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Working with Geodatabases and Linear Referencing

This course, taught by John Schaeffer of Juniper GIS, is designed to teach students all the fundamentals of the Geodatabase; creating and managing the geodatabase, using domains, subtypes and topology to better manage your data, using images with the geodatabase, and using specialized editing tools to correct and clean data, and creating routes.

Students will learn how to use Geodatabases by working through two realistic projects. The first project is preparing data for a burn plan on the Florida Panther Refuge; the second is working with stream data from the Wenatchee National Forest to analyze fish populations.

 

Intended Audience
This course assumes you are comfortable with using ArcGIS 9.x for general GIS tasks and that you have had some editing experience. The course is written for ArcGIS 9.3.1, but will work with 9.2 and 9.3, though the dialog boxes might be slightly different.

Course Outline
The course is divided into three sections.

In the first section we will look at the basics of creating and managing a Geodatabase, and then converting data to the geodatabase format.

In the second section, we’ll show you how to use the geodatabase to validate or check you data for attribute and spatial errors, how to make data entry easier, and how to edit with Geodatabase Topology.

In the third section, we’ll work with Routes and Linear Referencing. Routes let you attach multiple data tables to linear features for analysis and mapping. The easiest way to think about routes is the milepost numbers you see as you drive down roads. Once you have established a route with “mileposts” you can then link this to multiple data sources. In the last module, we’ll show you a sample extension that will make it easier to manage and create reports on your geodatabase.

Modules

Section 1: Geodatabase Basics

• Module 1: Geodatabase Concepts and Basics

• Module 2: Converting Data to the Geodatabase Format

• Module 3: Working with Rasters in the Personal Geodatabase

Section 2: Validating Data

• Module 4: Validating Attributes - Subtypes, Domains, Relationship Classes

• Module 5: Validating Features - Topology in the Geodatabase

• Module 6: Editing Topology

Section 3: Linear Referencing

• Module 7: Understanding Linear Referencing

• Module 8: Editing and Using Routes for Analysis

• Module 9: The Geodatabase Designer

GISCI Education Credit: 16 Hours

Next Session
March 29th - April 9, 2010

Online Registration
$500 when you register before February 14th.  $567 after. 

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This is an instructor guided course taught in a Virtual GIS Classroom using the same technologies implemented by colleges and universities around the world to deliver Internet based courses. Our new Virtual GIS Classroom blends the best of instructor led and e-learning formats into a new instructor led web based format that allows for more interactivity between the instructor and student, and between students. The Virtual GIS Classroom Internet platform has the following features for each course:

• Audio and video lectures
• Video software demonstrations
• Supporting exercises and data
• Class forums and chats
• Upload and download of course assignments and exercises
• Course wikis
• Supplemental reading materials
• Quizzes
• Glossaries
• Peer assessment
• Much more!

The biggest difference in this course and our other offerings is that it is an instructor guided course. Where our traditional products have been in a CD/download, self-paced format this new course will feature a lot of interaction between student and instructor. There will be chat sessions, discussion groups, exercise review with the instructor, and at least two phone meetings between student and instructor to discuss your progress. In addition, there will be interaction among students as well through discussion groups.