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Part II: Spatial Analysis and Synthesis with Gis
Curriculum
9 Sections
128 Lessons
10 Weeks
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Chapter 6: Analysis of GIS Data by Simple Examination
9
1.1
Information
10 mins
1.2
Computer Hardware—What a Computer Does
10 mins
1.3
Continuous and Discrete Phenomena
10 mins
1.4
Some Implications of Discrete Representation for GIS
10 mins
1.5
Scientific Notation, Numerical Significance, Accuracy, and Precision
10 mins
1.6
Precision vs. Accuracy
10 mins
1.7
Basic Statistics
10 mins
1.8
Putting Values into Classes
10 mins
1.9
Measurement Scales
10 mins
Step-by-Step
28
2.1
Examining the Toolbars
10 mins
2.2
Pointing at Records
10 mins
2.3
Two Windows Are Available for Selecting
10 mins
2.4
Selecting Records (and, Thereby, Features)
10 mins
2.5
Looking at the Other Capabilities of the Options Menu
10 mins
2.6
Selecting Features (and, Thereby, Records)
10 mins
2.7
Quick Selection of Features
10 mins
2.8
Selecting by Location
10 mins
2.9
Reviewing and Understanding Actions on the Table of Contents
10 mins
2.10
Layers and the Data Frames
10 mins
2.11
Changing Layer Properties
10 mins
2.12
Thinking about Maps Again
10 mins
2.13
Classification (or Categorization) and Symbolization
10 mins
2.14
User Selection of Classes
10 mins
2.15
A More Careful Look at Equal Intervals
10 mins
2.16
Defined Interval
10 mins
2.17
Quantiles
10 mins
2.18
Standard Deviation
10 mins
2.19
Natural Breaks
10 mins
2.20
Normalization
10 mins
2.21
Using Charts and Graphs
10 mins
2.22
Making a Layout
10 mins
2.23
Obtaining Data from the U.S. Bureau of the Census
10 mins
2.24
Converting the Census Data Spreadsheet to dBASEIV Format
10 mins
2.25
Using TIGER-Based Street and Block Shapefiles from Esri
10 mins
2.26
Assessing What We Have and What We Need to Solve the Problem
10 mins
2.27
Converting the Relevant Files to Cartesian Coordinates
10 mins
2.28
Finally
10 mins
Chapter 7: Creating Spatial Feature Classes Based on Proximity, Overlay, and Attributes
5
3.1
Generating Features Based on Proximity: Buffering
10 mins
3.2
Generating Features by Overlaying
10 mins
3.3
Overlaying with Line and Point Feature Classes
10 mins
3.4
Spatial Joins in General
10 mins
3.5
Deriving Feature Classes by Selecting Attributes: Extraction
10 mins
Step-by-Step
15
4.1
Using ArcToolbox to Make Buffer Zones around the Roads
10 mins
4.2
Variable-Width Buffers
10 mins
4.3
Make a New Feature Class from a Subset of Polygons: Extract
10 mins
4.4
More Complex Queries—And’s and Or’s
10 mins
4.5
Other Polygon Spatial Joins: Intersect and Identity
10 mins
4.6
The Getrich Saga
10 mins
4.7
Deriving Information by Combining Tables
10 mins
4.8
Overlaying the Feature Classes
10 mins
4.9
Create a Python Script from the Gold Model
10 mins
4.10
Modify the Python Script from the Gold Model
10 mins
4.11
Execute the Python Script
10 mins
4.12
Understanding Dissolve
10 mins
4.13
Making New Sites that Including the COST_HA Field
10 mins
4.14
Considering the Site Eccentricity Criterion
10 mins
4.15
Making a Model of the Wildcat Boat Solution
10 mins
Chapter 8: Spatial Analysis Based on Raster Data Processing
36
5.1
A Really Different Processing Paradigm
10 mins
5.2
Facts about Rasters
10 mins
5.3
Coordinate Space
10 mins
5.4
Rasters with Integer Cell Values
10 mins
5.5
Rasters with Floating-Point Values
10 mins
5.6
What Is Raster Storage and Processing Good For?
10 mins
5.7
Rasters and Features
10 mins
5.8
Rasters: Input, Computation, and Output
10 mins
5.9
Where Raster Processing Shines: Cost Incurred Traveling over a Distance
10 mins
5.10
Proximity Calculation with Rasters
10 mins
5.11
Human Activity, Cost, and Distance
10 mins
5.12
Euclidean Distances on the Raster
10 mins
5.13
Euclidean Distance and the Spatial Analyst
10 mins
5.14
Proving Pythagoras Right
10 mins
5.15
Finding the Closest of Multiple Source Cells
10 mins
5.16
Excluding Distances beyond a Certain Threshold
10 mins
5.17
Other Factors That Influence Cost
10 mins
5.18
The Cost Distance Mechanism
10 mins
5.19
The Cost Distance Calculation
10 mins
5.20
Path Calculation in Euclidean Distance and Cost Distance
10 mins
5.21
Understanding How Total Costs Are Calculated
10 mins
5.22
Getting More Information: Paths and Allocations
10 mins
5.23
Direction and Allocation Rasters for Euclidean Distance
10 mins
5.24
Direction and Allocation Rasters for Cost Distance
10 mins
5.25
A Major Application of Raster Processing: Hydrology
10 mins
5.26
Basic Surface Hydrology
10 mins
5.27
Basic Surface Hydrology Concepts
10 mins
5.28
Calculating Flow Direction
10 mins
5.29
The Ultimate Destination of Water Is Off the Raster Area
10 mins
5.30
Flow Accumulation: Drainage Delineation and Rainfall Volume
10 mins
5.31
Nonuniform Rainfall
10 mins
5.32
Calculating the Length of a Potential Linear Water Body
10 mins
5.33
Assigning Identities to Streams
10 mins
5.34
Vector vs. Raster Representation
10 mins
5.35
Assigning Orders to Stream Links
10 mins
5.36
Watersheds and Pour Points
10 mins
Step-by-Step
30
6.1
The Raster Calculator—Integer Rasters
10 mins
6.2
Arithmetic Calculation
10 mins
6.3
Boolean Operations
10 mins
6.4
Floating-Point Rasters
10 mins
6.5
Setting the General and Raster Environment
10 mins
6.6
Converting Features to Rasters
10 mins
6.7
Creating Rasters with Linear Features
10 mins
6.8
Buffering with Spatial Analyst (Maybe)
10 mins
6.9
Buffering—Plan B
10 mins
6.10
Reclassifying the Data
10 mins
6.11
Adding the Rasters with the Raster Calculator
10 mins
6.12
Converting Zones to Regions to Find Individual Sites
10 mins
6.13
Points and Density
10 mins
6.14
Thiessen, Dirichlet, Voronoi (and, of course, Decartes)
10 mins
6.15
Making a Raster Showing Straight-Line Distances to a Single Place
10 mins
6.16
Examining Many Source Cells and the Capping Distance
10 mins
6.17
Developing a Raster with Cost Distance
10 mins
6.18
Creating Direction and Allocation Rasters
10 mins
6.19
Using Cost Distance to Make Direction and Allocation Rasters
10 mins
6.20
Calculating a Least-Cost Path from “A” to “B”
10 mins
6.21
Setting Things Up
10 mins
6.22
Preparing to Create a Cost Surface
10 mins
6.23
Building a Cost Surface
10 mins
6.24
Improving the Understandability of the Map
10 mins
6.25
Examining the Surface with Various Spatial Analyst and 3D Tools
10 mins
6.26
Determining the Stream Channels
10 mins
6.27
Calculating Stream Order
10 mins
6.28
Numbering Each Stream Individually
10 mins
6.29
Identifying Basins
10 mins
6.30
Finding Pollution Culprits
10 mins
Chapter 9: Other Dimensions, Other Tools, Other Solutions
1
7.1
Two Different Third Dimensions: The Temporal and the Vertical Spatial
10 mins
The Third Spatial Dimension
3
8.1
3-D: 2-D (Spatial) Plus 1-D (Spatial)
10 mins
8.2
ArcScene
10 mins
8.3
ArcGlobe
10 mins
The Third Spatial Dimension
1
9.1
An (Almost) New Software Package: ArcScene
10 mins
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