Managing Geospatial Data in ArcGIS

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What is this course about?

This course takes you on an in-depth exploration of the geodatabase, the native data storage format for ArcGIS software. Best practices to create a geodatabase to centrally store and efficiently manage your organization's authoritative geospatial data are covered. You will develop skills needed to configure unique geodatabase features that ensure data integrity and accuracy over time and a thorough understanding of file and enterprise geodatabase capabilities.

Course details

Location

Singapore

Duration

2 days

Level

Intermediate

Are there any prerequisites?

ArcGIS Pro: Essential Workflows or Migrating from ArcMap to ArcGIS Pro

What skills will I learn?

After completing this course, you will be able to:

Create a geodatabase, explore schema options, and evaluate appropriate data models.
Add data to a geodatabase, edit feature geometry and attributes, and create a mosaic dataset to store and disseminate imagery.
Define data rules and relationships to simplify data editing and ensure data integrity.
Configure access to an enterprise geodatabase and create a versioned feature class to allow multiple concurrent editors.

What can I expect?

Course topics
1. Exploring the geodatabase

Types of data

Advantages of using a geodatabase

Organizing data for a feature dataset

2. Improving data integrity with geodatabase

What is a schema?

Using a geodatabase to improve data integrity

Subtypes and domains

Using a data model to improve workflows

3. Nongeographic data and geographic data

Types of nonspatial data

Basics of cardinality

Relationship classes and tabular data

Adding media files with attachments

Using the Collector app with your geodatabase

4. Managing raster data

Raster data management issues

Storing rasters in a geodatabase

Advantages of mosaic datasets

5. Designing geodatabase topologies

Geodatabase topology

Topology rules

Topology design workflow

6. Enterprise geodatabase

Geodatabase types and differences

Benefits of an enterprise geodatabase

Geodatabase connections

7. Working with enterprise geodatabases

Types of users

Controlling user capabilities

Role management

Updating Workflows

Updating through automation

8. Editing workflows in a geodatabase

Types of editing workflows

Considerations about choosing an editing workflow

Versioned editing

Connecting to ArcGIS Enterprise

Benefits of sharing with ArcGIS Enterprise

Workflow for using a feature service for editing

Editing a shared feature service