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01 MFworks

Jan wrote 2 years ago: These pages will explain how to do network analysis in raster GIS using MFworks as an example softwa … more →

Tags: browns pond, tomlin, Map Algebra

MFworks Tutorial

Jan wrote 8 years ago: MFworks has evolved from MAPFactory, originally designed by C. Dana Tomlin, the father of map algebr … more →

Tags: GIS, fastest path, GIS network analysis, least cost path, raster GIS, C Dana Tomlin

How to make a straight line square

Jan wrote 9 years ago: Network analysis and least cost paths have long been the dominion of vector GIS. The research of thi … more →

Tags: Transport GIS, GIS, fastest path, GIS network analysis, least cost path, Network Analysis, raster GIS, shortest path, C Dana Tomlin

02 Network Modelling

Jan wrote 2 years ago: The key to producing a successful network model is in understanding the relationship between the cha … more →

Tags: network modelling

03 Incremental Linkage

Jan wrote 2 years ago: This operation infers the lineal characteristic of raster cells, by equating consecutive locations w … more →

Tags: incremental linkage, Network, flow direction

04 Directional Identifier

Jan wrote 2 years ago: The second step to creating a road network in raster GIS is to impose constraints on the flow that c … more →

Tags: incremental linkage, directional identifier, flow direction

05 Cost surface

Jan wrote 2 years ago: Usually, to generate a cost-of passage surface, several variables will be collapsed into one layer. … more →

Tags: cost surface, travel cost, impedance, flow direction

06 Travel cost - path length

Jan wrote 2 years ago: To determine the actual length of a path through a number of cells the Incremental Length operation … more →

Tags: incremental length, travel cost

07 Dynamic Cost Surface

Jan wrote 2 years ago: One option for implementing a dynamic cost surface is to use a continuously updated network, where t … more →

Tags: cost surface, time-dependent, dynamic

08 Artefacts

Jan wrote 2 years ago: Accuracy Using raster GIS for network analysis leads into a simplification of a complex network stru … more →

Tags: Artefacts, multiple path problem

09 Map Layers Needed

Jan wrote 2 years ago: Map layers needed: A network, a cost surface, origin and destination point, network.mfm costoftravel … more →

Tags: cost surface, Destination, Map Layers, Network, Origin

10 Deriving Linkage

Jan wrote 2 years ago: linkage = IncrementalLinkage network; The Linkage operation assigns values indicating how cells are … more →

Tags: Linkage, incremental linkage

11 Deriving Directions

Jan wrote 2 years ago: This operation converts linkage values into directional values. direction_raw = Recode linkage Assig … more →

Tags: Directions, recode linkage

12 Deriving the Shortest Path

Jan wrote 2 years ago: Creating proximity surfaces from origin and destination and adding them yields the shortest path. Sp … more →

Tags: shortest path

13 Viewing the Shortest Path

Jan wrote 2 years ago: Now, the shortest path can be extracted. ShortestPath = Recode ShortestPath_InNetwork Assigning 999 … more →

Tags: shortest path

14 Dynamic Networks

Jan wrote 2 years ago: The procedure is similar to finding the shortest path through a network with no time-dependent trave … more →

Tags: time-dependent travel cost

15 Shortest Path I

Jan wrote 2 years ago: The procedure is similar to finding the shortest path through a network with no time-dependent trave … more →

Tags: shortest path

16 Shortest Path II

Jan wrote 2 years ago: Creating proximity surfaces for path(s) in time interval 2 and adding these together yield the short … more →

Tags: shortest path

17 Shortest Path I+II

Jan wrote 2 years ago: Now, the shortest path(s) can be extracted as follows: ShortestPath_time2 = Recode ShortestPath4_InN … more →

Tags: shortest path


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