ArcGIS for Desktop Cookbook

ArcGIS for Desktop is one of the strongest components of the ESRI ArcGIS platform. Users find it exciting because it has a lot of powerful tools and can work with a wide range of spatial data formats. ArcGIS comes with advanced features like Advanced Analysis and Geoprocessing, to help you make intelligent maps.

This book will make you a more effective and efficient GIS user by showing you how to use ArcGIS Desktop to create your own Geodatabase model, manage layers, symbols, and label styles. Furthermore it will help you learn how to you create map documents, edit data in feature classes, find and fix topological errors, analyze surfaces, and most importantly create 3D representation, import and export several different data formats, and much more.

The exercises from the recipes have a logical approach in order to simulate and point out the main characteristics of a real project.

ArcGIS for Desktop Cookbook is a practical guide that leads you through the ArcGIS Desktop functionality in a coherent manner.

With recipes that range from easy and intermediate to advanced, there is something here for anyone looking to improve their abilities in ArcGIS Desktop.