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Now you will return to ArcGIS to map the land cover data by state.
- Maximize ArcGIS Pro.
- At the bottom of the right pane, click the Catalog tab.
- 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.
- In the Catalog pane, double-click the expand the Maps folder and .
- Rightright-click Map2 Map1 and select Rename.
- Select Rename and change the File name to “USLandCover”Type “US Land Cover” and press Enter.
You will now explore the state data.
- In the Catalog pane, expand the Databases folder.
- In the TabularData geodatabase, drag the US_States feature class into the Map view.
- 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”.
- Close the attribute table the US_States table view.
- In the Analysis tabAt the bottom of the right pane, click the Tools icon Geoprocessing tab.
- At the top left of the Geoprocessing pane, click the Back button.
- In the 'Find Tools' search bar In the Geoprocessing pane on the right, click within the Find Tools search bar and type "excel".
- Click Excel to Table (Conversion Tools).
- 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.
- Rename the Output Table "US_LandCover".
- Make sure the Geoprocessing pane looks like the picture below and then click Run at the bottom right corner of the pane.
- In the Catalog pane, double-click the Folders folder to show the TabularTutorialData folder.
- 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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