ArcGIS: General Purpose GIS Software System Xiaosiqi Yang and Luyi Chen Group 16 - CSCI Fall 2015

What is ArcGIS?

And why do we need it?

What could ArcGIS do? ●Core information model - Geodatabase ●OBJECT-ORIENTED! ●Data Structure: Layer ●Three major functions: ● Geovisualization ● Geoprocessing ● Geodatabase management

Who use ArcGIS? A. Government B. Educational Agencies C. Business D. Military E. Natural Resource Management F. Utilities G. All of them

Map Digitization

Map Digitalization

What’s missing in that map?

First Task: Digitize Blocks, Houses, Roads, Alleys, Railways, and Trolley Lines

Satellite Image After 2000

Second Task: Identify Empty Parcels in 1928

? ? ? ?

First Task: Digitalize Blocks, Houses, Roads, Alleys, Railways, and Trolley Lines

Thanks! ●Questions? ●Xiaosiqi Yang ●Luyi Chen