spatial clustering

From: Antoine Guisan (Antoine.Guisan@cscf.unine.ch)
Date: Thu Feb 10 2000 - 14:55:14 MET


Hello ADE gurus,

I am looking for a simple way to aggregate observation points for one
single species (of dragonflies in this particular case) spatially.

I have a simple file with <x;y> coordinates in Swiss projection units
(meric plan; e.g. <715000;215000>) and an identificator (point-id). What
I want is to aggregate all observation points of a species located at a
distance of each other shorter than say 200 m into a single cluster (and
simply associate with this cluster the presence of the species). The
datafile is relatively big (2955 points) and I have memory problems when
trying to use the 'dist' function in SPlus. Moreover, I want to keep the
geographic dimension into the analysis.

I tried several options of analyses (in ArcInfo and SPlus), but yet no
one was entirely successful. What I really need is an automatic
procedure that I could run successively and easily for many species.

Does anybody has a suggestion on how to do this with ADE (or SPlus) ?

Thanks a lot in anticipation

Antoine

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