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Biodiversity Enhanced Location Services
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Creating a new georeference from multiple georeferences - Clustering methods #56

Open juliema opened 2 years ago

juliema commented 2 years ago

Here are three ways to do it: - courtesy of Mohamed Sallam

krigging analysis to detect clusters of points -will analyze the distribution pattern of the data points - can evaluate where they are clustered and the direction of clustering

Moran's I index for data distribution - mapping the clustering of datapoints and evaluating the hotspot areas of distributions

Standard deviation elipsoid - evaluate the location and directional distribution pattern