Spatial Analysis Essentials for ArcGIS Class Resources

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• Spatial Analysis Essentials for ArcGIS
• Lesson 1: Building a foundation for spatial analysis
• Lesson 2: Planning and preparing for spatial analysis
• Lesson 3: Proximity analysis
• Lesson 4: Overlay analysis
• Lesson 5: Automating spatial analysis
• Lesson 6: Creating surfaces using interpolation
• Lesson 7: Suitability modeling
• Lesson 8: Spatial statistics
• Additional Web Based and Instructor-Led Training
• Technology Resources
• Webinars and Books

Spatial Analysis Essentials for ArcGIS

This 2-day course focuses on common analytics patterns in ArcGIS Pro. In this course, you will learn the workflows and best practices for performing spatial analysis using ArcGIS Pro and gain exposure to a wide variety of geoprocessing tools, automation techniques, extensions, and workflows.  These resources are dynamic and will be updated as needed.  

Lesson 1: Building a foundation for spatial analysis

• Common analysis problems: The Language of Spatial Analysis, Esri Press. 
  • The underlying story of the course is the “The Language of Spatial Analysis” which provides a terminology, workflow, and common set of questions for analyzing spatial data and solving spatial problems.
  • The Language of Spatial Analysis Poster
  • Technical Article: Speaking the Language of Spatial Analysis, Dec 2014
• GIS analysis in general: Arguably, the best general resource for analysis in ArcGIS is Andy Mitchell’s The Esri Guide to GIS Analysis, Volumes I and II.  These are available from the Esri Press.  The third volume in the series looks in depth at suitability, path, and flow models.  This is available from the Esri Press as well and other vendors such as Amazon.
  • Mitchell, Andy. 2001. The Esri Guide to GIS Analysis Volume 1, Geographic Patterns and Relationships. Redlands, CA: Esri Press. 
  • Mitchell, Andy. 2005. The Esri Guide to GIS Analysis Volume 2, Spatial Measurements and Statistics. Redlands, CA: Esri Press. 
  • Mitchell, Andy. 2012. The Esri Guide to GIS Analysis Volume 3, Modeling Suitability, Movement, and Interaction. Redlands, CA: Esri Press. 
• Web courses:
  • Getting Started with Spatial Analysis
  • Introduction to Data Engineering
  • Getting Started with Geoprocessing
  • Introduction to Coordinate Systems
  • Managing Raster Data Using ArcGIS
  • Processing Raster Data Using ArcGIS Pro

Lesson 2: Planning and preparing for spatial analysis

• Coordinate Systems:
  • ArcGIS Pro Help topic: Coordinate Systems, projections, and transformations
  • ArcGIS Blog: Geographic vs Projected Coordinate Systems
• Data Management:
  • Web Course: Location Enabling data  This course will demonstrate the many uses and methods for placing data on a map.
  • Web Course: Managing Raster Data Using ArcGIS Pro  In this course, students will learn about efficient storage and fast display of raster data.
• Data Quality:
  • ArcGIS Pro Help topic :Identify Data quality requirements
  • Web Course: Getting Started with Data Management High-quality GIS analysis requires high-quality GIS data. Explore how GIS data is structured, stored, and accessed in this entry-level course.
• Geoprocessing:
  • Web Course: Getting Started with Geoprocessing. Learn key concepts and geoprocessing techniques used for analysis.
  • ArcGIS Pro Help topic: Geoprocessing Environment Settings
• ArcGIS Blog: The National Land Cover Database in the Living Atlas

Lesson 3: Proximity analysis

• The Esri Guide to GIS Analysis Volumes 1 and 3, Andy Mitchell, Esri Press.  Proximity, distance, and cost distance are discussed thoroughly.
• ArcGIS Pro Help:
  • An overview of the Proximity toolset  This help topic provides the starting point in the ArcGIS Pro help for researching ArcGIS Pro proximity analysis tools.  Refer to the topics following below this one for details about each tool.
• Web Courses:
  • Introduction to Proximity Analysis  In this course, you will discover how proximity analysis fits into the spatial analysis workflow and learn about proximity analysis methods. You will also use proximity analysis to answer spatial questions about a fictitious scenario.
  • Distance Analysis: Creating Cost Surfaces Learn about cost surfaces. Create a cost surface and use in distance analysis in ArcGIS Pro. 

Lesson 4: Overlay analysis

• The Esri Guide to GIS Analysis Volume 1, Andy Mitchell, Esri Press.  Volume 1 introduces overlay analysis for vector data.
• ArcGIS Pro Help:
  • ArcGIS Pro Help: An overview of the Overlay toolset  This help topic provides the starting point in the ArcGIS Pro help for researching ArcGIS Pro overlay analysis tools.  Refer to the topics following below this one for details about each tool.
• Web Courses:
  • Understanding Spatial Relationships This course will introduce you to spatial relationships and the analysis tools available for discovering and quantifying them.
  • Introduction to Overlay Analysis 
• ArcGIS blogs:
  • More adventures in overlay: comparing commonly used overlay tools
  • More adventures in overlay: creating a street intersection list

Lesson 5: Automating spatial analysis

ArcGIS Pro Help:

• Use batch geoprocessing
• What is Model Builder?
• Use ModelBuilder
• Examples of using iterators in ModelBuilder
• Using tools in Python
• ArcGIS Pro Python reference
• Inline variable substitution
• Introduction to tasks
• Tutorial: Create a new task
• Video: ArcGIS Pro Tasks: An Overview

Web courses:

• Building Geoprocessing Models Using ArcGIS Pro
• Automating Workflows using ArcGIS Pro Tasks
• Python for Everyone

Lesson 6: Creating surfaces using interpolation

• ArcGIS Pro Help:
  • Understanding interpolation analysis
  • Comparing interpolation methods
  • Deterministic methods for spatial interpolation
  • An overview of the Interpolation toolset
  • An introduction to interpolation methods
  • Subset Features (Geostatistical Analyst)
• Web Courses:
  • Spatial Interpolation Using ArcGIS Pro

Lesson 7: Suitability modeling

• ArcGIS Pro Help:
• General workflow and Suitability modeler
  • The general suitability modeling workflow
  • Introduction to the Suitability Modeler
  • Implement the suitability modeling workflow using the Suitability Modeler
  • Understanding overlay analysis
• Overlay
  • Overlay Approaches
  • Applying fuzzy logic to overlay rasters
  • Rescale by Function (Spatial Analyst)
  • The transformation functions available for Rescale by Function
  • Creating a Weighted Suitability Model
  • Fuzzy Overlay: Applying fuzzy logic to overlay rasters
• Locating suitable sites
  • How the Locate Regions tool works
• Tutorial: Build a model to connect mountain lion habitat
• Video: Spatial Analyst: Finding the Best Locations Using the Suitability Modeler

Lesson 8: Spatial statistics

• Spatial Statistics Resources: The latest from the Esri Spatial Statistics team
• The Esri Guide to GIS Analysis Volumes 2, Andy Mitchell, Esri Press
• Textbook: Statistics in Geography: A practical approach , David Ebdon 1977
• Video: Spatial Statistics: Statistical Cluster Analysis
• ArcGIS Pro Help:
  • General:
    • What is a z-score? What is a p-value?
    • Best practices for selecting a fixed distance band value
  • Hot Spot Analysis
    • How Optimized Hot Spot Analysis works
    • How Optimized Outlier Analysis works
    • Modeling spatial relationships
  • Density Based Clustering:
    • Density-based Clustering (Spatial Statistics)
    • How Density-based Clustering works
    • Spatial Statistics: Machine Learning Based Clustering

Additional Web Based and Instructor-Led Training

• Spatial Data Science: Advance Your Analytics: This 2-day instructor-led course is a great next-step for students interested in advances spatial analysis workflows in ArcGIS Pro.
• Creating Python Scripts for ArcGIS: This 3-day instructor-led course is great for students interested in taking their ArcGIS Pro automation workflows to the next level with Python scripting and the ArcPy library.
• Imagery Analysis in ArcGIS Pro: In this 2-day instructor-led course, students will dive deeper into imagery analysis workflows, including object detection with deep learning.

Technology Resources

• ArcGIS Pro system requirements: Before installing or upgrading ArcGIS Pro on a virtual or physical machine, make sure your system meets the minimum requirements to run it. Also, learn what resources are recommended to get the best performance. 
• ArcGIS Pro Free Trial: Don't have ArcGIS Pro yet?  Not ready to purchase a license?  Try ArcGIS Pro for a 21-day free trial.
• ArcGIS Pro Resources:  visit this website to learn of Discovery Paths, read the ArcGIS Blog for updates and articles, learn of new ArcGIS Pro news and the ArcGIS Pro Roadmap. 

Webinars and Books

• Spatial Statistics Illustrated: With approachable explanations and uncomplicated drawings, Spatial Statistics Illustrated by Dr. Lauren Bennett and Flora Vale, gives readers an accessible understanding of some of the most widely used ArcGIS spatial statistics tools.

VenkataKondepati

Thanks for the sharing the trainings resources. It is very helpful to have them all at one place and easy to access when needed.