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Geographical Space: Spatial Analysis

Geography studies places on Earth and how spatial awareness helps understand why things exist in specific locations. Cartography involves mapping spaces to aid navigation and visualization, while geostatistics applies statistics to spatial data to estimate unobserved phenomena. Geographical space can refer to land and its relation to ownership, usage, and cultural approaches to ownership. Spatial planning regulates land-use through decisions made at various governmental levels. Space also impacts human behavior through influences on architecture, building design, farming, and more.

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Geographical Space: Spatial Analysis

Geography studies places on Earth and how spatial awareness helps understand why things exist in specific locations. Cartography involves mapping spaces to aid navigation and visualization, while geostatistics applies statistics to spatial data to estimate unobserved phenomena. Geographical space can refer to land and its relation to ownership, usage, and cultural approaches to ownership. Spatial planning regulates land-use through decisions made at various governmental levels. Space also impacts human behavior through influences on architecture, building design, farming, and more.

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Geographical space

See also: Spatial analysis

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Geography is the branch of science concerned with identifying and describing places
on Earth, utilizing spatial awareness to try to understand why things exist in specific
locations. Cartography is the mapping of spaces to allow better navigation, for visualization
purposes and to act as a locational device. Geostatistics apply statistical concepts to
collected spatial data of Earth to create an estimate for unobserved phenomena.
Geographical space is often considered as land, and can have a relation
to ownership usage (in which space is seen as property or territory). While some cultures
assert the rights of the individual in terms of ownership, other cultures will identify with a
communal approach to land ownership, while still other cultures such as Australian
Aboriginals, rather than asserting ownership rights to land, invert the relationship and
consider that they are in fact owned by the land. Spatial planning is a method of regulating
the use of space at land-level, with decisions made at regional, national and international
levels. Space can also impact on human and cultural behavior, being an important factor in
architecture, where it will impact on the design of buildings and structures, and on farming.
Ownership of space is not restricted to land. Ownership of airspace and of waters is
decided internationally. Other forms of ownership have been recently asserted to other
spaces—for example to the radio bands of the electromagnetic spectrum or to cyberspace.
Public space is a term used to define areas of land as collectively owned by the community,
and managed in their name by delegated bodies; such spaces are open to all, while private
property is the land culturally owned by an individual or company, for their own use and
pleasure.
Abstract space is a term used in geography to refer to a hypothetical space characterized
by complete homogeneity. When modeling activity or behavior, it is a conceptual tool used
to limit extraneous variables such as terrain.

Psychologists first began to study the way space is perceived in the middle of the 19th
century. Those now concerned with such studies regard it as a distinct branch
of psychology. Psychologists analyzing the perception of space are concerned with how
recognition of an object's physical appearance or its interactions are perceived, see, for
example, visual space.
Other, more specialized topics studied include amodal perception and object permanence.
The perception of surroundings is important due to its necessary relevance to survival,
especially with regards to hunting and self preservation as well as simply one's idea
of personal space.
Several space-related phobias have been identified, including agoraphobia (the fear of open
spaces), astrophobia (the fear of celestial space) and claustrophobia (the fear of enclosed
spaces).
The understanding of three-dimensional space in humans is thought to be learned during
infancy using unconscious inference, and is closely related to hand-eye coordination. The
visual ability to perceive the world in three dimensions is called depth perception.

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