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Last updated 2025/08/14

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Introduction

This 30-hour training program equips participants with practical skills to use ArcGIS for spatial data analysis, mapping, and decision-making in water resource management. The course covers spatial data basics, map creation, data formats, digitization, geoprocessing, and advanced analyses including raster, 3D, and hydrological tools.

Through hands-on exercises, learners will generate watershed boundaries, streamflow networks, land cover maps, and integrate climate datasets for environmental and engineering projects. By the end of the course, participants will be able to create professional maps, perform spatial and hydrological analyses, and apply ArcGIS effectively in real-world water resource applications.

    • Understand the spatial data basics, and generation of maps.
    • Understand the different data formats, digitization and geoprocessing.
    • Understand the spatial analysis, 3D data analysis and raster data processing.
    • Understand the hydrological analysis in ArcGIS.

Course overview

ArcGIS is one of the world’s most powerful GIS tools, widely used for spatial data analysis, mapping, and decision-making. This 30-hour training program introduces participants to the core principles of ArcGIS, with a special focus on water resource applications such as watershed delineation, hydrological modeling, flood risk mapping, and climate data visualization. Through hands-on exercises, participants will gain the skills to manage spatial data, perform advanced analyses, and generate professional maps that support real-world environmental and engineering projects.

Course content

courses | 30 Hours

Basics of ArcGIS

Spatial data basics


  • Opening and saving a map document
  • Handling data layers / Layer management
  • Distance measurement
  • Map Navigation Tools
  • Attribute table operations
  • Handling the feature attributes
  • Attribute based feature selection
  • Spatial feature selection
  • Working with selection options
  • Labeling


Generating maps


  • Mapping of quantitative data using point and polygon maps.
  • Mapping of categorical data using point and polygon maps.
  • Defining custom color ramps and symbology schemes.
  • Defining classification schemes (manual, natural breaks, quantile) for symbolizing features.
  • Generating dot density maps.
  • Generating kernel density maps and normalized maps.
  • Generating fishnet maps.
  • Generating layer packages and group layers.


Map layouts


  • Interactive GIS – adding basemaps and pop ups.
  • Generating map layouts.
  • Reapplying a map layout
  • Adding two maps in a layout.


Basics of ArcGIS

Spatial data basics


  • Opening and saving a map document
  • Handling data layers / Layer management
  • Distance measurement
  • Map Navigation Tools
  • Attribute table operations
  • Handling the feature attributes
  • Attribute based feature selection
  • Spatial feature selection
  • Working with selection options
  • Labeling


Generating maps


  • Mapping of quantitative data using point and polygon maps.
  • Mapping of categorical data using point and polygon maps.
  • Defining custom color ramps and symbology schemes.
  • Defining classification schemes (manual, natural breaks, quantile) for symbolizing features.
  • Generating dot density maps.
  • Generating kernel density maps and normalized maps.
  • Generating fishnet maps.
  • Generating layer packages and group layers.


Map layouts


  • Interactive GIS – adding basemaps and pop ups.
  • Generating map layouts.
  • Reapplying a map layout
  • Adding two maps in a layout.

Spatial data analysis

File geodatabases


  • Creating a file geodatabase
  • ArcCatalog
  • Editing and modifying an attribute table.
  • Creating joins
  • Generating latitude, longitude, perimeter and area in the table.


Spatial data


  • Generating metadata
  • Projections and coordinate systems
  • Vector data
  • Raster data
  • Exploring raster data
  • Exploring online US basemaps.
  • Downloading the vector and raster maps for Nepal from online sources.


Digitizing features


  • Digitizing point features
  • Digitizing line features
  • Digitizing polygon features.
  • Advanced editing tools
  • Spatial adjustment of features.


Geoprocessing


  • Union Features
  • Clip Features
  • Merge Features
  • Intersecting layers
  • Dissolving features
  • Clipping vector and raster datasets.
  • Automating using Model builder

Spatial data analysis

File geodatabases


  • Creating a file geodatabase
  • ArcCatalog
  • Editing and modifying an attribute table.
  • Creating joins
  • Generating latitude, longitude, perimeter and area in the table.


Spatial data


  • Generating metadata
  • Projections and coordinate systems
  • Vector data
  • Raster data
  • Exploring raster data
  • Exploring online US basemaps.
  • Downloading the vector and raster maps for Nepal from online sources.


Digitizing features


  • Digitizing point features
  • Digitizing line features
  • Digitizing polygon features.
  • Advanced editing tools
  • Spatial adjustment of features.


Geoprocessing


  • Union Features
  • Clip Features
  • Merge Features
  • Intersecting layers
  • Dissolving features
  • Clipping vector and raster datasets.
  • Automating using Model builder

Analyzing spatial data

Spatial analysis


  • Site suitability analysis.
  • Proximity analysis
  • Weighted overlay analysis


ArcGIS 3D Analyst for Desktop


  • Generating a Triangulated Irregular Network (TIN) from Elevation Contours.
  • Generating a 3D Spatial Scene.
  •  Projecting Features onto a TIN Surface. Exploring 3D Scenes
  • Developing an animated sequence
  • Applying 3D visualization techniques
  • Applying 3D symbology.
  • Editing 3D objects
  • Applying 3D analyst tools for landform analysis.


ArcGIS Spatial Analyst for Desktop


  • Raster Data Processing
  • Generating a hill shade raster layer
  • Making a kernel density map Generating a kernel density estimation map
  • Extracting raster cell values to points
  • Performing raster based site suitability analysis

Analyzing Hydrological Data

ArcGIS Hydrological analysis for Desktop


  • Generating streamflow polylines
  • Generating watershed boundaries using DEM downloaded from CGIAR.
  • Generating land cover data using GLOBCOVER land use data.
  • Generating Precipitation Data using GLDAS 2.1 reanalysis data.
  • Generating air temperature data using GLDAS 2.1 reanalysis data.

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