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Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Why think spatially?
• Using spatial knowledge
• What is GIS?
• new approach to research methods
• spatial advantage for research
• Spatial analysis
• Spatial thinking in research
• Multiple research methods approach
• Sociospatial thinking
• GIS as a useful tool
• 2. Spatial conceptualization and implementation
• Gin GIS
• I in GIS
• S in GIS
• Conceptual data model: Incorporating GIS
• Analytical approach: Phases of abstraction
• Determining project goals
• Guiding questions
• Steps in the research process
• Moving forward

• 3. Research design
• What is the purpose of your research?
• Deductive versus inductive approach to research
• Stages of sociospatial research for deductive research
• Grounded theory: GIS using an inductive approach
• Sociospatial grounded theory using GIS
• 4. Research ethics and spatial inquiry
• Research ethics and GIS
• Errors caused by analysis
• Errors in human inquiry
• Ecological fallacy
• Ethics and data collection
• Ethics and data sharing
• Ethics and data storage
• 5. Measurement, sampling, and boundaries
• Moving beyond your personal experience
• Choosing a sampling method for your spatial analysis
• Concepts, variables, and attributes
• Different data types: Matching geographic and social variables
• Data sampling and GIS
• Study area and sample unit boundaries
• 6. Using secondary digital and nondigital data sources in research
• Evaluating data sources
• Searching for secondary data
• Evaluating data suitability
• Obtaining GIS data from the Internet
• Choosing GIS variables
• Validity and reliability
• Obtaining data from offline sources
• Using news as a source of data
• 7. Survey and interview spatial data collection and databases
• Developing your own data
• Spatializing your survey or interview questions
• Using GIS in the field, with and without a computer
• Data collection considerations
• Unit of analysis
• Database concepts and GIS
• Rules for GIS database development
• Creating GIS-friendly data tables
• 8. Public participation GIS
• Public participation GIS and participatory GIS
• Using public participation GIS as part of mixed methods
• Does using GIS mean I have to be "high-tech" in the field?
• Volunteered geographic information
• Maps of your research area
• Qualitative data and GIS files
• Conducting a PPGIS data collection
• Preparing for your own PPGIS session
• 9. Qualitative spatial ethnographic field research
• Sociospatial documentation
• Integrating GIS into field research
• Ethnography
• Case study research
• Oral history interviews
• Participant observation
• Data cataloging
• 10. Evaluation research from a spatial perspective
• What is evaluation research?
• Why do evaluation research?
• Sociospatial evaluation research
• Presenting the spatial evaluation
• challenges and benefits of evaluation research
• 11. Conducting analysis with ArcGIS software
• Approaching the analysis
• Analysis techniques
• Cartographic classification
• Buffer and overlay
• Spatial interpolation and simulation
• Modeling
• When to use GIS as a problem-solving tool
• Potential pitfalls
• Spatial statistics
• ArcGIS Spatial Analyst
• 12. Spatial analysis of qualitative data
• Qualitative data and GIS
• What are qualitative data?
• Spatial qualitative analysis
• Steps for spatial qualitative analysis
• 13. Communicating results and visualizing spatial information
• Keys to effective communication
• GIS output
• Selecting the mode of communication
• Preparing the final product
• Conclusion
• 14. Linking results to policy and action
• GIS and visualizing policy
• What is policy?
• Challenges to creating good policy
• fire example
• Coordinating data
• Decision support systems
• From maps to action
• How to create good place-based policy
• Final thoughts
• 15. Future directions for geospatial use
• Imagine the future
• Geospatial agility
• Image versus data
• rebirth of spatial awareness
• GIS is an art form
• GIS as change technology
• role of geospatial crowdsourcing
• New directions for GIS-based research
• Parting thoughts
• Suggestions for student research projects.

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Author/Creator:

Steinberg, Sheila L. , author

Contributors:

Steinberg, Steven J. , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

GIS research methods: incorporating spatial perspectives [by Steinberg, S.L.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: GIS research methods [by Steinberg, S.L.] (First edition; Redlands, California : Esri Press, 2015 — ISBN 9781589483781; LCCN 2014046261)

Subjects:

Geographic information systems

Geographic information systems — Research

Spatial analysis (Statistics)

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

G70.212 .S745 2015eb

ISBNs:

9781589484047 (e-book)
1589484045 (e-book)
9781589483781 (paperback, alkaline paper) [Invalid]
1589483782 (paperback, alkaline paper) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

909896385

Other Control Numbers:

EBC3238285 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp12415024