Advancing beyond static representations of movement in spatial analysis

Holloway, Paul

Advancing beyond static representations of movement in spatial analysis

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2020

Authors

Holloway, Paul

Publisher

Geographical Information Science Research UK

Abstract

Methods used to generate movement and couple it with the environment are strongly integrated within GIScience. This study explores how systematically altering the conceptualisation of movement, environmental space, and temporal resolution affects the results of habitat selection analyses using both real-world case studies and simulated data. Only segment conceptualisations modelled the expected movement-environment relationship with increasing linear feature resistance. This suggests that spatial statistics employed to investigate movement-environment relationships should advance beyond conceptualising movement as the (relatively) static conceptualisation of vectors and moves and replace these with (more) dynamic aggregations of longer-lasting movement processes such as segments and areal representations.

Keywords

Geocomputation , Movement , Simulations , Spatial statistics

Citation

Holloway, P. (2020) 'Advancing beyond static representations of movement in spatial analysis', Proceedings of the 28th GISRUK Conference, 21-23 June (Online Conference), Paper 35 (8pp). Available at: http://london.gisruk.org/gisruk2020_proceedings/GISRUK2020_paper_35.pdf (Accessed: 17 May 2021)