GIS tutorial Archives

Map within ArcGIS Pro showing the results of a calculation of which populations are at risk of air pollution in Florida.

How to Use ArcGIS Pro to Determine the Population Impacted by Air Pollution

Learn to estimate air pollution’s impact on people with geospatial methods using ArcGIS Pro and data from Toxic Release Inventory, Worldpop, and ArcGIS Hub.

Screenshot showing contours in brown and green in ArcGIS Pro.

How To Create Contours in ArcGIS Pro from LIDAR Data

by Jeff Oppong

This ArcGIS Pro tutorial shows how to add LIDAR data from the National Map to ArcGIS Pro and create topography contours.

Map showing Rhode Island. Areas in red have a high GEMI index.

How to use ArcGIS Pro and Landsat 8 Imagery to Calculate Chlorophyll Index and Global Environmental Monitoring Index

by Jeff Oppong

Tutorial on how to use ArcGIS Pro to determine the Chlorophyll Index (CI) and the Global Environmental Monitoring Index (GEMI) of Landsat 8 imagery in an area of interest.

Side by side comparison of screenshots of a data layer with a simple red outline and black labels as seen in ArcGIS Online and QGIS.

How to Add Data from ArcGIS Online to QGIS

by Caitlin Dempsey

Adding data from an ArGIS Online Map Service or Feature Service into a QGIS map project is fairly easy and quick in most instances.

Screenshot showing a CSV file with information about mean centers of population in the US. A shaded relief map is being the text file.

How to Add Latitude and Longitude as a CSV File in QGIS

by Caitlin Dempsey

This quick QGIS tutorial takes you through the steps of how to add a CSV file with latitude and longitude coordinates.

Screenshot of a land use map for Ghana in ArcGIS Pro with shades of green for the categories.

How to Use ArcGIS Pro for Supervised Classification

by Jeff Oppong

This tutorial is a step-by-step approach for performing supervised classification on Landsat 8 imagery using Remote Sensing and GIS methodologies.

Screenshot showing the annual average soil loss layer in ArcGIS Pro.

How to Use ArcGIS Pro to Estimate Soil Erosion from a Catchment Basin

by Jeff Oppong

This lesson demonstrates how to use spatial data science and remote sensing techniques in ArcGIS Pro to predict soil erosion from a catchment using the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE).