Partition the province into sub-regions, according to MPB red-top trends.
Will be useful to serve as a basis for subsetting data or defining study areas.
Will highlight areas under-sampled, for example. Data discontinuities.
Use hierarchical clustering on weakly aggregated data.
Define the spatial scale of aggregation. 100km2 is an ON township. 57km2 is a RIMA grid cell in QC.
We want that grain large enough to be integral over time, but small enough for the derived sub-regions to be data-driven.
Partition the province into sub-regions, according to MPB red-top trends.
Will be useful to serve as a basis for subsetting data or defining study areas.
Will highlight areas under-sampled, for example. Data discontinuities.
Use hierarchical clustering on weakly aggregated data.
Define the spatial scale of aggregation. 100km2 is an ON township. 57km2 is a RIMA grid cell in QC.
We want that grain large enough to be integral over time, but small enough for the derived sub-regions to be data-driven.