Introduction to ArcGIS

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Introduction to ArcGIS
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Introduction to ArcGIS

• A product of ESRI
• Consists of ArcView, ArcEditor, and ArcInfo
• All look and work the same they differ in how
  much they can do
• With ArcView you can
• make maps query data
• analyze spatial relationships
• edit feature shapes and attributes

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• With ArcEditor you can
• Create and edit certain spatial data formats that
  can be displayed in ArcView but not edited
• ArcInfo has more tools than both ArcView and
  ArcEditor for analyzing certain kinds of spatial
  data
• It includes ArcInfo Workstation
• A separate system that has been a GIS standard
  for many years and still widely used

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• Each version of ArcGIS includes three
  applications
• ArcMap the main mapping platform
• ArcCatalog for browsing spatial data on your
  computer or the internet
• ArcToolbox to convert spatial data from one
  format to another change map projections
• Standard ArcGIS comes with three extensions
• ArcGIS Spatial Analyst
• ArcGIS 3D Analyst
• ArcGIS Geostatistical Analyst

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• With ArcGIS Spatial Analyst you can
• Create raster surfaces
• Query them and do overlay analysis on them
• With ArcGIS 3D Analyst you can
• Visualize and analyze vector and raster data in 3
  dimensions
• fly through terrain and examine it from any
  angle
• Determine which areas on a surface are visible
  from given points

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• With ArcGIS Geostatistical Analyst you can
• Create continuous surfaces from a small number of
  sample points by predicting the values at
  unsampled locations