Description:
CommunityViz is a software tool designed to help communities and regional planners quantify, visualize, and better understand the trade-offs of alternate land use futures at the community, watershed, or site scale. It is now being utilized by a number of regional planning agencies and communities in NH, and interest in its use is expected to increase as it is used in numerous community-level buildouts around the country. This course covers the basics of Community Viz and is designed for ArcGIS users with little or no experience with the Community Viz, although the materials should prove useful for those with more experience. The concepts and basic applications of Community Viz will be covered using a combination of presentations and hands-on exercises.

General topics:
* basics of Community Viz * build-out analysis * suitability studies

Participants will learn to:
* identify and prepare data for use in Community Viz * appreciate the potential and limitations of Community Viz * conduct build-out analysis * perform suitability studies * add basic formulas to analysis * make use of the Community Impacts Wizard

Software used:
* ArcGIS 9.2 * Spatial Analyst * Community Viz

Workshop Registration

UNHCE Geospatial Technologies Training Center