Analyze

Analyze GIS data in true 3D space to save valuable time, costs, and in security and military applications, even save lives.

Only ArcGIS 10 with 3D Analyst extension has advanced geoprocessing tools that give you the ability to perform complex surface, volumetric, and visibility analyses that can include time or temporal elements.

Surface Analysis

Evaluating contours, slope, elevations, even below-grade features have more meaning with a vertical dimension. You can truly interpret how a feature relates to the surrounding environment and draw conclusions about potenital impacts of a project or action.

Volumetric Analysis

City planners and developers can build model shadows as volumetric GIS features to demonstrate how a proposed building will impact residents of nearby buildings.

Volumes can be determined even for subsurface features, such as mineral deposits, using geologic cross sections, fence diagrams, and block diagrams of stategraphic layers.

Visibility Analysis

Assessing threats is a key component of planning military missions. Evaluating risk along flight paths requires 3D analysis that takes into account weapons range, topography, and structures. Creating a 3D threat dome and defining the safest flight path helps ensure mission success.