ArcGIS 10.x Mastery: Complete Course from Beginner to Expert

1. What is ArcCatalog?

2. Definition of ArcCatalog

3. Types of information in ArcCatalog

4. Start ArcCatalog

5. ArcCatalog's Interface Elements

6. Installing the Exercise Data

1. The Contents Tab

2. The Preview Tab

3. The Description Tab

4. Items in the Catalog tree view

5. the Catalog Tree Refresh

6. Catalog Tree works just like Windows (copy, paste and delete files)

7. Disconnect Folder

Definition of Metadata

Item's MetaData

More Item's MetaData

Edit Content in the Metadata View.

Vector ArcGIS File Formats

1. Shapefile

2. Geographic JavaScript Object Notation GeoJSON

3.Keyhole Markup Language

4.GPS Exchange Format

Raster GIS File Formats

1.Esri grid

2.ERDAS Imagine (IMG)

3.ASCII Grid

4.TIFF

Difference between Raster Data and Vector Data

• Advantages of Vector Data

• Adventures of Raster

• Geographic Database File Formats

  1.Esri File Geodatabase .GDB

  2. Esri Personal Geodatabase .MDB

  3.SpatiaLite

• CAD File Formats

• Autodesk Drawing DWF,DWG,DXF

• Elevation File Formats

  1. USGS DEM .DEM

  2. Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED)

• Web File Formats

Opening And Saving A Map Document

• Launch ArcMap

An overview of the ArcMap Interface

1. The Main Screen of the Program Appears

2. Customize Your Interface

3. Alternate Way to Open the Catalog and Other

4. Standard Toolbar

Adding data to ArcMap

1.Add Data button.

2. Create folder connections

3.Add and remove map layers

Table of Contents

Viewing attribute tables

The Tools Toolbar

1.Zoom in

2.Fixed zoom in and zoom out

3. Pan

4.Full

5.Previous Extent

6.Next Extent

7.Use the Select Features tool

8.Clear Select tool

9.Use the Identify tool

10.Measuring Distances

11.Find Features

Working with data frames

1. Layout View

2. Edit Data Frame Name

3. New Data Frame

4. Data View

5. Saving a Map in ArcMap 10.8

ArcToolBox

• Definition ArcToolbox

• View the ArcToolbox

• Organization of ArcToolbox

• ArcToolbox Contains:

• Tool icon shape

• Example - Using a Tool from ArcToolbox

• Background Processing and Results

• Results Management

Creating and Adding a Toolbox

Adding tools to a toolbox For example Adding built-in tools

Common Toolboxes

1.Analysis Toolbox

2.Cartography Toolbox

3.Conversion Toolbox

4.Coverage Toolbox

5.Data Management Toolbox

6.Spatial Analyst Toolbox

Definition of a layer

Adding layers to a map

1. Adding data using the Add Data button

2. Dragging a dataset from the Catalog window

3. Copying or dragging a layer

4. Adding multiple datasets

5. Add Basemap

6. Adding data from ArcGIS Online

7. Supported or Not Supported Format Data in ArcMap

Layers in the table of contents

1. Turn a layer on and off

2. Change a layer’s color

3. Zoom to Layer

4. the icons beside the layers in the table of contents

5. Using symbols:

   • point symbols

   • Line symbols

   • Fill symbols

   • Text symbols

Methods for listing layers in the contents table

1. List by Drawing Order

2. Listing by source

3. Listing by visibility

4. Listing by selection

Layer properties Part1

• General tab

• Source tab

Layer Properties Part 2

• Selection tab

• Display tab

• Symbology tab

• Fields tab

• Definition Query tab

• Labels tab:

  a. Set label properties and label features

  b. Turn labels off

Introducing Attribute Table

Sources of tabular information

Attribute Table Interface

key components:

1. Field Names (Columns)

2. Records (Rows)

key components(cont.):

3. Table Tools and Options

• Select by Attributes:

• Add Field:

• Field Calculator:

• Delete Field:

  
  

key components(cont.):

3. Table Tools and Options (cont.)

• Statistics:

• Sort Ascending/Descending:

4.Find and replace.

5. Navigation Tools.

6. Field Properties.

7. Data Management.

Creating and editing tables

1. How to create tables in the Catalog window.

2. adding a value in a table cell.

3. Copying and pasting records in multiple cells.

Changing the Appearance of a Table:

1. change the field name

2. adjust the width of a field

3. Turn Field Off

5. Formatting numeric fields

6. Freezing a column in a table

What is spatial reference?

Important Elements in a Spatial Reference.

1.Coordinate System:

• Geographic Coordinate System (GCS):

• Projected Coordinate System (PCS):

2.Datum.

3.Projection.

4.Units.

5.Tolerances and Resolutions.

Working with Spatial References in ArcGIS.

Working with world map coordinate systems.

1. A geographic coordinate system .

2. Projected Coordinate Reference Systems Types of Geographic Projections:

• Cylindrical projection:

• Conical projection:

• Azimuthal Projections:

Practical Example:

1.Define Projection for City Boundaries.

2.Define Projection for Local Boundaries.

3.Verify Spatial References:

• Lack Spatial Reference Information.

• Spatial Reference Information File.

Another example of Spatial References

Set World Projections

Using the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) System

Benefits of Using the Universal Transverse Mercator

Make projections for a certain region, like as a nation

What are field Data types in ArcGIS?

Text Data Type

Integer Data Types:

1.Short Integer

2.Long Integer

Integer Data Types:

1. Float Data

2. Double Data

3. Date Data

4. Blob Data

Definition of Shapefile

The shapefile's three primary files

Other files

Analyze a shape file.

Creating a new shapefile.

Creating a New Point Shapefile Representing Trees.

• Digitizing Point Features