Eighth Edition

Maribeth PriceSouth Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Mastering ArcGIS

Table of Contents

PREFACE VII

INTRODUCTION 1

What Is GIS? 1Concepts 1

What is GIS? 1A history of GIS 3What can a GIS do? 3New trends and directions in GIS .4What do GIS professionals do? 6GIS project management 6Learning more about GIS 8

CHAPTER 1. GIS DATA 9

Mastering the Concepts 9GIS Concepts 9

Representing real-world objects onmaps 9The vector model... 9Modeling feature behavior withtopology 11The raster model... 11Coordinate systems 13Map scale 14Data qualitp 15Citing GIS data sources 17

About ArcG IS 18ArcGIS overview 18ArcMap documents 19Data files in ArcGIS 20Internet data services 23

Summary 25Chapter Review Questions 26

Mastering the Skills 27Teaching Tutorial. 27Exercises 42

CHAPTER 2. MANAGING GISDATA ...............•....................•........... 43

Mastering the Concepts 43GIS Concepts 43

Characteristics of GIS data .43Organizing data files .44Finding data for a project .45Importing and exporting data .47About metadata .47

About ArcGIS 48Map documents and shared data .48Understanding file locks 51Using ArcCatalog to manage files 52Using ArcToolbox 53Documenting data 55Sources for GIS data 56

Summary 57Chapter Review Questions 58

Mastering the Skills 59Teaching Tutorial. 59Exercises 72

CHAPTER 3. COORDINATESYSTEMS 73

Mastering the Concepts 73GIS Concepts 73

About coordinate systems 73Geographic coordinate systems 74Map projections 76Raster coordinate systems 78Common projection systems 80Choosing projections 82

About ArcG IS 83Labeling coordinate systems 83On-the-flu projection 85Projecting data 85Troubleshooting coordinate sustemproblems 85

Summary 87Chapter Review Questions 88

Mastering the Skills 89Teaching Tutorial. 89Exercises 106

CHAPTER 4. MAPPINGGIS DATA 107

Mastering the Concepts 107GIS Concepts 107

Choosing symbols for maps 107Types of data and tupes of maps 109Displaying rasters 113Classifying numeric data 117

About ArcGIS 119Summary 121Chapter Review Questions 122

Mastering the Skills 123Teaching Tutorial... 123Exercises 138

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CHAPTER 5. PRESENTING GISDATA 139

Mastering the Concepts 139GIS Concepts 139

Determine the map objective 140Select the data 141Arrange the map elements 143Symbolize the data 146Review the draft 148Edit and improve 151

About ArcGIS 152Maps in ArcGIS 152Assigning map scales 152Setting up scale bars 153Labeling, text, and annotation 154

Summary 156Chapter Review Questions 157

Mastering the Skills 158Teaching Tutorial... 158Exercises 172

CHAPTER 6. ATTRIBUTEDATA 173

Mastering the Concepts 173GIS Concepts 173

Overview of tables 173Database management systems 174Queries on tables 174Joining and relating tables 175Statistics on tables 179Field types 181

About ArcGIS 183Tables in ArcGIS 183Editing and calculating fields 184Importing tables 185Mappingx-y coordinates from atable 187

Summary 188Chapter Review Questions 189

Mastering the Skills 190Teaching Tutorial... 190Exercises 203

CHAPTER 7. BASIC EDITING 205

Mastering the Concepts 205GIS Concepts 205

Snapping features 205Adjacent polygons 207

About ArcGIS 207

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The Editor toolbar.. 207Feature templates 209How editing works 210

Summary 213Chapter Review Questions 214

Mastering the Skills 215Teaching Tutorial. 215Exercises 230

CHAPTER 8. QUERIES 231

Mastering the Concepts 231GIS Concepts 231

About queries 231Attribute queries 232Spatial queries 234Extraction functions 236

About ArcGIS 237Processing layers with selections 237Interactive selection 238Selecting by attributes 239Selecting by location 240Choosing the selection method 240Managing results from queríes 241The Selection window 242

Summary 243Chapter Review Questions 244

Mastering the Skills 245Teaching Tutorial. 245Exercises 258

CHAPTER 9. SPATIAL JOINS 259

Mastering the Concepts 259GIS Concepts 259

What is a spatialjoin? 259Cardinality 261Types of spatialjoins 262Feature geometry and spatial joins ..263Coordinate systems and distancejoins 265

About ArcGIS 266Choosing the join type 266Setting up a spatial join 267

Summary 272Chapter Review Questions 273

Mastering the Skills 274Teaching Tutorial. 274Exercises 288

CHAPTER 10. MAP OVERLAY ANDGEOPROCESSING 289

Mastering the Concepts 289G1S Concepts 289

Map overlay 289Other spatial analysis functions 294

About ArcG 1S 296About geoprocessing 296

Summary 299Chapter Review Questions 300

Mastering the Skills 301Teaching Tutorial. 301Exercises 317

CHAPTER 11. RASTERANAL YSIS ............................•.......... 319

Mastering the Concepts 319G1S Concepts 319

Raster data 319Raster analysis 320

About ArcG1S 329Storing rasters 329Using Spatial Analyst... 330

Summary 333Chapter Review Questions 334

Mastering the Skills 335Teaching Tutorial.. 335Exercises 350

CHAPTER 12. EDITING ANDTOPOLOGY 351

Mastering the Concepts 351G1S Concepts 351

Topologyerrors 351Topology rules and tools 352Editing complex polygon shapes 353Combining features 354Buffering features 356Stream digitizing 356

About ArcG1S 357Changing existing features 357Editing with map topology 358Editing with planar topology 359

Summary 360Chapter Review Questions 361

Mastering the Skills 362Teaching Tutorial. 362Exercises 378

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CHAPTER 13. EXTENDINGGEODATABASES 379

Mastering the Concepts 379About ArcG1S 379

About geodatabases 379Designing and creatinggeodatabases 381Creating feature datasets 383Default values 384Domains 384Split and merge policies 386Subtypes 387Geodatabase annotation 388

Summary 390Chapter Review Questions 391

Mastering the Skills 392Teaching Tutorial.. 392Exercises 408

CHAPTER 14. METADATA 409

Mastering the Concepts 409G1S Concepts .409

The meta data standards .409Data qualítu issues .411Metadata format 415Acq,uiring metadata 416Metadata development .417

About ArcG1S 418Metadata management in ArcG1S .418The metadata editor.. 419Metadata templates 420

Summary 422Chapter Review Questions 423

Mastering the Skills 424Teaching Tutorial. 424Exercises 433

SKILLS REFERENCE .441

GLOSSARY 573

SELECTED ANSWERS 587

INDEX 595

CONVERSION TABLES 612

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