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Welcome to ArcGIS Desktop Help
Copyright information
GIS Dictionary
What's new in ArcGIS Desktop 9.1
What was new in ArcGIS Desktop 9.0
Getting started
Desktop Administration

Administering the ArcGIS License Manager

Checking license availability

Viewing and changing the license manager

Common license manager problems and how to solve them

Setting the software product

Registering ArcView or ArcEditor and extensions

Evaluating an ArcGIS extension
ArcCatalog
ArcMap
ArcReader
Geoprocessing in the ArcGIS environment

An overview of geoprocessing
Getting started with geoprocessing
Working with toolboxes
Working with toolsets and tools
Specifying environment settings
Using the Command Line window

An overview of the Command Line window

Starting the Command Line window

Working with the command line

About variables

Creating variables

Managing variables
Introducing model building
Using the ModelBuilder window
Geoprocessing tool reference
Building a geodatabase
Editing in ArcMap
Geocoding
Linear referencing
Map projections
Getting started with map projections

An overview of map projections
Geographic coordinate systems

About geographic coordinate systems

Spheroids and spheres

Datums

North American datums
Projected coordinate systems
Geographic transformations
Supported map projections

List of supported map projections

Aitoff

Alaska Grid

Alaska Series E

Albers Equal Area Conic

Azimuthal Equidistant

Behrmann Equal Area Cylindrical

Bipolar Oblique Conformal Conic

Bonne

Cassini-Soldner

Chamberlin Trimetric

Craster Parabolic

Cube

Cylindrical Equal Area

Double Stereographic

Eckert I

Eckert II

Eckert III

Eckert IV

Eckert V

Eckert VI

Equidistant Conic

Equidistant Cylindrical

Equirectangular

Fuller

Gall's Stereographic

Gauss-Kruger

Geocentric Coordinate System

Geographic Coordinate System

Gnomonic

Great Britain National Grid

Hammer-Aitoff

Hotine Oblique Mercator

Krovak

Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area

Lambert Conformal Conic

Local Cartesian Projection

Loximuthal

McBryde-Thomas Flat-Polar Quartic

Mercator

Miller Cylindrical

Mollweide

New Zealand National Grid

Orthographic

Perspective

Plate Carree

Polar Stereographic

Polyconic

Quartic Authalic

Rectified Skewed Orthomorphic

Robinson

Simple Conic

Sinusoidal

Space Oblique Mercator

State Plane Coordinate System

Stereographic

Times

Transverse Mercator

Two-Point Equidistant

Universal Polar Stereographic

Universal Transverse Mercator

Van der Grinten I

Vertical Near-Side Perspective

Winkel I

Winkel II

Winkel Tripel
Writing geoprocessing scripts
Customizing the user interface
Migrating from ArcView GIS 3 to ArcView 9
Migrating from ArcInfo Workstation to ArcGIS Desktop
ESRI Data & Maps
Extensions
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

About raster tracing

Types of raster snapping properties

Setting the raster snapping options

Applying the vectorization settings for raster tracing

Creating line features using raster snapping and the Sketch tool

Creating line features using the Vectorization Trace tool

Creating polygon features using raster snapping and the Sketch tool

Creating polygon features using the Vectorization Trace tool
Batch vectorization
Cell selection
Raster cleanup

About preparing raster data for vectorization

Starting and stopping the raster cleanup session

Using the raster cleanup commands

Using the Raster Painting tools
Vectorization options and settings
ArcGIS Data Interoperability extension

ArcGIS Data Interoperability extension
Business Analyst
About ArcGIS Business Analyst
Business Analyst toolbar
Organizing your work and creating a study area
Adding data to Business Analyst
Trade areas - customer data required

Creating a trade area using customer-derived areas

Market penetration

Trade area penetration

Creating a trade area using distance decay areas
Trade areas - no customer data required

Creating a no customer data required trade area using simple rings

Creating a no customer data required trade area using nonoverlapping rings

Creating a no customer data required trade area using data-driven rings

Creating a no customer data required trade area using drive-time polygons

Creating a no customer data required trade area using threshold rings

Creating a no customer data required trade area using equal competition (Thiessen)

Creating a no customer data required trade are using huff equal probability trade areas

Creating a no customer data required trade area using grid areas
Trade areas - geography level based
Trade areas - store prospecting
Monitor and manage trade areas

Creating the Monitor Trade Areas trade area using Measure Cannibalization

Creating the Monitor Trade Areas trade area using Track Trade Area Change

Managing existing trade areas
Analysis
Modeling
Working with maps
Tools
Finding a route
Reports and batch tasks
Setting Business Analyst preferences

General tab

Dataset tab

Analyses tab

Spatial Reference tab

Data tab

Drive Time tab
The Business Analyst 9.1 Iimporter
Data descriptions
Business Analyst tools reference

Overview of the Business Analyst toolbox
Geostatistical Analyst
Maplex
Getting started with Maplex

An overview of labels and annotation

Better labeling with label classes and label expressions

Using text formatting tags for labeling

Using the map cache to improve geodatabase labeling performance

Labeling features of a layer

Labeling features of a layer using label classes

Creating label classes based on symbology classification

Creating label expressions

Managing the labels on your map

Label placement properties

Enabling the Maplex Labeling Engine

Setting label placement properties using the Label Manager

Setting label ranking

Locking the labels in an area

Showing unplaced labels

Changing the label placement quality
Using Maplex to set label positions
Label fitting strategies
Resolving label conflicts
Military Analyst
Military Overlay Editor
Network Analyst
Publisher
Spatial Analyst
Getting started with Spatial Analyst

An overview of Spatial Analyst

Enabling the Spatial Analyst extension

Adding the Spatial Analyst toolbar

Accessing the Spatial Analyst toolbox

Sample applications using Spatial Analyst

Deriving information from data

Identifying spatial relationships

Finding suitable locations

Calculating cost of travel
Understanding raster data
Solving spatial problems
Performing analysis in Spatial Analyst
The Raster Calculator
Analysis concepts in Spatial Analyst
Spatial Analyst functional reference
Survey Analyst
Tracking Analyst
Getting more help
Help for developers