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Now you will return to ArcGIS to map the land cover data by state.

1. Maximize ArcGIS Pro.
2. At the bottom of the right pane, click the Catalog tab.
3. In the Catalog pane, within the Tabular geodatabase, right-click the US_States feature class and select Add To Click the Insert menu and select New Map.

This creates a new map in the project in which you will map your state land cover data. You will now save this map with a different name, so as to distinguish this exercise from the last one.

1. In the Catalog pane, double-click the expand the Maps folder and .
2. Rightright-click Map2 Map1 and select Rename.
3. Select Rename and change the File name to “USLandCover”Type “US Land Cover” and press Enter.

You will now explore the state data.

1. In the Catalog pane, expand the Databases folder.
2. In the TabularData geodatabase, drag the US_States feature class into the Map view.
3. In the Contents pane, right-click the US_States layer and select Attribute Table.

Examine the attribute table for the US_States layer and notice that the field containing the state names is “NAME10”.

1. Close the attribute table the US_States table view.
2. In the Analysis tabAt the bottom of the right pane, click the Tools icon Geoprocessing tab.
3. At the top left of the Geoprocessing pane, click the Back button.
4. In the 'Find Tools' search bar In the Geoprocessing pane on the right, click within the Find Tools search bar and type "excel".
5. Click Excel to Table (Conversion Tools).
6. For the Input Excel file, click the Browse button to the right and navigate to your Tabular folder on the TabularTutorialData Desktop. Select USLandCover.xlsx and click Open.

It will take a moment for the table to load. Note that the 'Sheet' drop-down menu has appeared, and the default sheet selected is 11s0365is now populated and Sheet1 is selected by default. Because a single Excel file can have multiple worksheets and each worksheet is treated in ArcGIS as a separate table, you must always specify which specific worksheet you want to use.

1. Rename the Output Table "US_LandCover".
2. Make sure the Geoprocessing pane looks like the picture below and then click Run at the bottom right corner of the pane.
   
   
   
   
3. In the Catalog pane, double-click the Folders folder to show the TabularTutorialData folder.
4. In the Contents pane, right-click the US_LandCover standalone table and select Open.

Examine the US_LandCover table and notice that the field containing the state names is “State”.

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