spatial analysis

Formal techniques which study entities using their topological, geometric, or geographic properties

Conceptstatistical method academic disciplineQ1938983

Also known as spatial analysis (statistics)

Instance of: statistical method
, academic discipline
Subclass of: spatial statistics
Part of: time series and spatial modelling

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Spatial analysis is any of the formal techniques which study entities using their topological, geometric, or geographic properties, primarily used in urban design. Spatial analysis includes a variety of techniques using different analytic approaches, especially spatial statistics. It may be applied in fields as diverse as astronomy, with its studies of the placement of galaxies in the cosmos, or to chip fabrication engineering, with its use of "place and route" algorithms to build complex wiring structures. In a more restricted sense, spatial analysis is geospatial analysis, the technique applied to structures at the human scale, most notably in the analysis of geographic data. It may also applied to genomics, as in transcriptomics data, but is primarily for spatial data.

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Practiced by: spatial analyst
Has use: spatial statistics
Studied by: spatial science
Different from: spatial data analysis

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