The Analysing Geochemical Data in ArcGIS course teaches users the fundamental tools for analysing geochemical data in Geochemistry for ArcGIS™.
Participants will use the geochemical data management tools to import and merge sample locations with assay results, perform QA/QC on geochemical data, as well as quickly and easily create several types of analytical graphs and multi-element reports.
The course also covers key surface mapping tools for symbolising point data, creating and displaying gridded data and contours, and creating map layers to visualise element distributions.
Duration
1 Day
Prerequisites
Working knowledge of ArcMap10
Key Topics
Getting Started with Geochemistry for ArcGIS
- Overview of Electronic Licensing
- Understanding the Geochemistry Project Geodatabase
Preparing Data
- Importing geochemical data
- Survey locations data
- Lab analyses (assay results)
- Defining the coordinate system
- Merging and verifying data
- Extracting and comparing standards and duplicates
Visualising Data
- Creating feature classes
- Setting default assay colour schemes
- Creating multiple map layers for each element
Analysing Data
- Calculating statistics
- Creating histograms and probability plots
- Creating scatter plots
- Creating ternary plots
- Creating boxplots
- Creating multi-element reports:
- Multi-histogram
- Pearson correlation matrix
- Multi-scatter
- Multi-probability
Presenting Data
- Creating and displaying gridded data
- Minimum curvature
- Kriging
- Creating contours
- Integrating other data