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Lab 1 GEOS270 2021W1

ArcGIS Pro tutorials

To get familiar with ArcGIS Pro, you will complete an Introduction to ArcGIS Pro tutorial and watch a three other short videos. The tutorial will take about 25 minutes and give you a brief overview of the ArcGIS Pro. The videos illustrate other important aspects of the ArcGIS Pro software package and will take about 10 minutes to watch. If you have purchased ArcGIS Pro, you can sign in through the UBC ArcGIS online account you created. If you are using the lab computers, and don’t already have one, create a public account:

  • Click “Sign In” in the top right of this page
  • Click “Create a public account” and follow the steps

Completing the introductory tutorial

Go to the Introducing ArcGISPro tutorial. Watch the short introductory video, then work through the steps. You will be submitting a map from this tutorial for credit.

  • You already have a project open, so you can start with Open the project step 2 Note.
  • Note, if you have trouble in “Opening the project, Step 3” for either tutorial, you can download the data for off line use instead
  • When you get to “Explore Views, Step 7”, double click on the map title and add your name following the video below.

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Question 1)

Save the layout with your name as as Central_Wellington_Layout.pdf and upload it to the Lab 1 canvas quiz.

  • To save your layout reference the image below. 1) CLick Share. 2) Click Layout Export. 3) Specify the output location and name your file. Its best to use your Lab1_Project workspace so you can easily find this when its time to submit you map. 4) Click Export.
  • The Lab 1 Quiz can be found in the Week 1: Thursday Lecture + Lab 1 module on canvas.

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Watching the videos

ESRI offers quite a few tutorials on ArcGIS Pro. Feel free to work though them if you have time! But we’re just going to watch the overview videos from four tutorials to learn a bit more about what we can do with ArcGIS Pro. Go to each of the following tutorial pages and watch the overview videos then answer the questions below.

Explore your data

  • This tutorial shows you how you can interact with and explore data layers.

Make a layout

  • This tutorial shows you how you can use map layouts to visualize data.

Use geoprocessing tools

  • This tutorial shows a few of the ways you can analyze geospatial data and see how different layers interact.

Create points on a map

  • This tutorial shows how you can create a feature class and populate it with point features.

Question 2)

What does the select layer by attributes tool do?

Question 3)

What is a Layout in ArcGIS Pro?

Question 4)

How many campgrounds have invasive grass within 1500 meters?

Question 5)

What tool is used to create this 1500 meter zone around the campsites?

Question 6)

What is the first step when creating a new point layer?