programmed by combining domain specific knowledge of landscape planning process
with map-based visibility analysis. As showed in Fig.3, the analysis model 1
consists of visual field analysis from single and multiple view
point (s), hierarchical visual field analysis, front-view analysis and visual
corridor analysis from a straight line or a curve line, perspective view from a
view point, occluded landscape analysis, simulation of terrain landscape
statistics. Since DAM was used as primary spatial data, the analysis model was
implemented in the raster GIS environment.
4). Urban flooding analysis model
The spatial process of the submergence flooding in urban area was modelled by
combing DTM based analysis and hydrological behavior of flooding([Xiang, 1993].
Since urban flooding is a distributed phenomena over the watershed and the
submerged area, an interactive method was proposed for determing the flooding
height above the submerged area according to the total quantity of flooding
from the breach of the riverbank. The propagation of flooding over the submerged
area was simulated with an ‘inflation’ algorithm and a connected graph was
designed for recording the spreading path during the propagation.
maps, but fail to eventually represent much of the evidence available about the
distribution of spatial entities and fail to support efficiently spatial
analysis and spatial decision making [Lee, 1990] |
4. Summary
In spite of the efforts devoted to the develop of urban GIS's spatial analysis
models, significant problems still exist, One major problem arises from the
fact that it is often not possible to define the required precise mathematical
spatial models due to an adequate theoretical understanding of the spatial
reality. In addition, it is also not easy to verify and validate the spatial
model.
Other problems come from the GIS side or from the coupling techniques. Firstly,
the so-called 'cartographic data structures’ or the discrete 'tessellation ^of
current commercial GIS are good at encoding features on maps but fail to
eventually represent much of the evidence available about the spatial reality.
There is sometimes the mismatch between spatial reality, the forms of
discretization used to collect and store data about continuous phenomena and
the form in which it must be used in the model. Ideally, the imposition of a
spatial grid whose scale is determined by the spatial scale of the processes
under study. However, some critical processes operate on many different scales
in time and space and there may be scale thresholds at which critical processes
change [Kemp, 1992]. In addition, urban spatial analysis may need more complex
spatial data models, e.g., a flooding simulation model needs both the vector
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