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Getting to Know
ArcGIS Desktop, Second Edition is a comprehensive
update to this best-selling workbook. The second edition revises
existing material and adds new exercises based on ArcGIS Desktop
version 9, the latest release of the world’s leading geographic
information systems (GIS) software.
As with the previous
edition that sold over 75,000 copies, and Getting to Know
ArcView which sold over 150,000 copies, the second edition for
ArcGIS acquaints readers with the principles of GIS as it teaches
them the mechanics of using ArcGIS Desktop software.
Each chapter in
Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop, Second Edition contains
conceptual material followed by scripted software exercises.
Readers acquire skills in a variety of areas—map symbology, data
overlay, map projection, and data conversion, to name a few—as they
make maps and analyze geographic data. The book culminates with a
set of spatial modeling exercises using the ModelBuilder technology
of ArcGIS version 9. ModelBuilder is a graphical environment for
representing, automating, and solving spatial analysis
problems.
Its broad scope, simple
style, and practical orientation make Getting to Know ArcGIS
Desktop, Second Edition an ideal classroom text and an
excellent resource for those learning GIS on their own. A trial
version of ArcGIS Desktop version 9 and sample geographic data is
included with the book. No prior knowledge of GIS or GIS software
is needed.
Please
Note:
Trial Software: Included with the book is a fully
functioning 180-day trial version of ArcView 9.2 software on DVD,
as well as a CD of data for working through the book's exercises.
Once installed and registered, the single-use software cannot be
reinstalled, and the time limit cannot be extended.
Operating System(OS): The single-use ArcGIS Demo Edition
software on the CD in this edition requires the Microsoft® Windows®
XP or Windows 2000 operating system.
Hardware requirements: A minimum 1GHz processing speed; 512
MB RAM; 1.5 GB free hard disk space, including 50 MB on the
operating system drive; an additional 285 MB hard disk space is
required for the exercise data.
About the
authors:
Tim
Ormsby is the co-author of the
best-selling books Getting to Know ArcView GIS, Extending
ArcView GIS, and Getting to Know ArcGIS
Desktop.
Eileen
Napoleon is a GIS education
specialist at ESRI and co-author of the best-selling books
Getting to Know ArcView GIS, and Getting to Know ArcGIS
Desktop.
Robert
Burke is a senior instructor
and technical writer at ESRI and teaches GIS and programming
courses at the University of Redlands. He is the author of Getting
to Know ArcObjects and co-author of the best-selling book
Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop.
Laura
Feaster is a geographer and
education specialist with ESRI Educational Products. She
co-authored Community
Geography: GIS in Action and Getting to Know ArcGIS
Desktop.
Carolyn
Groessl was a technical writer
for ESRI Press.
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