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Overlay Operation: - Raster Overlay - Vector Overlay

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Overlay Operation

• This operation allows us to overlay multiple feature


classes to combine, erase, modify, or update spatial
features, resulting in a new feature class.
• New information is created when overlaying one set of
features with another.
• There are basically two different types of overlay:
(depending on the data structures)
– Raster Overlay
– Vector Overlay
• The basic of overlay operation is logical operators: OR,
AND, NOT, XOR
Vector Overlay
• More Difficult and Complex Processing
• During vector overlay map features and associated attributes are
integrated to produce new composite map. Logical rules can be applied to
how the maps are combined.
• It can be performed on different types of map features: { Polygon-on-
Polygon, Line-in-Polygon, Point-in-Polygon}
Raster Overlay
• Less Difficult and Less Complex
• During raster overlay, the pixel or grid cell values in each map
are combined using arithmetic and Boolean operators to
produce a new value in the composite map.
Vector and Raster Overlay
Operators
• Logical:
OR
AND
NOT
• Conditional:
== EQ
<> NE
<= LTE
>= GTE
< LT
> GT
• Arithmetic:
+
-
*
/

A Small Practice:
• Develop resulting attribute table when the following district road network
is topologically overlaid on the district area map:
Solution:
Raster Overlay: HighValue-LowValue
• Comparison of values in frame#1 and frame#2
• The highest value is picked for high value approach
• The lowest value is picked for low value approach
• The comparison is carried out on a grid cell by grid
cell basis
• Note:
– High Value approach is for progressive activities
– Low Value approach is for alternative activities
Raster Overlay: HighValue-LowValue
Raster Overlay: TopMap-BottomMap
• For top map, assign a value in frame#3T to indicate
where the highest value was found.
• For bottom map, assign a value in fram#3B to
indicate where the lowest value was found.
• [If the highest value is found in frame#1, a 1 will be
assigned; if the highest value is found in frame#2, a 2
will be assigned] in top map
• [If the lowest value is found in frame#1, a 1 will be
assigned; if the lowest value is found in frame#2, a 2
will be assigned] in bottom map
• If the values are equal a 9 will be assigned.
Raster Overlay: TopMap-BottomMap
Proximity Operations (Buffer Zones)
• It is used to create zones around selected geographic
object in order to perform proximity analysis.
• Area surrounding a specific object is evaluated
• Types of Buffer:
– Point Buffer
– Line Buffer
– Area Buffer

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