Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop: The Basics of ArcView, ArcEditor, and ArcInfo Updated for ArcGIS 9, 2/e

Description:

Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop, Second Edition is a comprehensive update to this best-selling workbook. The second edition revises existing material and adds new exercises based on ArcGIS Desktop version 9, the latest release of the world's leading geographic information systems (GIS) software.

Each chapter in Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop, Second Edition contains conceptual material followed by scripted software exercises. Readers acquire skills in a variety of areas–map symbology, data overlay, map projection, and data conversion, to name a few–as they make maps and analyze geographic data. The book culminates with a set of spatial modeling exercises using the ModelBuilder technology of ArcGIS version 9. ModelBuilder is a graphical environment for representing, automating, and solving spatial analysis problems.

Its broad scope, simple style, and practical orientation make Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop, Second Edition an ideal classroom text and an excellent resource for those learning GIS on their own. A trial version of ArcGIS Desktop version 9 and sample geographic data is included with the book. No prior knowledge of GIS or GIS software is needed.

Please Note:
Trial Software: Included with the book is a fully functioning 180-day trial version of ArcView 9 software on CD-ROM, as well as a CD of data for working through the book's exercises.
Operating System(OS): The single-use ArcGIS Demo Edition software on the CD in this edition requires the Microsoft® Windows® XP, Windows 2000, or Windows NT® (Service Pack 6a) operating system.
Hardware requirements: A minimum 800 MHz processing speed; 256 MB RAM; 800 MB hard disk space, including 50 MB on the operating system drive; an additional 225 MB hard disk space is required for the exercise data.