Contact:
Office Phone: 346-0942 ext.202
Home Phone: 383-5531
Email: LSPRAKER@APPLIEDGIS.COM

Textbooks:
1. Modeling our World, ESRI Press (Required)
2. Using ArcMap, ESRI Press (Required)
3. Using ArcCatalog, ESRI Press (Optional)

Order online at: http://www.esri.com/library/esripress/arc8doc.html
Or call 800-447-9778

Other Materials: Highlighter (any color)

Grading:
Labs: 35%
Midterm: 30%
Final: 35%

Outline: 
* ARC/INFO Software Architecture
* Coverage Data Model
* Shapefile Data Model
* Geodatabase Overview
* Basic Display and Query using ArcMap
* Data Management using ArcCatalog
* Digitizing and Editing Coverages
* Building and managing topology
* Attribute entry and database management techniques 
* Projections and Coordinate Systems
* Geographic Analysis using ArcMap and ArcToolbox (Overlays, Buffer)
* Map Production in ArcMap
* Building and using Geodatabases

Lab Exercises: There will be a number of lab exercises assigned throughout the semester (approximately 10). The labs will involve hands-on ARC/INFO exercises on a PC running the Windows NT operating system.

Computer time for exercises will be delegated by signing up for 1-2 hour time slots.