Python For ArcGIS

Autoren-Porträt von Laura Tateosian

Laura G. Tateosian is a professor at the Center for Geospatial Analytics at North Carolina State University. She earned her B.A. in Mathematics from Towson University, her M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Oklahoma, and her Ph.D. in computer science from North Carolina State University. She has more than 8 years of experience teaching Python programming for GIS and receives outstanding teaching evaluations. In 2014, she received an award for her teaching at North Carolina State University. Her research involves geospatial data analysis, aesthetic geovisualization, eye-tracking for map and visualization design, and automatic narrative mapping with Python and ArcGIS. Her research has published in refereed conferences and journals, such as, Information Visualization, International Journal for Uncertainty Quantification, Transactions in GIS, ACM Transactions on Graphics, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, the proceedings of the International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering, the International Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization, and IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications (Visualization Viewpoints).

Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Python For ArcGIS “

Introduction.- Beginning Python.- Basic data types: numbers and strings.- Basic data types: lists and tuples.- Preparing for Python in ArcGIS.- Calling tools with arcpy.- Getting user input.- Controlling flow.- Decision-making and describing data.- Repetition: Looping for geoprocessing.- Batch geoprocessing.- Additional looping functions.- Debugging.- Error handling.- User-defined functions.- User-defined modules.- Reading and Writing with Cursors.- Dictionaries.- Reading & writing text files.- Working with HTML & KML.- Classes.- User interfaces for file and folder selection.- ArcGIS Python GUIs.- Mapping module.