Saied Pirasteh

Practical Application of Arcgis in Environmental Studies Saied Pirasteh

this book is consisting of eight chapters. The first chapter is introducing the main application in ArcGIS software and teaches you the basic of ArcGIS and GIS data. The second chapter, you will experiencing the digitizing processes and display the final output in standard map layout. While in the third chapter, it has continued from the second chapter, where you will be exposed to identify the landuse changes from three series of landuse map. The fourth chapter, demonstrates how to generate a landuse susceptibility assessment map for development propose. In chapter five, you will learn to analyze the level of soil erosion using the RUSLE model. Then followed by chapter six, you will learn how to generate terrain classification mapping by using Malaysian geology standard obtain from Minerals and Geosciences Department, Malaysia. In chapter seven, shows the demonstration of landuse suitability assessment procedures utilizing ModelBuilder tool and chapter eight, displaying 3D perspective views of satellite imagery utilizing ArcScene application in ArcGIS.