IPM CRSP UGANDA

GIS WORKSHOP

USING ARCVIEW

Larry Grossman

Department of Geography - Virginia Tech


Held at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
February 19 - 21, 2002


VIRGINIA TECH
MAKERERE UNIVERSITY
NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH ORGANIZATION


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Acknowledgments: The digital data in these GIS lessons are supplied by the Institute for Environment and Natural Resources, Makerere University, Uganda; the National Environmental Management Agency (NEMA), Kampala, Uganda; the National Biomass Project, Department of Forestry, Kampala, Uganda; the World Resources Institute (African Data Sampler), New York; the Blackland Research and Extension Center and the Department of Rangeland Ecology & Management, Texas A & M University (Almanac Characterization Tool); and the United Nations.

Review: Tools and Buttons in ArcView

In Map View:

ADD THEME

CLEAR SELECTED FEATURES

DRAW POINT

HOT LINK

IDENTIFY

MEASURE

OPEN THEME TABLE

PAN TOOL
pan tool

POINTER

QUERY BUILDER

SELECT FEATURE

SELECT FEATURES USING GRAPHIC

THEME PROPERTIES

ZOOM IN

ZOOM OUT

ZOOM TO ACTIVE THEMES

ZOOM TO FULL EXTENT

ZOOM TO PREVIOUS EXTENT

ZOOM TO SELECTED

In Layout Window:

POINTER

TEXT

VIEW FRAME

In Attributes Table:

CREATE CHART

EDIT

JOIN

PROMOTE

SELECT (POINTER)

SELECT NONE

SORT ASCENDING

SORT DESCENDING

SWITCH SELECTION

SUMMARIZE

In Chart Window:

SERIES FROM RECORDS/FIELDS

CHART ELEMENT PROPERTIES

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