Creating a Slope Angle Map

1) Double click on the ArcGIS icon folder from the START menu and select ArcMap, or by clicking
the ArcMap icon located at the bottom of your Window toolbar (Figure 1)

ArcMap icon

ArcMap icon

Figure 1

2) The ArcMap interface will appear (Figure 2)

Figure 2
3) To locate your folder, you need to browse to the Catalog. Go to the icon Catalog located on
your top left toolbar (Figure 3).Click on the arrow button to display hidden icon. Locate
AcrCatalog icon and click on it. The name of the icon is Catalog Window.

Catalog icon

Figure 3

4)Drag the Catalog window to the left side of the interface (Figure 4)

Place your Catalog

window over here

Figure 4

4) Now locate your folder in C drive STAG3062_Kump_A (or STAG3062_Kump_B if you are in
the 'B' group). Go to the Connet to Folder icon. Press OK (Figure 5).
 Connect Folder icon

Figure 5

5) Your folder will be displayed at your left hand side of the interface. Click on your folder to view
the content. Make sure there are four layers (files) in your folder (Contour, DEM_raster,
Landslides, & lineament) (Figure 6).

There are four

files inside your
folder

Figure 6

6) To view those layers, drag them (or individually) to the main interface (Figure 7). For the first
task, you need to display your 'Contour' map on the screen.
 Drag your file to
the main interface

Figure 7

7) To view the properties (attribute) table of your map, you need to go to the toolbar options arrow,
click on the arrow and choose 'Table of Content' window (Figure 8).

Figure 8
8) The 'Table of Content' is designated automatically at the left hand side of your screen. To view it,
find the 'Table of Content' window underneath the catalog window. The Table of Content window
contains the layers that you have opened on your screen (Figure 9).

Table of Content

Figure 9
9) Now, right click on the 'contour' layer and select open attribute table (Figure 10).

Figure 10

10) The attribute table is where you can find the property for each individual contour line (e.g. length,
elevation). The elevation for each line is located at the far end (right) of the table. From the
attribute table, what is the contour interval? (Figure 11)
 Figure 11

11) Close the table after you finish viewing the items.

12) To create a Digital Elevation Model (DEM). Locate the arctoolbox icon at the far right of the
interface (Figure 12).

Locate the
arctoolbox
icon

Figure 12

13) The arctoolbox will be activated once you click on it. Locate 3D analyst toolTIN
managementCreate TIN (Figure 13)
 Create TIN

Figure 13

14) A dialogue box will be displayed and make sure you create a new layer name in the 'Output TIN'
box. Put your new layer into your folder in the C drive STAG3062_Kump_A or 'B' folder
(Figure 14).

Figure 14
15) Enter the contour layer into the Input Feature Class (optional) box, and in the table below the
Input Feature Class (optional) box, click on the box below the 'height_field' column name and
select elevation. Press OK (Figure 15). The DEM will be displayed (Figrue 16).

Figure 15

Figure 16

16) To remove the blue line off your DEM, right click on the DEM layer located on the Table of
Content window and select properties (Figure 17)
 Right click DEM and select properties

Figure 17

17) After the properties dialogue box is opened, go to symbology and deselect edges type (Figure
18)

Figure
18

18) Your DEM without the 'blue line' is shown (Figure 19)
Figure 19
Task 2 (Creating a Slope Angle Map)

1) To create a slope map, you need to convert your DEM layer to Raster. To do this, go to 3D
analystConversionFrom TINTIN to Raster (Figure 20)

FIgure 20

2) Enter DEM into the Input TIN box and name your layer as DEM_Raster (remember to
always put your file into your folder in C dive). For Sampling Distance (Optional) select
CELLSIZE and change the number to 20 (the value of the contour interval). Press OK (Figure
21).

Figure 21
3) Your new DEM in a raster format will be displayed after the conversion operation complete
(Figure 22)

Figure 22

4) To create a slope steepness map, go to ArctoolboxSpatial Analyst toolsSurfaceSlope.

Click on the Slope tool. In the dialogue box, enter your 'DEM_raster' layer into the Input
Raster box, name your new layer as 'Slope_angle' and put the newly created layer into your
folder in C drive. Select DEGREE in the 'Output Measurement (Optional)' box. Press OK (Figure
23). Your slope angle map will be displayed after the processing is complete (Figure 24)

Figure 23
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5) To classify your slope angle map, right click on your slope angle layer in the Table of Content
window and select PropertiesSymbologyClassify (Figure 25 and 26)

Right click on the slope angle file

and select Properties

Figure 25
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6) In the Classification category, you can change the type of classification to different techniques.
But for this lesson, change the number of 'Classes' to 5. This action will automatically change the
Method of classification to 'Manual'. Numbered your classes to 10, 20, 30, 40, 64 in the 'Break
Values' box. Press OK (Figure 27).

Figure 27
7) In the Layer properties dialog box. Press OK (Figure 28). Your newly classified slope angle map
is done (Figure 29).

Figure 28

Figure 29

8) Upload your map on Ifolio in JPEG format