Key Features
ArcGIS Survey Analyst offers many advantages:
- Sound survey methodology—Use least squares adjustment (not rubber sheeting) and your control points to fit data, yielding the best parcel location from the data entered.
- Continuously enhance your data—Incrementally update your data. Existing data is improved as new survey data is added.
- History is maintained—Parcel records can be traced back in time from stored date information. No historical data is lost, allowing you to see the state of affairs for a given parcel over time. In addition, you can add historical parcels at any time, even after their descendants have been created.
- Foundation for GIS data—Cadastral Editor includes the ability to run a GIS feature adjustment, which applies the coordinate changes resulting from the least squares adjustment to your overlaying GIS feature classes.
- Advanced query capabilities—The cadastral fabric data model provides the capability of advanced queries such as "select all parcels in Redlands Ranch subdivision that have boundary lines along Vaquero Rd."
- Seamlessly use multiple projections—The parcel fabric can reside in a geographic datum and can be edited in any projected coordinate system that uses this common datum. This allows organizations that maintain data in many projection zones to have all parcels in a single seamless parcel fabric and edit the parcels in their respective projected coordinate systems.
ArcGIS Survey Analyst: Cadastral Fabric
Cadastral Fabric is a topologically integrated geodatabase dataset designed to store both a continuous parcel fabric that covers a jurisdiction and survey-based subdivision plans without loss of any information in the original survey record. Features include parcels, boundary lines, parcel corners, and control points.
ArcGIS Survey Analyst: Cadastral Editor
Using Cadastral Editor, individual parcels and subdivisions are entered using coordinate geometry (COGO)-based plan entry. An integrated Cadastral Fabric is developed from all relevant survey and plan data using least squares adjustment for the best-fit representation of the parcel layer. Cadastral Editor also tracks parcel history and lineage by maintaining the legal recording dates.
