Learn The Basics Of Arcgis For Hydrology

What you'll learn
Students will be able to understand ArcGIS concepts
Students will be able to perform basic and advanced processing actions in ArcGIS
Students will be able to represent their analysis on a map
Students will be able to make a map from start to finish
Requirements
You need to know how to use Windows software
You need to own a computer
You need to have ArcGIS software on your computer
Description
This course will take you from a beginner in ArcGIS, from downloading data, to performing basic functions. Alonso will teach you the basic concepts, how to perform the main features in the GIS software, use the geoprocessing tools, how to export to AutoCAD, while on the hydrology side Konrad will teach you how to perform hydrology related tasks such as Calculate Flow Direction And Flow Accumulation, Watershed Delineation, Stream Segments And Catchments, Spatial Join To Catchments as well as map layout with elements.Work side-by-side with the presentation and feel free to ask questions when you don't understand something. This tool is highly looked after in the hydrological field.Teachers: Alonso Gonzalez - GIS research assistant in Mexico Konrad Hafen - Spatial Modeler, Analyst & Scientist in USA
Overview
Section 1: Introduction to ArcGIS software
Lecture 1 Introduction to GIS
Lecture 2 Introduction to ArcGIS software
Lecture 3 Selection by Location, attributes, clip features and tables to Excel
Lecture 4 Performing actions on the data: change the projections, dissolve, clip
Lecture 5 From .TXT and .DXF to shapefile
Lecture 6 Calculations with attribute table and KML files in ArcMap...

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