GeoSpatial Knowledge Hive

What is ArcMap? ArcMap is the primary mapping component of ArcGIS Desktop software from ESRI . ArcMap is where you display and explore GIS datasets for your study area, where you assign symbols, and where you create map layouts for printing or publication. ArcMap is also the application you use to create and edit datasets. ArcMap represents geographic information as a collection of layers and other elements in a map. Common map elements include the data frame containing map layers for a given extent plus a scale bar, north arrow, title, descriptive text, a symbol legend, and so on. ArcGIS is, the world's most popular Desktop GIS software. Image by Sasin Tipchai from Pixabay Training Contents        Launching ArcMap        Adding Data in ArcMap        Using Basic Tools in ArcMap        Data Views in ArcMap        Changing Symbology in ArcMap     ...

Northern Areas of Pakistan are blessed with beauty, we often hear people quoting these beautiful areas as “Switzerland of Pakistan”, “Heaven on Earth”, but these words proved there reality when for the first time I visited Northern Pakistan. It is worth mentioning that Pakistan is dependent on frozen hydrological resources. Many rivers such as River Swat, Chitral, Gilgit, Hunza, Shigar, Shyok, Indus, Shingo, Astor, and Jhelum are fed by runoff generated by melting of SC of Northern areas. Image by Aqsa kamran from Pixabay Image by Abdullah Shakoor2 from Pixabay This runoff supports agriculture . Agriculture of Pakistan is largely dependent on the snow melting phenomenon. Anomalies witnessed in glaciers and their melting patterns will have massive impact on hydrological resources because the country’s 70% of fresh water depends upon these frozen hydrological resources in the high mountains of Himalaya and Hindu Ku...