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All lecture materials by Austin Troy except where noted (c) 2003 Instructor: Austin Troy University of Vermont School of Natural Resources Email: [email protected] Lecture materials by Austin Troy except where noted. Acknowledgements are due, in particular, to the UC Berkeley GIS Center, where many of the ideas for these lectures evolved in the development of their short course series. NR 385D: Accelerated Introduction to GIS

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Instructor: Austin TroyUniversity of VermontSchool of Natural ResourcesEmail: [email protected]

Lecture materials by Austin Troy except where noted.Acknowledgements are due, in particular, to the UC Berkeley GIS Center, where many of the ideas for these lectures evolved in the development of their short course series.

NR 385D: Accelerated Introduction to GIS

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Lecture 1

I. Introduction to Geographic Information Systems and Science

II. Introduction to Architecture of Arc GIS

Introduction to GIS

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Introduction to GIS

“Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.”

-Mandelbrot, 1983

A first lesson in GIS:

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Geographic Information Science is the study of the abstraction and representation of spatial phenomena

The problem is that things in nature are messy. Simple math doesn’t describe them adequately

Thinking about fractal geometry helps:

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•Example: How to get an accurate measurement of the coastline of Britain?•Seems like an easy questions, BUT the measurement will depend on the length of the “ruler” used. •Hence answer is a function of the tool used

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•GIS is fundamentally an exercise in abstraction and approximation•When we represent nature on paper or on a computer we abstract and simplify•Each GIS tool used influences the level or type of abstraction•Keep this in mind when practicing GIS

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The Lesson:

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•As practitioners of GIS it is critical that the first thing you realize is the limitations of GIS

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“GIS” usually refers to Geographic Information Systems

“Geographic Information Systems” is a subset of Geographic

Information Science

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Geographic Information Systems: Some definitions•The complete sequence of components for acquiring, processing, storing and managing data (Star and Estes, 1990)

•It is a configuration of computer hardware and software specifically designed for the acquisition, maintenance and use of cartographic data, (Tomlin, 1990)

•It is a set of computer tools for collecting, storing, retrieving at will, transforming and displaying spatial data from the real for a particular set of purposes, (Borrough et al. 1998)

•A system of hardware, software, data, people, organizations and institutional arrangements for collecting, storing, analyzing and disseminating information about areas of the earth.

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Source: adapted from UC Berkeley GIS Center

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GIS is the science of simultaneously addressing the questions:

“What?” “How much?” “When?” and “Where?”

There are two fundamental ways that GIS is used: •To geographically map out those factors you believe explain some process or phenomenon, based on some a priori knowledge and describe those patterns and relationships or •To look at patterns in a geographic distribution of values and use that to help you figure out what the heck is going on, a posteriori

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Important that we know more than just “where?”

What is this a map of?

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Federally owned lands

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How about this map?

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IQ test scores in the UK

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What is the heck is this a map of?!!

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Percent of population that buys salsa

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Any clue?

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Amount of manure created by county

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The messageWe are used to maps that deliver information in

an intuitive way (road maps, terrain maps), where you know what you’re looking at

However, as you get further into GIS, you’ll be working increasingly with data that is much more difficult to interpret. You must learn the tools that allow you to:

A. Interpret data created by others and

B. Create data sets and maps that can be easily interpreted by other users

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Documentation: essential for sharing your data

•Metadata: data about the data. Includes data dictionary and processing information. Metadata comprises information about the content, quality, sources, lineage, and spatial reference model for the data.

•Data Dictionary: a mapping of entities, attributes and values for each of the GIS data layers.

•Entity = parcel

•Attributes = owner, size, landuse

•Values = Landuse = 0 - 10 (definition of codes / procedure for assigning)

•Procedures: processing information as well as user guides.

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Source: adapted from UC Berkeley GIS Center

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Some examples of GIS in Action:

•Projects: Aggregating data, devising new processes and models, creating deliverables, such as maps, reports, statistical results and in some cases, problem-oriented applications•Custom GIS applications: Targeted at a specific market and intended to do a specific task. These may stem from a project. Not all spatial tasks are appropriate for custom apps.•Internet Map Servers: bundled data and applications served through the Web

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Some examples of GIS in Action:Viewshed Analysis

Using GIS to determine where you’ll be able to see cellular towers from

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Introduction to GIS

Some examples of GIS in Action:Fire Mitigation Decision Support

GIS was used to help land managers decide how to manage vegetation so as to reduce fire risk at the lowest cost and with the least visual impact

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Some examples of GIS in Action:Predicting potential transit ridership to help Determine the location of a new transit route

Source: UC Berkeley GIS Center

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Some examples of GIS in Action:Assessing the number of people affected by toxic plumes

Source: UC Berkeley GIS Center

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Some examples of GIS in Action:Analysis of road disturbance in ecologically important

areas

Source: Thesis research from Dick Cameron; http://greenwich.colorado.edu/drc/rese.htm

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Some examples of GIS in Action:Historical Land Use Change Analysis

Source: David Saah, Placer Land UseChange Study, UC Berkeley

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Some examples of GIS in Action:Land Use Planning

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Some examples of GIS in Action:Monitoring of deforestation

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Some examples of GIS in Action:Find the least cost bike route (in terms of traffic and

slope) from and to two user defined points

Source: UC Berkeley GIS Center

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Some examples of GIS in Action:3 D Visualization and Terrain Analysis for transportation

planning

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Some examples of GIS in Action:

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Watershed delineation using digital elevation models

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Some examples of GIS in Action:Site and demographic analysis for retail/office location

Source: Geonmonics, Inc. http://www.geonomicsinc.com/products.htm

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Some examples of GIS in Action:Calculate Trade Areas for a facility by drive time and by

circular radius

Source: Geonmonics, Inc. http://www.geonomicsinc.com/products.htm

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Some examples of GIS in Action:Determine the Susceptibility of hillsides to seismically-

induced landslides under multiple scenarios

Source: Dissertation research by Bijan Khazai, UC Berkeley,Dept. of Civil Engineering

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Some examples of GIS in Action:Municipal Information Internet Map Server: NaviGate LA

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Some examples of GIS in Action:Site Selector Internet Map Server for Ontario allows user to spatially query for properties meeting certain criteria online

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Part 2:Introduction to the Architecture of

Arc GIS

------Using GIS--Introduction to GIS

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What is Arc GIS?•Arc GIS Desktop is a software product from ESRI

•It comes in three versions:

•ArcView-basic

•Arc Editor -intermediate

•Arc Info-most functionality, but most $$$

•We are using Arc Info

•With each step up, you have more versatility in terms of tools of analysis and the types of data you can view, edit and analyze.

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Components of Arc GIS•All installation levels of Arc GIS come with:

•Arc Map

•Arc Catalog

•The Arc Info installation also comes with Arc Info Workstation, Arc Reader, Arc Objects Developer Tools, Arc Scene and Arc Globe

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Components of Arc GIS•How do you access these?

•Go to the start menu>>programs>>ArcGIS and you’ll see all the components you have access to

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Arc Catalog•for organizing and managing spatial and tabular data

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Arc Catalog• This button allows you to connect to a local folder or a network place

•In this course, all data and work will be stored on your Zoo account.

•In lab we’ll learn to “map a network” drive to your Zoo account, so it looks no different from saving to your local machine. This will be your Z drive.

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Arc Catalog•Once you’ve mapped your network drive, you can open an Arc Catalog connection to it

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•Once you’ve mapped your network drive, you can open an Arc Catalog connection to it, or to a subfolder in it

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Arc Catalog•For instance, here are the contents of my nr143 folder on my Zoo account, which I made a connection to:

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Arc Catalog•Now I can preview my files, view information about all the data layers in a particular folder, like here where I have data related to lab 4.

•There are five types of data shown here

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Geodatabase

Tabular dataShapefile

Arc Map Project file

Coverage

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Data types•What do these different data types refer to?

•Shapefile: native file format for the old ArcView; perhaps the most common spatial data format

•Coverage: native file format for old ArcInfo 7.x Is not a file, but a complex directory structure

• Dbase/tabular data: non-spatial data table that can be used in a GIS, spreadsheet or database--.dbf

•Map document: This is like a project file—it stores your map view and preferences in Arc GIS; we’ll get into this later

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Data types•Geodatabase: This is ArcGIS’s new data model for storing geographic information

•It can contain any number of layers within it, known as “feature classes.” Shapefile have only one feature class

•As an example, here is a geodatabase with three layers, as seen in Arc Catalog

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Geodatabase•In a geodatabase, features classes can either be stand alone, as in the last slide, or part of a “feature data set,” which is a thematic grouping of layers

•Here we have a geodatabase with two “feature data sets”—one for land resources and one for water

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Feature data sets

Feature classes

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Geodatabase•In a geodatabase there are features classes for points, lines and areas (polygons) as well as for rasters (surfaces), annotation (labels) and dimensions

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Annotation class: stores info about displaying labels on a map layer; important for roads and utilities

Dimension class: info about how to display lengths and measurements on a map

Polygon, or area feature class

Relationship class: stores relationships between feature classes

Line, or arc feature class

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Geodatabase•Geodatabases offer numerous advantages:

•Multiple spatial layers and non-spatial data sources can be stored in a single file and organized thematically

•Rules can be easily defined that can apply to all classes

•These rules can include relationships between layers

•For instance if you have one subclass with water lines and one with water valves, you can ensure that if you move a water line, the water valve that connects that line will move as well, or it ensures that, say, if the material attribute for a water line is set to copper, the water valves that connect to it will also be copper

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Geodatabase•Other advantages:

•Spatial layers maintain the same measurement and geographic reference systems, because new layers added to the geodatabase can “inherent” properties of existing ones

•Labeling “behavior” can be stored as an annotation feature class, making it easier to keep labels consistent

•“Domains” can be established, which specify the valid ranges of values for attributes, which reduces input error.

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Geodatabase•Types: Personal or multiple user

•We will use personal geodatabases. These are actually Microsoft Access files with the .MDB file extension. The “back end” of the geodatabase can be opened in Access, but it can only be viewed spatially in Arc GIS

•With Access you can edit and query attribute tables and manage relationships between feature classes with all the functionality of a relational database management system

•A multi-user (SDE) geodatabase is for organizations that wish to have many people accessing the same database. These are used with enterprise database systems, like Oracle, Informix or SQL Server

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Geodatabase•View of a personal geodatabase in Access

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Arc Catalog: data management•Arc Catalog is where you can create and modify geodatabases.

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•You can create new feature classes, tables or relationship classes within a geodatabase

•You can also import existing shapefiles or coverages into a geodatabase or export a feature class to a shapefile

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Arc Catalog: data management•Through right clicking, you can access the properties of a feature subclass and make changes to fields for the feature class’ attribute table

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Arc Catalog: data management•You can also make changes to validation rules for feature classes “subtypes.” What does this mean?

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•Subtypes refers to “types” of objects within a feature class—for instance water mains versus water laterals in a feature class of water infrastructure

•You can set different validation rules for each subtype. These rules govern those object types’ behavior

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Arc Catalog: data management•Validation rules are used to help keep features classes consistent, logical and error free

•There are four classes of validation rules:

•Attribute domain rules: allowable values for a subtype’s attributes: e.g. there will be different allowable psi for distribution versus transmission mains; this prevents you from including wrong type of main in your design

•Connectivity rules: what features can and can’t touch?

•Relationship rules: what feature classes can be related?

•Custom rules: advanced topic

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Arc Catalog: Online data•Arc Catalog also allows you to access some data directly from the Internet

•It comes preloaded with a connection to the Geography Network, where many layers are available through the Arc Internet Map Server (IMS) service ; other Internet connections can be added

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Arc Catalog: Online data•Geography network data:

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Arc Catalog:Functionality•Arc Catalog allows you to preview geographic data, including geodatabase feature classes

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Use these buttons to zoom and pan

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Arc Catalog:Functionality•You can also preview online data sets, like those from the geography network

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Arc Catalog:Functionality…and you can preview and browse tabular attribute data

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Arc Catalog: Functionality•You can also get “metadata,” or data about the data (we’ll go into this more later in the semester)

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Arc Catalog standardizes this information and allows you to import and export metadata between layers

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Arc Map•While Arc Catalog is where you’ll do most of your data management, Arc Map is where you’ll do most of your mapping and visualization of spatial data

•This is the default upper tool and menu bar

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Add new layer

Zoom tools Zoom to full extent

Select feature

Find feature

measure

Change map’s display scale (zoom factor)

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Arc Map: overlaying data•Using the add data button, you can overlay any number of layers for which geographic reference information exists.

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Arc Map: overlaying data•The window on the left side of Arc Map is the Table of Contents, where loaded layers are listed

•There are 2 mode for the TOC: display and source

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Display: note that it gives a symbol for the feature type

Source mode: can see that the first 3 layers are from 1 geodatabase and the fourth is from a stand alone file

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Arc Map: properties•You can access many functions by right clicking on the layer in the TOC.

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•This is the easiest way to access the attribute table of a layer

•You can also access layer properties by double clicking on that layer: much functionality is found there

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Arc Map: Attribute tables•You can access, edit and query attribute tables from a special interface

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Arc Map: data frame•You can access properties for the whole data frame by double clicking on “Layers” at the top of the TOC or by right clicking on the data frame

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Arc Map: Data frame—Units •Two of the most important properties are Map and Display units. Where the Map units are already set (because reference info exists) they will be “grayed out” but display units are still changeable.

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When the units are unknown to the system (reference info not embedded in the file) you’ll see:

This turns into guesswork

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Arc Map: Units•Once you’ve set display units, future geographic measurement functions should be in those units, even if they’re different from the Map units; however, this does not apply to non-spatial attribute values

•If you use the ruler tool for instance, measurements will be in the selected Display units at the bottom of the page

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Arc Map: Scale•What is scale?? Translation factor between one unit on the map and same unit in the real world

•Arc Map allows you to view what scale you’re looking at, but take it with a grain of salt because of differences in monitors.

•Every time you rezoom, it recalculates scale, but can also change scale to rezoom

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1 inch is 1.98 million inches in real world

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Arc Map: Scale

•USA

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Arc Map: Scale•Washington State

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Arc Map: Scale•Clark County, Washington

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Arc Map: Scale•Clark County, Washington—highway interchange

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Arc Map: Scale•A “reference scale” can be set in Arc Map that you can go back to when you want by clicking “zoom to reference scale.”

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Arc Map: Extensions•Arc Map has optional extensions, some of which cost money. We have most of them installed.

•Activate by going to Tools>>extensions

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Each extension has a different purpose. 3D analyst allows modeling of 3D data, Spatial analyst allows modeling of continuous surfaces, geostatistical analyst further increases surface modeling capability and X tools is a general tool box

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Arc Map: toolbars•When you load Arc Map it defaults to a state with a minimum of toolbars. You can add more toolbars representing more functionality, including extensions from the view menu.

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Arc Toolbox•This series of GIS functions is embedded as a window in Arc Catalog and in Arc Map

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Looks pretty simple:

However, click on the plus signs and see what happensThis includes many functions for

translating data from other platforms and from interchange formats

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Arc Toolbox Model Builder•Also includes ability to create new tools using drag and drop interface, plus Python

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Arc Scene•Primarily for view 3D data

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Modeling Land Use Change in Chittenden County, VT Austin Troy*, Associate Professor, austin.troy@uvm.edu Brian Voigt*, PhD Candidate, brian.voigt@uvm.edu.

Modeling Land Use Change in Chittenden County, VT Austin Troy*, Associate Professor, [email protected] Brian Voigt*, PhD Candidate, [email protected].

Austin Troy, PhD, austin.troy@uvm.edu And Brian Voigt, brian.voigt@uvm.edu University of Vermont Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources.

Austin Troy, PhD, [email protected] And Brian Voigt, [email protected] University of Vermont Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources.

By Austin Troy 1

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Basic geostatistics Austin Troy. Interpolation Three methods in Arc GIS IDW SPLINE Kriging.

Basic geostatistics Austin Troy. Interpolation Three methods in Arc GIS IDW SPLINE Kriging.

©2005 Austin Troy Lecture 15: Introduction to Terrain Analysis ------Using GIS-- Introduction to GIS By Austin Troy University of Vermont.

©2005 Austin Troy Lecture 15: Introduction to Terrain Analysis ------Using GIS-- Introduction to GIS By Austin Troy University of Vermont.

Austin Watersheds City of Austin WSP · 2016-03-08 · Tex Bob Rose Chief Meteorologist, I-CRA Troy Kimmel s Chief Meteorologist, KEYE-TV (CBS), Austin Senior Lecturer, Studies in

Austin Watersheds City of Austin WSP · 2016-03-08 · Tex Bob Rose Chief Meteorologist, I-CRA Troy Kimmel s Chief Meteorologist, KEYE-TV (CBS), Austin Senior Lecturer, Studies in

Integrating water quality into the planning process using a land use simulation model Austin Troy*, Associate Professor, austin.troy@uvm.edu Brian Voigt*,

Integrating water quality into the planning process using a land use simulation model Austin Troy*, Associate Professor, [email protected] Brian Voigt*,

©2007 by Austin Troy. All rights reserved Lecture 6 Important Database Concepts Introduction to GIS Lecture slides by Austin Troy, University of Vermont,

©2007 by Austin Troy. All rights reserved Lecture 6 Important Database Concepts Introduction to GIS Lecture slides by Austin Troy, University of Vermont,

Fundamentals of GIS Materials by Austin Troy & Brian Voigt © 2011 Lecture 9: More Input Methods and Data Quality and Documentation By Austin Troy & Brian.

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@2007 Austin Troy Lecture 2: Introduction to the Architecture of ArcGIS By Weiqi Zhou, Austin Troy, Ernie Buford, and Brian Voigt University of Vermont.

@2007 Austin Troy Lecture 2: Introduction to the Architecture of ArcGIS By Weiqi Zhou, Austin Troy, Ernie Buford, and Brian Voigt University of Vermont.

Fundamentals of GIS ©2010All lecture materials by Austin Troy except where noted Lecture 10: Part 1: GPS Part 2: Interpolation and geostatistics By Austin.

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©2007 by Austin Troy. All rights reserved Lecture 6 Database Concepts Introduction to GIS By Brian Voigt University of Vermont Thanks are due to Dr Troy,

©2007 by Austin Troy. All rights reserved Lecture 6 Database Concepts Introduction to GIS By Brian Voigt University of Vermont Thanks are due to Dr Troy,

Introduction to GIS ©2008. Austin Troy. All rights reserved Lecture 18: Data input: GPS By Austin Troy University of Vermont ------Using GIS-- Many materials.

Introduction to GIS ©2008. Austin Troy. All rights reserved Lecture 18: Data input: GPS By Austin Troy University of Vermont ------Using GIS-- Many materials.

Fundamentals of GIS Materials by Austin Troy © 2008 Lecture 9: More Input Methods and Data Quality and Documentation By Austin Troy University of Vermont.

Fundamentals of GIS Materials by Austin Troy © 2008 Lecture 9: More Input Methods and Data Quality and Documentation By Austin Troy University of Vermont.

Lecture 24: More on Data Quality and Metadata By Austin Troy ------Using GIS-- Introduction to GIS.

Lecture 24: More on Data Quality and Metadata By Austin Troy ------Using GIS-- Introduction to GIS.

Tipe-tipe Spesifik and Sistem Koordinat © 2005, Austin Troy.

Tipe-tipe Spesifik and Sistem Koordinat © 2005, Austin Troy.

Lecture 23: Brief Introduction to Data quality By Austin Troy ------Using GIS-- Introduction to GIS.

Lecture 23: Brief Introduction to Data quality By Austin Troy ------Using GIS-- Introduction to GIS.

Modeling Land Use Change in Chittenden County, VT Austin Troy, PhD, austin.troy@uvm.edu Brian Voigt, graduate research assistant, brian.voigt@uvm.edu University.

Modeling Land Use Change in Chittenden County, VT Austin Troy, PhD, [email protected] Brian Voigt, graduate research assistant, [email protected] University.

HEDONIC ANALYSIS AS AN APPLICATION OF MULTIPLE REGRESSION Austin Troy University of Vermont.

HEDONIC ANALYSIS AS AN APPLICATION OF MULTIPLE REGRESSION Austin Troy University of Vermont.

Fundamentals of GIS ©2008 All lecture materials by Austin Troy except where noted Lecture 10: Spatial Interpolation, geostatistics and sampling By Austin.

Fundamentals of GIS ©2008 All lecture materials by Austin Troy except where noted Lecture 10: Spatial Interpolation, geostatistics and sampling By Austin.