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Lab 3: Geodatabase design & population (1) Yingjie Hu

Purposes Geodatabase and its capabilities Designing a geodatabase

Components in Geodatabase Feature class – A group of features (points, lines, and polygons) Feature dataset – Related feature classes in the same coordinate system Tables – No spatial information

Components in Geodatabase Rasters – Images, DEM Raster dataset – One or more adjacent images in the same format Raster catalog – A collection of images which can have different formats

Components in Geodatabase Relationship classes – The connection between features (parcels and landowners) Topology – Constraints on spatial relationships Geometric Network – Define the interconnections in network feature classes

Components in Geodatabase

Notes

UML Free open source software (e.g., StarUML) MS Visio (free trial for 60 days) MS Word

Notes UML – Draw the UML diagram based on your database

Assignment Complete exercise I. This is the first part of a two-week lab, so you don’t need to turn in your homework next week.