Getting to know ArcGIS desktop : txt Timothy James Ormsby ... [et al.]. - [2nd ed., updated for ArcGis 10] - xii, 584 p. chiefly color ill. ; col. maps ; 23 cm. 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.). book

Includes index

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Section 1: Getting To Know GIS -- 1: Introducing GIS -- 2: Introducing ArcGIS desktop -- Section 2: Getting Started With Maps and Data -- 3: Exploring ArcMap -- Exercise 3a: Displaying map data -- Exercise 3b: Navigating a map -- Exercise 3c: Looking at feature attributes -- 4: Exploring ArcCatalog -- Exercise 4a: Browsing map data -- Exercise 4b: Searching for map data -- Exercise 4c: Adding data to ArcMap -- Section 3: Displaying Data -- 5: Symbolizing features and rasters -- Exercise 5a: Changing symbology -- Exercise 5b: Symbolizing features by categorical attributes -- Exercise 5c: Using styles and creating layer files -- Exercise 5d: Symbolizing rasters -- 6: Classifying features and rasters -- Exercise 6a: Classifying features by standard methods -- Exercise 6b: Classifying features manually -- Exercise 6c: Mapping density -- Exercise 6d: Using graduated and chart symbols -- 7: Labeling features -- Exercise 7a: Using dynamic labels -- Exercise 7b: Setting rules for placing labels -- Exercise 7c: Using interactive labels and creating annotation -- Section 4: Getting Information About Features -- 8: Querying data -- Exercise 8a: Identifying, selecting, finding, and hyper linking features -- Exercise 8b: Selecting features by attribute -- Exercise 8c: Creating reports -- 9: Joining and relating tables -- Exercise 9a: Joining tables -- Exercise 9b: Relating tables -- Section 5: Analyzing Feature Relationships -- 10: Selecting features by location -- Exercise 10a: Using location queries -- Exercise 10b: Combining attribute and location queries -- 11: Preparing data for analysis -- Exercise 11a: Dissolving features -- Exercise 11b: Creating graphs -- Exercise 11c: Clipping layers -- Exercise 11d: Exporting data -- 12: Analyzing spatial data -- Exercise 12a: Buffering features -- Exercise 12b: Overlaying data -- Exercise 12c: Calculating attribute values -- 13: Projecting data in ArcMap --
Exercise 13a: Projecting data on the fly -- Exercise 13b: Defining a projection -- Section 6: Creating And Editing Data -- 14: Building geodatabases -- Exercise 14a: Creating a personal geodatabase -- Exercise 14b: Creating feature classes -- Exercise 14c: Adding fields and domains -- 15: Creating features -- Exercise 15a: Drawing features -- Exercise 15b: Using feature construction tools -- 16: Editing features and attributes -- Exercise 16a: Deleting and modifying features -- Exercise 16b: Splitting and merging features -- Exercise 16c: Editing feature attribute values -- 17: Geocoding addresses -- Exercise 17a: Creating an address locator -- Exercise 17b: Matching addresses -- Exercise 17c: Rematching addresses -- Section 7: Presenting Data -- 18: Making maps from templates -- Exercise 18a: Opening a map template -- Exercise 18b: Adding x,y data to a map -- Exercise 18c: Drawing graphics on a map -- 19: Making maps for presentation -- Exercise 19a: Laying out the page -- Exercise 19b: Adding a title -- Exercise 19c: Adding a north arrow, scale bar, and legend -- Exercise 19d: Adding final touches and setting print options -- Section 8: Modeling -- 20: Creating models -- Exercise 20a: Starting a model -- Exercise 20b: Building a model -- Exercise 20c: Enhancing a model -- Appendix A: Data license agreement -- Appendix B: Installing the data and software -- Index --

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ArcGIS.


Geographic Information Systems
Graphical user interfaces (Computer systems)

G70.212 / G489 2010

910.285/53