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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

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

Geoprocessing tool reference

Building a geodatabase

Getting started with building a geodatabase An overview of building geodatabases Designing a geodatabase Copying the schema of a geodatabase Ways to create a geodatabase Creating a geodatabase Accessing an ArcSDE geodatabase Upgrading a geodatabase Creating new items in geodatabases Importing data Topology Subtypes and attribute domains Defining a relationship class Geometric networks What is a geometric network? Geometric networks and ArcCatalog An overview of creating geometric networks Network connectivity rules Creating a new geometric network Building a geometric network from existing simple feature classes Creating new feature classes for your geometric network Establishing connectivity rules Managing a geometric network About Verify Network tools and commands Identifying network build errors Managing annotation Dimensioning Working with a versioned geodatabase An overview of versioning Integrating versioning with your organization's work flow Registering data as versioned Creating and administering versions in ArcCatalog Working with versions in ArcMap Editing and conflict resolution Editing a version Versioning scenarios Disconnected editing Building geodatabases with CASE tools Building a raster geodatabase Rasters and the geodatabase Performance tuning Creating raster datasets in a geodatabase Creating raster catalogs in a geodatabase Loading and importing rasters Exporting raster formats Mosaicking raster datasets Attributes of type raster Raster data and disconnected editing More details about rasters in ArcGIS Upgrading your 8.x raster catalog Updating your geodatabase raster catalog footprints

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

Getting started migrating from ArcInfo Workstation Creating your ArcInfo Workstation migration plan Phase 1: Requirements prior to migration from ArcInfo Workstation Phase 2: Designing the geodatabase when migrating from ArcInfo Workstation Phase 3: Migrating ArcInfo Workstation data Phase 4: Migrating ArcInfo Workstation processes

ESRI Data & Maps

Extensions

3D Analyst Getting started with 3D Analyst Understanding 3D data Surfaces and surface models TIN surfaces Raster surfaces Display environments in 3D About display environments in 3D The camera, the observer, and the target Creating a scene Managing scene viewers Changing the viewer settings Navigating through a scene using the Fly tool Navigating through a globe using the Walk tool Setting 3D bookmarks Scene properties Changing the vertical exaggeration Using animated rotation Changing the background color Changing the scene illumination Changing the scene extent Changing the scene coordinate system Viewing in stereo mode Saving a scene Exporting a scene Printing a scene 3D layer properties About 3D layer properties Creating 3D features Defining the z-values for a layer Converting z units to x,y units Offsetting the heights in a layer Controlling when a layer is rendered Using the 3D Effects toolbar Displaying surfaces Displaying features and graphics Interactive tools on the 3D Analyst toolbar Animation 3D graphics and text 3D symbology ArcGlobe ArcScan Getting started with ArcScan Raster tracing Batch vectorization About batch vectorization Applying the vectorization settings for batch vectorization Previewing the vectorization Generating features Cell selection Raster cleanup Vectorization options and settings About vectorization settings Setting the vectorization options Using the Raster Line Width tool ArcGIS Data Interoperability extension Business Analyst Geostatistical Analyst Getting started with Geostatistical Analyst The principles of Geostatistical Analyst Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA) Deterministic methods Creating a surface with geostatistical techniques Using analytical tools when generating surfaces Displaying and managing geostatistical layers Additional geostatistical analysis tools Additional geostatistical analysis tools Changing the parameters of a geostatistical layer: Method Properties Predicting values for specified locations Performing validation on a geostatistical layer created from a subset Maplex Military Analyst Military Overlay Editor Network Analyst Publisher Spatial Analyst Getting started with Spatial Analyst 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

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