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Overview
ArcGIS Desktop is ESRI's full-featured GIS software for
visualizing, creating, managing, and analyzing geographic data. This course
provides the foundation for becoming a successful ArcGIS Desktop user. Students
learn fundamental GIS concepts and become familiar with the range of
functionality available in the software. In course exercises, they work with
ArcGIS Desktop and see how it provides a complete GIS software solution.
This course is designed for those who are new to ArcGIS and to
GIS in general.
Goals
Those completing this course will be able to
Describe the structure of ArcGIS Desktop software.
Create maps, reports, and graphs
Query a GIS database.
Display geographic data.
Associate tables using joins and relates.
Edit geographic data.
.Topics
covered
ArcGIS overview: Capabilities and applications; Interacting with the
interface; Basic display.
Spatial data concepts: Representing spatial data and descriptive
information.
ArcGIS data model: Geodatabases; Shapefiles; Coverages; Feature types;
Attributes.
GIS software: Components; Functions; Applications.
Spatial coordinate systems and map projections: Georeferencing data; What
map projections are; How ArcMap works with map projections.
Querying data: Selecting and identifying features; Creating reports and
graphs.
Map displays: Creating; Symbolizing; Scaling; Adding map elements.
Prerequisites
Students
should know how to use Windows®-based software.
