Friday and Monday, May 2 and 5, 2008

This two day session will provide a complete introduction to the principles of manipulating and displaying spatial data with ArcGIS, a leading software package for the input, processing, integration, and presentation of geospatial data. The University of Michigan holds a site license for this software suite, offering it free to all faculty, staff and students on-campus. The workshop is designed for anyone interested in research using spatial data and GIS techniques. 

Using ArcGIS addresses the following topics:

• Installing the software.
• Getting data into ArcGIS.
• Displaying layers.
• Working with tables.
• Labeling features.
• Querying layers.
• Geoprocessing.
• Spatial analysis -- buffering and overlays.
• Map projections.
• Spatial data types -- vector and raster.
• Geodatabases.
• Creating and editing geodata and attributes.
• Making and printing maps.

Participants who complete Using ArcGIS will receive a certificate of completion from UM-CSCAR.

Instructor:

Danielle Gwinn is currently a GIS Consultant at CSCAR, assisting researchers across campus and helping to coordinate the university-wide activities in Spatial Analysis and GIS.

Audience:

Any interested researcher or scholar.

Prerequisite:

Familiarity with the use of Windows operating systems.

Date:

Friday and Monday, May 2 and 5, 2008

Time:

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Location:

Rackham Bldg, 3^rd floor, East Seminar Room

Fee:

Registration until April 18, 2008:
$300 for University of Michigan affiliated faculty, staff and students; $600 for others.
Registration after April 18, 2008:
$360 for University of Michigan affiliated faculty, staff and students; $720 for others.

Fees can be paid by check or will be billed to a University of Michigan project/grant.

Registration:

Call CSCAR at 734-764-7828. Enrollment is limited. Make check payable to CSCAR--University of Michigan, or give the University of Michigan shortcode/project to be billed. Send check to CSCAR, 3550 Rackham Bldg., University of Michigan, 915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1070.