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1. A Brief Overview of GIS

2. Course Overview

3. Academic Uses of GIS

4. The ArcGIS Software

5. Additional GIS Training and Resources

1. Getting the Tutorial Data

2. Navigating ArcMap

3. Map Layer Attribute Tables

4. Exploring Map Features

5. Labeling Map Layers

6. Symbolizing Map Layers

7. Using Multiple Layers

8. Finding Prepared Data

1. Getting the Tutorial Data

2. Preparing a Map for Sharing

3. Exporting a Map

1. Getting Started

2. Joining Tabular Place Name Data

3. Mapping Census Data

4. Formatting Tables for Joins

5. Geocoding Street Addresses

1. Getting Started

2. Geographic Coordinate Systems

3. Projections

4. Projected Coordinate Systems

5. Working With Spatial References

6. Displaying Coordinate Information

7. Working with Coordinate Data

8. References

1. The Global Positioning System

2. Using a GPS Enabled Smartphone

3. Using a GPS Receiver

4. Downloading GPS Data

5. Importing GPS Data into ArcGIS

1. Getting Started

2. The Structure of Raster Data

3. Symbolizing Raster Data

4. Analyzing Watersheds

5. Site Suitability Analysis

6. Georeferencing Scanned Maps

1. Getting Started

2. Selecting Map Features

3. Duplicating and Reprojecting a Feature Set

4. Creating and Editing Features

1. Getting Started

2. Basic Descriptive Statistics

3. Probability Distributions and Sample Data

4. Statistics of Multiple Attributes

5. Descriptive Statistics of Spatial Data

6. References

• Initializing ArcMap

• Adding Prepared Data to a Map

• Saving a Map Document

• Storing Relative Pathnames in a Map Document

• Viewing a Map Layer’s Attribute Table

• Sorting Attribute Table Records

• Locating Attribute Table Records on the Map

• Selecting Features

• Identifying Features

• Finding Features

• Labeling A Map Layer

• Creating a Layer File

• Symbolizing a Point Layer Using Proportional Symbols

• Adding a Basemap to a Map

• Finding Data on ArcGIS Online

• Creating a New Layout

• Adding a Map to a Layout

• Opening ArcToolbox

• Exporting a Layer to Google Earth

• Joining a Table to a Layer

• Saving a Copy of a Data Set

• Downloading Census Data

• Making a Census Excel File Compatible with ArcGIS

• Determining Map Layer Attribute Types

• Formatting Excel Data for Compatibility with ArcGIS

• Formatting Excel Cells for Compatibility with ArcGIS

• Making an Excel File Compatible with ArcGIS

• Geocoding a Table of Street Addresses

• Locating an X-Y Coordinate Position

• Determining the Spatial Reference of a Layer

• Changing the Spatial Reference of a Map (Data Frame)

• Transforming the Datum of a Layer

• Defining the Spatial Reference of a Layer

• Changing the Map Display Units

• Measuring Distances and Areas

• Displaying a Coordinate Grid on a Layout

• Mapping Tabular Coordinate Data

• Extracting Data From Web Pages

• Setting Up a GPS Receiver

• Deleting Old Waypoints from a GPS Receiver

• Recording Your Position With a GPS Receiver

• Connecting a GPS Receiver to a Computer

• Setting up EasyGPS

• Downloading Data With EasyGPS

• Using EGPS2shp to Convert a .gpx File Into a Shapefile

• Assigning the Spatial Reference of a Shapefile

• Determining the Characteristics of a Raster Image

• Choosing the Best Visualization of a Raster

• Determining Watersheds with an Elevation Raster

• Georeferencing a Scanned Map

• Selecting Map Features on the Map

• Selecting Map Features in the Attribute Table

• Selecting Map Features by Their Attributes

• Duplicating and Reprojecting All or Part of a Feature Set

• Creating an Empty Shapefile

• Adding a New Field to a Shapefile's Attribute Table

• Deleting a Field From a Shapefile's Attribute Table

• Working in Editing Mode

• Adding New Features to a Shapefile

• Deleting Features From a Shapefile

• Modifying the Attributes of Features in a Shapefile

• Modifying the Geometry of Features in a Shapefile

• Determining the Descriptive Statistics of an Attribute

• Symbolizing an Attribute by a Defined Interval

• Symbolizing an Attribute by Its Standard Deviation

• Calculating an Attribute’s Standard Score

• Visualizing Attribute Relationships with Scatterplots

• Multiple Linear Regression