Thursday, May 23, 2013

GIS Programming, Lab 2: Geoprocessing in ArcGIS



This week we played around with ModelBuilder in ArcMaps, writing scripts using various ArcGIS tools and we created our own toolbox.  It was interesting and fun learning these things.  I can definitely see how they'll be helpful in the future - especially the batch processing!

The above figure is a screen shot of the resulting shapefile that was created by the Model I built.  Using ModelBuilder, I narrowed down the types of soil to those that are "not prime farmland" and then erased those from the basin shapefile.  The result leaves the soils that are prime farmlands.

We also learned how to share toolboxes and what is required in doing so.

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