Introduction to ArcGIS for Geospatial Intelligence and Law Enforcement

This course was formerly titled Introduction to ArcGIS for the DIHSLE Communities.

Designed with input from the defense, intelligence, homeland security, and law enforcement communities, this course teaches the essential GIS and ArcGIS software skills needed by members of those communities to support their organizations' missions. Course lessons use terminology, exercise scenarios, and data relevant to geospatial intelligence and law enforcement operations. The course concludes with a capstone exercise in which you independently apply what you have learned to work through one of several scenarios you consider most applicable to your job.

This course is designed for those new to ArcGIS and to GIS in general. This course provides the fundamental ArcGIS knowledge and experience needed by those working in geospatial intelligence and law enforcement organizations.

After completing this course, you will be able to

• Access, display, query, and edit geographic data in ArcGIS.
• Work with tabular data similar to significant activities (SIGACTS) contained in a spreadsheet.
• Select features using logical expressions for help in route reconnaissance.
• Find features based on their locations to other features, such as hazmat-capable fire stations within a distance of a chemical sensor.
• Edit data using ground-truth verification, additional reporting methods, or heads-up digitizing.
• Associate tables from a reporting database with geographic data to help with link analysis.
• Perform spatial analysis to append information from two geographic layers.
• Produce maps to create target packages for operational and intelligence command briefings.

• ArcGIS overview: Capabilities and applications; Interacting with the interface; Basic map display.
• Spatial data concepts: Representing spatial data and descriptive information.
• Querying data: Selecting and identifying features
• ArcGIS vector data models: Geodatabases; Shapefiles; Coverages; VPF; CAD.
• ArcGIS raster data models: Supported formats and RPF.
• Spatial coordinate systems and map projections: Georeferencing data; Understanding map projections; How ArcMap works with map projections.
• Working with tables: Work with data contained in a spreadsheet.
• Editing: Tools for creating and editing spatial data; Editing attribute data.
• Spatial analysis: Buffers; Spatial overlays; Extracting features for analysis; Analytical methods and tools.
• Map displays: Creating; Symbolizing; Scaling; Adding map elements.

You should know how to use Windows-based software for basic file management and browsing.

This course is designed to work with the following software:

How do I know what ArcGIS Desktop software I have? [Flash] [Text]