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Welcome to ArcGIS Desktop Help
Copyright information
Acknowledgements
GIS Dictionary
What's new in ArcGIS
What's new in ArcGIS 9.3
What's new in ArcGIS 9.3.1
Migration guides
Getting started
Fundamentals of GIS
Three views of GIS
How maps convey geographic information
Georeferencing and coordinate systems
Elements of geographic information
How GIS represents and organizes geographic information
How ArcGIS users work with geographic information
Users work with many data types and data formats in ArcGIS
Comparing Geoprocessing and Spatial Analysis
Introducing ArcGIS Desktop
Tutorials
Toolbars
Getting more help
Map projections and coordinate systems
Mapping and visualization
Editing and data compilation
Tables and attribute information
Geoprocessing
Geoprocessing tool reference
Geodatabases and ArcSDE
An overview of the geodatabase
Architecture of a geodatabase
Designing a geodatabase
Building a geodatabase
Data management workflows, transactions, and versioning
Geodatabase data storage and schema
A short history lesson on simple features
How geodatabases are stored in a DBMS
Feature geometry and raster data storage
Inside a geodatabase in DB2
Inside a geodatabase in Informix
Inside a geodatabase in Oracle
Inside a geodatabase in PostgreSQL
Inside a geodatabase in SQL Server
Administering ArcSDE geodatabases
Administering File and Personal geodatabases
Working with geodatabases using SQL
Data management with ArcCatalog
An overview of ArcCatalog
About workspaces
Getting started with ArcCatalog
Building the Catalog
Managing the Catalog's contents
Exploring an item's geography
Searching for items
Working with metadata
About metadata
Metadata standards and the ArcGIS metadata format
ArcGIS support for the ISO 19139 metadata standard
Exploring an item's metadata
Changing the default stylesheet
Printing metadata
Creating and updating metadata
Metadata synchronization
Writing metadata documentation
Importing and exporting metadata with ArcCatalog
Importing and exporting metadata
Editing metadata
Using the FGDC metadata editor
Using the ISO metadata editor
Managing enclosures
Requirements for publishing metadata to an ArcIMS Metadata Service
Adding information required by the ArcIMS Metadata Service
Publishing metadata to an ArcIMS Metadata Service
Managing published metadata documents
Changing a published document's properties
Adding custom places to a Gazetteer Metadata Service
Customizing metadata
Image and raster data management
Understanding raster data
Supported raster data
Supported raster dataset file formats
Technical specifications for raster dataset formats
About the ESRI Grid format
About MrSID rasters
BIL, BIP, and BSQ raster files
Raster data with subdatasets
Building a customized raster format
Properties of raster data
About raster dataset properties
Raster pyramids
Raster dataset statistics
Raster compression
About reduced resolution dataset files
About auxiliary files
About proxy files
Defining a raster's coordinate system
Raster dataset colormaps
Bit depth capacity for raster dataset cells
NoData in raster datasets
World files for raster datasets
Designing a raster database
Building and managing a raster database
Raster display and visualization
Raster analysis and geoprocessing
Serving raster data
Data support in ArcGIS
Extensions
Geocoding and address management
Linear referencing
Network analysis
Mobile GIS
An overview of Mobile GIS
ArcGIS Mobile integration
GPS
Tablet PC
ArcPad integration
Interoperability and standards support
Customizing and developing with ArcGIS
Guide to data that comes with ArcGIS
Licensing and desktop administration
GIS Servers and services