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1. Create, edit and analyze geographic data
2. Prepare reports, charts and layouts
3. Describe and implement the steps necessary to answer a geographic question
4. Produce an output of finished quality maps representing a basic analysis, a basic survey or a basic scale-based, descriptive, diagrammatic summary
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Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Demonstrate an understanding of the structure and organization of the software package
2. Create a map project using GIS software
3. Define and apply the relationship of geographic features and attribute data
4. Perform feature identification and classification
5. Perform query and analysis functions
6. Define and edit spatial relationships
7. Create a map layout
8. Integrate GIS with other software and technology
9. Utilize basic cartographic principles in map design and construction
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Lectures will cover the following topics:
1. Identify source files
a. Links to files
b. How to change files in the project
2. Perform geocoding for geographic location
3. Perform selection by location for data analysis
4. Perform spatial joins of database information
5. Overlay analysis by:
a. Proximity
b. Spatial data processing
c. Clip data demonstration
d. Dissolve data demonstration
e. Append to data demonstration
f. Demonstrate the union function
6. Utilize GIS software features
a. Create metadata
b. Utilize Arc Toolbox features
7. Produce map layouts
a. Create reports
b. Create graphs
8. Create and edit geodatabases
9. Create and edit data sources
a. Import and edit other data formats
b. Computer Assisted Drafting and Design (CADD)
c. Interchange files
d. Text and CSV files
e. MS Access files
10. Perform intermediate level analysis functions on data
a. Queries
b. Attribute joins
c. Spatial joins
d. Edit attributes
e. Create edit centroids
11. Perform intermediate level statistical analysis
12. Create summary tables: perform spatial adjustment & georeferencing
13. GIS design
a. Need for GIS design
b. The software engineering approach
c. Structured design model
d. Formal GIS design methodology
e. Verification and validation
14. GIS output
a. The display of analysis
b. Cartographic output
c. Map design controls
d. Nontraditional cartographic output
e. Non-cartographic output
f. Technology and GIS output
LABORATORY TOPICS & SCOPE:
ESRI Virtual campus and discussion
A. Solving Spatial Problems
B. Basics of Raster Data
C. Deriving Terrain Rasters
D. Raster Site Selection
E. Distance Analysis
F. Exploring Spatial Patterns
G. Introduction to Surface Models
H. 3D Visualization Techniques
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GIS Fundamentals, A First Text on Geographic Information Systems (5th). Bolstad, Paul. Eider Press: 2016
Lining Up Data in ArcGIS: A Guide to Map Projections (2nd). Maher, Margaret. ESRI Press: 2013
Modeling Our World: the ESRI Guide to Geodatabase Concepts, 2nd Edition Michael Zeiler. ESRI Press: 2010