Introduction to ArcGIS I

2 days (16 hours) $600 per person

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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.

Who Should Attend

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.
* Display geographic data.
* Query a GIS database.
* Edit geographic data.
* Associate tables using joins and relates.
* Create 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

Students should know how to use Windows®-based software.

Software Used in the Course

This course is designed to work with the following software:

ArcGIS Desktop*
Version

ArcView
9.2

ArcEditor
9.2

ArcInfo
9.2

*Only one of the listed licenses will be used in the classroom.

Retrieved from the ESRI website May 22, 2008.

GIS Division