Quiz #05 - Spatial Pattern Analysis

This quiz is based on all the reading assignments, video lecture and hands-on ArcGIS Pro exercises that you completed this week. You have 30 minutes to complete the quiz. Before you take it, you may want to review this week's papers with the following issues in mind:

• Kelly-Hope, L. A., Hemingway, J., & McKenzie, F. E. (2009). Environmental factors associated with the malaria vectors Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles funestus in Kenya (Links to an external site.). Malaria journal, 8(1), 268.
  • What do the spatial pattern analysis results tell you about the where clusters of the three mosquito species occur? 
• Meng, Q. (2016). The spatiotemporal characteristics of environmental hazards caused by offshore oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico (Links to an external site.). Science of the Total Environment, 565, 663-671. 
  • How can you interpret the Getis-Ord Gi* statistics to determine where clusters of environmental hazards occur?
  • How can you interpret the Getis-Ord Gi* statistics to determine which environmental hazards form hot spots or cold spots?
• Peeters, A., Zude, M., Käthner, J., Ünlü, M., Kanber, R., Hetzroni, A., ... & Ben-Gal, A. (2015). Getis–Ord’s hot-and cold-spot statistics as a basis for multivariate spatial clustering of orchard tree data (Links to an external site.). Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 111, 140-150.
  • How do the spatial (Getis-Ord Gi*) and non-spatial (k-way clustering) methods differ in finding clusters of trees in the orchard?
  • Does combining the spatial and non-spatial techniques work better than using the non-spatial clustering alone?