{"id":122861,"date":"2013-04-18T11:30:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T11:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/interactive-visibility-toolbar-add-in-is-available-for-download\/"},"modified":"2018-05-21T22:01:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T22:01:19","slug":"interactive-visibility-toolbar-add-in-is-available-for-download","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/analytics\/interactive-visibility-toolbar-add-in-is-available-for-download","title":{"rendered":"Interactive Visibility toolbar Add-In is available for download"},"author":4051,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23341,24641,22931],"tags":[39421,26691,32651],"industry":[],"product":[],"class_list":["post-122861","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytics","category-defense","category-imagery","tag-spatial-analyst","tag-viewshed","tag-visibility"],"acf":{"short_description":"With Spatial Analyst\u00a0you can perform visibility analysis, but you may have found that altering the parameters of the operation can be a ...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

With Spatial Analyst\u00a0you can perform visibility analysis, but you may have found that altering the parameters of the operation can be a little tedious.\u00a0 Well, we have a new solution for you! \u00a0Available for download is a new Interactive Visibility add-in toolbar.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Background<\/strong><\/p>\n

A viewshed identifies the cells in an input raster that can be seen from one or more observation locations. Traditionally, the Viewshed and Observer Points geoprocessing tools have been used for visibility analysis in ArcGIS for Desktop. These tools take two inputs, a raster elevation surface and a feature input identifying the observer locations. This means two things.\u00a0 First, you had to have a feature dataset of points already prepared.\u00a0 Second, while you could control the vertical and horizontal fields of\u00a0view each observer, as well as the visibility distance limit, this had to be done through the attributes of the featureclass. Certainly capable, but not particularly easy to adjust and model different scenarios with.<\/p>\n

Interactive Visibility toolbar Add-in<\/strong><\/p>\n

This toolbar provides a dynamic, interactive way to create viewsheds on a raster surface.<\/p>\n

\"Interactive<\/a><\/p>\n

With this add-in you can:<\/p>\n