ArcGIS Extensions

ArcGIS Business Analyst
Map Your Way to Better Business Decisions

Understanding the geography of business and markets is crucial for creating competitive advantages, marketing with results, and making strategic decisions. ArcGIS Business Analyst is the premier suite of tools for unlocking the intelligence of geography, demographics, consumer lifestyle, and business data, making it a valuable asset for business decision making such as analyzing market share and competition, determining new site expansions and reductions, or targeting ideal new customers.

ArcGIS Spatial Analyst

ArcGIS Spatial Analyst provides a broad range of powerful spatial modeling and analysis features. With it you can:

• reate, query, map, and analyze cell-based raster data.
• Perform integrated raster/vector analysis.
• Derive new information from existing data.
• Query information across multiple data layers.
• Fully integrate cell-based raster data with traditional vector data sources.

ArcGIS Spatial Analyst is integrated into the ArcGIS Desktop interactive mapping environment. This allows you to perform spatial analytical tasks such as:

• Surface analysis
• Terrain analysis
• Map algebra

ArcGIS Spatial Analyst provides you with the tools you need to support a broad range of spatial modeling and application requirements.

ArcGIS 3D Analyst

ArcGIS 3D Analyst enables users to effectively visualize and analyze surface data. Using 3D Analyst, you can view a surface from multiple viewpoints, query a surface, determine what is visible from a chosen location on a surface, and create a realistic perspective image draping raster and vector data over a surface.

The core of the 3D Analyst extension is the ArcScene application. ArcScene provides the interface for viewing multiple layers of three-dimensional data and for creating and analyzing surfaces.

ArcGIS 3D Analyst provides a suite of methods for interactive perspective viewing and advanced tools for three-dimensional modeling and analysis applications.

ArcGIS 3D Analyst is integrated into the ArcGIS Desktop to allow you to create dynamic and interactive maps that will elevate your geographic visualization and analysis.

ArcGIS Geostatistical Analyst

ArcGIS Geostatistical Analyst is an ArcGIS extension that provides a powerful suite of tools for spatial data exploration and optimal surface generation using sophisticated methods. Geostatistical Analyst allows users to create a surface from data measurements occurring over an area where collecting information for every possible location would be impractical. From improving estimation of temperature values, assessing environmental risks, or predicting the existence of any geophysical element, ArcGIS Geostatistical Analyst gives anyone with spatial data the freedom to investigate, visualize, and create optimal surfaces. Geostatistical Analyst enables users to take advantage of these tools and techniques in a friendly and dynamic user interface.

ArcGIS Survey Analyst

ArcGIS Survey Analyst is an extension to the ArcGIS family of desktop products that allows you to manage survey data in a geodatabase and display survey measurements and observations on a map.

Because measurements are stored in a GIS database, survey computations and adjustments can be performed on these measurements to determine GIS coordinates (of survey points), and GIS features can be linked and snapped to the surveyed points in the survey layer. In addition, new GIS features can be added to existing GIS feature layers using the survey-computed locations.

ArcGIS Tracking Analyst

The ArcGIS Tracking Analyst extension is a sophisticated visualization and analysis tool for simple or complex applications.

ArcGIS Tracking Analyst adds tools and functionality to the ArcMap and ArcCatalog environments within the ArcGIS suite. It can be combined with other ArcGIS extensions to create powerful applications for transportation, emergency response, military, and a host of other areas.

The extension allows users to view and analyze existing temporal data, which can be set up with future time windows (for mission planning) or past time windows (for historical data analysis). Core ArcGIS Tracking Analyst functionality includes the following:

• Display point and track data (real time and fixed time)
• Symbolize time by color (show the aging of data)
• Interactive playback manager
• Actions (based on attribute or spatial queries)
• Highlight
• Suppression
• Custom
• Support for lines and polygons
• Temporal histogram in playback
• Additional temporal symbology renderers (shape and size)
• Layer-based time windows to manage many temporal layers
• Temporal offset for comparisons of temporal events
• Creation of animation files
• Data clock for additional analysis
• Support for military symbology (via Military Overlay Editor [MOLE], which is a new symbol generator and editor for military applications)
• ...and much more!

ArcGIS Military Analyst

The ArcGIS Military Analyst extension incorporates a suite of tools tailored to meet the special needs of the defense user and significantly enhances the effectiveness of core ArcGIS as a tool set foundation for the military planner and intelligence analyst. ArcGIS Military Analyst maximizes the use of the standard suite of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) data products by allowing direct use and rendering of NIMA’s vector and raster products, line-of-sight (LOS) assessments, Military Grid Reference System (MGRS) conversion, and Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED) analysis. ArcGIS Military Analyst also includes the Military Overlay Editor (MOLE), which supports MIL-STD 2525B and custom war fighting symbologies.

ArcGIS Publisher

ArcGIS Publisher is an extension to ArcView, ArcEditor, and ArcInfo that converts map documents (MXD) to published map files (PMF).

Published map files (PMF) contain instructions about the location and symbology of data layers (rendering rules, scale dependencies, etc.) including geodatabase connectivity, Internet connections, and Geography Network layers.

Published map files are viewable through ArcReader, a free downloadable product from ESRI. ArcGIS Publisher allows GIS users and data suppliers to easily publish and share electronic maps locally, over networks, or via the Internet.

ArcGIS StreetMap USA

ArcGIS StreetMap USA provides nationwide address matching and streetmap display for the entire United States. StreetMap layers automatically manage, label, and draw features such as local landmarks, streets, parks, water bodies, and other features. StreetMap can find nearly any address in the USA by interactively matching a single address or by batch matching from a file of addresses.ArcGIS StreetMap features:

• Address matching
• Street database
• Landmark database
• StreetMap theme that displays streets and landmark features
• Exports selected StreetMap features
• Creates points from addresses in a file

Supported Geocoding Functions*:

• Geocodes and finds a single address
• Geocodes addresses from tabular data files
• Rematches and reviews addresses with an interactive review dialog box
• Allows street intersection matching
• Allows place name alias matching
• Provides alternate names in reference data matching
• Allows automatic updates of the geocoded result when records in the address table are modified with the editing tool
• Controls geocoding preferences such as point distance offset, end offset, spelling sensitivity, minimum match score, multiple street intersection connectors, and automatic matching if candidates tie in score

ArcScan for ArcGIS

ArcScan for ArcGIS is the raster-to-vector conversion extension to ArcInfo, ArcEditor, and ArcView.

ArcScan for ArcGIS provides a powerful and easy-to-use set of tools for raster-to-vector conversion. This extension lets you create vector features and also provides batch vectorization capabilities to create vector features from a selected area or the entire image.

ArcScan is fully integrated with the editing environment in ArcMap and provides simple raster editing tools to erase or fill in areas of the raster prior to performing batch conversion to increase efficiency and minimize postprocessing.

ArcScan for ArcGIS allows you to take raster images and convert them into vector-based feature layers such as shapefiles and geodatabase feature classes.