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GPS to GIS: Top 10 GPS for GIS Skills. ANDREW CAREY ELI CRAWLEY. Objectives . Check List for Project Planning GPS for the Office GIS for the Field . Food for Thought. Real Examples . THE WHAT – GIS ?.
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GPS to GIS:Top 10 GPS for GIS Skills ANDREW CAREY ELI CRAWLEY
Objectives • Check List for Project Planning • GPS for the Office • GIS for the Field Food for Thought Real Examples
THE WHAT – GIS ? A Geographic Information System or GIS is a computer system that allows you to map, model, query, and analyze large quantities of data within a single database according to their location. • Create maps • Integrate information • Visualize scenarios • Present powerful ideas, and • Develop effective solutions!!! http://www.epa.gov/reg3esd1/data/gis.htm
THE WHAT - GPS? GPS – Global Positioning System (US Dept of Defence) GNSS – Global Navigation Satellite System – generic term for all satellite navigation systems GLONASS – GLObalNAvigationSatellite System (Russian System)
THE WHY COMMUNICATION ! Field - Office Personnel
TOP TEN GIS GPS
2. Projections • Datum • Map Projection • World File
2. Projections Assigning a .prj to your Trimble export will allow other programs to read and know the coordinate system and datum the data is in. To attach a prj…
2. Projections Under the coordinate system tab ---Bottom next to Projection File click Browse, to ESRI “Coordinate Systems” 64 – Bit C:\Programs Files x86 \ArcGIS\Desktop\CoordinateSystem 32 – Bit C:\ProgramsFiles\ArcGIS\Desktop10.0\CoordinateSystem
3. Data Prep • Time Spent Prior to Data collection, Time Reduction in the Field • Drop Downs and Domains, Quick Data Acquisitions • How do people identify objects, Common vs Scientific
4. Data Collection • Ensuring High Quality Data Collection
5. Data Processing Differential Correction Process Data Proximity to Base Station Correcting with Multiple Base Stations
1. Data Sources Continued • Arizona: http://sco.azland.gov/imagery.htm • Utah : http://gis.utah.gov/data/ • South Dakota: http://www.sdgs.usd.edu/digitaldata/index.html • New Mexico: http://rgis.unm.edu/browsedata • National Map (Nation Wide) : http://nationalmap.gov/ • GIS Inventory: http://gisinventory.net/ • Colorado: http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/map/links/gis.htm#co • Nation Wide Roads : http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles2013/main
2. ArcMap Essentials Zoom Pan Full Extent Identify Add Data
3. Toolbox • Clip, Buffer, Export, Joins • Spatial Data Tools • Spatial Statistics
4. Best Management Practices • Data Control-Merging • GUIDs (Every Point and Geometry) • Personal / File GDB vsShapefiles • DATA BACK UP !!!
5.Final Product – Cartography Center for Spatially Integrated Social Sciences
5.Cartography – Continued • North Arrow • Scale Bar • Data Frame