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Using the Beach LandingTemplate

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Table of ContentsGetting started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Template contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Release notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Hardware and software requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Installing the template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Understanding the template layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Exercise 1: Viewing a basic Beach Landing product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Exercise 2: Creating a basic Beach Landing product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Conclusion to the Beach Landing Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Using the Beach Landing Template

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Getting startedThe Beach Landing template is an Esri Defense template for intelligence analysis. The Beach Landing (BL)template contains data and a walk-through exercise to teach you how to use ArcGIS tools to produce maps forBeach Landings.

This template will:

• Provide an example of a BL product.

• Give you the editing tools and layers needed to create a basic BL product.

About the template documentation

This template documentation contains chapters to help guide you through installing the template andcreating your own BL product. Before you begin using the template, review the following sections:

• Template contents

• Release notes

• Hardware and software requirements

• Installing the template

Once you have installed and set up the template, this documentation contains a section explaining thedifferent layers used in creating a BL product, an exercise to familiarize you with a finished BL product, anexercise to guide you through creating your own BL product, and a conclusion covering what you havecreated using the template.

• Understanding the template layers

• Exercise 1: Viewing a basic BL product

• Exercise 2: Creating a basic BL product

• Conclusion to the Beach Landing Template



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Template contentsThis template is delivered as a Map Package (MPK) file. When you double-click it, ArcMap will open andextract the maps, folders, toolboxes, and geodatabases for the package to a new Home folder.

Home

The Home - beachlanding\V101 folder contains a map, a file geodatabase, and two folders; scratch andtools. The name of the Home folder may be slightly different if you open the template multiple times.

• BeachLanding.mxd is a map document with sample features collected showing an example of afinished BL product.

• The beachlandingtemplate.gdb contains supporting feature classes used in the BeachLanding.mxdmap.

• Scratch folder

• Tools folder

Scratch

The Scratch folder contains a scratch file geodatabase.

Tools

The Tools folder contains the Beach Landing Tools toolbox, a Python script tool to update map information,called "Map Title Edit."

Also installed with the template, in the .\BeachLanding\commondata\userdata folder, are two projection files,("WGS 1984 Web Mercator (auxiliary sphere).prj" and "WGS 1984.prj"), that the script uses, as well as acopy of the toolbox.



Release notesFor comments about or problems using the Beach Landing template please post on the ArcGIS.com downloadsite for this template.



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Hardware and software requirementsHardware requirements

The hardware requirements for this template are the same as those for ArcGIS Desktop 10.1, which you canreview at http://resources.arcgis.com/content/arcgisdesktop/10.0/arcgis-desktop-system-requirements#ArcGISDesktop-HardwareRequirements.

Software requirements

• ArcGIS Desktop 10.1 must be installed. For a list of ArcGIS Desktop 10.1 software requirementsand operating system limitations, see ArcGIS Desktop System Requirements athttp://resources.arcgis.com/content/arcgis-desktop-system-requirements.

• You must have an ArcGIS Desktop Standard (ArcEditor) license.

• You must have installed an extraction utility, such as 7-Zip. You can download 7-Zip for free athttp://www.7-zip.org/

• Adobe Reader 5.0 or greater must be installed in order to view the template documentation. You candownload this reader for free at http://get.adobe.com/reader.



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Installing the templateTo install and set up the template, you must download and open the MPK file, as described in the followingprocedure.

Steps:

1. Review Hardware and software requirements in this guide to make sure your system supports thetemplate.

2. Use Windows Explorer to create a folder to which you'll download the template. We recommend,(especially if you plan to use several Esri defense templates) that you create the following folderstructure on the C: drive of your local computer:C:\ArcGISForDefense\Intelligence\BeachLanding.

3. In a Web browser such as Internet Explorer, go to http://www.arcgis.com.

4. Click the Show drop-down arrow (it's near the top of the window) and click All Content (the defaultis to show Web content only).

5. In the Search text box, type Beach Landing.

6. In the search results that display, click Beach Landing Template. You might have to use the scrollbars to see it in the template list.The page that describes the template and lets you download it appears.

7. Click Download (under the template's thumbnail image), then in the resulting File Downloaddialog box, click the Save button.

8. On the Save As dialog box, navigate to the folder you created in step 2 and click the Save button.The template, an ArcGIS Map Package (.MPK file) is downloaded to the location you havespecified. When downloading is complete, the Download Complete dialog box appears.

9. Click the Open Folder button on the Download Complete dialog box.Windows Explorer opens and displays the downloaded .MPK file.

10. Double-click the BeachLanding.mpk file to open the template.

When the MPK file is first opened, it creates a BeachLanding folder in yourC:\Users\<username>\Documents\ArcGIS\Packages\ folder and places a map document,geodatabase, and supporting folders for the template in it.




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Understanding the template layersThe Beach Landing Template comes with a number of different layers that allow you to build your ownintelligence product. Keep in mind that the data included in the Beach Landing Template is fictitious and wasgenerated for demonstration purposes.

The map documents for this template contain two data frames. One data frame is named Beach Landing. Thelayers in this data frame are:

• Generic Annotation - a group layer that contains two layers for annotation features for adding text onland and water.

• Measurements - a layer for dimension features. Dimension features are a special kind ofgeodatabase annotation for showing measured distances on a map.

• Point Features -a layer of point feature that represent beach exits or point obstructions.

• Line Features - a layer of line features that represent linear obstructions such as walls or fences, aswell as flank lines.

• Area Features - a layer of polygon features that represent area obstructions such as a densevegetation, rocks, reefs, inland water, or ice, as well as buildings.

• Imagery - a group layer containing reference imagery data.

Note: For this template the Imagery group layer references the Imagery basemapfrom ArcGIS Online. If you are using this template without an internetconnection, you will need to add your own data to this group layer.

The second data frame in the map document is named Inset. There is one group layer in this data frame.• Inset Basemap - a group layer containing reference basemap data for the inset map.

Note: For this template the Inset Basemap group layer references the Topographicbasemap from ArcGIS Online. If you are using this template without an internetconnection, you will need to add your own data to this group layer.



Exercise 1: Viewing a basic Beach Landing productBecome familiar with a sample Beach Landing product

In this exercise you will examine a sample BL product to become familiar with some of the features you maywant to collect when creating your own BL product.

Steps:

1. Open the <template location>\BeachLanding\Maps folder.

2. Double-click the BeachLanding.mpk.ArcMap opens the BeachLanding.mxd document. The map document opens in Layout View. Youare viewing a sample Beach Landing map for a beach in Iran.

3. Examine the marginal information on the map. There are three areas that contain marginalinformation on the map; a title bar, a map inset for orientation, and a map legend.The title bar contains the name of the map, geographic information about the location of the map,the last date the imagery was updated (DOI), a scale bar, and a north arrow. In the title bar "LT"is an abbreviation for "Low Tide" and "HT" is an abbreviation for "High Tide". The date and timeof the previous Low/High tide and next Low/High tide from the time of image are listed in the titlebar. Steps for changing this information can be found in Exercise 2: Creating a basic BL product.The inset map helps you orient yourself on a smaller scale map. The map legend gives youvisual information about what types of features have been collected for the map.

4. Examine the features collected for the map.In the sample map several types of features have been collected. Walls are shown with a blackline with dots along it, ditches are shown as white lines with a thin black outline and brown dots,




cliffs are shown with an orange line with orange triangles along one side, and roads/vehicletracks are identified by a brown and white line with gray dots. Buildings are shown using a greypolygon with a black outline, structures are shown with an orange polygon with a black outline,general obstruction/hazard areas are shown with the generic red X hazard line fill, rock outcropsare shown with grey boulder marker symbol fill, areas of dense vegetation are shown with a darkgreen and brown mottled pattern, areas of trees are shown with a lighter green and brownmottled pattern, and water inundated areas are shown using a blue hatch fill pattern. Pointobstructions are depicted by a red circle with an “X” inside. Beach exits are shown with cyancircles with an “X” inside. The right and left flank of the landing approach are shown with greenarrows. Pink arrows show the dimensions of the beach and approaches. The Strait of Hormuz isidentified by light blue text, and Qeshm Island, Iran is identified by white and black text, bothstored as annotation features.

Other types of features that you might collect for a Beach Landing include fences, pipelines,linear obstruction/hazards (such as cables, ropes, wires, etc.), ice, and reefs.

In this exercise you have familiarized yourself with the basic components of a BL product. Once you arefamiliar with the types of features that may be collected for a BL product, move on to Exercise 2: Creating abasic BL product for information on collecting and editing these features





Exercise 2: Creating a basic Beach Landing productPopulate your map with features relevant to a Beach Landing product

In this section you will create some features, and edit marginal data for a BL product.

Steps:

1. If it is not already open, open the BeachLanding.mpk.

2. Click View > Data View.

3. Click Bookmarks > Practice Beach Landing.The map pans and zooms to a new beach.

4. If the Editor toolbar is not visible, turn it on by clicking Customize > Toolbars > Editor.The Editor toolbar appears.

5. On the Editor toolbar, click Editor > Start Editing.The Create Features window appears. If the Create Features window does not automaticallyappear, click the Create Features button on the Editor toolbar.

6. In the Create Features window, click the Dense Vegetation feature template.

7. At the bottom of the window in the Construction Tools panel, click the Polygon constructiontool.

8. There is dense vegetation just inland of the beach. Click once on the edge of the vegetated areato add the first vertex of the polygon that will outline the vegetated area. Continue to click foreach vertex of the polygon that outlines the area until you have digitized around the entire patch.Double-click on the last vertex to finish the sketch.



The previous steps cover a very basic workflow for feature editing. You will use the same methodto collect other features for your map. For more information on editing, see the webhelp. For thisexercise you will sketch only one vegetated area, though if you would like more practice,continue to sketch additional areas.

9. To see examples of other types of features you might collect, click Bookmarks > ExampleBeach Landing. If you zoom in to the orange hatched area, you can see that it is labeled"Hazard". This information is stored in the Label field for the Obstruction/Hazard features. Youcan use the Attributes Window button on the Editor toolbar to access and edit the attributes ofnew or selected features when you are editing.

10. Click Bookmarks > Practice Beach Landing.

11. Next you will collect a breakwater feature.

12. In the Create Features window, click the Rock Outcrop feature template.

13. Digitize the rock breakwater you see in the display in the same manner that you digitized thevegetation. Continue to collect other breakwater features in the vicinity that may pose anobstruction.



14. To define the right and left flanks for the beach approach, in the Create Features window, firstclick the Right Flank feature template under the Line Features layer, and in the bottom panelclick on the Line construction tool.

15. The Right Flank and Left Flank features are line features with labels that read Right Flank andLeft Flank, respectively. They are drawn with arrowheads pointing in the digitized direction of theline. For the Right Flank, click in the open water and then click again at the point on the beachwhere the approach flank line intersects the beach. Click the Left Flank feature template anddigitize the left flank line of the approach.

16. To mark the beach exit point, in the Create Features window, click the Beach Exit featuretemplate under the Point Features layer, and in the bottom panel click on the Point constructiontool.

17. Click on the map at the most direct exit point for the beach.

18. To the south of the beach there is a bridge spanning an inland waterway. You will add ameasurement feature, indicating the distance from the beach exit to the bridge. In the CreateFeatures window under Measurements click Distance, then in the bottom panel click theAligned construction tool.

19. Click the beach exit point and drag a line in a southeasterly direction to the north end of thebridge. Click when you get to the bridge. Now move your cursor towards the northeast in aperpendicular direction to the line until you have moved the dimension feature a short distancefrom the relatively clear path between the two points. Click to finish the dimension feature. Noticethat the distance between the first two vertices is added as text along its length.



20. You can learn more about working with dimension features in the web help for dimensionfeatures, http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//001r00000002000000.htm.

21. When you're done adding features, click Editor > Stop Editing and click Yes to save your edits.

This exercise was intended to give you an understanding of how to create the types of featuresthat may be found in a basic BL product. Although the exercise only instructed you to create a fewfeatures, feel free to create as many of each type of feature as you see fit for a BL. For moreinformation on working with features see Creating features with feature templates in the help.

If you need to draw a feature that isn't already in the beach landing template geodatabase, youcan add additional feature subtypes to an existing feature class, or create your own new featureclasses and add feature templates for them. Start editing and add the new feature types. For moreinformation on working with feature templates, see the about feature templates Help topic.

Changing marginal information on the map

In this section you will change the marginal information on the map to match the information for this BLproduct.

Steps:

1. Click the Layout View button to switch your map to layout view.

2. In the Catalog window, expand the tools folder.

3. Expand the BeachLandingTools.tbx toolbox.

4. Double-click the Map Title Edit tool.



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5. Enter a title for the map, and fill in appropriate values for the other fields.

6. Click OK.The Title Bar is updated.

7. Click File > Save to save the map with your changes.

Delete existing features

Once you have explored the completed Beach Landing product and practiced editing features and updatingthe map's Title Bar, you are ready to create your own product. The first step is to delete the sample featuresand create a new Map Package that you can use later (or share) as a starting point for the creation of newBeach Landing products.

Steps:

1. If it is not already open, open the BeachLanding.mpk.

2. Delete all of the existing features by using the Delete Features tool from the Data Managementtoolbox. See the Delete Features (Data Management) help topic. You will need to run the toolonce for each feature class in the beachlandingtemplate geodatabase.

3. Click File > Share As > Map Package.

4. Click the second option, to save the package to a file. Browse to a folder in which to create thepackage, and give the package a name.

5. Review the package parameters, and update any to reflect your use of the package.

6. Click the Analyze button.Check for errors and warnings, and if there are any, fix them, then analyze the package again.

7. Click the Share button.The new, empty map package is created and is ready for you to use or share as a starting pointfor creating new beach landing products.



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Conclusion to the Beach Landing TemplateYou have seen a completed sample beach landing product, used the feature templates provided in the mappackage to digitize some practice features, and used a tool to update the map title and supportinginformation. You have also learned how to empty the geodatabase and share the map as a Map Package(MPK file) that will serve as a blank slate for creating beach landing products.

