Instructors

•     Alyson J. McCann, University of Rhode Island, Dept. of Natural Resources

•     Aimée Lise Mandeville,  University of Rhode Island, Dept. of Natural Resources

Syllabus

This course introduces students to ArcGIS and provides the foundation for becoming a successful ArcView, ArcEditor, or ArcInfo user. Participants learn how to use ArcMap, ArcCatalog, and ArcToolbox™ and explore how these applications work together to provide a complete GIS software solution. Attendees learn how to manipulate tabular data, query a GIS database, and present data clearly and efficiently using maps and charts.

Goals

• Display feature and tabular data

• Work with georeferenced spatial data

• Query features using logical expressions

• Find features using spatial relationships

• Edit 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

• Querying data 

  • Selecting and identifying features

  • Creating reports and graphs

• Map displays

  • Creating

  • Symbolizing

  • Scaling

  • Adding map elements