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Chapter One - History and Scope of GIS
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Section One - Introduction
Section Two - What is GIS?
Section Three - Why Do We Need A GIS?
Section Four - Putting it all Together: An Example
Section Five - Uses of GIS
Section Six - History of GIS
Chapter Two - Navigating Our World: Geodesy, Datums, and Coordinate Systems
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Section One - Introduction
Section Two - Geodesy
Section Three - Mathematically Measuring the Earth
Section Four: Latitude and Longitude - One Example of a Geographic Grid
Section Five: Geodetic Datums: Combining Reference Ellipsoids and Geoids
Section Six: Geographic Coordinate Systems
Section Seven: Projection Methods
Section Eight- Projected Coordinate Systems
Section Nine: Just a Few Extras
Chapter Three - Spatial Data: Vectors, Rasters, and Data Tables
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Section One - Introduction
Section Two - Vector Data
Section Three - Raster Data
Section Four - Discrete and Continuous Data
Section Five - Data Tables
Section Six - Introduction to Attribute Tables
Chapter Four - Data Organization and Meet Your GIS
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Section One - Introduction
Section Two - Data Models
Section Three - Meet ArcGIS Pro Catalog View
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