Application of the Technique of Standard Squares to Identify the Pattern of Distribution of Raster Phenomena (Religious services in the city of Erbil as a model)

Abstract

Modern technological developments in all fields, including scientific research tools and methods, increase the researcher's ability to deal with spatial data and manipulate them, and to measure the phenomena and represent them on the map, as a means of clarification and visual presentation and spatial analysis tool. The geographical information systems occupy a prominent position in the applied area, and the technical development in this field has helped to represent the spatial phenomena and facilitate dealing with them in a way that allows them to be processed automatically, in contrast with the paper maps. The spatial phenomenon is represented in the map