ArcGIS - Desktop Perform advanced spatial analysis, model operational processes, and visualize results on professional-quality maps.

ArcView ArcView is geographic information system (GIS) software for visualizing, managing, creating, and analyzing geographic data. Using ArcView, you can understand the geographic context of your data, allowing you to see relationships and identify patterns in new ways.

With ArcView, you can:

• Author maps and interact with your data by generating reports and charts and printing and embedding your maps in other documents and applications.

• Save time using map templates to create consistent style in your maps. • Build process models, scripts, and workflows to visualize and analyze your data • Read, import, and manage more than 70 different data types and formats including

demographics, facilities, CAD drawings, imagery, Web services, multimedia, and metadata.

• Communicate more efficiently by printing, publishing, and sharing your GIS data and dynamic content with others.

• Use tools such as Find, Identify, Measure, and Hyperlink to discover information not available when working with static paper maps.

• Make better decisions and solve problems faster.

Key Features

ArcView is a desktop GIS that allows you to perform basic visualization, query, editing, and analysis of your data.

Depending on what features you need, you can choose from three license levels of ArcGIS Desktop (ArcInfo, ArcEditor, and ArcView). The ArcGIS Desktop products share the same applications (ArcMap and ArcCatalog), user interface, and development environment. Additional functionality is unlocked as users move from ArcView to ArcEditor to ArcInfo.

The key features of ArcView are:

• Map authoring – Use predefined map templates to save time and make it easy to create a consistent style in your maps.

• Spatial query – Ask questions of your data and solve complex problems by using a variety of query-building tools: interactively measure distances and areas, find features in the map, select data by location or attribute, unselect all, switch the selection, access layer properties from the Identify dialog box, and much more.

• Basic modeling and analysis – Model spatial relationships and measure how features in a dataset relate to each other in space, and generate reports and charts of your findings.

• Simple feature editing and data integration – Create and edit point, line, and polygon features and attributes within your data. Χρησιμοποιείστε μια μεγάλη συλλογή από είδη δεδομένων που περιλαμβάνουν δημογραφικά στοιχεία, εγκαταστάσεις, CAD αρχεία, εικόνες, δικτυακές εφαρμογές, και πολυμέσα.

• Ready-to-use datasets — Begin your visualization and analysis right away with the included ESRI Data & Maps Media Kit, which is updated annually and preconfigured to work specifically with ESRI software.

• Enabled for extensions — Add even more capabilities and extend the power of ArcView by using one or more of the many optional ArcGIS Desktop extensions. Analysis, productivity, and solution-based extensions allow you to perform extended tasks such as raster geoprocessing and three-dimensional analysis.

For further information you can visit ESRI's web site by clicking on the link below: ESRI - ArcGIS ArcView Desktop

ArcEditor ArcEditor is a powerful GIS desktop system for editing and managing geographic data. It includes all the functionality of ArcView along with additional advanced editing tools to ensure the quality of your data. ArcEditor supports single-user and multiuser editing, allowing you to disconnect from the database and edit in the field.

With ArcEditor, you can:

• Allow multiple users to simultaneously modify and edit data. • Build and maintain spatial relationships between features using topology rules

and a process called validation. • Support multiple workflows, manage work order processing, and implement

QA procedures for validating edits. • Monitor the database over time and evaluate what-if scenarios. • Perform raster-to-vector conversion and create data from scanned maps. • Preserve data integrity and maintain the high quality of your data by

automatically locating and fixing errors according to rules and behaviors you set for your geodatabase.

For further information you can visit ESRI's web site by clicking on the link below: ESRI - ArcGIS ArcEditor Desktop

ArcInfo ArcInfo is the most complete desktop GIS. It includes all the functionality of ArcEditor and ArcView and adds advanced spatial analysis, extensive data manipulation, and high-end cartography tools. Organizations use the power of ArcInfo every day to create, edit, and analyze their data in order to make better decisions, faster. ArcInfo is the de facto standard for GIS.

With ArcInfo, you can:

1. Perform advanced GIS data analysis and modeling. 2. Take advantage of tools designed for overlay analysis, proximity analysis,

surface analysis, and raster processing and conversion 3. Publish and convert data in many formats. 4. Create and manage personal geodatabases, multiuser geodatabases, and feature

datasets. 5. Use high-end cartography tools to generate professional-quality, publication-

ready maps. 6. Design customized symbols and place sophisticated annotation and labels on

your maps.

For further information you can visit ESRI's web site by clicking on the link below: ESRI - ArcGIS ArcInfo Desktop

ArcGIS Explorer Overview

ArcGIS Explorer is a free, downloadable GIS viewer that gives you an easy way to explore, visualize, and share GIS information. ArcGIS Explorer adds value to any GIS because it helps you deliver your authoritative data to a broad audience.

With ArcGIS Explorer, you can:

• Access ready-to-use ArcGIS Online basemaps and layers. • Fuse your local data with map services to create custom maps. • Add photos, reports, videos, and other information to your maps. • Perform spatial analysis (e.g., visibility, modeling, proximity search).

Key Features

• Easy and intuitive to use — it's easy for anyone to begin working with ArcGIS Explorer, with its intuitive and easy to use ribbon user interface that presents tools in the context of how you use them. Tools including integrated tool tips and Help.

• Choose your Basemap — The Basemap Gallery allows you to choose from a variety of ready-to-use basemaps so you can get started quickly. Select from ArcGIS Online basemaps such as World Imagery, World Streets, World Topographic Maps, or choose a Bing Map service (Aerials, Hybrid, and Roads). You can also create your own basemaps and add them to the Gallery. Toggle basemaps on the fly while maintaining your operational layers.

• Add local data such as geodatabases, shapefiles, KML/KMZ, GPX, and raster formats (JPEG 2000, GeoTIFF, MrSID). You can also add layer files and packages created using ArcGIS Desktop, or add locations from your spreadsheets.

• Access a wide variety of mapping services from ArcGIS Server; ArcIMS; and Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) WMS, and GeoRSS feeds.

• Integrate a wide variety of content such as photos, videos, documents, and more and place them in a geographic context.

• Integrated 2D and 3D Display — Switch display modes with a single click. View maps and globes in any projection or coordinate system.

• Extend ArcGIS Explorer using Add-Ins and the Analysis Gallery. Extend the core capabilities using geoprocessing tools and models published using ArcGIS Server, or connect to a wide variety of other available services.

• E-mail your maps and layers directly from the application. • Communicate geographically using Presentations — A unique and powerful feature

of ArcGIS Explorer, presentations allow you communicate geographically using live data and and services. Answer geographic questions and share the answers with others.

• Customize ArcGIS Explorer using centrally managed application configurations with no programming required. Control functionality and add your own tools, and customize the look and feel of ArcGIS Explorer to meet the needs of specific users or workflows in your organization. You can also use the free, downloadable software development kit (SDK) to create new add-ins.

• Fully localized — ArcGIS Explorer is fully localized, including all user interface elements and Help. Choose from English, French, Japanese, Chinese, German, or Spanish.

For further information you can visit ESRI's web site by clicking on the link below: ESRI - ArcGIS Explorer Viewer

ArcReader ArcReader is a free, easy-to-use desktop mapping application that allows users to view, explore, and print maps and globes. Anyone with ArcReader can view high-quality interactive maps authored by a high-level ArcGIS Desktop product and published with the ArcGIS Publisher extension.

With ArcReader, you can:

• View, navigate, and print published ArcGIS maps using ArcReader (.pmf files).

• Deploy your GIS data to novices and professionals alike. • Zoom, pan, and switch between map and page layout views. • Communicate more efficiently with the ability to graphically mark up maps. • Print published map and globe documents including all layer symbology and

cartographic map elements on any supported printer.

• Create custom ArcReader applications and embed ArcReader capabilities into existing applications.

For further information you can visit ESRI's web site by clicking on the link below: ESRI - ArcReader Viewer

ArcGIS Extensions Extension products let you add more capabilities to ArcGIS Desktop. These specialized tools allow you to perform extended tasks such as raster geoprocessing, three-dimensional analysis, and map publishing.

For further information you can visit ESRI's web site by clicking on the link below: ESRI - Desktop Extensions

ArcGIS 3D Analyst ArcGIS 3D Analyst is an extension to ArcGIS Desktop that allows you to effectively visualize and analyze surface data. Using ArcGIS 3D Analyst, you can view a surface from multiple viewpoints, query a surface, determine what is visible from a chosen location on a surface, create a realistic perspective image that drapes raster and vector data over a surface, and record or perform three-dimensional navigation.

With ArcGIS 3D Analyst, you can:

• Create three-dimensional views directly using your GIS data.

• Analyze three-dimensional data using cut/fill, line-of-sight, and terrain modeling.

• View your data from a global-to-local perspective.

• Navigate through multiresolution terrain data seamlessly.

• Do spatial analysis in two or three dimensions. • Visualize modeling or analysis results in three dimensions. • Use three-dimensional models and symbols for realism. • Export your visualizations into videos.

For further information you can visit ESRI's web site by clicking on the link below: ESRI - ArcGIS 3D Analyst Extension

ArcGIS Geostatistical Analyst OVERVIEW

ArcGIS Geostatistical Analyst is an extension to ArcGIS Desktop that provides a powerful suite of tools for spatial data exploration and surface generation. It effectively bridges the gap between geostatistics and GIS analysis by enabling you to model spatial phenomena, assess risk, and accurately predict values within your study area.

With ArcGIS Geostatistical Analyst, you can create surfaces from data measurements taken over areas where collecting information for every location would be impossible or cost prohibitive.

You can fully examine sample data, evaluate uncertainties, generate unique insights, and create customized interpolation surfaces for more informed decision making.

With ArcGIS Geostatistical Analyst you can :

• Visualize, model, and predict spatial relationships.. • Link data, graphs, and maps dynamically. • Perform deterministic and geostatistical interpolation. • Evaluate models and predictions probabilistically to assess risks.

ArcGIS Geostatistical Analyst helps you cost-effectively probe real-world issues in:

• Atmospheric data analysis • Petroleum and mining exploration • Environmental analysis • Precision agriculture • Fish and wildlife studies

KEY FEATURE

Explore your data using the following exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) tools:

EXPLORE

• Histogram and summary statistics • Normal quantile–quantile plot • Trend analysis • Semivariogram/Covariance cloud and map • Voronoi map • Cross-covariance cloud and map

MODEL

Create precise predictions with multivariate statistical methods. Where data is incomplete or subject to error, ArcGIS Geostatistical Analyst provides a probabilistic framework for quantifying uncertainties.

• Interpolation:

Create surfaces from sample data using these interpolation methods:

o IDW (Inverse Distance Weighted) o Radial-based functions, which include the following kernels :

Thin plate spline

Spline with tension

Multiquadratic

Inverse multiquadratic

o Global and local polynomials Completely regularized spline kernels

o Kriging for exact data and for error-contaminated data Ordinary,

for data with unknown constant mean value Simple,

for data with known mean value

Universal,

for data with mean value as a function on coordinates Indicator,

for discrete data or data transformed to discrete

Probability,

for discrete data as primary variable and continuous data as secondary variables Disjunctive,

o Cokriging (multivariate version of the above-mentioned kriging models)

for nonlinear predictions

o Isotropical or anisotropical models • Kriging Output Surface Types

o Prediction o Prediction standard error (measure of the prediction quality) o Probability map (probability that specified threshold value is exceeded) o Error of indicators (measure of the probability map uncertainty) o Quantile map (over- and underpredicted values)

• Modeling Tools for Kriging o Data transformations

Box–Cox Logarithmic Arcsine Normal score

o Data detrending Global polynomial Local polynomial

o Variography Models (four can be used simultaneously)

Nugget Circular Spherical Tetraspherical Pentaspherical Exponential Gaussian Rational quadratic Hole effect

K-Bessel J-Bessel Stable

Semivariogram/Covariance surface Anisotropy Specifying or estimating the proportion of measurement error

in the nugget Cross-covariance option for shift between variables Estimation of all or part of the model parameters by a modified

weighted least squares algorithm o Declustering

Cell Polygonal

o Checking for data bivariate distribution • Searching Neighborhood

To select neighboring data to predict the value for the target point

o Ellipse with one, four, or eight angular sectors o Minimum and maximum number of points in each sector

EVALUATE

Evaluate how your models perform using the following diagnostics:

• Cross-validation for checking the model's quality • Validation for checking prediction quality • Compare cross-validation results of several models • Show predicted value at cursor (MapTips)

SIMULATE

Interpolation methods produce one value for every location. In reality, there are many, equally probable values that could occur at each unsampled location (the true value for each unsampled location is unknown). Geostatistical simulation produces multiple surfaces that mimic the real phenomenon and provide these possible values, giving a basis for risk analyses, economic decision making, and other estimations involving uncertainty, allowing analysts to make more informed decisions.

• Conditional Simulation • Unconditional Simulation • Postprocessing (clipping, summary statistics for cells and for polygonal areas

of interest)

REFINE Renderers

• Contours (isolines) • Filled contours • Regular grid (All models allow data averaging in each cell; block

interpolation.)

• Hillshading • Combination of several options above

Export Results of Predictions to:

• Contour lines • Polygons • Raster • Specified point locations • Geostatistical layer that stores the model parameters for the renderers used

For further information you can visit ESRI's web site by clicking on the link below: ESRI - ArcGIS Geostatistical Analyst Extension

ArcGIS Network Analyst

ArcGIS Network Analyst is an extension to ArcGIS Desktop that helps you conduct network-based spatial analysis. WithArcGIS Network Analyst, you can create applications that build multimodal routes, provide travel directions, look for closest facilities, and create service areas and origin-destination cost matrices.

OVERVIEW

ArcGIS Network Analyst helps you dynamically model realistic network conditions and solve vehicle routing problems that include turn restrictions, speed limits, height restrictions, and traffic conditions at different times of the day.

With ArcGIS Network Analyst, you can conduct:

• Drive-time analysis • Point-to-point routing • Fleet routing • Route directions • Service area definition • Shortest path analysis • Optimum route analysis • Closest facility analysis • Origin-destination analysis

1. Routing

KEY FEATURE

o Multipoint routing o Time windows supported on stops o Traveling salesperson

2. Vehicle Routing Problem o Time windows o Driver breaks and specialties

o Vehicle capacities and order quantitiesν 3. Service Areas

o Complex polygon generation o Allocation across networks

4. Closest Facilities o Fixed and mobile asset routing o Emergency response

5. OD Cost Matrix o Travel time matrix o Maximum destination and distance cutoffs

6. Driving Directions o Expandable inset maps o Auto-generation capability

7. Dynamic Models Realistic Network Conditions

ArcGIS Network Analyst uses an advanced Network Data Model that allows the use of realistic datasets encompassing multiple attributes such as cost, restriction, and hierarchy. You can define various cost attributes, such as distance, time, and visibility, according to their analysis requirements.

8. Multimodal Network Support

Multimodal network support incorporates an advanced connectivity model that can represent complex scenarios such as multimodal transportation networks.

For further information you can visit ESRI's web site by clicking on the link below: ESRI - ArcGIS Network Analyst Extension

ArcGIS Schematics

ArcGIS Schematics is an extension to ArcGIS Desktop that allows rapid checking of network connectivity. It lets you quickly understand network architecture and shortens the decision-making cycle by presenting synthetic and focused views of the network.

OVERVIEW

ArcGIS Schematics gives organizations a demonstrable return on investment in diagram generation (automatic generation versus computer-aided design).

With ArcGIS Schematics, you can :

• Automatically generate schematics from complex networks. • Check network connectivity. • Perform quality control of network data. • Optimize network design and analysis. • Evaluate network forecast and planning (modeling, simulation, comparative

analysis).

• Dynamically interact with GIS through a schematic view. • Perform commercial and market analyses. • Model social networks, generate flowcharts, and manage interdependencies.

KEY FEATURE Automatic Diagram Generation

ArcGIS Schematics automatically generates geoschematic and pure schematic views from existing network data, thus limiting the number of operations needed to build architecture and maintain network data updates. ArcGIS Schematics provides greater return on investment by saving you time and money.

Multirepresentation

ArcGIS Schematics allows you to see the same set of network features in different graphic representations: geographic, geoschematic, and schematic. Multiple schematics, such as logical and physical displays, provide a better understanding of how a network is organized and help accelerate decision-making cycles.

Dynamic Interaction with GIS

ArcGIS Schematics complements GIS technology in the design, construction, and management of networks because it emphasizes the location in the geographic space. Diagrams are displayed as a layer in ArcMap to simplify the user interface and the printing of diagrams.

Data-Driven Solution

As a data-driven solution, ArcGIS Schematics provides high-quality, reliable results and up-to-date representations of the network for any industry. Regardless of the data model, the symbology is driven by attributes in the geodatabase, preventing discrepancies between the schematic and the database and eliminating the need for a redundant database. All information is stored and managed in a geodatabase for ease of integration, editing, and multiple-user access.

Customized Algorithms

The layout algorithms of ArcGIS Schematics allow the representation of any type of network or diagram including outside and inside plant diagrams. These algorithms can be configured and customized to fit industry needs, company standards, and specific departmental needs within companies. Algorithms may also be created from scratch using a COM-compliant programming language.

Multiple Data Source Access

Users can manage both spatial and nonspatial data with ArcGIS Schematics and interact with a geodatabase and other network-related databases within a single

session. Integration of corporate-wide data provides the means to effectively manage network assets.

For further information you can visit ESRI's web site by clicking on the link below: ESRI - ArcGIS Schematics Extension

ArcGIS Spatial Analyst ArcGIS Spatial Analyst is an extension to ArcGIS Desktop that provides powerful tools for comprehensive, raster-based spatial modeling and analysis. Using ArcGIS Spatial Analyst, you can derive new information from your existing data, analyze spatial relationships, build spatial models, and perform complex raster operations. Self-documenting models make it easy for others to understand the spatial analysis process applied, examine what-if scenarios, and compare results.

With ArcGIS Spatial Analyst tools, you can:

• Suitability Modeling

• Hydrologic Analysis

• Map Algebra

• Surface Analysis • Distance Analysis • Solar Analysis • Statistical Analysis • Scripting and Customization • Graphic Modeling • Raster Generalization

• Density Analysis

For further information you can visit ESRI's web site by clicking on the link below: ESRI - ArcGIS Spatial Analyst Extension

ArcGIS Tracking Analyst

ArcGIS Tracking Analyst is an extension to ArcGIS Desktop that enables you to create time series visualizations so you can analyze information relative to time and location. Out of a collection of specified random data, ArcGIS Tracking Analyst creates a visible path, or track, showing movement through space and time of the phenomena you're analyzing. You'll be able to view complex time series and spatial patterns in an integrated ArcGIS system.

OVERVIEW

With ArcGIS Survey Analyst, you can:

• Visualize change over time. • Symbolize the age of data by color, size, or shape. • Group and symbolize data by entity or track. • Interactively play back time-based data. • Analyze historical or real-time data. • Create animation files for AVI output.

When ArcGIS Tracking Analyst is used in conjunction with Tracking Server, you can track changes in your data as they happen. You can subscribe to real-time data over the Internet from GPS and custom data feeds to support

• Fleet management and vehicle tracking • Sensor network monitoring

• Emergency response • Resource management

ArcGIS Tracking Analyst extends ArcGIS to receive, display, and analyze time series data using objects and tools designed to manage both real-time and historical data.

KEY FEATURE

• Real-Time Data Visualization gives you the capability to display dynamic, real-time data.

• Temporal Symbology gives you tools to customize how time events are visually rendered to enhance communication value.

• With the Playback Manager toolbar, you can replay events at different speeds. • Actions provide a way for you to process and select filters for time-based data. • Charting gives you the option to view data in different graphic forms.

For further information you can visit ESRI's web site by clicking on the link below: ESRI - ArcGIS Tracking Analyst Extension

ArcGIS Data Interoperability

ArcGIS Data Interoperability is an extension to ArcGIS Desktop that enables you to easily use and distribute data in many formats. Take advantage of the spatial extract, transform, and load (ETL) capabilities to eliminate barriers to data sharing and provide accurate spatial data to your users.

OVERVIEW

ArcGIS Data Interoperability, you can:

• Read more than 100 spatial data formats including GML, XML, WFS, Autodesk DWG/DXF, MicroStation Design, MapInfo MID/MIF and TAB, Oracle and Oracle Spatial, and Intergraph GeoMedia Warehouse.

• Share data with anyone by exporting to more than 70 spatial data formats. • Build complex spatial ETL processes using FME Workbench, a semantic data

translation engine with more than 240 specialized transformers for data transformation, migration, validation, and distribution.

• Incorporate these formats and ETL processes in the geoprocessing framework using tools, ModelBuilder, and scripts.

The ArcGIS Data Interoperability extension enables ArcGIS Desktop users to easily use data in many formats.

KEY FEATURE

Key features of ArcGIS Data Interoperability include:

1. Extensive Data Support: Adds additional format support for more than 110 GIS, CAD, BIM/3D, and database formats for reading and writing.

o Direct Read: The ability to directly read and use this format in ArcGIS for visualization, mapping, and analysis

o Data Import: The ability to import data from this format into a personal or file geodatabase using the Quick Import tool or a custom Spatial ETL tool.

o Data Export: The ability to export data to this format using the Quick Export tool or a custom Spatial ETL tool

2. Data Translation: Quick Import and Quick Export tools allow automated data translation between formats.

Quick Import Tool

o This tool enables you to convert input data formats to a personal or file geodatabase. Use this tool in a model to convert your data to a personal or file geodatabase for further data processing and editing features.

o This tool can be run stand alone or as part of a geoprocessing model, script-to-script tool.

o This tool uses a default mapping file to perform the translation.

Quick Export Tool

o This tool enables you to convert data between formats. o This tool can be run stand alone or as part of a geoprocessing model,

script-to-script tool. o This tool uses a default mapping file to perform the translation.

3. Data Transformation/Spatial ETL:

ETL allows you to:

Use the Workbench application, an integrated semantic translation engine, to create custom format definitions and data transformation tools that easily support your complex data models.

o Extract the spatial data from a source system. o Transform the data into the format and data model required by the

target system. o Load the data into the target system.

Spatial ETL means you can extract, transform, and load spatial data. Spatial ETL is often referred to as data transformation or semantic data translation. A data transformation enables you to control the data flow by mapping geometry and attributes in the source data to geometry and attributes in the destination. This process may include a change in coordinate system, spatial feature types, or the attribute schema. This preserves the data integrity while making it accessible to end users.

4. Geoprocessing Framework:

Formats supported by the ArcGIS Data Interoperability extension can be used as inputs for the geoprocessing tools. The output from core geoprocessing operations will be standard ESRI formats. The ArcGIS Data Interoperability extension also adds a new Data Interoperability Tools toolbox to ArcGIS Desktop that contains two new conversion tools—Quick Import and Quick Export—for simple automated conversions. The ArcGIS Data Interoperability extension also provides the ability to create Spatial ETL tools. You can combine all this functionality within a single geoprocessing model. For example, the model below shows the use of a non-ESRI data format, MapInfo, as the input to the Buffer core geoprocessing tool. The resultant dataset is then exported to three different formats using the Data Interoperability Quick Export tool. This model demonstrates how you can read data and distribute analysis results in non-ESRI formats.

For further information you can visit ESRI's web site by clicking on the link below: ESRI - ArcGIS Data Interoperability Extension

ArcGIS Publisher

ArcGIS Publisher is an extension to the ArcGIS Desktop products (ArcInfo, ArcEditor, and ArcView) that lets you easily distribute and share your geographic information system (GIS) maps and data with anyone. Use it to create Published Map Files (PMFs) that can be viewed, explored, or printed by anyone with the free ArcReader application.

OVERVIEW

With ArcGIS Publisher, you can:

• Easily provide interactive maps to your clients. • Protect your maps, including cartography and data, from inappropriate use. • Control how your published maps are used and who uses them. • ΔCreate rich interactive maps that meet your clients' needs. • Provide efficient and controlled access to your enterprise GIS data. • Easily package the required data and maps for distribution. • Build custom map viewers for your maps.

The ArcGIS Publisher extension appeals to a wide range of clients including

• Organizations that need to distribute maps within their companies/institutions. • Data providers that want to distribute preauthored maps with their data. • Government agencies that need to distribute data and maps to the public. • GIS programmers who want to build custom map viewers.

These are just a few of the ways ArcGIS Publisher can help organizations drastically increase access to geographic data without the deployment cost of fully featured desktop GIS.

KEY FEATURE

• Publishing – Creates a published map file for use with the free ArcReader application.

• Packaging – Creates a redistributable bundle of your maps and data for use with ArcReader:

o ESRI Shapefile o Personal Geodatabase o Compressed and Locked o ERDAS IMAGINE

• Customizing ArcReader - Includes the ArcReader developer control; allows developers to create custom ArcReader applications.

For further information you can visit ESRI's web site by clicking on the link below: ESRI - ArcGIS Publisher Extension

ArcScan for ArcGIS OVERVIEW

Significantly minimize your postprocessing work by using the automatic vectorization capabilities within ArcScan for ArcGIS to create vector features from the entire image or by interactively vectorizing selected areas.

ArcScan for ArcGIS is an extension to ArcGIS Desktop that provides a comprehensive and easy-to-use set of tools for raster-to-vector conversion.

With ArcScan, you can :

• Automate the conversion of scanned paper maps to vector form. • Reduce the time and expense of creating GIS data. • Create shapefile or geodatabase line and polygon features directly from raster

images. • Eliminate the need to tediously digitize data by hand. • Easily clean up scanned maps and prepare images for vectorization with

simple raster editing. • Government agencies and counties with parcel or town planning maps. • Utilities that map water, gas, and electrical facilities . • Natural resources agencies that create forestry or agricultural stands, soils,

geology, and hydrology maps.

Automatic Vectorization: quickly traces and vectorizes features from scanned images.

KEY FEATURE

Interactive Vectorization:is useful when you need to have more control over the vectorization process or need to vectorize a small portion of an image.

Raster Processing: provides raster selection and raster cleanup tools to help you manipulate raster data.

For further information you can visit ESRI's web site by clicking on the link below: ESRI - ArcScan Extension

Maplex for ArcGIS Maplex for ArcGIS is an automated high-quality cartographic text placement and labeling extension for ArcGIS Desktop that minimizes the need for manual editing. Maplex for ArcGIS gives you greater control over how labels are placed in relation to map features and other labels. This not only improves map quality but also reduces time spent editing and manipulating text.

With Maplex for ArcGIS, you can:

• Create labels and symbols for your map features. • Drastically reduce the time it takes to place labels exactly where you want

them. • Create high-quality maps with text for digital or print distribution. • Share quality text placement by saving Maplex labels to a map document or

geodatabase annotation.

With the intuitive user interface and rule-based label engine, Maplex for ArcGIS gives you greater control over how labels are placed in relation to features and how

they interact with other labels on the map. And as content in your geodatabase changes, maps created with Maplex for ArcGIS will adjust to find the best placement for the new text.

For further information you can visit ESRI's web site by clicking on the link below: ESRI - Maplex Extension

ArcGIS Workflow Manager (Job Tracking - JTX) for ArcGIS ArcGIS Workflow Manager (JTX) provides advanced job tracking and workflow management tools to help your organization save time and money. ArcGIS Workflow Manager (JTX) is available as an extension to both ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Server.

ArcGIS Workflow Manager (JTX) benefits data maintenance managers and engineers, GIS technicians, mapping engineers, and QA/QC analysts with up-to-date information from project inception to quality control and deployment.

With ArcGIS Workflow Manager (JTX), you can

• Organize, standardize, and streamline project workflows. • Improve user productivity by automating multiuser tasks and reducing

repetitive setup procedures. • Save time by completing enterprise GIS tasks while tracking staffing, time

schedules, and more. • Easily create and assign work to appropriate resources. • Simplify creation, management, and tracking of geodatabase versions and

simultaneous editing. • Centralize, update, access, and maintain consistency for all job-related

information across your organization. • Maintain and track feature edit transactions after each job has been completed. • Easily manage and distribute work for geographically dispersed workforces. • Seamlessly integrate your GIS and other business applications. • Access the capabilities of ArcGIS Workflow Manager (JTX) through an

easy-to-use Web application on the desktop or in the field (server version only).

Create jobs and execute workflows with the ArcGIS Workflow Manager (JTX) client application for the desktop.

Associate a geographic area with your jobs.

Receive automatic e-mail notifications when changes are made to your spatial data.

For further information you can visit ESRI's web site by clicking on the link below: ESRI - ArcGIS Workflow Manager (JTX) Extension