BayGeo's ArcGIS Online Fundamentals

Learn to navigate Esri's ArcGIS Online ecosystem: Data Collection, Display, Exploration, Analysis, and Communication with Dashboards and StoryMaps.

In this certificate, we will explore the powerful applications available on the ArcGIS Online platform – including feature layers, web maps, and web apps. We will cover the display and exploration of spatial data, geo-located surveys, ArcGIS Dashboards and ArcGIS StoryMaps.

At the end of the certificate, you will be able to import data and do some basic analysis such as finding the nearest facility, finding relationships, determining how many of something are within an area.

After completing this certificate you may wish to expand your new skills by joiningthe USF and BayGeo’s ArcGIS Pro certificates to learn about desktop GIS applications.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the certificate, students will be able to:

• Collect and import spatial data into ArcGIS Online.
• Understand how to display and explore spatial data using web maps and feature layers.
• Perform essential analyses, such as finding the nearest facility, identifying spatial relationships, and determining the count of features within a specific area.
• Create compelling visual narratives with ArcGIS StoryMaps and interactive dashboards with ArcGIS Dashboards.

Lesson Plan

Class 1

• The ArcGIS Online GUI
• Data acquisition AGOL, Living Atlas, .csv/.txt, shapefiles, geojason
• Data display
• Scale & Projection
• Field Joins and Spatial Joins
• Data Exploration with SmartMaps
• Counts and amounts
• Relationships, clusters, heat maps
• Classes & classifications
• Saving and Sharing

Class 2

• Survey123
• Spatial Analysis Tools
• Proximity
• Distance
• Summarize within
• Hot spots

Class 3

• ArcGIS Dashboards
• ArcGIS StoryMaps

Software

The hands-on exercises will be conducted using ArcGIS Online, accessed via a web browser. All participants will be provided with an ArcGIS Online account prior to the first class.

Details

Location: Online (Zoom)
Instructor: Charlotte Smith
Continuing Education Units: 1
Cost: $375 ($225 for BayGeo members, USF students or alumni)

Your Instructor

Charlotte D. Smith is a faculty member of the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, and a Visiting Professor at the Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara – Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO). Her research interests include the microbial ecology and control of waterborne pathogens, and using geospatial statistics to explore the pathway from environmental exposures, including contaminated water, to acute and chronic diseases (e.g., diarrheal and/or kidney disease). Current community-based participatory research in Guadalajara focuses on access to water as a human right under UN Resolution 64-292.

Dr. Smith teaches Introduction to Environmental Health Sciences, Drinking Water and Health, and Applied GIS for Public Healt at UC Berkeley.

Dr. Smith holds a BS in Microbiology from the University of Michigan, an MA in Community Health from the City University of New York, an M.A.S. in Spatial Analysis for Public Health from Johns Hopkins University, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Health Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a member of the United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management – Academic Network of the Americas, GIS Latin America, and the Organization of American States – Pan American Institute for Geography and History.

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The University of San Francisco Geospatial Analysis Lab and BayGeo’s GIS Education Center, a geospatial non-profit organization in the San Francisco Bay Area, have designed a geospatial certificate program to offer a skill-based curriculum that addresses the industry's latest technologies.