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Welcome to ArcGIS Desktop Help
Copyright information
Acknowledgements
GIS Dictionary
What's new in ArcGIS
What's new in ArcGIS 9.3
What's new in ArcGIS 9.3.1
Migration guides
Migrating from ArcView GIS 3 to ArcView 9
Migrating from ArcInfo Workstation to ArcGIS Desktop
Getting started
Fundamentals of GIS
Three views of GIS
How maps convey geographic information
Georeferencing and coordinate systems
Elements of geographic information
How GIS represents and organizes geographic information
How ArcGIS users work with geographic information
Users work with many data types and data formats in ArcGIS
Comparing Geoprocessing and Spatial Analysis
Introducing ArcGIS Desktop
Tutorials
Tutorials
3D Analyst Tutorial
Animation in ArcMap Tutorial
ArcCatalog Tutorial
ArcMap Tutorial
ArcGIS Publisher Tutorial
ArcReader Tutorial
ArcScan Tutorial
Building a Geodatabase Tutorial
Database Servers Tutorial
Data Interoperability Tutorial
Editing Geodatabases Tutorial
Editing GIS Features Tutorial
Geocoding Tutorial
Geoprocessing Tutorial
Geostatistical Analyst Tutorial
Getting Started with ArcGIS Tutorial
Linear Referencing Tutorial
Maplex Tutorial
Network Analyst Tutorial
Representations Tutorial
Schematics Tutorial
Spatial Analyst Tutorial
StreetMap Tutorial
Survey Analyst Tutorial
Tracking Analyst Tutorial
Toolbars
Getting more help
Using this Help system
Getting help within the applications
ArcGIS Desktop Resource Center
ArcGIS Desktop Documentation Library
Accessing ESRI Software Training
Using the GIS Dictionary
Contacting Technical Support
Support for users located outside the United States
Contacting ESRI
Map projections and coordinate systems
Mapping and visualization
An overview of mapping and visualization
Using ArcMap
Layers, data frames, and the table of contents
Starting ArcMap
Creating a new map
Opening a map
Using the table of contents
About coordinate systems and map projections
Specifying a coordinate system
Referencing data in the map
Working with data frames
Pausing the map's drawing
Saving a map and exiting ArcMap
Saving to previous versions of ArcGIS
Keyboard shortcuts in ArcMap
Working with layers
Navigating and interacting with maps
Navigating maps and layout pages
Interacting with maps
Adding graphics and text to maps
Symbolizing data
Animation
Using cartographic representations
Page layout and map composition
Working with graphs and reports
Working with web maps in ArcGIS
Publishing optimized map services in ArcGIS
Editing and data compilation
Tables and attribute information
Geoprocessing
Geoprocessing tool reference
Geodatabases and ArcSDE
An overview of the geodatabase
Architecture of a geodatabase
Designing a geodatabase
An overview of geodatabase design
Geodatabase design steps
Using ArcGIS Data Model designs
Documenting your geodatabase design
Modeling feature classes
A note about the use of UML for geodatabase design
Design Tips
Building a geodatabase
Data management workflows, transactions, and versioning
Getting started with editing and maintaining data
Working with non-versioned data
Working with versioned data
Managing Distributed Data
Archiving data
Geodatabase data storage and schema
Administering ArcSDE geodatabases
Administering File and Personal geodatabases
Working with geodatabases using SQL
Data management with ArcCatalog
An overview of ArcCatalog
About workspaces
Getting started with ArcCatalog
Building the Catalog
About folders and file types
Managing folder connections
Creating and accessing geodatabases
Creating spatial database connections
Adding OLE DB connections
About database server connections
About GIS servers and services
Connecting to GIS servers
Working with database connections
Hiding folders and items
Altering the data formats read by ArcCatalog
Working with file types
Accessing delimited text file data
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
Searching for items
Working with metadata
About metadata
Metadata standards and the ArcGIS metadata format
ArcGIS support for the ISO 19139 metadata standard
Exploring an item's metadata
Changing the default stylesheet
Printing metadata
Creating and updating metadata
Metadata synchronization
Writing metadata documentation
Importing and exporting metadata with ArcCatalog
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
Adding custom places to a Gazetteer Metadata Service
Customizing metadata
Image and raster data management
Understanding raster data
Supported raster data
Properties of raster data
Designing a raster database
Building and managing a raster database
Raster display and visualization
Displaying rasters
Adding a raster dataset to a map
Adding a raster catalog to a map
Saving a raster dataset or catalog layer file
About setting default raster display options
Choosing which raster formats can be viewed
Setting the default bands to display multiband rasters
Displaying the raster's spatial resolution
Georeferencing a raster dataset
Georeferencing video sample
Orthorectifying a raster dataset
About projecting raster datasets on the fly
Improving the display of raster data
Color correcting using raster data
Working with the histogram when displaying raster data
Changing the appearance of background values
Symbolizing values of NoData in raster datasets
Interactively viewing pixel values using the Pixel Inspector
Interactively reveal rasters using the Swipe Layer tool
Panchromatic sharpening
Performance tuning for displaying raster data
Raster analysis and geoprocessing
About analyzing raster data
Making selections using the geodatabase raster catalog
Raster conversion
Core geoprocessing tools for raster data
About environment settings for raster data
Specifying raster storage environment settings
Specifying raster analysis environment settings
Specifying the snap raster environment setting
Serving raster data
Data support in ArcGIS
An overview of data support in ArcGIS
Data formats supported in ArcGIS
CAD data
Coverages
What is a coverage
Summary of coverage feature classes
Coverage resolution (precision)
How coverages are stored
Creating a new coverage
Understanding and maintaining attributes in a coverage
About fields (items) in coverage attribute tables
Creating a new INFO table
About the coverage extent
Coverage tics
Defining a coverage's coordinate system
Coverage topology
Coverage tolerances
Coverage relationships and relationship classes
Coverage data limitations
Importing an ArcInfo interchange file (E00)
NetCDF: multidimensional, time series data
Shapefiles
Terrains
Extensions
Geocoding and address management
Linear referencing
Network analysis
Using the Network Analyst extension
Analyzing geometric networks
Mobile GIS
Interoperability and standards support
Customizing and developing with ArcGIS
Guide to data that comes with ArcGIS
Licensing and desktop administration
GIS Servers and services
An overview of GIS servers used with ArcGIS
Using ArcIMS with ArcGIS Desktop
Using ArcGIS Server with ArcGIS Desktop
Authoring and publishing services for ArcGIS Server
Administering ArcGIS Server with ArcCatalog
Creating and publishing web maps for ArcGIS Server