GEOG 379 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Grass Gis, Arcgis, Arcmap

• School: University of Illinois
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 379
• Professor: M Kashem

Document Summary

1/17 intro to course + gis overview. Fundamental concept of gis: gis stores info as a collection of thematic layers that can be linked together by geography. Using gis: data acquisition, gps + remote sensing, surveys, published data sets, creating data from other data w/in gis, data storage, organization, efficient storage, easy backup, data management, tracking. Indexing: metadata, data analysis, overlay different sorts of data, pattern analysis, 3d analysis, data representation, various ways to represent data, map layout + design, charts + tables, movies. In comparison to paper maps, gis offers increased functionality in almost all 5 areas. 1/22 basics of gis data + arcgis. Popular gis programs: arcgis, qgis, mapwindow, grass gis. Ilwis gis: cloud gis, web map servers, spatial database management systems, software development frameworks. Components of arcgis: arcmap create + edit maps, arccatalog manage + create files, arctoolbox contains analysis + data processing, others arcscene, arcglobe.