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Understanding GIS: An ArcGIS Pro Project Workbook 4th Edition by David Smith, ISBN-13: 978-1589485266

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Understanding GIS: An ArcGIS Pro Project Workbook 4th Edition by David Smith, ISBN-13: 978-1589485266

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  • Publisher: ‎ Esri Press; Fourth edition (July 31, 2018)
  • Language: ‎ English
  • 414 pages
  • ISBN-10: ‎ 1589485262
  • ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1589485266

Publication date: 7/31/18

ArcGIS Pro version: 2.2

(Note: Other Esri Press workbooks are available for newer versions of ArcGIS Pro. Find other titles at esripress.esri.com.)

The first single-project GIS textbook on the market, Understanding GIS: An ArcGIS Pro Project Workbook, fourth edition is an excellent resource for students and educators seeking a guide for an advanced, single-project-based course that incorporates GIS across a wide range of disciplines. It allows readers to progress through nine lessons using ArcGIS Pro software from Esri to find the best location for a new park along the Los Angeles River in Southern California.

Each exercise offers step-by-step instructions, graphics to confirm exercise results, and explanations of key concepts. The book includes access to ArcGIS Desktop software, which includes ArcGIS Pro. Project data (real data, all of it updated) is downloadable from the book’s resource web page.

Table of Contents:

Foreword

Preface

Lesson 1 Frame the problem and explore the study area

Exercise 1a: Explore the study area

Exercise 1b: Do exploratory data analysis

Lesson 2 Preview the data

Exercise 2a: List the data requirements

Exercise 2b: Examine the data

Exercise 2c: Reframe the problem statement

Lesson 3 Choose the data

Exercise 3a: Choose the datasets

Exercise 3b: Choose a coordinate system

Lesson 4 Build the database

Exercise 4a: Project a shapefile

Exercise 4b: Copy a feature class

Exercise 4c: Prepare the city and county data

Exercise 4d: Prepare the river data

Exercise 4e: Prepare the park data

Exercise 4f: Prepare the block group data

Exercise 4g: Prepare the parcel data

Lesson 5 Edit the data

Exercise 5a: Edit a feature

Exercise 5b: Create a new park feature

Lesson 6 Conduct the analysis

Exercise 6a: Establish proximity zones

Exercise 6b: Apply demographic constraints

Exercise 6c: Select suitable parcels

Exercise 6d: Clean up the map and geodatabase

Exercise 6e: Evaluate your results

Lesson 7 Automate the analysis

Exercise 7a: Set up the model

Exercise 7b: Build the model (part 1)

Exercise 7c: Build the model (part 2)

Exercise 7d: Run the model as a tool

Lesson 8 Present your analysis results

Exercise 8a: Create the main map

Exercise 8b: Create a layout using the LA River and inset maps

Exercise 8c: Finish the map

Lesson 9 Share your results online

Exercise 9a: Publish web layers to ArcGIS Online

Exercise 9b: Create a web map

Exercise 9c: Change web layer styles

Exercise 9d: Create Map Notes

Exercise 9e: Add bookmarks

Exercise 9f: Configure pop-up windows

Exercise 9g: Create a Basic Viewer web mapping app

Exercise 9h: Create an Esri® Story Map SeriesSM web app

Appendix A Imagery and data credits

David Smith is the spatial instruction manager of the Center for Spatial Studies at the University of Redlands. He specializes in innovative curriculum design using geospatial technology, with a primary focus on the adoption of spatial thinking and GIS across the disciplines. He also conducts periodic workshops on desktop and Web GIS, mobile mapping, GPS, and visualization applications.

Nathan Strout is the director of spatial technology for the Center for Spatial Studies at the University of Redlands. Strout is a GIS educator, researcher, and developer with a passion for effective communication and decision-making through the use of geospatial technology and GIS.

Christian Harder is a writer at Esri and author of Understanding GIS: An ArcGIS Project Workbook Esri Press, 2013, as well as number of other books on GIS. Harder is also the founder and former manager of Esri Press.

Dr. Steven Moore is the director of the Center for Spatial Studies at the University of Redlands. In that role, he oversees spatial research, instruction, fund development, and operational support activities.

Tim Ormsby is a technical writers at ESRI Press and co-author of Getting to Know ArcView GIS and Extending ArcView GIS.

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