Hotspot Analysis and Interpolation of Accidents in Melbourne (Essay Sample)

Hotspot Analysis and Interpolation of Accidents in Melbourne
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Table of Contents TOC \o "1-3" \h \z \u HYPERLINK \l "_Toc68946120" Introduction PAGEREF _Toc68946120 \h 2Study aim PAGEREF _Toc68946121 \h 3Study area PAGEREF _Toc68946122 \h 4Data PAGEREF _Toc68946123 \h 4Methods and Results PAGEREF _Toc68946124 \h 4Interpretation PAGEREF _Toc68946125 \h 7Conclusion PAGEREF _Toc68946126 \h 8References PAGEREF _Toc68946127 \h 9
Introduction
Events and features mostly occur in geographical space and thus have the locational attribute. They can therefore be mapped to efficiently and effectively store, record, and transfer information about our globe. Maps shape the present and the future communities.
The use of the geographical information system (GIS) is vital for understanding our world and further underpin our decision-making on a variety of issues. GIS is defined as a computer-based system that is vital for the capturing, analysis, storage, manipulation, and presentation of diverse geographical as well as spatial data. The GIS information has been greatly and effectively utilized for planning site sustainability assessments, land use inventories, zoning, and socio-geographic analysis ADDIN CSL_CITATION {"citationItems":[{"id":"ITEM-1","itemData":{"DOI":"10.1016/B978-0-12-815413-7.00001-8","ISBN":"9780128154137","abstract":"Geographic information systems (GIS) are fundamentally an applied science and although the GIS vendor society provides us with the hardware and software with newer, better, and faster technological tools, it is the domain specialists who apply these tools that define the state of the art. The brain of the GIS still lies in the field and district offices, engineering offices, logging divisions, and offices of small GIS entrepreneurs all of whom apply this technology in their field of work. Although many GIS have been successfully implemented, it is evident that two-dimensional maps with very complex contours and color schema cannot precisely present multidimensional and dynamic spatial phenomena. Generally GIS in use today have not been designed to support multimedia data and therefore have very limited potential due to the large data volumes, very rich semantics, and very different modeling and dispensation requirements. This chapter discusses some of the features of a GIS, the general trends in this field, and the technology behind it. It also describes the advantages of using multimedia to implement GIS, which allows extension of its capabilities to present geographic and other information. Then the main subsystems of GIS are presented. The chapter also identifies some of the key areas where multimedia GIS could be useful.