NETWORK ANALYSIS
It is a type of line analysis which involves set of interconnected lines. Railways, highways,
transportation routes, rivers etc are examples of networks. Network analysis can be used for the
following:
1. Address Geocoding
It is the process of estimating the locations of addresses in GIS coordinate system. It requires a table of
addresses and theme that contains attributes that can be used to match to the table of addresses.
Imagine that the fire department is reported about a fire in a building at 1000 West Main Street. To estimate
the location, GIS determines the arc by matching its name, type and suffix. Once the arc is determined the
address can be estimated using linear interpolation. The arc corresponding to West Main Street is the Arc
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The address is an even number and lies on the left side of the arc. The left side has addresses ranging from
100 to 1300 (range is 1200). The length of the arc is 2000 meters. The address of 1000 can be geocoded as
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2. Optimal Routing
Optimal routing is the process of finding out the best route to go from one location to another location. The
most common path finding algorithm is Dijkstra algorithm which was published by E.W. Dijkstra in 1956. It
is a graph search algorithm that provides the shortest path for a single source shortest path problem.
Imagine we have the following network of roads. We want to find the quickest path to get from the guest
house to monument site. The variation in time travelling along different roads depends upon the traffic
conditions.
We build two tables, one for the nodes that have been already processed and the other for the adjacent nodes
which are to be processed. We begin with Node A as follows:
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Node E is the destination so we stop here. The quickest route to reach node E takes 40 minutes and it
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3. Finding closest facilities
Sometimes we try to find out a point closest to a given location. The point is called a facility and the given
location is called an event location. Finding which flat would be near to the working place, which fire station
has the best response time to a report to the fire location, which houses are close to the schools are examples
of optimal routing for closest facilities.
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In the above illustration, imagine that the office (red star) is located at some address and we want to know
the closest place around the office where an employee can live. The address of the office is geocoded to a
street location and then optimal path can be computed from each house to the office.
House 4 is closest to the office as the travel time is least for it.
DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS
ArcGIS Pro
TOOLSET DESCRIPTION
Extract GIS datasets often contain more data than you need. The Extract tools let you
select features and attributes in a feature class or table based on a query (SQL
expression) or spatial and attribute extraction. The output features and attributes
are stored in a feature class or table.
Overlay The Overlay toolset contains tools to overlay multiple feature classes to
combine, erase, modify, or update spatial features, resulting in a new feature
class. New information is created when overlaying one set of features with
another. There are six types of overlay operations; all involve joining two
existing sets of features into a single set of features to identify spatial
relationships between the input features.
Pairwise Overlay The Pairwise Overlay toolset provides an alternative to some of the tools in the
