เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	Dasymetric Mapping	Accessibility Analysis
สาขาวิชา	Human Geography	Human Geography
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	2003	1959
ผู้ริเริ่ม	J. K. Wright (introduced 1936); modern surface method by Jeremy Mennis	Walter G. Hansen
ประเภท	Cartographic areal-interpolation technique using ancillary data	Spatial index of the ease of reaching opportunities from a location
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Mennis, J. (2003). Generating surface models of population using dasymetric mapping. The Professional Geographer, 55(1), 31–42.	Hansen, W. G. (1959). How accessibility shapes land use. Journal of the American Institute of Planners, 25(2), 73–76.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	Dasymetric Map, Dasymetric Interpolation, Ancillary-Based Areal Interpolation, Population Surface Mapping	Hansen Accessibility, Gravity Accessibility Measure, Potential Accessibility, Spatial Accessibility Index
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	4	4
สรุป	Dasymetric mapping is a cartographic and areal-interpolation technique that redistributes data reported for arbitrary administrative zones — such as census counts — onto more meaningful boundaries derived from ancillary information about where the phenomenon actually occurs. Instead of pretending population is spread evenly across a census tract, it uses land cover or land use to push people into the residential parts and out of lakes, parks, and industry, producing a far more realistic population surface while preserving each zone's reported total.	Accessibility analysis measures how easily opportunities — jobs, shops, clinics, parks — can be reached from a given location, combining the attractiveness (size) of destinations with the cost of travelling to them. The gravity-based formulation introduced by Walter Hansen in 1959 sums the opportunities at all destinations, each discounted by a distance-decay function of travel cost, producing a single accessibility score per origin that has become a foundational concept in transport geography and urban planning.