Spatial Analysis Services
Key Contact: Brian Frizzelle
CPC was the first population center to have a core dedicated to the use of spatial analysis, and it continues to take a leading role in the application of spatial data and methodologies to a variety of population issues. This core facilitates the use of spatial data and tools in state-of-the-art population research. Its specific objectives are to promote the incorporation of spatial perspectives and assist in project development, provide cost-effective support to CPC projects using spatial data and methods, and encourage innovation in blending of social and spatial tools and perspectives. CPC projects have benefited greatly from the services provided by this core, including assistance with strategies for digital mapping of existing survey data, development of survey methodologies for field data collection using the global positioning system (GPS) and other data collection tools, design and development of extensive datasets of contextual spatial analytic measures for linking to survey respondents, investigation into potential risks to respondent confidentiality when spatial data are joined with social survey data, and the development of spatially explicit simulation models.
Spatial analysis services encompass a broad range of activities:
- spatial database development
- field data collection and data acquisition
- contextual data linkage and spatial confidentiality
- spatial analyses and measurements
- remote sensing data processing
- spatial statistics
- spatially explicit simulation modeling
- cartographic design and data visualization
- project-related outreach and technical assistance
