AM-05 - Neighborhoods

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Learning Objectives: 
  • Discuss the role of Voronoi polygons as the dual graph of the Delaunay triangulation
  • Explain how Voronoi polygons can be used to define neighborhoods around a set of points
  • Outline methods that can be used to establish non-overlapping neighborhoods of similarity in raster datasets
  • Create proximity polygons (Thiessen/Voronoi polygons) in point datasets
  • Write algorithms to calculate neighborhood statistics (minimum, maximum, focal flow) using a moving window in raster datasets
  • Explain how the range of map algebra operations (local, focal, zonal, and global) relate to the concept of neighborhoods