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What's New for multidimensional analysis in ArcGIS Pro 3.0

Do you work with multidimensional scientific data? If so, ArcGIS Pro 3.0 has some new tools for creating Discrete Sampling Geometry output from netCDF data.

 

Multidimensional data represents geospatial data captured at multiple dimensionalities, such as time, depths, or heights. This type of data is commonly used in atmospheric, oceanographic, and earth sciences. ArcGIS Pro has many capabilities for creating, converting, visualizing, and performing complex analysis on this type of data. NetCDF is a specific open format for storing multidimensional scientific data (GRIB and HDF are the other main ones). For the netCDF format, the Climate and Forecast (CF) convention is a common standard for the description of attributes, names of variables, and units of multidimensional data.

 

The CF convention identifies several types of multidimensional Discrete Sampling Geometry (DSG) features that can be stored in netCDF files.

 

ArcGIS Pro 3.0 introduces new tools for creating feature class output from three types of DSG features—profiles, time series, and trajectories. Those tools are:

 

Profiles To Feature Class DSG tool dialog and application example
Use the output from the NetCDF Profiles To Feature Class (Discrete Sampling Geometry) tool to visualize your multidimensional data

 

Everything you need to know about the new DSG tools, their input requirements, how they operate, and the output they produce is covered in the following help topic:

 

Learn more about multidimensional analysis, netCDF data, and the CF Conventions here:

 

ArcGIS Pro 3.0 was released on June 23, 2022.
Download it from here

A selection of the changes in this release can be found in the What’s New in ArcGIS Pro 3.0 blog post and video. For a more comprehensive list, see What’s New in ArcGIS Pro 3.0 in the online Help.

About the authors

Juan is a Product Engineer and Documentation Lead on the Spatial Analyst team. He has been working with raster analysis using Esri software since the good old days of ARC/INFO Workstation on UNIX machines.

Yu Wang is a Product Engineer in the Spatial Analyst team focused on multidimensional scientific data management and analysis. Yu's education background includes Ph.D. degree in Geography, with a concentration on applied meteorology and MS degree in Computer Science at the University of Florida. Her research interest includes using Geospatial Metrics to better understand landfalling Tropical Cyclone rainfall patterns.

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