For 796/496 Drs Badruddin and Herrington

The Advanced ArcMAP User What is an advanced GIS user? –Someone who knows what they are doing 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 Is about –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 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? ebase/Gisdictionary/browsehttp://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. al_analysis/SpatialAnalysis/ al_analysis/SpatialAnalysis/

Simulation Simulation is the imitation of some real thing available, state of affairs, or process. (Wikipedia).

GeoProcessing So; GeoProcessing is the automation of workflows So; GeoProcessing is the automation of workflows Based on rich set of tools Based on rich set of tools and a mechanism to combine tools in a sequence of operations using models and Python scripts. and a mechanism to combine tools in a sequence of operations using models and Python scripts. GeoProcessing can be Spatial Analysis, Modeling, or Simulation GeoProcessing can be Spatial Analysis, Modeling, or Simulation

Models & Scripts Put another way, Geoprocessing is the automation of workflows. Put another way, Geoprocessing is the automation of workflows. A Workflow is just a list of connected steps for solving a problem 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 And to be useful the steps have to be proven to work the way you want Before you use them Before you use them

Workflow 1. objectives 1.Identify Problem 2.Identify measureable criteria 3.Define data needs Time and Spatial properties Extent Accuracy

Workflow 2: build the database 1.Get the data 2.Design and Build the database 3.Add spatial and attribute data 4.Manage/Edit the data 5.Test the procedures you plan to use!

Workflow 3: Analysis 1.Define sequence of operations 2.Do the Analysis 3.Evaluate the results 4.Refine the Analysis 5.Rerun the sequence

Workflow 4: Deliver 1.Create products Maps Tables Graphics Transportable workflow

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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 –V10 interface(s) –Map composition –Table manipulation –Queries –Editing

Schedule wks 6-13 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 web-based-helphttp://resources.arcgis.com/content/ web-based-help Help stuff –Blogs ESRI –Forums

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!)