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Tutorials

Getting Started

  • Overview of ArcGIS software suite
  • Starting ArcCatalog and connecting to the data
  • Exploring ArcCatalog—viewing datasets and metadata
  • Launching ArcMap and making a simple map
  • Use some fundamental functions of the Tools bar

Data Exploration

  • Lauching ArcCatalog
  • Examining data properties
  • Searching for data

Map Making

  • Examining data
  • Assigning symbology
  • Creatubg a map layout
  • Printing map

Map Saving

  • Adding data in ArcMap
  • Saving an ArcMap file
  • Saving a map as an image file

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2/9/2012 - 5-10 percent corn yield jump using erosion-slowing cover crops shown in ISU study

The most recent annual results from a four-year Iowa State University study by Ken Moore, Distinguished Professor of agronomy and primary investigator on the project, reveal that using cover crops can lead to higher yields - by as much as 10 percent . The results are the best yet in the ongoing research. Moore plans to continue on the trials for at least one more growing season.


2/8/2012 - Iowa State supply chain professor studies growing infrastructure needs for biofuels

Biofuels expansion is having a tremendous impact on the distillers' grain markets in Iowa and across the Midwest -- and the small towns that support their production. Bobby Martens, an Iowa State assistant professor of supply chain management, says ethanol industry leaders need to reconsider investments in transportation equipment and infrastructure while the government adjusts policies to effectively move all that biofuel to market.


2/7/2012 - Media Advisory: Nobel Laureate Dan Shechtman to meet the media at Iowa State, Ames Laboratory

Dan Shechtman will meet the media during several events at Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory on Feb. 14. A news conference from 10-11 a.m. will be live streamed here. Shechtman -- an Iowa State professor of materials science and engineering, a research scientist for the Ames Laboratory and the Philip Tobias Professor of Materials Science at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology -- won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his 1982 discovery of quasicrystals.