Learning ArcGIS Spatial Analyst

Description

ArcGIS Spatial Analyst software supports a broad range of sophisticated spatial modeling and analysis applications. This course teaches how to use ArcGIS Spatial Analyst to produce and control raster data. Students create a variety of raster surfaces including hillshade relief maps, slope and aspect surfaces, and density and distance surfaces. In course exercises, students work within the ArcGIS geoprocessing environment to create, execute, and automate spatial analysis workflows.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for experienced ArcGIS users who want to work with rasters to identify spatial relationships, develop suitability models, or calculate the cost of travel over a surface.

Learn How To

• Understand basic cell modeling concepts.
• Use ArcGIS Spatial Analyst tools in dialog boxes, models, and at the command line.
• Control analysis results using geoprocessing environment settings.
• Create continuous surface maps.
• Create straight-line and cost-weighted distance surfaces.
• Find least-cost paths.
• Generate density maps.
• Convert vector data to raster data.
• Perform viewshed analyses.
• Perform neighborhood and zonal analyses.

To complete course exercises, you need the following software:

• ArcGIS 9.2 for Desktop or ArcGIS 9.3 for Desktop (ArcView, ArcEditor, or ArcInfo)
• ArcGIS 9.2 Spatial Analyst or ArcGIS 9.3 Spatial Analyst

• Getting Started with ArcGIS Spatial Analyst: Working with ArcGIS Spatial Analyst; Preparing your data for analysis
• Analyzing Surfaces: Visualizing surface data; Deriving data from surfaces
• Working with Map Algebra: Working with operators and functions; Putting Map Algebra to work
• Interpolating Raster Surfaces with ArcGIS Spatial Analyst: Introduction to interpolation; Interpolation methods
• Mapping Distance and Density: Distance surfaces; Density surfaces
• Using Cell, Neighborhood, and Zonal Statistics: Comparing raster datasets using cell statistics; Describing raster datasets using neighborhood and zonal statistics

Students should have completed Learning ArcGIS Desktop or have equivalent knowledge.