{"id":364102,"date":"2018-11-27T17:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T01:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=364102"},"modified":"2018-11-27T17:00:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T01:00:22","slug":"join-the-arcgis-pro-2-3-beta","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/uncategorized\/join-the-arcgis-pro-2-3-beta","title":{"rendered":"Join the ArcGIS Pro 2.3 Beta"},"author":6311,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[],"tags":[269702,42181,269712],"industry":[],"product":[36561],"class_list":["post-364102","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-arcgis-locatext","tag-arcgis-pro","tag-arcgis-pro-2-3","product-arcgis-pro"],"acf":{"short_description":"ArcGIS Pro 2.3 is the largest release of ArcGIS Pro yet. 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Test out geoprocessing tools that automatically extract information from messages, reports, briefings, and even social media.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>New 3D Tools<\/h1>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":364172,"id":364172,"title":"3D Measure","filename":"3D_Measure.gif","filesize":1481583,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/11\/3D_Measure.gif","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/uncategorized\/join-the-arcgis-pro-2-3-beta\/3d_measure","alt":"3D Measure in the ArcGIS Pro 2.3","author":"6311","description":"","caption":"","name":"3d_measure","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":364102,"date":"2018-11-27 21:22:55","modified":"2019-01-24 00:19:09","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/gif","type":"image","subtype":"gif","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":720,"height":457,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/11\/3D_Measure.gif","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":135,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/11\/3D_Measure.gif","medium-width":411,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/11\/3D_Measure.gif","medium_large-width":720,"medium_large-height":457,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/11\/3D_Measure.gif","large-width":720,"large-height":457,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/11\/3D_Measure.gif","1536x1536-width":720,"1536x1536-height":457,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/11\/3D_Measure.gif","2048x2048-width":720,"2048x2048-height":457,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/11\/3D_Measure.gif","card_image-width":720,"card_image-height":457,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/11\/3D_Measure.gif","wide_image-width":720,"wide_image-height":457}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>Empirical Bayesian Kriging (EBK) 3D has been added to the list of interpolation methods that uses x, y, and z coordinates to predict the value of at all locations between points in 3D space. Plus, a new 3D Measure tool lets you measure distances in 3D space.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Join the Beta<\/h1>\n<p>Try out all these new features and more in the <a href=\"https:\/\/earlyadopter.esri.com\/key\/ArcGISPro23Beta\">ArcGIS Pro 2.3 Beta<\/a>.<\/p>\n"}],"authors":[{"ID":6311,"user_firstname":"Richard","user_lastname":"Kachelriess","nickname":"kachelriess","user_nicename":"kachelriess","display_name":"Richard Kachelriess","user_email":"rkachelriess@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:18:16","user_description":"Richard Kachelriess is Esri\u2019s Product Marketing Manager for ArcGIS Pro. He has worked on a wide range of Esri's products, including ArcGIS Server; the geodatabase; imagery; ArcGIS Online content, such as basemaps, the Living Atlas, and Streetmap Premium; and Esri's open technologies and solutions, such as ArcGIS Open Data, Esri Geoportal Server, ArcGIS for INSPIRE, the ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap. 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