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FeaturesThe book contains an Introduction and 15 chapters that cover the most important capabilities of ArcGIS. Each chapter includes roughly one week’s work for a typical 3-credit semester course. This book intentionally contains somewhat more material than the average GIS class can cover during a single semester, in recognition of the fact that instructors vary in their consideration of which topics are most important.Each chapter is organized into the following sections:
Concepts provide basic background material for understanding the principles and techniques involved in using ArcGIS. A set of review questions follows the concepts section.
Tutorial contains a step-by-step tutorial demonstrating the concepts and skills learned in the chapter. The tutorials begin with detailed instructions, which gradually become more general as mastery is built. Every step in the tutorial is demonstrated by accompanying video clips.
Exercises present a series of problems to build skill in identifying the appropriate techniques and applying them without step-by-step help. Through these exercises the student builds an independent mastery of GIS processes. The problems are graduated in difficulty from the first to the last, and end with a Challenge problem. Answers and solution methods are included for selected exercises.
Skills Reference provides step-by-step instructions for carrying out the most frequent and important tasks being learned. This material is similar to the program documentation, but is organized by topic and demonstrated with video clips. Each chapter begins with a list of learning objectives that alert students to the important concepts to follow. An accompanying CD contains all the necessary data and documents to follow the tutorials and complete the exercises. |
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