"Islands" in spatial (area) analysis
Wolfgang, The lake on the island in the bigger lake is a topological construct, and I believe was covered by Bivand et al (1st ed.) A search of 'topology island hole' or 'topology island hole GIS analysis' will get you out of the Caribbean and into some serious papars. 'Gdal island hole' will direct toward how things are generally handled in R. Cheers, Chris On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 4:47 PM, Ludwig-Mayerhofer, Wolfgang, Prof. Dr. <
ludwig-mayerhofer at soziologie.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
Dear all, I'm new to this list, and regrettably I have to introduce myself with a question which is not necessarily related to R, even though any R-related answer will also help (as I do my spatial analyses mostly with R). My question is simply: Does anybody know a good (possibly systematic/comprehensive/dedicated/exhaustive) text about the role/problem of "islands", i.e. areas without neighbors, in (area data) spatial analysis? I know that some procedures don't run in the presence of islands, but others do (with the appropriate zero policies), but I'm not always sure whether this means that the results are really meaningful. I can only occasionally find reference to the "island" problem in the literature (many texts, among which are VERY good texts like those by Bivand et al or Banerjee et al, seem to ignore it entirely), and what little I have found is very superficial (aside remarks etc.). Regrettably, a search on the Internet (such as "islands spatial analysis") is futile, as all you will get are tons of references to the Caribbean, Canary, tropic, Auckland ... you name it... islands. So any suggestion as to where a more than casual treatment of the topic can be found would be very welcome. Kind regards Wolfgang Ludwig-Mayerhofer ---- Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ludwig-Mayerhofer Universit?t Siegen/University of Siegen Philosophische Fakult?t/Faculty of Arts Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2 57068 Siegen Germany Wolfgang Ludwig-Mayerhofer (2015): Arbeitsmarktpolitik aus sozialwissenschaft?licher Sicht: Zur Spannung zwischen "Dekommodifizierung" und "Rekommodifizierung". In: Masuch, Peter et al. (Hrsg.): Grundlagen und Herausforderungen des Sozialstaats (Band2): Bundessozialgericht und Sozialstaatsforschung. Richterliche Wissensgewinnung und Wissenschaft, Berlin, S. 377-393. Wolfgang Ludwig-Mayerhofer, Olaf Behrend (2015): Enforcing Mobility: Spatial Mobility Under the Regime of Activation, in: Mobilities, 10 (2), S. 326-343. DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.898930 Wolfgang Ludwig-Mayerhofer (2014): Bildung zwischen Individualisierung und Exklusion. In: Schnei?der, W. und Kraus, W. (Hrsg.): Indivi?du?alisierung und die Legitimation sozialer Ungleich?heit in der reflexiven Moderne. Opladen: Barbara Budrich, S. 167-192 Wolfgang Ludwig-Mayerhofer, Uta Liebeskind, Ferdinand Gei?ler (2014): Statistik. Eine Einf?hrung f?r Sozialwissenschaftler, Weinheim: Beltz Juventa, 2014. http://www.beltz.de/produkt_produktdetails/8819-statistik. html [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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