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Point, line or polygon layers will always have an associated attribute table.
Table rows are sometimes called records and columns are typically called
fields. Most of our layers will have one row of information for each layer
feature (point, line or polygon).
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You can use the Delete Field tool to delete more than one field. Or open the
table, right mouse click on the field to delete
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You can use the Add Field tool, or open a table in Arcmap and Add Field
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Use the field calculator to calculate field values for all table records or for
selecte records.
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The Summary Statistics Tool can be used to create a new table of summary
statistics for any fields by any categorical (case) field. In this example for each
different X category (X of 10 or 20), determine how many points there are in
each category and what the Field A min, max, and mean values are for each X
category.
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You can visually select features, select feature based on an attribute question,
visually select table rows, or select features based on the spatial relationship
to another layer (points inside poygons, points within a user-specified distance
to lines, etc.
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You can use the Select Features tool to graphically select points by delineating
a rectangle around the points.
By holding the shift key down, you can graphically select using more than one
rectangle.
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If you like to use Model Builder or scripting, you can use the Select Layer By
Attribute Tool.
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You can also use the Make Feature Layer tool or layer propertiesDefinition
Query so select features and then display only the selected features in an
Arcmap layer.
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You can select to a new selection, add to already selected point features,
remove from a selection set of points,
Or select from a selection set of points.
You can also select records (rows) directly from the attribute table by
Holding the shift key down as you select rows. To clear selection, point to the
upper corner box in the table and
mouse-click on it.
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You can do the same thing using the Select Layer By Location toolyou could
use this in Model Builder
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Many tools for asking distance questions are typically in the Proximity toolset
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Create Thiessen Polygons create polygons representing the point the polygon
is closest to. You might use this with landing strip points to show a quick map
of the closest landing strip anywhere you are flying. Or if you had lightning
strike locations for interior Alaska and wanted to show areas of relatively high
densities of lightning strikes which would be represented by small thiessen
polygons.
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In this example, if the output buffer polygons are from the sam sex value, then
dissolve the buffers together.
There are 2 key concepts with point buffers: dissolve, fixed versus field
buffers. The buffer output is ALWAYS polygons!
You can also use the Multiple Ring Buffer geoprocessing tool if you have more
than 1 fixed distance.
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You can use the Multiple Ring Buffer script to create many buffers around
features. In this example the user requests buffers representing distances of
1,2,3, and 5.
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Near, Spatial Join, Generate Near Table work with points, lines, and polygons.
Point Distance tool works only with point feature classes.
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In this example, for each point find the distance the the closest stream and
store the distance and stream feature ID in the points table.
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The Spatial Join tool has many more options, such as what fields are output,
what the name of the distance field is, etc.
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The Generate Near Table allows you to search for the closest features for
more than one near feature class, and also allows to find more than the
closest, in this case we search for the closest two streams the IN_FID is the
feature ID of each point, the NEAR_FID is the feature ID of each stream line.
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Point Distance outputs a table of all possible point distances between 2 point
themes.
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Clip for example, to keep points inside a watershed polygon. Erase for
example to delete points inside a new building polygon,
Intersect for example, the keep points inside each vegetation polygon and
transfer the vegetation information to each point.
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The Clip tool allows you to output all features inside clip polygons to a new
GIS theme.
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The Erase tool is the opposite of Clipit outputs all features that area outside
of erase polygons to a new GIS theme.
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The Intersect tool is the like Clipbut it also transfers all polygon attributes to
each point the polygon intersects with.
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I will cover point density methods using interpolation to rasters later this
semester when we start with rasters.
In the feature world (points, lines, polygons) the question is how many points
are in each polygon.
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To determine the density of lightning strikes in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife
Reguge, need to know area of refuge in km2 and number of strikes in the
refuge.
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Compute the density in each square polygon using spatial join tool
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Clip using refuge polygon and compute density per km2spatial join to get
count of strikes in each polyon
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