In this chapter, we'll build on the data processing concepts that we've learned in order to create some full-scale information products. The previously introduced data processing methods rarely provide answers to questions by themselves. You combine these data processing methods to build a geospatial model from multiple processed datasets. A geospatial model is a simplified representation of some aspect of the real world, which helps us answer one or more questions about a project or problem. In this chapter, we will introduce some important geospatial algorithms that are commonly used in agriculture, emergency management, logistics, and other industries.
The products that we will create are as follows:
- A crop health map
- A flood inundation model
- A colorized hillshade
- A terrain routing map
- A street routing map
- A shapefile with links...