In This Corner

GIS Fundamentals Textbook
Readings on the general theory and application of GIS

Data:
National Atlas

National Map Seamless Server


NRCS Geospatial Data Gateway

U.S. Census TIGER/Line Files


Census Population Estimate Tables

NASA Land Processes Data Center


FSA Aerial Images

Landsat Data Archive

Other Useful Sources:
National Geodetic Survey Datasheets

USGS Maps & Data

USGS Water Data

National Hydrologic Dataset

EPA Geospatial

Minnesota:
MnGeo

MnDNR Data Deli

MN Coordinate System Definitions





And in This Corner

Perspectives:
GIS Lounge

GIS.com


MNGIS/LIS Newsletter


Software:
ESRI
-support

GRASS

QGIS

MapWindow

MapServer

postGIS

Mn DNRGarmin GPS Data Application

Terrain Analysis System (TAS)


LandSerf


Hawth's Tools

FRAGSTATS

Geographic Data Analysis (GeoDA)

Spatial Analysis and Decision Assistance (SADA)

AI-Geostats (links to freeware for spatial analysis)


Videos:
California High-Speed Train
NASA Hurricane Reel
NASA Climate Change Reel
Lidar ASU
GIS: Layers of our World
3D LiDAR

The Main Event: ArcGIS Videos

Getting Started
Starting ArcMap, Relative Paths, Saving Projects, Basic Symbology, and Creating Geodatases

Motivation and general ideas about data models and structures are covered in the first two chapters of GIS Fundamentals. Note that the textbook provides theory and is not software-specific.

More ArcMap Functions
The Measure Tool, Scale and Map Properties, Labels, Data Frames, and Topology/Errors

Projections
Projection Tool, Custom Projection, Calculate Area
General descricriptions of Datums and map projections are covered in Chapter 3 of the GIS Fundamentals textbook

Digitizing
Creating shapefiles, Adding Toolbars to ArcMap, Digitizing Points, Lines, and Polygons, Simple Editing in ArcMap
The general process, concepts, and actions of digitizing and data entry are discussed in Chapter 4 of GIS Fundamentals.

Georeferencing

Estimating and Applying Transformation Equations
Coordinate transformation is described starting on page 146 in Chapter 4, 3rd edition of GIS Fundamentals

Data Sources, Surfaces, an Introduction to Tables
NLCD Landcover Data, Selecting Records in a Table, Exporting Selected Records, Symbols for Skewed Distributions, Spatial Subsetting, Surface Analysis, and Shaded Relief
Digital data sources for the US are described in Chapter 7 of GIS Fundamentals

Basic Table Manipulations
Join Tables, More Table Selection, Creating a Table
Tables and table manipulations are described in Chapter 8 of GIS Fundamentals

More Tables Functions

Add a Text Table, Create and Index, Summarize Table Rows, Tricky Joins, Another Spatial Selection


Basic Spatial Analysis
Simple Buffering, Variable Distance Buffer, Union, Erase, Multipart to Singleparts, Calculate Area, Intersect & Clip
Basic vector analysis are described in Chapter 9 of GIS Fundamentals


Basic Raster Analysis

Raster Calculator, Reclass, Neighborhoods
Basic raster analyses are described in Chapter 10 of GIS Fundamentals, and Terrain Analysis, primarily raster-based, are described in Chapter 11.

Lidar Data Introduction
Displaying, symbolizing, and basic manipulations with a very small LiDAR data in ArcMap

More Raster Analysis
Calculate Feature Density
Distance Surface, Linear Scaling


Watersheds
Install TauDEM
Use TauDEM

Miscellaneous

Starting ArcScene

Navigating in ArcScene

Exporting Maps to Adobe Illustrator