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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
Building the Catalog
About folders and file types
Managing folder connections
Geodatabases and their contents
Creating and accessing geodatabases
Creating spatial database connections
Adding OLE DB connections
About GIS servers and services
Connecting to GIS servers
Working with database connections
Hiding folders and items
Changing a data format's properties
Working with file types
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
About maps, layers, and graphs
Opening a map from ArcCatalog
Adding data to maps
Creating a layer
Creating a group layer
Repairing the data sources in a layer
Joining attributes to the layer's data
Working with shapefiles
Working with CAD data
Working with coverages
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
Building a geodatabase
Editing in ArcMap
Geocoding
Linear referencing
Getting started with linear referencing
Creating route data
Displaying and querying routes and events
Editing routes
Creating and editing event data
About creating and editing event data
Creating event tables in ArcCatalog
About overlaying event data
Overlay events
About aggregating event data
Aggregating route events
About transforming event measures
Transforming event measures
About locating features along routes
Locating features along routes
Editing event tables in ArcMap
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
ArcGIS Developer Help