What’s New in ArcGIS 10

Trent HareJune 2011

Major upgrade ESRI’s “what’s new” – 177 pages!

http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/pdf/whats_new_in_arcgis_10.pdf

1.) Direct support for PDS and ISIS2,3 support and current limitations2.) New editing capabilities (interface changes)3.) New mosaic raster type (virtual mosaics)4.) New virtual image processing chainable functions (called Image Analyst).5.) Hardware acceleration and new basemap layers (local cache)6.) A few new toolbox helper functions and tips for background processing.7.) Changes to 3D and Spatial Analyst (raster environment)8.) New add-in environment9.) if time: New temporal tools10.) slide: new location for planetary radii definitions11.) Python fully integrated

PDS, ISIS2, ISIS3 support The good

• Attached, detached, tiled or raw• Map projections (most).• 8, 16, 32 bit• Multiple bands

The bad• Only one NoData value. Means no ISIS saturation value

support• Needs statistics to be build to show 16 and 32bit ranges• A couple GDAL bug fixes are not available (e.g. new

continuation flag in ISIS3 label).

Still recommend to convert to 8bit using GDAL

Editing The Editor toolbar has been redesigned. Feature templates (more like Illustrator editing). New snapping environment – on by default. Start editing by right-clicking a layer. The Attributes and other editing windows have been

redesigned. Selecting features and editing vertices is easier - select,

add, and remove multiple vertices by drawing a box.

Editing

Editing

USGS Crater Helper Tools (upgraded) Facilitates feature mapping (craters, linear,

closed) Still testing but available (linked below).

http://resources.arcgis.com/gallery/file/arcobjects-net-api/details?entryID=B8D12158-1422-2418-3433-E1667CA43176

Mosaic Raster TypeA mosaic dataset is a collection of raster datasets (images) stored as a catalog & viewed as a dynamically mosaicked image.

Virtual Image Functions

Demo: Hillshade

Hardware acceleration and new basemap layers

Geoprocessing (background)

Recommend disabling (for now)

ArcPy Environment

Planetary definitions (reorg’d)Location:C:\ArcGIS\Desktop10.0\Coordinate Systems

Favorite Projections (location Win7) Recommend adding a “Connect to Folder…”

in ArcCatalog:C:\Users\<profile>\AppData\Roaming\ESRI\Desktop10.0\ArcMap\Coordinate Systems