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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
ArcCatalog
Getting started with ArcCatalog
An overview of ArcCatalog
Starting ArcCatalog
Browsing through the Catalog
What's in the Catalog?
Repositioning the Catalog tree
Stopping ArcCatalog
Building the Catalog
Managing the Catalog's contents
Exploring an item's geography
Exploring the values in a table
Working with metadata
Searching for items
Working with maps and layers
Working with shapefiles
Working with CAD data
Working with coverages
About coverages and INFO tables
Creating a new coverage
Creating a new INFO table
Generating topology
Defining a coverage's coordinate system
Modifying a coverage's tics
Modifying a coverage's extent
Setting a coverage's tolerances
Maintaining attributes
About relationships and relationship classes
Creating a coverage relationship class
Working with rasters in ArcCatalog
About raster data
Properties of raster datasets
Exploring geodatabase raster catalogs
Tabular raster catalogs
Initial display properties of a raster
Setting the default band for a raster
Defining a raster's coordinate system
Calculating statistics for your raster dataset
Creating raster pyramids
Mosaicking rasters
Raster display performance tuning
Performance tuning for rasters in ArcSDE
Choosing which raster formats will appear in ArcCatalog
Supported raster formats
Technical specifications for raster formats
Pixel depth capacity
ArcMap
ArcReader
Geoprocessing in the ArcGIS environment
Geoprocessing tool reference
Geoprocessing Commands Quick Reference Guide
An overview of commonly used tools
Licensing for geoprocessing tools
3D Analyst toolbox
Analysis toolbox
Business Analyst toolbox
Cartography toolbox
Conversion toolbox
Coverage toolbox
An overview of the Coverage toolbox
What is a coverage?
About the coverage extent
What are TICs?
Coverage resolution
Understanding attributes in a coverage
How coverages are stored
Coverage data limitations
Summary of coverage feature classes
Analysis toolset
Overview of the Analysis toolsets
Extract toolset
Overlay toolset
Proximity toolset
Conversion toolset
Data Management toolset
Data Management toolbox
Geocoding toolbox
Geostatistical Analyst toolbox
An overview of the Geostatistical Analyst toolbox
Understanding geostatistical analysis
Working with a geostatistical layer
Creating a grid from a geostatistical layer
Geostatistical Analyst toolbox sample applications
Tools
GA Layer to Grid (Geostatistical Analyst)
Linear Referencing toolbox
An overview of the Linear Referencing toolbox
Understanding Linear Referencing
Creating route data
Creating and editing event data
Linear Referencing sample applications
Tools
Military Analyst toolbox
Network Analyst toolbox
Spatial Analyst toolbox
Spatial Statistics toolbox
Samples toolbox
Environment Settings
Building a geodatabase
Editing in ArcMap
Geocoding
Linear referencing
Map projections
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
Getting more help
Using this Help system
Getting help within the applications
Contacting Technical Support
Support for users located outside the United States
Accessing ESRI Software Training
Using the GIS Dictionary
Help for developers