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Assignment 1 Gis

The document discusses several elementary tools in GIS including reclassifying attributes to simplify output data, measuring lengths and areas of lines and polygons, generating reports to display attribute information, querying layers and tables to specify features to display, and displaying model inputs and outputs after execution. It also covers declaring list variables in a model to contain multiple values.

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Assignment 1 Gis

The document discusses several elementary tools in GIS including reclassifying attributes to simplify output data, measuring lengths and areas of lines and polygons, generating reports to display attribute information, querying layers and tables to specify features to display, and displaying model inputs and outputs after execution. It also covers declaring list variables in a model to contain multiple values.

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Application of elementary tools in GIS

Reclassifying:
Reclassifying attributes is the technique in GIS and other database software of creating a new
categorical attribute in a dataset by classifying features based on existing attributes or other
criteria, such as location. The uses of reclassification include quickly updating cells when
new information is available, compiling data for suitability analyses, and eliminating
unneeded information by reclassifying cells as no Data. The goal is often to simplify the
output data in order to aid the interpretation.
The reclassification tools reclassify or change cell values to alternative values using a variety
of methods. You can reclass one value at a time or groups of values at once using alternative
fields; based on a criteria, such as specified intervals (for example, group the values into 10
intervals); or by area (for example, group the values into 10 groups containing the same
number of cells). The tools are designed to allow you to easily change many values on an
input raster to desired, specified, or alternative values. All reclassification methods are
applied to each cell within a zone. That is, when applying an alternative value to an existing
value, all the reclassification methods apply the alternative value to each cell of the original
zone.

Measuring:
The Measure tool lets you measure lines and areas on the map. You can use this tool to draw
a line or polygon on the map and get its length or area, or you can click directly on a feature
and get measurement information.
When using a map, you can measure the area of a polygon, the length of a line, or find the
coordinates of a point. Map Viewer calculates the shortest distance (using the ellipsoid-based
geodesic calculation) even if the data uses a projected coordinate system. Before or after
performing each measurement, you can change the default units of measure. 

Reporting:
Reports present the facts and figures behind your analysis and are invaluable companions to
the maps you are creating. Reports let you effectively display attribute information about map
features in a tabular format that you control. The information displayed in the report comes
directly from the attribute information stored within the geographic data or stand-alone table
in your map.
The Reports menu is accessed from the View menu on the main menu bar.

Querying:
The Definition Query is a tab in the Layer Properties window that allows you to specify
which features of a layer you’d like to display.
The Query Tool is a production quality add-in that allows users of the ArcGIS Viewer for
Silverlight to query a layer or table within an ArcGIS Server map service.  With the add-in,
users of the Application Builder can interactively build queries, presenting end-users with a
simple dialog box that prompts for values to plug into the query.  The tool can be configured
to query multiple fields, and query statements can be combined using logical operators.  End-
users of a configured query tool are prompted to input query values into text boxes, drop-
down lists, or both.

Displaying:
Model inputs and outputs can be automatically added to the ArcMap table of contents after
model execution by using the Add To Display option.

Listing:
A variable that contains one or more values is called a list variable. You can declare one or
more variables in a model as a list variable. To make a variable a list, do the following:

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