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As a next step, select the "Accessibility" analysis from the "Analysis" module, and fill the various fields as indicated here:
Data inputs:
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The columns presenting a label starting with “am” are not coming from the attribute table, but have been generated by AccessMod. These particular columns are the following: - "amSelect": allows you to select/unselect the facilities to be run in the analysis - "amOnBarrier": informs whether the health facility is located (“yes”) or not (“no”) on a barrier. The analysis cannot be performed if health facilities are located on barriers. If one or several of the health facility(ies) is/are located on a barrier, you can do one of two options:
- "amOnZero": informs whether the health facility is located (“yes”) or not (“no”) on a landcover category that has a speed of zero set in the travel scenario table. In this case the analysis cannot be performed, and you can do one of two options:
- "amOutsideDEM": informs whether the health facility is located (“yes”) or not (“no”) outside of the DEM extent (i.e. outside of the extent of the project). Facilities that are outside the DEM extend cannot be considered in the analysis and their coordinates must be corrected if there are supposed to be within the DEM extent. - "amCatLandCover": provides information on the land cover classcategory, i.e. the pixel value in the land cover raster layer. - "amDemValue": provides information on the DEM, i.e. the pixel value in the DEM raster layer. |
(6) “Type of analysis”: Select the type of analysis you want to conduct: isotropic (ignores the DEM and is slope-independent) or anisotropic (uses the DEM and is slope-dependent). In this exercise, we will select “Anisotropic” under "Type of analysis". This implies that the DEM is used to compute slopes, that are in turn used to modify the speed of travel indicated in the travel scenario table when either the "walking" or "bicycling" travel modes have been chosen for at least one landcover category. Refer to Section 3.3.2 for details on how the slope affects speeds of travel. If the "isotropic" type of analysis is chosen, slopes have no effects and the speeds of travel are not corrected.
(7) “Direction of travel”: Choose the direction of movement considered for the patients, either "From facilities" or "Towards facilities". This choice is only visible when an anisotropic mode has been chosen, because the direction of travel can influence the time of travel. To do the exercise, choose "Towards facilities".
(8) The option to use "knight's move" allows one to perform an analysis on 16 neighbors cells instead of 8. It is slower, but more accurate and tends to give more rounded catchments in area of uniform landcover. We will not use this option for the exercise.
(9) “Maximum travel time (minutes)": Specify the maximum travel time (in minutes) after which the analysis stops. For the exercise, specify 120 minutes. Specify “0” in this field if you want to compute travel time for the full extent of the study area, i.e. with no limit of travel time.
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