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Foundations of GIS with ArcGIS
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Unit 1 — Foundations of GIS with ArcGIS
79
1.1
You Ask: “What Is GIS About?”
20 mins
1.2
Understanding the File Structure for the Exercises
20 mins
1.3
The Original Form of Spatial Data: Maps
20 mins
1.4
The Basic Difference between ArcCatalog and ArcMap
20 mins
1.5
GIS and Cartography—Compatibility?
20 mins
1.6
The Data View and the Layout View
20 mins
1.7
Why Is Spatial Data Analysis So Hard?
20 mins
1.8
More Help
20 mins
1.9
Concerns about Finding and Collecting Data
20 mins
1.10
Looking at Reference Systems
20 mins
1.11
Information
20 mins
1.12
Examining the Toolbars
20 mins
1.13
Generating Features Based on Proximity: Buffering
20 mins
1.14
Using ArcToolbox to Make Buffer Zones around the Roads
20 mins
1.15
A Really Different Processing Paradigm
20 mins
1.16
The Raster Calculator—Integer Rasters
20 mins
1.17
Two Different Third Dimensions: The Temporal and the Vertical Spatial
20 mins
1.18
3-D: 2-D (Spatial) Plus 1-D (Spatial)
20 mins
1.19
An (Almost) New Software Package: ArcScene
20 mins
1.20
And So You Ask Again: “What Is GIS About?”
20 mins
1.21
Anatomy of the ArcCatalog Window
20 mins
1.22
Moving Spatial Data from Maps to Computers: Forces for Change
20 mins
1.23
Exploring Data from the NAVSTAR Global Positioning System (GPS)
20 mins
1.24
Products of a Geographic Information System
20 mins
1.25
Controlling Your View of the Map: Zooming
20 mins
1.26
How the Computer Aids Analyzing Spatial Data
20 mins
1.27
Specification of your Input Text File for the “Create Features from Text File” Tool
20 mins
1.28
Looking for Data on the Internet
20 mins
1.29
Looking at Coordinate Systems
20 mins
1.30
Computer Hardware—What a Computer Does
20 mins
1.31
Pointing at Records
20 mins
1.32
Generating Features by Overlaying
20 mins
1.33
Variable-Width Buffers
20 mins
1.34
Facts about Rasters
20 mins
1.35
Arithmetic Calculation
20 mins
1.36
ArcScene
20 mins
1.37
More of What GIS Is About
20 mins
1.38
Setting Some Options
20 mins
1.39
Spatial Data
20 mins
1.40
Preliminaries
20 mins
1.41
Overall Requirements for Utility
20 mins
1.42
Understanding the Panning and Other Controls
20 mins
1.43
Complexity of Spatial Data
20 mins
1.44
Labeling Features
20 mins
1.45
Steps in Developing the Database
20 mins
1.46
Using the Reference System to Discover the Boundary Coordinates of a State Plane Zone
20 mins
1.47
Continuous and Discrete Phenomena
20 mins
1.48
Two Windows Are Available for Selecting
20 mins
1.49
Overlaying with Line and Point Feature Classes
20 mins
1.50
Make a New Feature Class from a Subset of Polygons: Extract
20 mins
1.51
Coordinate Space
20 mins
1.52
Boolean Operations
20 mins
1.53
ArcGlobe
20 mins
1.54
Next Steps: Seemingly Independent Things You Need to Know
20 mins
1.55
The Catalog Tree
20 mins
1.56
Limiting the Scope
20 mins
1.57
Seeing the GPS File in ArcMap
20 mins
1.58
Classification of GIS Products
20 mins
1.59
Adding Other Map Elements
20 mins
1.60
Structures for Spatial Data
20 mins
1.61
Making Polygons from Lines
20 mins
1.62
GPS and GIS
20 mins
1.63
Primary Lesson
20 mins
1.64
Some Implications of Discrete Representation for GIS
20 mins
1.65
Selecting Records (and, Thereby, Features)
20 mins
1.66
Spatial Joins in General
20 mins
1.67
More Complex Queries—And’s and Or’s
20 mins
1.68
Rasters with Integer Cell Values
20 mins
1.69
Floating-Point Rasters
20 mins
1.70
Determining Where Something Is: Coordinate Systems
20 mins
1.71
Connecting to a Folder
20 mins
1.72
Spatial Data for Decision Making
20 mins
1.73
Looking at the GPS Track in the Context of a Variety of GIS Data
20 mins
1.74
Documenting Products
20 mins
1.75
Adding Data to Data Frames
20 mins
1.76
Storage Paradigms for Areal Data
20 mins
1.77
Areas and Perimeters Examined
20 mins
1.78
Anatomy of the Acronym: GPS
20 mins
1.79
A Plan for Digitizing and Transforming
20 mins
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