Practical ArcGIS for Beginners

This tutorial book is the first tutorial book for self-study or teaching practical aspects of geographical information systems (GIS) based on local Saudi maps and data. It can be considered as a basic self-study workbook of ArcGIS for those who are interested in practical GIS aspects as well as for beginners in GIS. This book includes tutorials and assignments which provide students with many opportunities to visualize and analyze data obtained from Saudi environment using ArcGIS 10.2 for Desktop software produced by Environmental System Research Institute (ERSI). It consists of 21 different consecutive tutorials which are dependent on each other. Therefore it is strongly recommended to follow the same order listed in the table of contents. In general this tutorial book is distinguished by: - Using basemaps and data extracted from the environment of Saudi Arabia. - Providing many illustrations that depict every single step of each tutorial. - Providing some explanation clips for some tutorials posted on the Author’s personal YouTube channel - Covering the most common GIS courses’ specifications and subjects given in Saudi Universities