GIS@Grinnell: Training

ESRI Virtual Campus courses

ESRI's Virtual Campus courses are available on many aspects of the ArcGIS software and GIS in general. Students, faculty and staff have access to Virtual Campus courses free of charge as part of Grinnell College's software license with ESRI, the producer of ArcGIS. Please contact Karen McRitchie at mcritchi@grinnell.edu to register for an online course.

GIS Terms

Here is a link to a GIS Dictionary web site.

Extracting Data from the Source (back to the top)

Tablet Digitizing

Using Data (back to the top)

ArcGIS Documentation - Click on the link to open a folder that contains most of the local ArcGIS documentation from ESRI (you must be using a college networked PC).

ArcGIS Terraserver Registration

Cleaning Shapefiles

Converting Images to Grids

Tutorials (back to the top)

Quick Sheets (back to the top)

Create Centroids from Polygons

Locate and Install ArcGIS Extensions

Tabulate Areas Between to Raster Layers

Why is the Map Tips check box greyed out?

How do I count the number of features within a zone?

How do I convert a floating point grid ton integer grid?

How do I calculate the perimeter of a polygon?

How do I calculate the length of a line?

How do I calculate the area of a polygon?

How do I avoid the "...don't exist. Do you want to create it?" error.

How do I assign vector values to vector features?

How do I assign raster values to vector features?

How do I create simple distance buffers?

How do install the TabulateArea arcscript?

How do I create cost-distance buffers?

How do I create nested distance buffers?