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ArcGIS Desktop
ArcGIS Desktop is software that allows you to discover patterns, relationships, and trends in your data that are not readily apparent in databases, spreadsheets, or statistical packages.
Beyond showing you your data as points on a map, ArcGIS Desktop gives you the power to manage and integrate your data, perform advanced analysis, model and automate operational processes, and display your results on professional-quality maps.
Seeing your data on a map, rather than a spreadsheet, is a very powerful tool to enable more informed and faster decision making.
Answer Questions, Test Predictions, and Examine Relationships
With a rich analysis framework, including ready-to-use tools and the ability to build process models, scripts, and complete workflows, ArcGIS Desktop gives you the power to better answer questions, test predictions, and examine relationships in your data. You can use ArcGIS Desktop to answer questions such as
- Where are my customers?
- Where should I put new stores or facilities?
- Who is impacted in an emergency?
- What is the best way to respond to a power outage?
- What are the highest traffic areas of a city?
- What taxes are due for a land parcel?
- What is the environmental impact of a new development?
- And much more.
Why Use ArcGIS Desktop?
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- Perform the Complete Cartographic Production Process within Your GIS
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- Easily create professional-quality, publication-ready maps with ArcGIS Desktop software's simple wizards, predefined map templates, extensive suite of map elements, and advanced drawing and symbolization tools.
- The comprehensive set of cartographic tools in ArcGIS Desktop automates many aspects of cartography, making map production a less time-consuming task.
- Your completed maps can be saved, printed, exported, and embedded in other documents or applications.
- Manage Your Data More Efficiently
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- With support for more than 70 data formats, you can easily integrate all types of data for visualization and analysis with ArcGIS Desktop.
- Create databases, define database schemas, and administer the integrity of databases with an extensive set of geographic, tabular, and metadata management, creation, and organization tools.
- Create, Edit, and Ensure the Quality of Your Geographic Data
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- Manipulate data with a minimum number of clicks and automate your editing workflow with ArcGIS Desktop's powerful suite of editing tools.
- Advanced editing and coordinate geometry (COGO) tools simplify your data design, input and cleanup.
- Multi-user editing support makes it possible for multiple users to edit your geodatabase at the same time, facilitating data sharing between departments, organizations, and field staff.
- Get Started Immediately with Ready-to-Use Data
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You can begin your visualization and analysis right away with the included ESRI Data & Maps Media Kit, which is updated annually and preconfigured to work specifically with ESRI software. The ESRI Data & Maps Media Kit includes more than 24 GB of data, including
- Basemap and thematic MXDs for Canada, Europe, Mexico, the United States, and the World.
- Commercial data from Tele Atlas, AND Mapping, DMTI Spatial, WorldSat, EarthSat, EuroGeographics, Michael Bauer Research, World Wildlife Fund, SIGSA, and ESRI.
- 90 meter Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) dataset.
- All levels of U.S. census geography and ZIP Codes.
- TIGER 2000-based StreetMap USA data.
- Customize ArcGIS to Meet Your Unique Needs
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- Easily customize the user interface by adding and removing buttons and menu items or docking toolbars.
- Develop custom GIS desktop applications with ArcGIS Engine, which is available through the ESRI.
Developer Network (EDN). ArcGIS Engine provides application programming interfaces (APIs) for COM, .NET, Java, and C++, detailed documentation, and a series of high-level visual components that make it easy for even the casual programmer to build an ArcGIS application.
- Use and Distribute Data in Many Formats
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- Eliminate your data use and distribution barriers with open and interoperable GIS software.
- ArcGIS Desktop supports a number of industry standards including IT and Web services including the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC), the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and DXF and KML.
- Leverage Your Geographic Content
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ArcGIS Desktop is an integral part of the new workflow for authoring, serving, and using geographic information. With ArcGIS Desktop, you can leverage your existing geographic expertise to author geospatial content and publish it via a server using integrated tools. GIS functions can then be delivered as services throughout the enterprise. These services provide unparalleled access for a wide range of people to use this geospatial content for improved understanding and decision making.
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