GEOG 5 Lecture 4: Geog5Lecture4
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Basic concepts of geography ii: distributions of places. Absolute: precise, objective, not dependent on other places/things. How is space structured and organized (especially describing human relations): structure of place, spatial associations, regions, structure of place. How are objects distributed: dimensionality, density, distribution, dispersion, pattern, dimensionality. All features are actually spatially 3-d, but can be modeled as being at a lower dimension: points (0-dimension, areas (2-dimension)(also called fields, volumes (3-dimension, density. Density: number of something within a defined area: people per square mile, trees per acre, distribution. Types: dispersed vs. clusters, systematic/patterned vs. random. Is the pattern of malaria cases: random, linear, circular, dispersed, spatial association. Definition: two distributions of features spatially corresponding with each other. Also referred as spatial covariation: association and covariance. Different attributes that tend to occur in the same spatial locations. Multiple attributes - common cause: 1st law of geography. "everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things. "
