• Please submit your homework to Wednesday’s section.

• Please use the standard file name for your homework.– FirstName_LastName_LabNO.doc

• Please export maps as PNG, JPG, TIF or other picture format.

Lab 3: Geodatabase design & population (1)

Yingjie Hu

Purposes

• Geodatabase and its capabilities • Designing a geodatabase

Components in Geodatabase

• Feature class– A group of features (points, lines, and polygons)

• Feature dataset– Related feature classes in the same coordinate

system

• Tables– No spatial information

Components in Geodatabase

• Rasters– Images, DEM

• Raster dataset– One or more adjacent images in the same format

• Raster catalog– A collection of images which can have different

formats

Components in Geodatabase

• Relationship classes – The connection between features (parcels and

landowners)

• Topology– Constraints on spatial relationships

• Geometric Network– Define the interconnections in network feature

classes

Components in Geodatabase

Components in Geodatabase

Notes

Notes

• UML• Free open source software (e.g., StarUML)• MS Visio (free trial for 60 days)• MS Word

Notes• UML– Draw the UML diagram based on your database

Assignment

• Complete exercise I.• This is the first part of a two-week lab, so you

don’t need to turn in your homework next week.