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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
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
Getting started with editing in ArcMap
Creating new features
Using a digitizer
About digitizing
An overview of preparing to digitize
Registering the paper map
Digitizing features on a paper map
Creating features from other features
Editing existing features
Editing topology
Editing attributes
Spatial adjustment
Editing geometric networks
Editing relationships and related objects
Editing annotation
Editing dimension features
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
Europe Cities
Europe Countries
Europe Ferries
Europe Level 1 Provinces
Europe Level 2 Provinces
Europe Level 3 Provinces
Europe Major Roads
Europe Major Water
Europe NUTS 0 Demographics
Europe NUTS 1 Demographics
Europe NUTS 2 Demographics
Europe NUTS 3 Demographics
Europe Places
Europe Railroads
Europe Railroad Stations
Europe Roads
Europe Urbanized Areas
Europe Water
Germany ZIP Code Areas (one-digit)
Germany ZIP Code Areas (two-digit)
Germany ZIP Code Areas (five-digit)
Mexico
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
United States (census)
United States (hydrography)
United States (landmarks)
United States (other)
United States (transportation)
United States Highways
United States Major Highways
United States Major Roads
United States National Atlas Airports
United States National Transportation Atlas Interstate Highways
United States National Transportation Atlas Railroads
United States TANA/GDT Airports
United States TANA/GDT Transportation Terminals
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