ArcGIS Online
This is the core building block of ArcGIS Online—every app, dashboard, or StoryMap must reference it.
What is a web map?
This file type is the most common vector data format in GIS and requires at least four files to function.
What is a shapefile?
This window in ArcGIS Pro organizes your maps, layouts, databases, toolboxes, and connections.
What is the Catalog Pane?
This vegetation index uses the red and near-infrared bands to measure plant health.
What is NDVI?
GIS
What are Geospatial Information Systems?
This ArcGIS Online application lets you configure simple viewer templates like Swipe, Nearby, or Sidebar without writing any code.
What are Instant Apps?
This ESRI file format stores multiple feature classes, tables, rasters, and relationships in one folder-based structure.
What is a file geodatabase (.gdb)?
This Pro feature lets you automate workflows by chaining tools together visually.
What is ModelBuilder?
These two satellite programs—one by NASA/USGS and one by ESA—are the most common for free earth imagery.
What are Landsat and Sentinel-2?
AGOL
What is ArcGIS Online?
This ArcGIS Online tab lets you store and manage datasets such as hosted feature layers, tile layers, and imagery layers.
What is My Content (or the Content page)?
This raster file type stores elevation or imagery data in pixels arranged in rows and columns.
What is a TIFF or GeoTIFF?
This view displays maps in three dimensions and supports DEMs, DSMs, and 3D symbology.
What is the Scene view?
This measurement represents the size of each pixel on the ground in a raster.
What is spatial resolution?
DEM
What is a Digital Elevation Model?
This security setting controls whether your map or layer is only visible to you, your organization, a group, or the public.
What is sharing/visibility?
This file type can store entire 3D scenes such as buildings, trees, and terrain, and is used for ArcGIS Pro/Online 3D.
What is an SLPK (Scene Layer Package)?
This tool allows you to derive a polygon area representing all locations within a set distance of a feature.
What is Buffer?
This type of model removes buildings/trees to show bare-earth elevation derived from LiDAR.
What is a Digital Terrain Model (DTM)?
GCS
What is Geographic Coordinate System?
This ArcGIS Online tool provides demographics, consumer spending, and market potential variables directly within a map.
What is ArcGIS Business Analyst or Enrich Data
This is the file extension used to store ArcGIS Pro projects, to be stored for later use.
What is an .aprx
This type of code is the backbone of ESRI ArcGIS Pro software and can be manipulated inside or outside of the application.
What is Python?
This technique classifies spectral signatures from imagery into land cover types using user-defined training samples.
What is supervised classification?
ESRI
What is Environmental Systems Research Institute?