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About customizing the user interface Basic user interface elements Saving your customizations Hiding and showing toolbars Creating custom toolbars Changing a toolbar's or menu's contents Changing a command's appearance Creating shortcut keys Setting toolbar options Creating, editing, and running macros Creating custom commands with VBA and UIControls Adding custom commands and toolbars from .dlls Updating the ArcID module Locking customization, documents, and templates Changing VBA security Sample VBA code Customize commands available in ArcMap Customize commands available in ArcCatalog

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3D Analyst ArcScan Getting started with ArcScan An overview of ArcScan How ArcScan works in the editing environment Enabling the ArcScan extension Adding the ArcScan toolbar Changing the raster layer symbology Selecting the target raster layer Raster tracing Batch vectorization About batch vectorization Applying the vectorization settings for batch vectorization Previewing the vectorization Generating features Cell selection About cell selection Interactively selecting connected cells Selecting connected cells using an expression query Using additional cell selection tools and commands Raster cleanup Vectorization options and settings About vectorization settings Setting the vectorization options Using the Raster Line Width tool ArcGIS Data Interoperability extension ArcGIS Data Interoperability extension Business Analyst Geostatistical Analyst Getting started with Geostatistical Analyst The principles of Geostatistical Analyst Overview of the interpolation techniques implemented in Geostatistical Analyst Understanding deterministic methods Analyzing the surface properties of nearby locations Visualizing polynomial interpolation Visualizing Radial Basis Functions Random processes with dependence Geostatistical solutions Searching neighborhood Kriging in Geostatistical Analyst Creating the empirical semivariogram Binning the empirical semivariogram Empirical semivariograms for different directions Choosing the lag size Modeling a semivariogram Understanding a semivariogram: the range, sill, and nugget Fitting a model to the empirical semivariogram Accounting for directional influences Combining semivariogram models Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA) Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA) What is Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA)? Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA) Tools About examining the distribution of the data Histogram Using the Histogram tool to examine distributions Normal QQ plot and general QQ plot Understanding distributions with the QQ Plot Examining the distribution of your data Voronoi maps About examining spatial autocorrelation and directional variation Semivariogram/Covariance cloud Looking for global and local outliers Identifying global and local outliers Examining spatial structure and directional variation Trend analysis Examining the global trend through trend analysis Looking for global trends Modeling global trends Crosscovariance cloud Covariation among multiple datasets Examining the covariation among multiple datasets Deterministic methods Deterministic methods for spatial interpolation How Inverse Distance Weighted (IDW) interpolation works Creating a map using IDW How Global Polynomial interpolation works Creating a map using Global Polynomial interpolation How Local Polynomial interpolation works Creating a map using Local Polynomial interpolation How Radial Basis Functions (RBF) work Creating a map using Radial Basis Functions Creating a surface with geostatistical techniques What are geostatistical interpolation techniques? Understanding different kriging models Creating a surface with geostatistical techniques Creating a Kriging map using defaults Understanding Ordinary Kriging Understanding Simple Kriging Understanding Universal Kriging Understanding output surface types Understanding transformations and trends Creating a map using Ordinary Kriging Creating a map using Simple Kriging Creating a map using Universal Kriging Understanding thresholds Understanding Indicator Kriging Understanding Probability Kriging Creating a map using Indicator Kriging Creating a map using Probability Kriging Understanding Disjunctive Kriging Creating a map using Disjunctive Kriging Understanding cokriging Creating a map using cokriging Using analytical tools when generating surfaces Displaying and managing geostatistical layers What is a geostatistical layer? Viewing geostatistical layers in ArcCatalog Managing layers Representing a geostatistical layer Adding layers Saving and exporting geostatistical layers Setting the scales at which the geostatistical layer will be displayed Changing the symbology of a geostatistical layer Predicting values for locations outside the area of interest Data classification Classifying data Working with geostatistical layers in a map Additional geostatistical analysis tools Maplex Military Analyst Military Overlay Editor Network Analyst Publisher Spatial Analyst Survey Analyst Tracking Analyst Getting started with Tracking Analyst An overview of Tracking Analyst Enabling the Tracking Analyst extension Adding the Tracking Analyst toolbar to ArcMap Working with temporal data About temporal data Simple and complex temporal events Adding temporal data in ArcMap Adding temporal data with date conversion Adding a tracking shapefile from ArcView GIS 3 Adding complex temporal data Temporal layer properties Displaying the most current temporal event Setting temporal offset for a layer Saving and exporting temporal data Symbolizing temporal data About symbolizing temporal data Symbolizing point data Symbolizing line data Symbolizing polygon data Symbolizing tracks Displaying temporal data Charting temporal data Creating and applying actions Working with real-time data

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