Defense Community
The new Beach Landing template for ArcGIS 10.1 (prerelease) is available for download from Arcgis.com. This Esri Defense template simplifies the process of creating a map to support amphibious missions. The template allows you to mark up operationally significant land and water features for units coming ashore. The template includes a variety of point, line, and area features common among coastal environments, as well as a “general” obstruction/hazard feature which makes the template flexible enough for use in different geographies.
The downloadable map package contains a finished example map, a map template, feature templates, and a geoprocessing tool that updates the map title and position information.
The Defense & Intelligence Development team will be at the 2012 Esri Developer Summit.
Don’t miss the Introduction to ArcGIS for Defense pre-summit seminar, Monday, March 26 (1:15pm – 2:30pm). This seminar is a chance to learn about ArcGIS for Defense and the downloadable maps and apps we’ve built to meet the needs of defense organizations.
We’ve heard lots of feedback over the last few days from users who want to find the old “Insert your favorite” blog. Unfortunately the redirects we had in place when we deployed the new ArcGIS Blog pointed to its home page instead of these specific locations, leading to many unhappy readers. We have most of these redirects in place now & will have the rest completed today. If you’d rather not wait, here’s a table matching the old individual blogs to their corresponding URLs and RSS feeds in the new unified blog.
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By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead
ArcGIS 10.0 Service Pack 4 (SP4) for English, is now available to our users for download via the ArcGIS Resource Center. This Service Pack contains performance improvements and maintenance fixes. Here are links to the downloads:
Release Note: ArcGIS 10.0 Service Pack 4 for the other five languages (French, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Spanish) will be released in the next two weeks. A follow up blog entry will be posted to announce the availability once they are ready.
Link for Defense Industry-specific blog posts.
As you may have noticed, the blog format has changed. The previous system, with a separate blog for each development team, resulted in 100 different blogs that you might follow. The new system is a single ArcGIS blog, where each topic is flagged by category (in addition to its search tags).
One of the Industry Communities categories is Defense, so you can easily find all the Defense-themed blog posts. To just see Defense blog posts, scroll down the main blog to the Industry Communities category list (on the left panel) and click Defense.
The new system allows blog posts to be tagged with multiple categories, so if we see another team’s post that bears on Defense, we can bring it to your attention by adding it to the Defense category. We encourage you to check out the posts in other categories. The Imagery category, for example, contains some content that may be of interest to the Defense community.
You can also add the Defense category feed to your RSS reader:
http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/category/subject-defense/feed/
or bookmark the Defense category:
http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/category/subject-defense/
For the past few years the various ArcGIS product development teams have hosted a few dozen separate blogs covering the width of the ArcGIS system. Now we have pulled those together into a single ArcGIS Blog so that you can more easily browse, subscribe to, learn from, and stay up-to-speed on the latest information from all our engineers and developers. In addition, the single blog reflects ArcGIS as a system and allows us to better tell big picture implementation stories that we couldn’t in the fragmented system.
If you do want to narrow your focus, just click a Category (under Technical Communities and Industry Communities) or Tag to see the posts for that particular area. You should find a category or tag that matches up with the subject area for each of the old separate blogs. A few may have been overlooked or thought to be unnecessary. We appreciate your feedback on specific categories or tags that should be added to help focus in on subject matter that is of interest to you.
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Some really good improvements are coming soon to the Resource Center. Checkout this sneak peak of the updates that will be released in conjunction with ArcGIS 10.1.
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The new Geonames Tools toolbox is available for download from Arcgis.com. The Geonames Tools toolbox is an Esri Defense toolbox for intelligence analysis. The zip file contains the tools and a template geodatabase with the schema needed to create a gazetteer style locator from National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) UTF-8 encoded tab-delimited geonames text files.
The package includes two tools, with supporting scripts, and instructions for using the tools to create your geonames gazetteer locator. The first tool loads data from a UTF-8 encoded, tab-delimited geonames text files into a feature class, updating the Admin, Country, and Feature codes in the process. The second tool creates a gazetteer style locator from the feature class. This locator can be used on a local machine, or published via ArcGIS for Server for use by multiple clients.
The new Helicopter Landing Zone template is available for download from Arcgis.com. The Helicopter Landing Zone template is an Esri Defense template for intelligence analysis. The Helicopter Landing Zone template contains data and walk-through exercises to teach you how to use ArcGIS tools to create standard Helicopter Landing Zone products.
The template includes a map template and feature templates for typical features collected for Helicopter Landing Zone studies. These features include possible Helicopter Landing Zone areas, their dimensions, and a variety of obstruction types. The obstruction features are divided into point obstructions, such as trees and flag poles, linear obstructions, such as ditches, power lines, and walls, and area obstructions such as buildings and patches of trees.
The Visibility and Range template and the Position Analysis template have been updated for ArcGIS 10 SP3.
Visibility and Range template version 1.1 updates:
The Visibility and Range template version 1.1 modifies the Force visibility to infinity (edge of surface) option in the Radial Line Of Sight tool. The tool now processes large surface datasets to the observer’s horizon on the surface. Effectively, on the surface of the earth, this is the farthest an observer can see without interference from the earth’s curvature. Also, the Find Local Peaks, Highest Points, and Lowest Points tools have been updated to better handle various input surfaces, and the symbology and labels for Range Rings have been improved.
You can download the updated Visibility and Range template here.
Position Analysis template version 1.1 updates:
Updates for version 1.1 of this template include fixes for ArcGIS 10.0 SP3 and several cartographic enhancements for the result layers.
The issues fixed with version 1.1 are: validation errors for the Locate Event, Table To Line Of Bearing, and Table To Ellipse tools; and problems with the Range Rings and Locate Event tools running as a tool layer when selecting points interactively. Also, several of the tools have been modified so they will run with an ArcView license, rather than an ArcInfo license, which was required with the previous version.
You can download the updated Position Analysis template here.
