Prospectivity maps (Geoscience data)

[SamanTavakoli]

Hi,

I am a geophysicist and I am going to create a prospectivity map.

In other words, I've got several geophysical maps (e.g. magnetic anomaly, Bouguer anomaly etc.) and I would like to pick up the values for some interesting areas (e.g. magnetic anomaly weight 2/5, Bouguer anomaly weight 4/5....), assign weight to them and tell the program to find other areas in the map with similar values. Does any one know how may I do this?

Best regards,

/Saman

[MitchHolley1 · Accepted solution]

Take a look at ArcGIS Help 10.1- Hotspot Analysis

Let me know what you think.

[SamanTavakoli]

Dear Mitch,

Many thanks for your answer. What I am still missing is the way to do it. For someone who has not been working with GIS processing tools for many years, applying the hot spot would be impossible unless a very clear step by step guidance is provided.

Is there any link or description for a beginner about how to do it?

/Saman

[MitchHolley1]

Check out these tutorials:

Tutorial 9-2: Performing hot-spot analysis - YouTube

How to perform Cluster and hotspot analysis?!

Hot Spot Analysis - Part 1 | ArcGIS Video

Let me know if you need anymore help.  Those links should run you step-by-step instructions on how to do it.