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Working with rasters in ArcGIS The objective of this lab is to get you comfortable with using ArcGIS and to learn the fundamentals of working with rasters in ArcGIS. Also, the university has a license which allows students to take ESRI virtual campus courses for free, so this exercise may open that avenue of learning for you. If you want to take additional virtual campus courses, let me know. In this lab, work in pairshopefully a team with one member familiar with ArcGIS to help the other team member. 1) Log on to computers in ONEILL 359. Set the domain to labs and use your account that is established when you register for courses (typically fs___or ft___) and your initial password is your birthday (YYYYMMDD) number. 2) Use a web-browser and log into the ESRI virtual campus site. ( http://training.esri.com/ )

The username and password is: nrm641

Username and password is : nrm641 3) Start the course.

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To save time, Ive downloaded the data and it is in the c:\nrm641 workspace:

Complete this virtual campus course by next Monday. Answer the following questions: 1) For the following raster, how many of the following are there?

____classes

____NoData pixels

____regions

____zones

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2) Which of the following is true: ____Pixels are always square in ArcGIS ____Columns are in the Y-direction ____Thematic rasters can contain integer values ____Thematic rasters can contain floating point values ____Integer rasters typically have a value attribute table ____Floating point rasters typically have a value attribute table

3) Which tab would you select to adjust the transparency of the layer?

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4) Which of the following is true: ___A Quantile classification is an equal area classification ___A Quantile classification is an equal interval classification ___A Quantile classification uses natural groupings

5) Which would be the most appropriate for displaying values from an mean annual precipitation raster? ____ as unique values ____ as classified values ____ as stretched values

6) If you have a satellite image with 25-meter pixels, what will be the effective pixel size at the 3rd level of the image pyramid?

7) Which one of the following file extensions indicates an image pyramid file? ___.jpg ____.tif ___.img ___.aux ____.rrd

8) Which one of the following resampling methods is the fastest? ___cubic convolution ___nearest neighbor ___bilinear interpolation

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9) What color will a pixel with a value of 2500 be displayed as?

10) Which one of the following is true: ____ The reflectance from plants is higher in the visible region relative to the NIR ____ The reflectance from plants is higher in the near-infrared relative to visible region

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11) Which 2 of the following is true: ____ Georeferencing information can be stored in an image file ____ Georeferencing information can be stored in an image world file ____ Georeferencing information can be stored in an image auxiliary file

12) Which 2 of the following is true about ArcGIS georeferencing: ____ Georeferencing creates an adjusted image file ____ The affine transformation is a first-order polynomial ____ Rectifying creates an adjusted image file