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Drs Badruddin and Herrington
The Advanced ArcMAP User
• What is an advanced GIS user?
– Someone who knows what they are doing
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Can quickly come up with a problem solution
W/out spending hrs in help
Knows the booby traps
Can make decent results documents
So this course
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– practice, practice, practice
– Familiarity with many of the tools etc.
• Data management
• GeoProcessing
– Modelbuilder
– Python
• Results presentation
Course foci
V10 is different than V9.X
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The main GUI is very different
But so are many of the specific ops,
tools and their operation
Tables, for example
Data Management
And Help
So the first step is learn the GUI!
HERE IT IS 
The Vehicle
• The basic vehicle we will use is
Geoprocessing.
• what is that????
• Geoprocessing allows you to automate.
GIS tasks to perform spatial analysis
and modeling. What?
• http://support.esri.com/en/knowledg
ebase/Gisdictionary/browse
Dictionary
• Geoprocessing: A GIS operation used to
manipulate GIS data.
– Geoprocessing operations take an input dataset,
– perform an operation on that dataset,
– Return the result as an output dataset
• Geoprocessing allows for
– definition, management, and analysis of
information used to form decisions.
Spatial Analysis
• Spatial analysis is a set of techniques
for analyzing spatial data. The
results of spatial analysis are
dependent on the locations of the
objects being analyzed.
• http://apps.carleton.edu/collab/spati
al_analysis/SpatialAnalysis/
Simulation
• Simulation is the imitation of some
real thing available, state of
affairs, or process. (Wikipedia).
GeoProcessing
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So; GeoProcessing is the automation
of workflows
Based on rich set of tools
and a mechanism to combine tools in a
sequence of operations using models
and Python scripts.
GeoProcessing can be Spatial Analysis,
Modeling, or Simulation
Models & Scripts
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Put another way, Geoprocessing is the
automation of workflows.
A Workflow is just a list of connected
steps for solving a problem
And to be useful the steps have to be
proven to work the way you want
Before you use them
Workflow 1. objectives
1. Identify Problem
2. Identify measureable criteria
3. Define data needs
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Time and Spatial properties
Extent
Accuracy
Workflow 2: build the database
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Get the data
Design and Build the database
Add spatial and attribute data
Manage/Edit the data
Test the procedures you plan to
use!
Workflow 3: Analysis
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Define sequence of operations
Do the Analysis
Evaluate the results
Refine the Analysis
Rerun the sequence
Workflow 4: Deliver
1. Create products
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Maps
Tables
Graphics
Transportable workflow
Script ( Python )
Models
Convert
Reclass
QUIZ 1
• What is a Projection?
• Which is correct: Long, Lat or Lat,
Long, as order for geographic
coordinates?
• What does UTM NAD 27 ZONE 18
mean and where is it?
• What does the term “Layer” mean?
Quiz 2
• What are a Feature Class and a
Feature Data Set and how are they
different/
• How do you prevent a layer from
being selected?
• What is a data frame?
• What does “Jenks” mean?
Quiz 3
• What will Acres > 100 AND Acres
<200 select from a parcel dataset?
• What does the intersect tool do?
• What is a raster layer
• What does “Project on fly mean”
• And how can it be a booby trap?
• Does a Feature Class contain
symbolization information?
The Class Structure
• Tuesdays and Thursdays 4:00 pm to
6:30 pm in 310 Baker
• Sit only in the first 3 rows.
• NO FOOD or DRINK at any time!
• Room will be open to you at 3 pm -time for Help!
The Schedule: wks 1-6
• Weeks 1-6 – basic topics
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V10 interface(s)
Map composition
Table manipulation
Queries
Editing
Schedule wks 6-13
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ModelBuilder
Raster Processing
Networks
3-D Analyst
Python
Individual Class structure
• 4 - ~5 – Lecture / discussion / demo
• ~5 to 6:30 Lab time for
– Tutorials
– Exercises
• Tutorials are assigned but not graded
• Exercises assigned and graded.
• Tuesday’s assignments are short and are do at the
start of class on Thursday.
• Thursday’s are longer and are due at the start of
Tuesday’s class
Help
• From inside ArcGIS
• From the web directly
• http://resources.arcgis.com/content/
web-based-help
• Help stuff
– Blogs ESRI
– Forums http://forums.arcgis.com/
The assignments
• Readings – chapters in book, on-line
articles, ESRI help pages
• Tutorials – From book, ESRI, or
elsewhere – not graded
• Exercises – Generated and graded by us.
Will usually include a workflow, a schema
of how you solved the problem, and,
usually, a display of the results.
Grading
• Exercises – 30%
• Final Project – 60%
• Random quizzes – 10%
Materials MUST be handed in on time or
don’t bother
(Unless you have a dammed good excuse!)