This set of guide materials gives examples and brief discussions on the use of ArcView 3.2 GIS software and extensions for intermediate-level users. Although this software platform has been superceded by an entire new line, it is provided here for those who have not upgraded, or perhaps who may have inherited a legacy system. The purpose of this guide is to give users increased familiarity with the power of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), in order to get the most satisfactory results when working with large spatial datasets.
ArcView and its companion programs are products of Environmental Systems Research, Institute, Incorporated (ESRI). With the advent of versions 3.2 (and up to 8-something), ArcView allows extended functionality through the use of scripting and extensions. A broad base of users and data providers have enhanced this functionality, making much of it available on the internet as downloadable data and ready-to-run scripts. Along with a review of basic ArcView functions, brief discussions are included here on the use of a number of a number of freely available extensions, many of which can be downloaded at the ESRI ArcScripts website ( http://arcscripts.esri.com/).
My own interest in GIS dates to a 4 Mhz CPM computer which used GWBasic to poke data coordinates into the input files for output to a flatbed plotter. Since then I have worked on a number of projects which relied heavily on GIS capability. These projects include enhanced wetlands mapping, invasive species research, shrub-steppe mapping in the Interior Columbia Basin and roadless inventory.
Happy button-clicking - George Wooten
The ArcView system
Arcview system file types and folders
Extensions - installing new extensions
Tips for working with Arcview
Obtaining data
Compressed files
Using Import71 for importing files with the
".e00" extension with manual and batch methods
Importing GPS waypoints as an Event
Theme
Themes & Legends
Organizing Themes and Editing Legends
Vector theme operations
Vector operations
Tables
Adding new fields to
Arcview tables and editing multiple records
Adding new fields and data to
Arcview tables by linking to an external database
Load a legend file
to fields in a joined table
Operations Editing Tables with the
Edit Table Dialog Designer Extension
Raster data - Grids and Images
Raster data formats
Using grid themes.
Grid operations
Examples using DEM data, grid enhancements,
classification, hillshades and contours
Simultaneous use of grids and
vectors
Working with images
Georeferencing images with the
Image Analysis Extension
Projections
Map Projections and
Coordinate Systems
Projecting themes Arcview Projection
Utility, Projector! MI DNR Projection Extension and NADCON
Grid projection utilities
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