Using ArcGIS Tracking Analyst: ArcGIS 9

ESRI ArcGIS Tracking Analyst is one of the available extensions to the ArcGIS Desktop products: ArcInfo, ArcEditor, and ArcView. ArcGIS Tracking Analyst lets ArcGIS Desktop users add, symbolize, display, and analyze temporal data in a powerful geographic information system environment. Users can change data symbology by color, size, or shape (for point data) to reflect the age of the data as time passes within a user-defined time window.

This book is a useful reference for users of ESRI ArcGIS Tracking Analyst, one of the available extensions to the ArcGIS Desktop products ArcInfo, ArcEditor, and ArcView. ArcGIS Tracking Analyst lets ArcGIS Desktop users add, symbolize, display, and analyze temporal data in a powerful geographic information system environment. Users can change data symbologyby color, size, or shape (for point data)to reflect the age of the data as time passes within a user-defined time window. The Tracking Analyst Playback Manager, temporal offset feature, and data clock can further enhance users analytical power with temporal data, allowing users to stop data playback, play data in reverse, offset data to a new start time, analyze temporal patterns within the data, and chart data using the Tracking Analyst extension data clock. Furthermore, users can create and apply preset or custom actions and query temporal data based on location information, feature attributes, or a combination of the two.Begin with the quick-start tutorial for an overview of the major functionality in ArcGIS Tracking Analyst. If you prefer, jump right in and experiment on your own. The book also includes concise, step-by-step, fully illustrated examples.

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