Python Scripting for ArcGIS Paul A. Zandbergen (Author)
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Python Scripting for ArcGIS is a guide to help experienced users of ArcGIS® for Desktop get started with Python® scripting. This book teaches how to write Python code that works with spatial data to automate geoprocessing tasks in ArcGIS. Readers can thus learn the skill set needed to create custom tools. The book contains 14 chapters, with the corresponding data and exercises on the accompanying DVD. A 180-day trial of ArcGIS 10.1 for Desktop software is also provided as an online download.
Key topics in this book include:
- Python language fundamentals
- Automating geoprocessing tasks
- Exploring and manipulating spatial data
- Working with geometries and rasters
- Map scripting
- Debugging and error handling
- Creating functions and classes
- Creating and sharing script tools
More details on the book can be found at the Esri Press website: esriurl.com/5564. This includes sample chapters for download. Instructor who are considering the book as a textbook for a course can request a deskcopy from Esri Press: esripress.esri.com/offers/deskcopy.
- Rank: #3319 in Books
- Published on: 2013-01-09
- Original language:
English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 10.00" h x
.94" w x
7.99" l,
2.58 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 368 pages
Description #1 by Overstock.com:
Getting to Know ArcGIS ModelBuilder teaches readers how to develop reusable geoprocessing workflows and run programs as models. Written for intermediate and advanced GIS users, Getting to Know ArcGIS ModelBuilder is the first reference book and workbook exclusively for ModelBuilder, a visual programming technology available in ArcGIS software. Getting to Know ArcGIS ModelBuilder presents basic and more complex concepts and demonstrates best practices through hands-on exercises. The book, divided into seven chapters addressing model basics, interactive models, flow of control, the modeling environment, multiple inputs, model iterations, Python scripting, and building model documentation, fosters a comprehensive knowledge of ModelBuilder. Readers can use the concepts taught in the book to adapt the tools, scripts, and applications in ModelBuilder to their own areas of expertise. Like other books in the Esri Press Getting to Know series, Getting to Know ArcGIS ModelBuilder is designed to support students in the classroom as well as self-learners.
Description #2 by eBay - hobyman58:
This book is no new that the binding is tight, I am not even going to open the book up for the first time, you can do that!The ArcCatalog application provides a catalog window that is used to organize and manage various types of geographic information for ArcGIS Desktop. The kinds of information that can be organized and managed in ArcCatalog includes: Geodatabases Raster files Map documents, globe documents, 3D scene documents, and layer files Geoprocessing toolboxes, models, and Python script
Description #3 by Alibris:
