ArcGIS Desktop III: GIS Workflows and Analysis

You can attend this course in the Virtual Classroom.

Building on the skills taught in ArcGIS Desktop II: Tools and Functionality, this course teaches how and when to apply ArcGIS tools to create an efficient workflow that supports GIS analysis. Working with data stored in a geodatabase, you will organize and prepare data for analysis, create geoprocessing models, and work through a challenging analysis project. By the end of the course, you will be able to determine which ArcGIS tools and functions to use in a given situation and apply them to your analyses. The skills taught in this course are applicable to all types of GIS analysis.

GIS analysts, GIS specialists, and other experienced ArcGIS users who want to extend their basic ArcGIS skills in the areas of data creation and editing, geoprocessing models, and GIS analysis.

After completing this course, you will be able to

• Add data from different sources to a geodatabase.
• Create and use geodatabase components that maintain data integrity and prevent errors during data creation and editing.
• Solve common spatial data alignment problems.
• Use a variety of geoprocessing tools to perform an analysis that supports decision making.
• Build a complex model to automate an analysis workflow.

The geodatabase

• Advantages
• File and personal geodatabases
• Loading and importing data
• Copying and pasting data between geodatabases
• Batch and single conversions
• Displaying x,y coordinate data from a table
• Accessing tabular data using an OLE DB connection
• Adding data from a GIS server
• Working with map projections and datums

Geodatabase behavior

• Advantages of using behaviors
• Default values
• Subtypes, domains, and geodatabase topology

Editing GIS data

• Creating new data by digitizing, copying and pasting features, and using editing tools
• Constructing an edit sketch using constraints
• Creating adjacent polygons
• Modifying existing features
• Exploding multipart features
• Using domains, subtypes, and topology

Aligning spatial data

• Common data alignment problems
• Georeferencing CAD data
• Matching layer boundaries
• Transformation
• Rubber sheeting
• RMS error

Managing geoprocessing tools and settings

• Types of toolboxes and tools
• Locating tools in ArcToolbox
• Executing tools
• Tool parameters
• Parameter error detection
• Environment settings
• Tool layers
• Geoprocessing results

Analyzing GIS data

• Review of common analysis tools
• Working with feature proximity tools
• Analyzing tabular data
• Creating a raster subset
• ArcGIS Desktop extensions for analysis
• Typical analysis workflow

Using ModelBuilder for analysis

• Creating and designing models
• Setting model properties and parameters
• Environment settings
• Intermediate data
• Running and troubleshooting a model
• Model documentation

Performing GIS analysis

• Analytical process review
• Find the best site for a new shelter
• Find the mileage of flooded roads

Completion of ArcGIS Desktop II: Tools and Functionality or Learning ArcGIS Desktop or equivalent knowledge is required.

This course is designed to work with the following software:

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