Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• • Define GIS
  • Use GIS to identify, explore, understand, and solve spatial problems
  • Demonstrate aGIS modeling skills
  • Demonstrate critical thinking skills in solving geospatial problems.
  • Design and implement a GIS project
  • Demonstrate competency with the ArcMap software to enhance and interpret data
  • Use queries in GIS Analysis Formulate applications of GIS technology.

This interactive Training will be highly interactive, with opportunities to advance your opinions and ideas and will include;

• Lectures
• Workshop & Work Presentation
• Case Studies and Practical Exercise
• Videos and General Discussions

I. Introducing GIS

• • What is GIS
  • What GIS can do
  • Types of GIS projects
  • Remote sensing, GPS, SDSS Continental Drift. 

II. ArcGIS

• • Exploring ArcGIS
  • Spatial Data
  • Metadata
  • ArcCatalog
  • ArcToolbox

III. Working with ArcMap

• • Map documents
  • Windows and Menus
  • GIS 111: Nov 2016
  • Help system
  • Data frames
  • Layers
  • Symbols and styles
  • Map scales and labeling

IV. Coordinate Systems and Map Projections

a) Map projections and GIS

• • Coordinate Systems
  • Spheroids and datums
  • Common projection systems
  • Projecting data

V. Drawing and Symbolizing Features

• • Types of maps
  • Classifying numeric data
  • Using map layers
  • Editing symbols and using styles
  • Displaying rasters

VI. Working with Tables

• • Tables
  • Joining tables
  • Statistics
  • Summarizing tables
  • Editing and calculating tables

VII. Queries

• • What are queries?
  • Selecting
  • Using queries in GIS analysis

VIII. Spatial Joins

• • Spatial join
  • Types of joins
  • Setting up a spatial join

IX. Map Overlay

• • Map overlay
  • Other spatial analysis functions
  • Coordinate systems and map units

X.  Presenting Data

• • Maps and Reports in ArcGIS

GIS 111: Nov 2016

• • Working with map elements
  • Layout toolbar
  • Working with map scales
  • Setting up scale bars

XI. Geocoding

• • Introduction to geocoding
  • Geocoding styles
  • Geocoding process
  • Setting up the address locater GIS 111: August 2013
  • Reference data
  • x-y coordinates

XII. Basic Editing in ArcMap

• • Editing overview
  • The Editor Toolbar
  • Snapping features
  • Creating adjacent polygons
  • Editing features
  • Editing attributes
  • Saving work

 XIII. Advanced Editing

• • Using sketch tools
  • Changing existing features
  • Combining features
  • Buffering features
  • Topology and shared features

 XIV. Working with Geodatabases

• • About geodatabases
  • Creating geodatabases
  • Creating feature datasets
  • Using default values
  • Setting up domains
  • Split and merge
  • Subtypes

BTS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration