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ArcGIS Pro
Main component of geospatial processing programs suite From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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ArcGIS Pro is desktop GIS software developed by Esri, which replaces their ArcMap software generation.[1] The product was announced as part of Esri's ArcGIS 10.3 release,[2] ArcGIS Pro is notable in having a 64 bit architecture, combined 2-D, 3-D support, ArcGIS Online integration and Python 3 support.[3]
ArcGIS Pro 2.7 was released in December 2020, and features layer blending, 3D enhancements, GPS connectivity as well as real-time data logging to streamline workflows.[4]
A major version update occurred with the release of ArcGIS Pro 3.0 in June 2022. Several major changes include: the dropping of support for geocoders created with ArcMap 10.x and versions of ArcGIS Pro 2.9.x and earlier; project files created or modified with ArcGIS Pro 3.0 are not readable by versions 2.9.x and earlier; geodatabases created in 3.0 may not be fully compatible with prior versions; and perhaps most significantly, Parcel Fabric datasets created in prior versions must be upgraded to be fully compatible in version 3.0.[5]
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Before you needed to use paper maps, globes, and a variety of resources to analyze land, climate, population, resources, boundaries, cities and anything that could interest you about a place. Now, ArcGIS Pro 3.0.x, a powerful tool for visualizing, maintaining, analyzing, and displaying Geographic Information System (GIS) data continuously or in developmental increments streamlines analytical research processes using complex data sets. The new tool has replaced ArcMap and ArcCatalog, as it enables faster results with the assistance of a modern interface. ArcGIS is designed to help users create a geodatabase, convert data formats, edit spatial and tabular data, while maintaining data integrity throughout the process. ArcGIS Pro also enables users input advanced behaviors, to track editing and metadata configurations using the interface technology.[6]
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ESRI (Environmental Research Systems Research Institute, Inc.) built the cloud based software, ArcGIS to create and share interactive web maps. Collaboration based on organizational maps can be edited and shared in real time by utilizing “MyMaps” overlay, which is a content depository where web maps, shape files, dashboards, templates, and other files are stored and retrieved. Previous Esri-vetted maps are collocated in ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World, containing useful, high quality, ready-to-use geographic content. ArcGIS features base maps, in addition to map layers, customization of map layers to enable multiple layers’ visibility, editing tool, measurement methods, and comparative mapping using Geo-Inquiries.[7]
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There are several challenges pertaining to ESRI’s Geographic Information Systems’ framework. Firstly, discovering relevant geospatial data is comprehensive in that discovery is not based on keyword searching. Secondly, data sources must be selected and interpreted in natural language, may not clearly be designated. The third challenge autonomous systems such as ArcGIS has is not possessing the capability to fetch data from specific resources which often require Application Programming Interface (API) or URL download access keys and/or passwords. Large Language Models-Find (LLMs) addresses the second and third issues by utilizing handbooks for each data source which provide technical information for data fetching. QGIS (Quest Geographic Information Systems) and Python programming using Jupyter Notebooks allows users to access data without coding using QGIS plugin via download, whereas Python programming enables automated processing tasks to run with other programs or agents, allowing for greater customization and faster download speeds. ArcGIS utilizes autonomous data discovers powered by the universally accepted LLM-Find within its framework.[8]
The ArcGIS software costs $1,500 for a single-user license along with a $300 desktop installation fee. However, basic statistical analysis tools and algorithms within ArcGIS are available to use in the law enforcement community, as it allows law enforcement to assess patterns in crime scenes over time within a space. However, there will be no feedback on (the current) ArcGIS 10.2 alpha version, until ArcGIS releases its new beta software version of 10.2. Comparable products may be less expensive than ArcGIS, but ArcGIS requires official licensing, rendering it more useful in ongoing investigations.[9]
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Specific tasks within ArcGIS include computational methods and applications such as 1.) Delineating functional regions as well as application in health geography; 2.) GIS-based measures of spatial accessibility; 3.) Functional fittings by regressions; 4.) Principal components, factor analysis, and cluster analysis; 5.) Spatial statistics; and 6.) Regionalization methods. Features such as “closest facility” and, “summarize” tools as well as “dissolve” are useful in ArcGIS to identify nearest facilities and aggregate demand areas nearby facilities. ArcGIS implements the HUFF Model to do so, which defines trade areas in multiple geographic locations using overlapping polygons to analyze configurations. Therefore, ArcGIS approximates the probability of different location’s potential for defining market areas based on probability.[10]
Measuring spatial accessibility is a core task in geographic analysis, focusing on the relative ease of reaching activities or services based on the distribution of supply and demand. Calculate distances between demand (population) locations and supply (physician) locations. This can be done using using Select by Attribute to extract only those records where the distance is less than or equal to the defined[11]
Generate Near Table tool, and is filtered using Select By Attribute to extract records where distance is less than the defined limits set. Ratios summed together and divided by the population determine accessibility in terms of a ratio.[12]
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