ArcGIS Pro for Beginners: Essential Skills for GIS Professionals

ArcGIS Pro for Beginners: Essential Skills for GIS Professionals

Gain in-demand geospatial skills with our comprehensive ArcGIS Pro course, designed for both beginners and experienced professionals. This hands-on program covers the essentials of spatial data management, map creation, analysis, and visualization using industry-leading ArcGIS Pro software. Through real-world projects and guided exercises, you’ll learn how to collect, edit, and analyze geographic data to solve practical problems in urban planning, environmental management, and more. By the end of the course, you’ll be able to confidently create professional maps, perform advanced geoprocessing, and leverage GIS insights to drive decision-making. Earn a certificate of participation and unlock new career opportunities in GIS and related fields.
172 Students
23 Lectures
Ben Emunah Aikins
Ben Emunah Aikins

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About This Course

A beginner ArcGIS Pro course would typically cover the fundamental concepts of geographic information systems (GIS) and introduce students to the basic functionality of the ArcGIS Pro software.


The course would start with an introduction to GIS and the ArcGIS Pro interface, including the various components of the software such as the Catalog, Map, and Layout views. Students would learn how to create a new project, add data, and work with the various layers of a map.


Next, the course would cover the basics of data management in ArcGIS Pro, including how to add and edit data, create geodatabases, and use the tools available in the Geoprocessing pane.


The course would also cover basic spatial analysis techniques, such as using tools to calculate distances and areas, creating buffers, and conducting overlay analysis.


Finally, students would learn how to create and share maps and visualizations using the various layout tools and options available in ArcGIS Pro.


Throughout the course, students would have hands-on exercises and assignments to help them practice using the software and applying the concepts they've learned. By the end of the course, students should have a solid understanding of the basics of GIS and be able to create and analyze their own maps using ArcGIS Pro.

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Curriculum Overview

This course includes 5 modules, 23 lessons, and 0 hours of materials.

Introduction
3 Parts
Introduction and Outline
Free

This Video gives an outline and introduces this course to you.

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Differences between ArcMap and ArcGIS Pro
Free

Let's discuss the differences between ArcMap and ArcGIS Pro. Let's see whats new

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Data for the course
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Interface Exploration
4 Parts
Introduction to ArcGIS Pro interface

This Video explores the interface of ArcGIS pro. We need to understand and get conversant with the interface of the software before going deeper. That is what this video seeks to do.

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Introduction to ArcGIS Pro interface - Part 2

This is a continuation of the interface exploration.

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Introduction to ArcGIS Pro interface - Part 3

This is the third part of ArcGIS Pro interface exploration

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Introduction to ArcGIS Pro interface - Part 4

This video is the last part of the interface exploration

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Adding Data and Geoprocessing
8 Parts
Adding data to ArcGIS Pro

This video will teach you how to add data to ArcGIS Pro. Here we will learn how to add both vector a nd raster data to our canvas.

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Connecting a folder to ArcGIS Pro

Connecting folders would be one of the common things you will do regarding practicing GIS. Being a simple process, let us take a minute to look at that. This would enable you to easily add data and also save output of your processes.

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Select by Attributes

Let us start off our Geoprocessing with selection. The first selection we are looking for is selection by attribute. This process uses a value from an existing field to filter from a whole data.

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Select by Location

Select by location is the process of using the spatial relationship of one feature to select from another feature.This video shows how to go about it.

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Geoprocessing - Clip

Clipping is one of the most used geoprocessing tools. It takes one data and gives you a subset of it by overlying another layer. Lets have a look at how it is done in this video.

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Geoprocessing - Buffer

Buffer analysis is the determination of a zone around a geographic feature containing locations that are within a specified distance of that feature, the buffer zone. A buffer is likely the most commonly used tool within the proximity analysis methods.

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Dissolve and Intersect

The Dissolve Tool unifies adjacent boundaries based on common attribute values. Only if neighbor polygons have the same dissolving attribute, then it melts the boundary into one. This video walks us through how to do that.

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Summarize Within

The Summarize Within tool calculates statistics in areas where an input layer is within or overlaps a boundary layer. The area you are summarizing within can be an area layer or a hexagonal or square bin.

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Data Creation and Editing
5 Parts
Creating Shapefiles in ArcGIS Pro

In this video, we learn how to create shapefiles. Shapefiles are one of the common vector data available. It is very important you learn how to create them

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Digitizing Part 1

Digitizing is a way of converting analog maps to digital ones. In this video, we will learn how to digitize from a base map and create your own data.

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Digitizing Part 2

In this video, we continue with digiting our features.

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Editing Attribute table in ArcGIS Pro

At this point, you know that vector data come in two forms, geometry and attribute. We have learnt how to create and edit the geometry, let is now learn to edit attribute information

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Deleting features in ArcGIS Pro

Lets look at how to delete features in ArcGIS Pro

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Symbology and Map Making
3 Parts
Map Making

In this video, we are going to make our very first map in ArcGIS Pro. We will learn how to add the various map elements and how to adjust them to fit your map.

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Map Making Contd
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Symbology and Labeling

In this video, we will learn the basics of symbology and data labeling.

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Certificates
1 Parts
Course Certificate
Course Certificate
If you pass all the lessons in this course, you will receive this certificate.
Type Course Certificate
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Lessons
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Duration
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Created Date
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