Real-World GIS
Overview
Get solutions to real-world GIS challenges, such as collecting quality data, creating projections, and finding a GIS job.
Learning GIS (geographical information systems) requires training in cartography, database management, and spatial analysis. But once you've built a solid foundation in the basics, how do you approach GIS challenges in the real world? Dr. Jason VanHorn is here to help you master practical GIS scenarios, and answers the 7 most common questions he receives from other GIS professionals, including: Where can I get quality data? How do I create projections? What's an inexpensive solution for collecting geospatial data? and Where can I find a GIS job?
Learning GIS (geographical information systems) requires training in cartography, database management, and spatial analysis. But once you've built a solid foundation in the basics, how do you approach GIS challenges in the real world? Dr. Jason VanHorn is here to help you master practical GIS scenarios, and answers the 7 most common questions he receives from other GIS professionals, including: Where can I get quality data? How do I create projections? What's an inexpensive solution for collecting geospatial data? and Where can I find a GIS job?
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
- Using the challenges in this course
- The seven most common GIS questions
- Exploring GIS trends
- Exploring GIS data with the National Map Viewer
- Finding imagery data using EarthExplorer
- Working with US Census data via TIGER products
- Exploring agriculture with CropScape
- Accessing data in proprietary formats
- Accessing data in catalog formats
- Understanding the type of data you have
- Understanding coverage data
- Understanding shapefile data
- Understanding geodatabases
- Raster data model history and formats
- Sharing GIS data
- Working with scale and graticules
- Exploring developable surfaces
- Using geoids, spheroids, and datums
- Putting it all together in ArcGIS
- Collecting geospatial data
- Adding map data to a spatial database
- Adding scanned images to a spatial database
- Adding GPS data to a a spatial database
- Advanced collection techniques in GPS
- Exploring open-source approaches to GIS data
- Challenge: Get the data
- Solution: Get the data
- Challenge: Visualize the data
- Solution: Visualize the data
- Challenge: Isolate the data
- Solution: Isolate the data
- Challenge: Attributes of the data
- Solution: Attributes of the data
- Challenge: Analysis of the data
- Solution: Analysis of the data
- Challenge: Build new data
- Solution: Build new data
- Challenge: Import new data
- Solution: Import new data
- Challenge: Convert your data
- Solution: Convert your data
- Understanding ArcGIS for Server
- Connecting a client to a GIS server
- Working with ArcGIS.com
- Using ArcGIS.com efficiently in the client
- Exploring the types of GIS jobs
- Portals for GIS jobs
- Preparing for general interview questions
- Preparing for specific interview questions
- Next steps
Taught by
Jason VanHorn
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