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ESRI's ArcGIS software evolved from earlier desktop GIS products ArcView and ArcInfo and introduced the geodatabase data model to store geospatial data and relationships in a relational database. It supports a variety of data types including feature classes, rasters, TINs, and networks to analyze, manage, and map geographic information. ArcGIS is widely used with over 1 million users of earlier Arc products as of 2001 and offers flexible licensing and deployment through desktop, server, and online options.

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Arcgis

ESRI's ArcGIS software evolved from earlier desktop GIS products ArcView and ArcInfo and introduced the geodatabase data model to store geospatial data and relationships in a relational database. It supports a variety of data types including feature classes, rasters, TINs, and networks to analyze, manage, and map geographic information. ArcGIS is widely used with over 1 million users of earlier Arc products as of 2001 and offers flexible licensing and deployment through desktop, server, and online options.

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Reading: “What is ArcGIS?

”,
ESRI Press, 2001, pp. 1-25
Arc/Info (coverage model) 100,000 licenses
Versions 1-7 from 1980 – 1999 1,000,000 users as of 2001

Arc Macro Language (AML)


ArcGIS (geodatabase model)
Version 8.0, 8.1 from 2000 –
Visual Basic for Applications
ArcView (shapefile model)
Versions 1-3 from 1994 – 1999
Avenue scripting language
 A geographic data model is
a structure for organizing
Geographic coordinates
geospatial data so that it can
be easily stored and
retrieved.

Tabular attributes
Geographic coordinates and attributes
are stored in separate but linked files
Arc
 Shapefiles
Info
 Coverages
o Developed for o Developed for
workstation Arc/Info ArcView ~ 1993
~ 1980 o Simpler structure in
o Complex structure, public domain
proprietary format o Attributes in dBase
o Attributes in Info
(.dbf) tables
tables
Storing Data

Coverages Shapefiles

Texas
Texas

Counties
Counties.shp
Counties.shx
Counties.dbf
Evap
Evap.shp
Evap.shx
Evap.dbf
Info
 Feature datasets
o Stored as Arc/Info coverages or ArcView shapefiles.
o Coverages are stored partially in their own folder and
partially in the common INFO folder. Shapefiles are
stored in three to five files (with
extensions .shp, .shx, .dbf, .sbx and .sbn).
o ArcView recognizes coverages. Arc/Info does not
recognize shapefiles.
o Coverages store common boundaries between polygons
only once, to avoid redundancy. Shapefiles store all the
geometry of each polygon regardless redundancy.
o Coverage features are single lines or single polygons.
Shapefiles allow features to have multiple, disconnected,
intersecting and overlapping components.
 Stores geographic coordinates as one
attribute in a relational database table
 Uses MS Access for “Personal
Geodatabase” (single user)
 Uses Oracle, Sybase, Ingress or other
commercial relational databases for
“Enterprise Geodatabases” (many
simultaneous users)
GIS in an Institutional Setting
Workspace
Geodatabase
Feature Dataset
Feature Class
Geometric
Network

Relationship
Object Class
 A feature class is
a collection of
geographic
objects in tabular
format that have
the same behavior
and the same
attributes.
 An object class is a collection of objects in
tabular format that have the same behavior
and the same attributes.
 A relationship is an association or link between two
objects in a database.
 A relationship can exist between spatial objects
(features in feature classes), non-spatial objects (objects
in object classes), or between spatial and non-spatial
objects.
Relationship between non-spatial objects

Water
Quality
Data

Water
Quality
Parameters
Relationship between spatial and non-spatial objects

Water quality data


(non-spatial)

Measurement station
(spatial)
Relationship between spatial objects

Rivers that lie within


California

Two spatial objects:


rivers and California
 A geodatabase is a relational database that
stores geographic information.
 A feature dataset is a collection of feature
classes that share the same spatial
reference frame.
 Why geodatabases?
To establish and store relationships based on
tabular information.

 Why feature datasets?


To establish and store relationships based on
geographic information.
 A network is a set of edges
(lines) and junctions
(points) that are
topologically connected to
each other.
 Each edge knows which
junctions are at its endpoints
 Each junction knows which
edges it connects to
View
and
edit
data Analyze data
(Geoprocessing)

Create maps
Graphical
previews

View data
(like Windows Explorer)

Tables

Metadata
Map Projections
Our focus
 ArcView – View data and do edits on shape files and simple
personal geodatabases
 ArcEditor – do more complex edits on enterprise geodatabases
 ArcInfo – the full system, with access to workstation ArcInfo
(i.e. ArcInfo version 7) as well
License manager keeps track of number of simultaneous
users and limits them to allowable number
 Analysis of land
surface terrain as
a grid
 Key means of
defining
drainage areas
and connectivity
to stream
network
Drainage network for Montgomery, AL
 Cellular-based data structure composed of square
cells of equal size arranged in rows and columns.

 The grid cell size and extension (number of rows


and columns), as well as the value at each cell have
to be stored as part of the grid definition.

Number of columns
Number of columns

Cell size
 Grid datasets
 Interpolation
of points to a
grid using
statistical
correlation
 Produces a
Siberia Alaska
standard error
of estimate of
each map
location

Biomass in the Arctic Ocean


 Image datasets
 Supported image formats:
o ARC Digitized Raster Graphics (ADRG)
o Windows bitmap images (BMP) [.bmp]
o Multiband (BSQ, BIL and BIP) and single band images
[.bsq, .bil and .bip]
o ERDAS [.lan and .gis]
o ESRI Grid datasets
o IMAGINE [.img]
o IMPELL Bitmaps [.rlc]
o Image catalogs
o JPEG [.jpg]
o MrSID [.sid]
o National Image Transfer Format (NITF)
o Sun rasterfiles [.rs, .ras and .sun]
o Tag Image File Format (TIFF) [.tiff, .tif and .tff]
o TIFF/LZW
 Analysis of
land surface
terrain as
triangulated
irregular
network (TIN)
 Visualization in
3-D using Arc
Scene
Stream channel of Pecan Bayou, TX
 TIN datasets

Points and breaklines


from which a TIN is
constructed.
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