Working with Geodatabases and Linear Referencing
Instructor-Guided Course
Next session: June 6- 17, 2011

This is an instructor-guided course taught in a Virtual GIS Classroom using the same technologies implemented by colleges and universities around the world to deliver Internet based courses. The new Virtual GIS Classroom blends instructor-led and e-learning formats into a web-based format that encourages more interactivity between the instructor and student, and among students. There will be chat sessions, discussion groups, exercise review with the instructor, and easy access to the instructor to discuss your progress and answer any questions.

Working with Geodatabases and Linear Referencing

A Juniper GIS class

This E-Learning course was developed by John Schaeffer, and is designed to teach students all the fundamentals of the Geodatabase; creating and managing the geodatabase, using domains, subtypes and topology to better manage your data, using images with the geodatabase, and using specialized editing tools to correct and clean data, and creating routes.

Students will learn how to use Geodatabases by working through two realistic projects. The first project is preparing data for a burn plan on the Florida Panther Refuge; the second is working with stream data from the Wenatchee National Forest to analyze fish populations.

Intended Audience

This course assumes you are comfortable with using ArcGIS 10 for general GIS tasks and that you have had some editing experience. The course is written for ArcGIS 10, but will work with 9.3.1, though the dialog boxes might be slightly different.

Course Outline

The course is divided into three sections.

In the first section we will look at the basics of creating and managing a Geodatabase, and then converting data to the geodatabase format.

The second section will show you how to use the geodatabase to validate or check you data for attribute and spatial errors, how to make data entry easier, and how to edit with Geodatabase Topology.

In the third section, we will work with Routes and Linear Referencing. Routes let you attach multiple data tables to linear features for analysis and mapping. The easiest way to think about routes is the milepost numbers you see as you drive down roads. Once you have established a route with "mileposts" you can then link this to multiple data sources. In the last module, we'll show you a sample extension that will make it easier to manage and create reports on your geodatabase.

Modules

Section 1: Geodatabase Basics

Module 1: Geodatabase Concepts and Basics
Module 2: Converting Data to the Geodatabase Format
Module 3: Working with Rasters in the Personal Geodatabase

Section 2: Validating Data

Module 4: Validating Attributes - Subtypes, Domains, Relationship Classes
Module 5: Validating Features - Topology in the Geodatabase
Module 6: Editing Topology

Section 3: Linear Referencing

Module 7: Understanding Linear Referencing
Module 8: Editing and Using Routes for Analysis
Module 9: The Geodatabase Designer

GISCI Education Credit: 16 Hours

E-Delivery: $129
Mail Delivery: $149

Instructor-guided course: $567
Next Session: June 6th – June 17th

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