Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center

The following is a listing of topics covered in the ArcView 3.1/3.2 training class.

In order to meet the needs of natural resources managers and researchers, several intermediate and advanced topics have been included in the training class.

Chapter 1 - Background Information

• Basic GIS Terminology
  • Feature Data
  • Raster Data
  • ARC/INFO and ARC/INFO Coverages
  • Shapefiles
  • Project Files
  • Geographic Extents
  • Graphical User Interface - GUI
• Map Projections
  • Spheroids
  • Spherical Measurements
  • Planar Data
  • Projection Types
• The ArcView Software Program
  • Extensions
  • Avenue Scripts
  • Window Types

Chapter 2 - The Basics

• Customizing Your Program
  • ArcView Software's Sample Extensions
  • The Default Starting Directory
• Opening Existing Projects
• View Window Basics
• Updating View Properties
  • View Window Properties
  • View Window Projection Settings
  • Table Of Content Settings
• Extensions
• Printing

Chapter 3 - The Required Skills?

• New Projects and Views
• Adding Themes To A View
  • Copy, Paste, and Import
  • Feature and Image Themes
  • Other Image Themes
  • Event Themes
• Updating Theme Legends
  • Symbol Palettes
  • Single Symbol Legends
  • Unique Value Legends
  • Graduated Color Legends
  • Graduated Symbol Legends
  • Chart Legends
• Theme Properties, Text, And Graphics
  • Theme Properties
  • The Text Tools
  • The Labeling Tools
  • Setting Text and Label Defaults
  • Auto-labeling
  • Creating Shape Graphics
  • Editing Graphics
  • Associating Graphics With Themes

Chapter 4 - Introduction to Tables

• Changing the Appearance of a Table
  • Mouse Options
  • Table Properties
• Summarizing Data
  • Field Statistics
  • The Summarize Function
  • Summarizing Feature Data
• Editing and Creating Tables
  • Editing a Summary Table
  • Creating a Lookup Table
  • Creating an Event Theme
  • Creating a Hot Link Fields

Chapter 5 - Selecting Features

• Database Queries
  • Tables
  • Views
  • Using the Query Builder in the Properties Window
• Geographic Queries
  • The Select Feature Tool
  • Using Graphics to Select Features
  • Select By Theme

Chapter 6 - Charts

• Creating Charts
  • Background Information - The Summary Table
  • The Default Chart
  • Customizing The Chart
• Preparing a Table for Charting
  • The Goal
  • The Problems
  • The Solutions
  • Processing Procedures

Chapter 7 - Layouts

• The Layout Function - Customizing Your Layouts
  • The View Window's Layout Function
  • Modifying A Layout
  • Modifying The Legend
• Creating Layouts - Using the Frame Tools
  • View Frames
  • Legend Frames
  • Scale Bar Frames
  • North Arrow Frames
  • Table Frames
  • Chart Frames
• Printing Multiple View Frames
  • Multiple View Frames
• Known Printing Problems
  • Transparent Overlays
  • Markers Won't Print
  • Layout Becomes Corrupted or Cannot Be Sent to the Printer
• Sample Scripts

Chapter 8 - Creating Shapefiles

• Digitizing Polygons
• Digitizing Adjacent Polygons
• Editing Polygons
• Digitizing Point Features
• Attributing A Theme

Chapter 9 - Geoprocessing Wizard, Buffers, and Reprojecting Data

• GeoProcessing Wizard
• Buffers,
• Reprojecting Data (using both version 3.1 and 3.2 modules)
• Adding Ticks and Graticules to a Layouts (requires the use of unprojected data)

Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
2630 Fanta Reed Road
La Crosse, Wisconsin 54603
Phone: (608) 783-6451

If you would like to contact us: Contact UMESC
URL: http://umesc.usgs.gov/training/av_content.html
Last updated on August 15, 2001