Land Information and Computer Graphics Facility

UW-Madison
LICGF/SIAC
GIS Training Workshops

ArcGIS Desktop 2 Tools and Functionality

Course Fee: $1200

3-day ESRI authorized class.

ArcGIS Desktop software is an integrated system that includes all the tools needed to get the most out of a GIS. This course teaches the range of functionality available in the software and the essential tools for visualizing, creating, managing, and analyzing geographic data. The hands-on course exercises emphasize practice with ArcMap and ArcCatalog (the primary applications included with ArcGIS Desktop software) to perform common GIS tasks and workflows. The tools for creating and managing geographic data, displaying data on maps in different ways, and combining and analyzing data to discover patterns and relationships are highlighted, and you learn how ArcGIS Desktop provides a complete GIS software solution. By the end of the course, you will be prepared to start working with the software on your own.

Topics covered

• Investigating geographic data
• Managing map layers
• Symbolizing categorical data
• Symbolizing quantitative data
• Labeling map features
• Using coordinate systems and map projections
• Making a map layout
• Managing tables
• Editing features and attributes
• Creating geodatabases and feature classes
• Getting locations from attributes
• Solving spatial problems with query and analysis
• Customizing ArcGIS Desktop

Note:

This class is intended for new and experienced users of GIS. Here is the Table of Contents for the class workbook (pdf).

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