An overview of the Surface tools |
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Release 9.3
Last modified September 7, 2011 |
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Tool | Description | ArcToolbox | Map Algebra | ArcObjects |
Aspect | Identifies the direction of maximum rate of change in z-value from each cell. | X | X | X |
Contour | Creates a line featureclass of contours (isolines) from a surface raster. | X | X | X |
Contour List | Creates a line featureclass of selected contour values from a surface raster. | X |
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Contour with Barriers | Creates a line feature class of contours (isolines) from a raster surface, and allows the inclusion of barrier features. | X |
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ContourAsPolyline | Creates a polyline of the contour (isoline) that passes through a specified location. The contour is derived from an input surface raster. |
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ContoursAsPolylines | Creates a GeometryCollection of contours (isolines) that pass through specified locations. The contours are derived from an input surface raster. |
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Curvature | Calculates the curvature of a surface at each cell center. | X | X | X |
Cut/Fill | Calculates the volume change between two surfaces. | X |
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Hillshade | Creates a shaded relief raster from a surface raster by considering the illumination angle and shadows. | X | X | X |
Observer Points | Identifies which observer points are visible from each raster surface location. | X |
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Slope | Identifies the rate of maximum change in z-value from each cell. | X | X | X |
Viewshed | Determines the raster surface locations visible to a set of observer features. | X |
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Visibility | Performs visibility analysis on a raster surface by determining how many observation points can be seen from each cell location of the input raster or which cell locations can be seen by each observation point. |
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