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Part I: Basic Concepts of GIS
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Chapter 1: Some Concepts That Underpin GIS
17
1.1
You Ask: “What Is GIS About?”
10 mins
1.2
And So You Ask Again: “What Is GIS About?”
10 mins
1.3
More of What GIS Is About
10 mins
1.4
Next Steps: Seemingly Independent Things You Need to Know
10 mins
1.5
Determining Where Something Is: Coordinate Systems
10 mins
1.6
Determining Where Something Is: Latitude and Longitude
10 mins
1.7
Geodesy, Coordinate Systems, Geographic Projections, and Scale
10 mins
1.8
Projected Coordinate Systems
10 mins
1.9
Geographic vs. Projected Coordinates: A Comparison
10 mins
1.10
Two Projected Coordinate Systems: UTM and State Plane
10 mins
1.11
Physical Dimensionality
10 mins
1.12
Global Positioning Systems
10 mins
1.13
Remote Sensing
10 mins
1.14
Relational Databases
10 mins
1.15
Searching (and Indexing) in General
10 mins
1.16
Another Definition of GIS
10 mins
1.17
Computer Software: In General
10 mins
Step-by-Step
32
2.1
Understanding the File Structure for the Exercises
10 mins
2.2
Anatomy of the ArcCatalog Window
10 mins
2.3
Setting Some Options
10 mins
2.4
The Catalog Tree
10 mins
2.5
Connecting to a Folder
10 mins
2.6
The Toolbars and the Status Bar
10 mins
2.7
An Optional Step
10 mins
2.8
Exploring Basic GIS Data Storage Models
10 mins
2.9
Copying Data over to Your Personal Folder
10 mins
2.10
Examining the Table
10 mins
2.11
Deriving Information from the Table
10 mins
2.12
Sorting the Records
10 mins
2.13
Finding Values in a Table
10 mins
2.14
Identifying Geographic Features and Coordinates
10 mins
2.15
Looking at GeoGraphics
10 mins
2.16
A First Look at Metadata
10 mins
2.17
Using ArcCatalog to Place Data in ArcMap
10 mins
2.18
Using the Area on the Disk for Your Own Work
10 mins
2.19
Copying Data over to Your Personal IGIS Folder
10 mins
2.20
Searching for GIS Data
10 mins
2.21
Exploring Soils
10 mins
2.22
But Something Is Missing
10 mins
2.23
Is the Newly Found Data Applicable?
10 mins
2.24
Making a Personal Geodatabase Feature Class from a Coverage
10 mins
2.25
Looking at the Landcover Personal Geodatabase Feature Class
10 mins
2.26
Further Examining the Wildcat Boat Facility Area Data Sets
10 mins
2.27
Seeing the Results of the Join
10 mins
2.28
A Button for Instant Help: What’s This? (for ArcGIS Desktop version 10.0 only)
10 mins
2.29
Getting Instant Help for a Tool or Command (for ArcGIS Desktop version 10.1)
10 mins
2.30
The Help System and Documentation
10 mins
2.31
ArcGIS Help across the Internet
10 mins
2.32
What’s Next?
10 mins
Chapter 2: Characteristics and Examples of Spatial Data
9
3.1
The Original Form of Spatial Data: Maps
10 mins
3.2
Moving Spatial Data from Maps to Computers: Forces for Change
10 mins
3.3
Spatial Data
10 mins
3.4
Limiting the Scope
10 mins
3.5
Spatial Data for Decision Making
10 mins
3.6
Sets of Spatial Data: The Database
10 mins
3.7
Spatial Databases: Inherent Difficulties
10 mins
3.8
Information Systems
10 mins
3.9
Uses for a Geographic Information System
10 mins
Step-by-Step
31
4.1
The Basic Difference between ArcCatalog and ArcMap
10 mins
4.2
Exploring Data from the NAVSTAR Global Positioning System (GPS)
10 mins
4.3
Preliminaries
10 mins
4.4
Seeing the GPS File in ArcMap
10 mins
4.5
Looking at the GPS Track in the Context of a Variety of GIS Data
10 mins
4.6
A Potpourri of Types of Geographic Data
10 mins
4.7
Displaying Layers from Vector-Based Datasets
10 mins
4.8
Housekeeping: Saving and Restoring a Map
10 mins
4.9
Selecting: Both Map Data and Attribute Data
10 mins
4.10
Using the Measure Tool and the Identify Tool
10 mins
4.11
County Boundaries and Polygons
10 mins
4.12
TIGER/Line Files
10 mins
4.13
The Table of Contents: Display vs. Source vs. Selection
10 mins
4.14
Digital Raster Graphics and Cell-Based Files
10 mins
4.15
A Look (Optional) at How DRG Color Values Are Put Together
10 mins
4.16
Experimenting with Different Ways of Seeing Data
10 mins
4.17
Digital Orthophotos
10 mins
4.18
More TIGER/Line Files
10 mins
4.19
Another Tie between Attributes and Geographics
10 mins
4.20
More Housekeeping: Shutting Down and Restarting ArcMap
10 mins
4.21
Digital Elevation Model Files
10 mins
4.22
Comparing the DEM and the DRG
10 mins
4.23
Contour Line Files
10 mins
4.24
TINs are Three-Dimensional Datasets
10 mins
4.25
Elevation Based on Massive Sets of Data: The Esri Terrain
10 mins
4.26
The Summarizing Procedure
10 mins
4.27
Some Geological Data
10 mins
4.28
Rasters of Land Cover Data
10 mins
4.29
You Are Not Alone (Assuming you have an Internet connection)
10 mins
4.30
Next Steps on Your Own
10 mins
4.31
The Next Chapter
10 mins
Chapter 3: Products of a GIS: Maps and Other Information
17
5.1
GIS and Cartography—Compatibility?
10 mins
5.2
Products of a Geographic Information System
10 mins
5.3
Overall Requirements for Utility
10 mins
5.4
Classification of GIS Products
10 mins
5.5
Documenting Products
10 mins
5.6
Thoughts on Different Types of Products
10 mins
5.7
Don’t Ignore Character-Based Information
10 mins
5.8
Don’t Hesitate to Sort Information
10 mins
5.9
Consider Hard Copy
10 mins
5.10
Consider Balance in Product Content
10 mins
5.11
Elements of Product Design
10 mins
5.12
Units, Projection, and Scale
10 mins
5.13
Thoughts on Resolution and Scale
10 mins
5.14
Making Sure There Is a Base Map
10 mins
5.15
Measure of Quality Assurance
10 mins
5.16
The Decision Maker–Product Interface
10 mins
5.17
In Summary
10 mins
Step-by-Step
16
6.1
The Data View and the Layout View
10 mins
6.2
Controlling Your View of the Map: Zooming
10 mins
6.3
Understanding the Panning and Other Controls
10 mins
6.4
Adding Other Map Elements
10 mins
6.5
Adding Data to Data Frames
10 mins
6.6
A Summary of the Graphic Indicators
10 mins
6.7
Tinkering with the Map—Scale Bars
10 mins
6.8
Legends
10 mins
6.9
Layer Files
10 mins
6.10
Layer Packages
10 mins
6.11
Styles
10 mins
6.12
Adding and Using a Style
10 mins
6.13
Reports
10 mins
6.14
Charts and Graphs
10 mins
6.15
Graphics
10 mins
6.16
Making Graphics out of Geographic Features
10 mins
Chapter 4: Structures for Storing Geographic Data
33
7.1
Why Is Spatial Data Analysis So Hard?
10 mins
7.2
How the Computer Aids Analyzing Spatial Data
10 mins
7.3
Complexity of Spatial Data
10 mins
7.4
Structures for Spatial Data
10 mins
7.5
Storage Paradigms for Areal Data
10 mins
7.6
Fundamental Bases of Geographic Data Mode
10 mins
7.7
The Raster Data Model
10 mins
7.8
Vector Data Model
10 mins
7.9
A Multiplicity of “Storadigms”
10 mins
7.10
Vector-Based Geographic Datasets—Logical Construction
10 mins
7.11
Zero-Dimensional Entities in a Two-Dimensional Field: Points
10 mins
7.12
One-Dimensional Entities in a Two-Dimensional Field: Lines
10 mins
7.13
Two-Dimensional Entities in a Two-Dimensional Field: Polygons
10 mins
7.14
Three-Dimensional Entities in a Three-Dimensional Field: Triangles and Multipatches
10 mins
7.15
Specific Esri Spatial Vector Data Storage Mechanisms
10 mins
7.16
The Geodatabase Data Structure
10 mins
7.17
Geodatabase Software
10 mins
7.18
Polygons within Polygons—Perimeter and Area Calculations
10 mins
7.19
Geodatabases—Layout in the Computer
10 mins
7.20
Geodatabases—Logical Construction
10 mins
7.21
Geodatabases—Feature Shape
10 mins
7.22
Nested Polygons in Geodatabases
10 mins
7.23
Geodatabases and Attributes
10 mins
7.24
Objects—First Acquaintance
10 mins
7.25
The Shapefile Data Structure
10 mins
7.26
Shapefiles—Layout in the Computer
10 mins
7.27
Summarizing Vector Dataset Features
10 mins
7.28
Summary of Logical Structures of Vector-Based GIS Datasets
10 mins
7.29
Raster-Based Geographic Data Sets—Logical Construction
10 mins
7.30
Raster-Based Geographic Data Sets—Layout in the Computer
10 mins
7.31
TINs
10 mins
7.32
TIN-Based Geographic Data Sets—Layout in the Computer
10 mins
7.33
Spatial Reference
10 mins
Step-by-Step
12
8.1
More Help
10 mins
8.2
Specification of your Input Text File for the “Create Features from Text File” Tool
10 mins
8.3
Labeling Features
10 mins
8.4
Making Polygons from Lines
10 mins
8.5
Areas and Perimeters Examined
10 mins
8.6
Labeling Features with Selected Attributes
10 mins
8.7
Computers and Inexact Computation
10 mins
8.8
Creating a New Topology
10 mins
8.9
Specifying Which Feature Moves When Features Are Adjusted: Rank
10 mins
8.10
Topology Rules
10 mins
8.11
Validating Topology
10 mins
8.12
A Warning: Changes Made through Topology Are Permanent
10 mins
Chapter 5: Geographic and Attribute Data: Selection, Input, and Editing
6
9.1
Concerns about Finding and Collecting Data
10 mins
9.2
Looking for Data on the Internet
10 mins
9.3
Steps in Developing the Database
10 mins
9.4
GPS and GIS
10 mins
9.5
Anatomy of the Acronym: GPS
10 mins
9.6
What Time Is It?
10 mins
Step-by-Step
12
10.1
Looking at Reference Systems
10 mins
10.2
Looking at Coordinate Systems
10 mins
10.3
Using the Reference System to Discover the Boundary Coordinates of a State Plane Zone
10 mins
10.4
Primary Lesson
10 mins
10.5
A Plan for Digitizing and Transforming
10 mins
10.6
Getting Started
10 mins
10.7
Loading an Image File as a Layer in ArcMap
10 mins
10.8
Loading the New, Blank Shapefile into ArcMap
10 mins
10.9
Adding Line Features to a Shapefile by Using the Editing Facility in ArcMap
10 mins
10.10
Converting a Shapefile to a Geodatabse Feature Class and Giving It Real-World Coordinates
10 mins
10.11
Converting the Shapefile to a Geodatabase Feature Class
10 mins
10.12
Moving the Foozit Court Feature Class into the Real World
10 mins
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