{"id":68561,"date":"2015-07-16T17:59:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T17:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/new-learn-arcgis-lesson-get-started-with-arcmap\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T21:06:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T21:06:06","slug":"new-learn-arcgis-lesson-get-started-with-arcmap","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/data-management\/data-management\/new-learn-arcgis-lesson-get-started-with-arcmap","title":{"rendered":"New Learn ArcGIS Lesson: Get Started with ArcMap"},"author":6611,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23851],"tags":[27611,27341,27621,27631],"industry":[],"product":[36991],"class_list":["post-68561","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-management","tag-amazon","tag-analyze","tag-digitizing","tag-roads","product-arcgis-desktop"],"acf":{"short_description":"By Kyle Bauer, Learn ArcGIS Team\n\nOne of the most deforested regions in the Amazon rainforest is Rondonia, Brazil. The construction of ro...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p><strong>By Kyle Bauer, Learn ArcGIS Team<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2015\/07\/get-started-with-arcmap1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2015\/07\/get-started-with-arcmap1.png\" alt=\"Get Started with ArcMap\" width=\"200\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a>One of the most deforested regions in the Amazon rainforest is Rondonia, Brazil. The construction of roads has increased deforestation since the 1960s. In 2011, a Brazilian judge prohibited the construction of a road that would have traveled through a large stretch of protected land in Rondonia, with the goal of preventing more deforestation in the rainforest.<\/p>\n<p>In the new <a title=\"Get Started with ArcMap\" href=\"http:\/\/learn.arcgis.com\/en\/projects\/get-started-with-arcmap\/\" target=\"_blank\">Get Started with ArcMap<\/a> lesson on the <a title=\"Learn ArcGIS\" href=\"http:\/\/learn.arcgis.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Learn ArcGIS<\/a> website, you\u2019ll learn to use ArcMap to estimate how much deforestation was prevented by prohibiting the proposed road. You\u2019ll compare roads and deforestation within the study area to determine the pattern of existing deforestation. Then, you\u2019ll digitize a road in the protected area to see what the pattern would have been there. 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