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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
Welcome to ArcGIS Desktop 9.0
What's new in ArcMap: other changes in version 9.0
What's new in ArcCatalog: other changes in version 9.0

What's new in ArcCatalog: General

What's new in ArcCatalog: Data conversion tools

What's new in ArcCatalog: Internet data

What's new in ArcCatalog: Metadata
What's new in ArcGIS Desktop extensions in version 9.0

Introducing the new Maplex for ArcGIS extension

What's new in 3D Analyst

What's new in ArcGIS Publisher and ArcReader

What's new in ArcGIS Spatial Analyst

What's new in ArcGIS Survey Analyst

What's new in ArcPress for ArcGIS

What's new in ArcGIS StreetMap
Getting started

What is ArcGIS Desktop?

ArcGIS geodatabase

ArcGIS geoprocessing

ArcGIS geovisualization

ArcGIS Desktop extensions

GIS data structure types

Data types supported in ArcGIS
Desktop Administration
ArcCatalog
Getting started with ArcCatalog
Building the Catalog
Managing the Catalog's contents

The Contents tab

Working in Details view

Changing the columns in Details view

Modifying the default settings for exploring contents

Exploring an item's properties

Organizing your data

Converting data to a different format
Exploring an item's geography
Exploring the values in a table
Working with metadata

About metadata

Exploring an item's metadata

Changing the default stylesheet

Printing metadata

Creating and updating metadata

Writing documentation

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
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

About CAD data

Defining a coordinate system for CAD data

Supported AutoCAD entities and MicroStation elements
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
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
Getting started with ESRI Data and Maps
Canada
Europe
Mexico

Mexico Cities

Mexico Contours

Mexico Municipalities

Mexico Railroads

Mexico Rivers and Streams

Mexico Roads

Mexico States

Mexico Urban Areas

Mexico Water Bodies
World

World Administrative Units

World Cities

World Continents

World Countries (generalized)

World Countries 1992

World Countries 2005

World CountryWatch Demographics (table)

World Country Memberships of Political Organizations (table)

World Drainage Systems

World Gazetteer

World Lakes

World Latitude and Longitude Grids

World Named Latitudes and Longitudes

World Regions

World Rivers

World Time Zones

World UTM Zones

World Wildlife Fund Marine Ecoregions

World Wildlife Fund Terrestrial Ecoregions
StreetMap USA
Image data

North America Digital Elevation Model

North America Shaded Relief

Global Digital Elevation Model (ETOPO2)

Global Digital Elevation Model (GTOPO30)

Global Imagery 150-meter Resolution

Sample High-Resolution Images

World at Night

World Cloud Free

WOrld Shaded Relief

World Topography and Bathymetry

World with Clouds

World with Ice

WorldSat Color Shaded Relief
United States (census)
United States (hydrography)
United States (landmarks)
United States (other)

United States National Atlas Federal and Indian Land Areas

United States National Atlas Federal Land Lines

United States National Atlas Public Land Survey

U.S. State Plane Zones (NAD 1927)

U.S. State Plane Zones (NAD 1983)

USGS Topographic Quadrangle Series Indexes (1:100,000)

USGS Topographic Quadrangle Series Indexes (1:24,000)

USGS Topographic Quadrangle Series Indexes (1:250,000)
United States (transportation)
Extensions
Getting more help
Help for developers