Learning ArcGIS for Desktop

Create, analyze, and map your spatial data with ArcGIS for Desktop

About This Book

• Learn how to use ArcGIS for Desktop to create and manage geographic data, perform vector and raster analysis, design maps, and share your results
• Solve real-world problems and share your valuable results using the powerful instruments of ArcGIS for Desktop
• Step-by-step tutorials cover the main editing, analyzing, and mapping tools in ArcGIS for Desktop

Who This Book Is For

This book is ideal for those who want to learn how to use the most important component of Esri's ArcGIS platform, ArcGIS for Desktop. It would be helpful to have a bit of familiarity with the basic concepts of GIS. Even if you have no prior GIS experience, this book will get you up and running quickly.

What You Will Learn

• Understand the functionality of ArcGIS for Desktop applications
• Explore coordinate reference system concepts and work with different map projections
• Create, populate, and document a file geodatabase
• Manage, create, and edit feature shapes and attributes
• Built automate analysis workfl ows with ModelBuilder
• Apply basic principles of map design to create good-looking maps
• Analyze raster and three-dimensional data with the Spatial Analyst and 3D Analyst extensions

In Detail

ArcGIS for Desktop is one of the main components of the ESRI ArcGIS platform used to support decision making and solve real-world mapping problems. Learning ArcGIS for Desktop is a tutorial-based guide that provides a practical experience for those who are interested in start working with ArcGIS.

The first five chapters cover the basic concepts of working with the File Geodatabase, as well as editing and symbolizing geospatial data. Then, the book focuses on planning and performing spatial analysis on vector and raster data using the geoprocessing and modeling tools. Finally, the basic principles of cartography design will be used to create a quality map that presents the information that resulted from the spatial analysis previously performed. To keep you learning throughout the chapters, all exercises have partial and final results stored in the dataset that accompanies the book. Finally, the book offers more than it promises by using the ArcGIS Online component in the tutorials as source of background data and for results sharing

Style and approach

This easy-to-follow guide is full of hands-on exercises that use open and free geospatial datasets. The basic features of the ArcGIS for Desktop are explained in a step-by-step style.

使用ArcGIS for Desktop創建、分析和映射您的空間數據。

關於本書：
- 學習如何使用ArcGIS for Desktop創建和管理地理數據，執行矢量和栅格分析，設計地圖並分享結果。
- 使用ArcGIS for Desktop的強大工具解決現實世界的問題並分享有價值的結果。
- 逐步教程涵蓋ArcGIS for Desktop中的主要編輯、分析和映射工具。

本書適合對Esri的ArcGIS平台中最重要的組件ArcGIS for Desktop感興趣的人。對地理信息系統的基本概念有一定的了解會有所幫助，即使您沒有先前的地理信息系統經驗，本書也能讓您快速上手。

您將學到：
- 了解ArcGIS for Desktop應用程序的功能。
- 探索坐標參考系統的概念並使用不同的地圖投影。
- 創建、填充和文檔化文件地理數據庫。
- 管理、創建和編輯要素形狀和屬性。
- 使用ModelBuilder構建自動化分析工作流程。
- 應用地圖設計的基本原則創建漂亮的地圖。
- 使用空間分析和三維分析擴展進行栅格和三維數據分析。

ArcGIS for Desktop是ESRI ArcGIS平台的主要組件之一，用於支持決策並解決現實世界的地圖問題。《學習ArcGIS for Desktop》是一本基於教程的指南，為那些有興趣開始使用ArcGIS的人提供實際經驗。

前五章介紹了使用文件地理數據庫的基本概念，以及編輯和符號化地理空間數據。然後，本書專注於使用地理處理和建模工具在矢量和栅格數據上進行空間分析的計劃和執行。最後，將使用地圖製作的基本原則創建一張呈現先前進行的空間分析結果的高質量地圖。為了讓您在各章節中持續學習，所有練習都有部分和最終結果存儲在附帶的數據集中。最後，本書通過在教程中使用ArcGIS Online組件作為背景數據和結果共享來提供更多內容。

風格和方法：
- 這本易於跟隨的指南充滿了使用開放和免費地理空間數據集的實踐練習。
- 以逐步指南的方式解釋了ArcGIS for Desktop的基本功能。