difficult to understand some types of analysis can be difficult Raster conceptually simple data structure raster algorithms are often simpler and faster
Geog 409: Advanced Spatial Analysis & Modelling © J.M. Piwowar20Spatial Data Models Vector vs. Raster Vector compact file sizes very large vector databases have been built for a variety of purposes Raster large file sizes much new data come from remote sensing image analysis
Geog 409: Advanced Spatial Analysis & Modelling © J.M. Piwowar21Spatial Data Models Spatial vs. Temporal Resolution Visual Learning Systems, 2003.
Geog 409: Advanced Spatial Analysis & Modelling © J.M. Piwowar22Spatial Data Models Spatial vs. Temporal Resolution Visual Learning Systems, m resolution; m resolution; 2000
Geog 409: Advanced Spatial Analysis & Modelling © J.M. Piwowar23Spatial Data Models Raster Attributes Lo & Yeung, Concepts & Techniques of Geographic Information Systems. Prentice-Hall.
Geog 409: Advanced Spatial Analysis & Modelling © J.M. Piwowar24Spatial Data Models Common Raster Data Formats TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) JPEG (Joint Photographic Editors Group) GIF (CompuServe Graphics Interchange Format) MrSID (Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database) BIL (ERDAS Band-Interleaved-by-Line Format) IMG (could be any type of image)