NOTE: When you have completed this week's project, please submit it to the Canvas drop box for this lesson.
You have reached the end of Lesson 3! Double-check the to-do list on the Lesson 3 Overview page [1] to make sure you have completed all of the activities listed there before you begin Lesson 4.
For additional information about spatstat refer to this document by Baddeley [2]
To see how some of these methods are applied, have a quick look at some of these journal articles.
Here is an article to an MGIS capstone project that investigated sinkholes in Florida. [3]
Related to crime, here is a link to an article that uses spatial analysis for understanding crime in national forests [4].
Here are some articles that use some of the methods learned during this week's lesson to analyze the distribution of plants (e.g., ferns [5]) and butterflies. [6]
For a comprehensive read on using crime analysis, look through Crime Modeling and Mapping Using Geospatial Technologies [7] book available through the Penn State Library.
Don't forget to use the library and search for other books or articles that may be applicable to your studies.
Links
[1] https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog586/node/810
[2] http://www.jstatsoft.org/v12/i06/paper
[3] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0053832
[4] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/4f2c/d75e5ba5b1ba9c6f8e9d10a8cb3dcdbb3a25.pdf
[5] http://www.pfs-tropasia.org/storage/uploads/2012/10/Zhangetal2010.pdf
[6] http://www2.dnr.cornell.edu/cek7/Publications/Nekola_and_Kraft_2002.pdf
[7] http://link.springer.com.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/book/10.1007%2F978-94-007-4997-9