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.

Those completing this course will be able to:

• Describe the structure of ArcGIS Desktop software.
• Display geographic data.
• Query a GIS database.
• Edit geographic data.
• Associate tables using joins and relates.
• Create maps, reports, and graphs.

Audience

This course is designed for those who are new to ArcGIS and to GIS in general.

Goals

• Display feature and tabular data

• Work with georeferenced spatial data

• Query features using logical expressions

• Find features using spatial relationships

• Edit spatial and attribute data

• Associate tables with joins and relates

• Produce maps, reports and graphs

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 and recommendations

Participants should know how to use windowing software. This course provides the fundamental ArcGIS knowledge and experience needed to enroll in Introduction to ArcGIS II.

 

Price

Academic - $500 (per seat)
Non-Academic - $600 (per seat)
Client Site - priced on request