Introduction

To answer to such fundamental queries about the human environment organisation it is necessary to access to:

Objectives of spatial analysis

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Geographic Information Science (often called Geomatics or Geo-processing) and its operational environment –the Geographic Information System (GIS- offers methodological processes (made of methods, techniques and tools) to construct and to exploit the geographic information. Spatial analysis (SA) is obviously concerned with the exploitation stage. However, as seen and illustrated in the Basic Level of this GITTA course, numerous interactions take place between the construction and the exploitation process. Let us recall some major steps.

Major steps in the construction and exploitation processes

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