A research lab at ICTA-UAB
Spatial analysis describes a range of techniques for understanding spatial patterns. These techniques include exploratory, descriptive and statistical measures of the relationship between geographic entities. Because many disciplines generate geographic data, spatial analysis has the potential to serve as a point of integration—a common language of sorts—across social and ecological research. In line with this potential, spatial analysis is an important aspect of BCNUEJ’s integrated data analysis strategy. Researchers at BCNUEJ are particularly interested in making social and ecological spatial data commensurate, utilizing spatial statistical measurements in order to understand the causal role played by spatial relationships, and in ensuring robust and innovative visualizations of spatial data.
- Mapping the intangible: Using geolocated social media data to examine landscape aesthetics (Land Use Policy, 2018)
- Mapping ecosystem service capacity, flow and demand for landscape and urban planning: A case study in the Barcelona metropolitan region (Land Use Policy, 2016)
- Contribution of Ecosystem Services to Air Quality and Climate Change Mitigation Policies: The Case of Urban Forests in Barcelona, Spain (Ambio, 2014)
- Estuarine shoreline changes in Jamaica Bay, New York City: implications for management of an urban national park (Environmental Management, 2012)