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WORKSHOP GIS Visualization and Analysis Geographic Information Systems

WORKSHOP GIS Visualization and Analysis Geographic Information Systems. Society for Marine Mammalogy 17 th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals Cape Town, South Africa – 28 November 2007 Bill Fulton & Sam Barripp Whale and Seal Foundation

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WORKSHOP GIS Visualization and Analysis Geographic Information Systems

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  1. WORKSHOPGIS Visualization and AnalysisGeographic Information Systems Society for Marine Mammalogy 17th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals Cape Town, South Africa – 28 November 2007 Bill Fulton & Sam Barripp Whale and Seal Foundation PO Box 93, Wallsend, New South Wales 2287, Australia bill.fulton@whaleandseal.orgSkype: bill.fulton.1 sam.barripp@whaleandseal.org

  2. Workshop Objectives • Remove blocks to getting started in GIS • Impart practical skills in elements of GIS • Make participants confident to process own data in GIS by end of workshop Please refer to the Notes page for more detail on each overhead slide Whale and Seal Foundation 2007

  3. Content • GIS Terminology and Concepts • Live Demonstration of Elementary GIS Functions • Preparing Spreadsheets of Input Data • Creating a Geodatabase • Importing Spreadsheet Data into a Geodatabase • Creating a Map Document • Creating Map Layers by Importing Data • Interacting with a Map Document • Review of Mapping Possibilities • Simple Visual Analysis • Animating a Time Series • Publishing Interactive Maps Whale and Seal Foundation 2007

  4. Really Simple Demo Whale and Seal Foundation 2007

  5. Creating Interactive Maps Excel ArcCatalog ArcMap ArcGIS Publisher Whale and Seal Foundation 2007

  6. GIS Roadmap Whale and Seal Foundation 2007

  7. Creating Feature Class Spreadsheets Exercise: • Prepare data spreadsheets in a format suitable for importing into ArcGIS Whale and Seal Foundation 2007

  8. Creating a Geodatabase Exercise: • Create an empty geodatabase using ArcCatalog – a component of ESRI’s ArcGIS system • Under the covers this geodatabase is a Microsoft Access database (.mdb) Whale and Seal Foundation 2007

  9. Adding Feature Classesto a Geodatabase Exercise: • Add Feature Classes to a geodatabase by importing from Excel spreadsheets Whale and Seal Foundation 2007

  10. Creating an ArcMap Document Exercise: • Create an empty map document using ArcMap – a component of ArcGIS • Import into the document a bathymetric map that is in GeoTiff format Whale and Seal Foundation 2007

  11. Importing a GeoTiff Map File into ArcMap Whale and Seal Foundation 2007

  12. Importing Feature Classes into ArcMap Exercise: • Import feature classes from a geodatabase into an ArcMap document Whale and Seal Foundation 2007

  13. Mapping Possibilities Some GIS tools offered by ArcMap: • Visualization • Navigation • Graphing • Animation of time series • Geographic analysis • Work with a selected subset of features, based on geographic relationship or attribute values • Measure or calculate distance between features • Analyze spatial distributions and trends • Identify patterns and clusters Whale and Seal Foundation 2007

  14. Using Attribute Values Exercise: • Select features – based on attribute value • Vary the color of feature symbols – based on attribute value Whale and Seal Foundation 2007

  15. Animating a Time Series Demonstration: • Animate a track of whale sightings using ArcMap Whale and Seal Foundation 2007

  16. Publishing Maps Maps can be ‘published’ and distributed so that colleagues can view and interact with them. Step-by-Step Procedure: • Use ArcGIS Publisher to create a map (.pmf) that can be opened in ArcReader (free download from www.esri.com) Whale and Seal Foundation 2007

  17. Wrapup • Questions / Comments / Feedback Bill Fulton – bill.fulton@whaleandseal.org Sam Barripp – sam.barripp@whaleandseal.org Skype: bill.fulton.1 Whale and Seal Foundation 2007

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