Who should attend: Professionals working in conservation and natural resource projects, including field station and refuge personnel who desire to use the capabilities of GIS to better manage natural resources. No previous experience with GIS is required.

Objectives:

• Describe the basic functioning of GIS technology and its application to natural
  resource management;
• Make decisions in the application of GIS technology to natural resource issues;
• Create and print maps; and
• Use GIS software for natural resource applications.

This session will cover such topics as editing, simple geodatabase creation and importing of shapefiles, using an ArcGIS server to access data, using some simple ArcTools (intersect, union), joins & relates, and tables to analyze habitat. We'll also cover working with DEMs if time permits.

Objectives:

Prerequisites: Some knowledge of ArcCatalog & ArcMap

Who should attend: You should have a grasp of the fundamentals.  Not for new users.

Instructor: Paul A. Lang, FWS – Panama City Field Office, Panama City, FL

Content: Have you been using ArcGIS for a long time and ever wondered what ModelBuilder is and how to use it, or do you know basically what ModelBuilder is and want to use it but don’t know how to get started?  Well this is the class for you.  This class will provide you with an introduction to ModelBuilder:  what it is, what the components are, and how do you create, edit and run a model.  We will first take a look at a wildlife habitat process and work through this analysis the typical way most GIS users are familiar – the ArcMap interface.  Then we will take the same process and develop a model, using ModelBuilder, to run the analysis. 

Objectives:

• Learn what is ModelBuilder
• Understand the components of ModelBuilder
• Learn how to develop a model in ModelBuilder
• Develop a wildlife habitat model using ModelBuilder

Who should attend:  1 year experience working with ArcGIS and ArcToolbox.