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3D Analyst Tools Part 2

3D Analyst

3D Analyst Tools ArcToolbox

3D Analyst Tools

The 3D Analyst toolbox provides a collection of geoprocessing tools that enable a wide variety  of analytical, data management, and data conversion operations on surface models and three-dimensional vector data.

The 3D analysis toolbox consists of groups of tools, in this article all the tools in the following groups will be explained:

Functional Surface Toolset:

The functional surface Toolset provides geoprocessing tools that perform analyzes using different features and types of surfaces:

Add Surface Information

Attributes features with spatial information derived from a surface.

Interpolate Shape

Creates 3D features by interpolating z-values from a surface. 

Intersect 3D Line With Surface

Computes the geometric intersection of 3D line features and one or more surfaces to return the intersection as segmented line features and points.

Stack Profile

Creates a table and optional graph denoting the profile of line features over one or more multipatch, raster, TIN, or terrain surfaces.

Surface Volume

Calculates the area and volume of the region between a surface and a reference plane.

Raster Interpolation Toolset:

IDW

Interpolates a raster surface from points using an inverse distance weighted (IDW) technique.

Kriging

Interpolates a raster surface from points using kriging.

Natural Neighbor

Interpolates a raster surface from points using a natural neighbor technique.

Spline

Interpolates a raster surface from points using a two-dimensional minimum curvature spline technique.

The resulting smooth surface passes exactly through the input points.

Spline with Barriers

Interpolates a raster surface, using barriers, from points using a minimum curvature spline technique. The barriers are entered as either polygon or polyline features.

Topo to Raster

Interpolates a hydrologically correct raster surface from point, line, and polygon data.

Topo to Raster by File

Interpolates a hydrologically correct raster surface from point, line, and polygon data using parameters specified in a file.

Trend

Interpolates a raster surface from points using a trend technique.

Raster Math Toolset:

Divide

Divides the values of two rasters on a cell-by-cell basis.

Float

Converts each cell value of a raster into a floating-point representation.

Int

Converts each cell value of a raster to an integer by truncation.

Minus

Subtracts the value of the second input raster from the value of the first input raster on a cell-by-cell basis.

Plus

Adds (sums) the values of two rasters on a cell-by-cell basis.

Times

Multiplies the values of two rasters on a cell-by-cell basis.

Raster Reclass Toolset:

Lookup

Creates a new raster by looking up values found in another field in the table of the input raster.

Reclass by ASCII File

Reclassifies (or changes) the values of the input cells of a raster using an ASCII remap file.

Reclass by Table

Reclassifies (or changes) the values of the input cells of a raster using a remap table.

Reclassify

Reclassifies (or changes) the values in a raster.

Slice

Slices or reclassifies the range of values of the input cells into zones of equal interval, equal area, or by natural breaks.

Aspect

Derives the aspect from each cell of a raster surface.

The aspect identifies the compass direction that the downhill slope faces for each location.

Contour

Creates a feature class of contours from a raster surface.

Contour List

Creates a feature class of selected contour values from a raster surface.

Contour with Barriers

Creates contours from a raster surface. The inclusion of barrier features allows you to independently generate contours on either side of a barrier.

Curvature

Calculates the curvature of a raster surface, optionally including profile and plan curvature.

Cut Fill

Calculates the volume change between two surfaces. This is typically used for cut and fill operations.

Hillshade

Creates a shaded relief from a surface raster by considering the illumination source angle and shadows.

Slope

Identifies the slope (gradient or steepness) from each cell of a raster.

Triangulated Surface Toolset:

Decimate TIN Nodes

Creates a triangulated irregular network (TIN) dataset using a subset of nodes from a source TIN.

Extrude Between

Creates 3D features by extruding each input feature between two triangulated irregular network (TIN) datasets.

Interpolate Polygon to Multipatch

Creates surface-conforming multipatch features by draping polygon features over a surface.

Locate Outliers

Identifies anomalous elevation measurements from terrain, TIN, or LAS datasets that exceed a defined range of elevation values or have slope characteristics that are inconsistent with the surrounding surface.

Polygon Volume

Calculates the volume and surface area between a polygon of a constant height and a surface.

Surface Aspect

Creates polygon features that represent aspect measurements derived from a TIN, terrain, or LAS dataset surface.

Surface Contour

Creates contour lines derived from a terrain, TIN, or LAS dataset surface.

Surface Difference

Calculate the displacement between two surfaces to determine where one is above, below or the same as the other surface.

Surface Slope

Creates polygon features that represent ranges of slope values for triangulated surfaces.

Visibility Toolset:

Construct Sight Lines

Creates line features that represent sight lines from one or more observer points to features in a target feature class.

Intervisibility

Determines the visibility of sight lines against potential obstructions defined by any combination of 3D features and surfaces.

Line Of Sight

Determines the visibility of sight lines over obstructions consisting of a surface and an optional multipatch dataset.

Observer Points

Identifies which observer points are visible from each raster surface location.

Skyline

Generates a line or multipatch feature class containing the results from a skyline or silhouette analysis.

Skyline Barrier

Generates a multipatch feature class representing a skyline barrier or shadow volume.

Skyline Graph

Calculates sky visibility and generates an optional table and polar graph.

The table and graph represent the horizontal and vertical angles going from the observer point to each of the vertices on the skyline.

Sun Shadow Volume

Creates closed volumes that model shadows cast by each feature using sunlight for a given date and time.

Viewshed

Determines the raster surface locations visible to a set of observer features.

Viewshed 2

Determines the raster surface locations visible to a set of observer features using geodesic methods

Visibility

Determines the raster surface locations visible to a set of observer features, or identifies which observer points are visible from each raster surface location.

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