Overview - This new three-day course follows ArcGIS for Natural Resource Organizations or Introduction to ArcGIS I (for ArcView, ArcEditor, and ArcInfo) and continues to present important concepts and functionality for successfully working with ArcGIS. This course focuses on spatial analysis, automation of spatial and attribute data, editing, and advanced options for cartographic display. A portion of the class is reserved for carrying out an analysis project and applying many of the new skills and techniques learned in this course. Participants conduct queries, perform spatial analysis, and present their results in a hard-copy map.

Audience - Introduction to ArcGIS II (for ArcView, ArcEditor, and ArcInfo) is designed for those who are new to ArcGIS and to geographic information systems in general. 

Topics Covered -
• Spatial analysis and data management: Buffers; Spatial overlays; Extracting features for analysis; Analytical methods and tools
• Geocoding and display of locations from tabular data: Address geocoding; Display of points from x,y coordinates
• Editing: Tools for creating and editing spatial data; Editing attribute data; Spatial adjustment
• Data automation: Data sources; Digitizing; Data conversion
• Project management: Database organization; File and directory naming conventions; Creating and using metadata
• Geoprocessing: introduction to the Command Line window and the ModelBuilder interface
• Cartography: Advanced symbology and labeling

Prerequisites and Recommendations - Introduction to ArcGIS II (for ArcView, ArcEditor, and ArcInfo) is for those who have completed ArcGIS for Natural Resource Organizations or Introduction to ArcGIS I (for ArcView, ArcEditor, and ArcInfo) or Migrating from ArcView GIS 3.x to ArcView 9 (instructor-led or Web-based course). If one of the prerequisite courses is not completed, a student should have comparable experience with ArcGIS before taking this course. The course also provides students with the fundamental ArcGIS knowledge and experience needed to enroll in Creating and Managing Geodatabases (for ArcEditor and ArcInfo).