Here we learn about the geoprocessing tools available in ArcGIS Pro, and review some of the most common vector-based tools: The Clip, Buffer, Intersect, Identity, Erase, Dissolve, Union, Symmetric Difference, Merge and Append tools. We also look at both the geometric products of these tools, and what happens to the attribute tables.
Here we learn about environments, which are optional parameters you can set when running tools in ArcGIS Pro. We will examine some commonly-used ones such a Processing Extent, Output Coordinates and the Snap Raster setting, and we'll look at how tool-level environments override application-level environments.
Here we learn about ModelBuilder in ArcGIS Pro, which is a powerful and simple way to string several tools together so that one tool produces data that is used as an input to the next tool. ModelBuilder gives you a way to conduct sophisticated analyses that require multiple tools, and even better gives you a way to share that process with others, document your steps and manage intermediate data.
Here we learn about the Python programming language and how it is used in many science, technology, engineering and mathematical software. We don't learn Python itself because that is a far larger topic than be covered in a single lecture, but we learn how ArcGIS Pro can provide us snippets of usable code that are easy to understand and modify, and therefore enable us to perform Python-based analysis without being skilled in the language itself.
