ARC GIS 9.

3 TUTORIAL
Yogendra Shrestha

ARC GIS 9.3

TUTORIAL

April 2016

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Table of Contents
1.

Catchment area in GIS 9.3..................................................................................................................... 3

2.

Catchment area below 3000 m Elevation ........................................................................................... 13

3.

Hydrology Tool not working................................................................................................................ 17

4.

Remove Zero values of contour of Topo map sheet........................................................................... 17

5.

Display the data of contour of selected Interval. ............................................................................... 17

6.

How to merge the contour ................................................................................................................. 18

7.

How to Clip contours .......................................................................................................................... 18

8.

How to display elevation on Topo contour data which is exported to AutoCAD ............................... 18

9.

How to popup the attributes while converting data from GIS into KML ............................................ 18

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1. Catchment area in GIS 9.3

Open Arc GIS
Click on add data

Click on connect to folder and choose DEM files and click on Add. Then following
screen appears

Right click on Layers and then click on properties

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Then following dialogue box will appear. Click on predefined > Nepal Projection >
Nepal_Western > ok
Note : The coordinate system shall be choose on the basis of datum whether the river lies
on Central or Eastern or western.

Click on Go to XY

Add the Latitude and longitude and then click on Add Labeled Point

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Note: for intake location, we need the coordinate of intake, so we take the coordinate from
Google Earth.

Make A shape File

Open Arc Catalog

Right click on folder where you want to create shape file
Click on new
Click on shape file
Then following dialogue box appears
Give the Name: clip file
Choose feature type: Polygon
Click on Edit
After clicking on Edit.
Choosing the coordinate system.
Click on Select
Click on Nepal Projection
Click on Nepal_Western.prj
Click on Add
Then click on OK
After that a shape file is created.
Add the clip file into Arc Map Layers

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Start editing for Clip file
Then choose sketch tool to start drawing polygon.
Draw polygon around the tentative
catchment area
After finishing the drawing right click on
open space
And click on finish sketch F2
Click on Editor
Click on Save Edits
Click on Stop Editing
Then it appears like as below

Click on Arc Tool Window

Click on Data Management Tools

Click on Raster
Click on Raster Processing
Clip
Then add srtm_elev141.img to input raster and Clip in output extent
Click on ok

Click on Spatial Analyst Tools from Arc Tool Box

Click on Hydrology
Click on Fill
Then Select srtm_elev141clip on Input surface raster

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Click on ok

Click on Spatial Analyst Tools from Arc Tool Box

Click on Hydrology
Click on flow direction
Select fill_srtm_e1 on Input surface raster
Click on ok

Click on Spatial Analyst Tools from Arc Tool Box

Click on Hydrology
Click on flow accumulation
Select flowdir_fill1 on Input flow direction raster
Click on ok

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Then it appears as

Make a shape file from Arc catalogue

Give name as snap point and feature type Point and select the respective projection
system from edit tab.
Add the snap point shape file into Arc map layer box
Start editing for snap point
Select the sketch tool
Add a snap point on the white line of river
Click on editor
Save edits
Stop editing
Then a new snap point is added.

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Click on Spatial Analyst Tools from Arc Tool Box

Click on Hydrology
Click on Snap pour point

Add snap point on Input raster or feature pour point data

Add flowAcc_flow1 on input accumulation raster
Then click on ok
It gives the output as snapPou_snap1 in Table of Content

Click on Spatial Analyst Tools from Arc Tool Box

Click on Hydrology
Click on Watershed
The dialogue box appears as above.

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Then add flow direction data in Input flow direction raster
Add snapPou_snap1 data in Input raster or feature Pour point data
Click on ok

Click on Conversion Tools from Arc Tool Box

Click on From Raster

Click on Raster to Polygon
Add Watersh_flow1 in input raster
Remove the tick mark from simplify polygons
Click on Ok
Then it displays the RasterT_watersh1.
This RasterT_watersh1 is the total catchment area of river.

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Right click on RasterT_watersh1

Click on open attribute table

Click on Options
Click on Add Field
Click on ok

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Right Click on Area

Click on Calculate geometry

Choose unit as Sq. Km

Click on ok
Then it will display the whole
Catchment area in sq. km.

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2. Catchment area below 3000 m Elevation

3D Analyst Tool
Click on Raster Math
Click on Int
Add Srtm_elev141_clip to Input rater or constant value. In this add button we must
add the image file after clipping from whole Nepal DHM file.
Then Click on OK

Spatial Analysis Tool

Click on Conditional
Click on Set Null
Add Int_strm_ele1 on Input conditional raster and on input false raster or
constant value
Click on SQL

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Click on Expression SQL button.
Then condition dialogue box appears and add the condition as VALUE>=3000

Click on ok and also clock ok for set null

Conversion Tool

Click on From raster

Click on Raster to Polygon
Add setNull_int_1 into Input raster
Remove tick mark from simply polylines
Click on Ok

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Clip Analysis
Click on Analysis Tool from Arc tool box
Click on Extract
Click on Clip
Then the dialogue box appears.
Add RasterT_SetNull1 to input features
Add RasterT_Watersh1 (which is the total catchment of river) to Clip features.
Click on ok

Then it display the following result

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Dissolve

Click on Data Management Tool

Click on Generalization
Click on Dissolve
Click on ok

Calculate Area
Right Click on raster_setnull1_clip_dissol

Open Attribute table

Click on Options
Add field
Give filed Name as Area and Type as Float
Right click on Area
Click on Calculate geometry
Select the units as Sq. km
Click on ok
Then it will display catchment area below 3000 m elevation

Note: For Catchment area below 5000 m elevation, same as above process

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3. Hydrology Tool not working.

Tools Menu
Extension
Tick mark ON at the Spatial Analysis
Ok

4. Remove Zero values of contour of Topo map sheet.

Select the contour layer

Start editing
Open attribute table
Right click on COV values
Ascending
Select the zero values cells
Delete it
Save edits
Stop editing

5. Display the data of contour of selected Interval.

Selection menu
Select by attributes
Select layers > Contour layers
Click on COV
Type SELECT * FROM Contour WHERE
Cov = 1000 or Cov = 1005 or Cov = 1010 or Cov = 1015 or Cov = 1020
Apply
Ok

In excel

1000
1005
1010
1015
1020

=+Cov= &A1
=B1& or Cov= &A1
Drag the cell

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6. How to merge the contour

Delete all zero values of contour

Click on Data management tool from Arc Toolbox
General
Merge
Select contour layers on Input Datasets
Ok

7. How to Clip contours

Analysis Tool
Extract
Clip
Select input features_ all contour layers
Select Clip features_clip layer e.g. Catchment below 3000
Ok

8. How to display elevation on Topo contour data which is exported

to AutoCAD
Select the contour layer. Export the data as new field cannot be added on attribute
table
Open Attribute table
Add field name as Elevation
Right Click on Elevation on top.
Click on Field Calculator then on Field Calculator select Elevation = Cov
Ok
Then Export the contour data to AutoCAD

9. How to popup the attributes while converting data from GIS into
KML
Select the feature which we want to convert into KMZ then show its label feature by
right click on it
Right Click on the feature
Click on Properties

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Click on HTML POPUP

Show Tick mark on Show content for this layer using the HTML Popup Tool
Click on Ok
Click on Conversion Tool
To KML
Layer to KML
Add the Hydropower_Operating Layer into Layer
Give the name to Output file
Give scale
Click on ok

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Open KMZ file
Then the result display as follow

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