GIS and Its Application to the Geological Sciences



by


Oscar E. Sorensen, M.S. July 2003

oesorens@yahoo.com



Table of Contents


I - Accessing and Using Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) in the Department

II - Knowing Which Software Package to Use

III - Online Help, the Arc Help File, and Data Sources

IV - Introduction to the GIS Software Packages for GMES Students, Basic Tutorials

In this section, the capabilities of the ArcInfo and ArcGIS software packages discussed in Section II are introduced. Mosaicing DEMs in Surfer will also be discussed.

Tutorial I (ArcInfo)

Tutorial II (ArcGIS)

V - Advanced ArcMap Tutorials In Tutorial II, you learned the basic functions of ArcMap. In this section, you will be introduced to some of ArcMap's more advanced capabilities.


Tutorial III (Spatial Analyst)

Tutorial IV (Editing Coverages)

Tutorial V (Registering and Georeferencing a Satellite Image)

Tutorial VI (Making a Detailed Inset Map)

VI - The LAHARZ computer model

Tutorial VII (Running LAHARZ)