Literature

Case Studies

Books

What Is ArcGIS 9.2? [PDF-16.5 MB, 126 pages]
Date: November 2006
Subject: This book provides an overview of GIS concepts, the geodatabase, and the ArcGIS family of products.

Brochures

ArcView [PDF-904 KB, 8 pages]

ArcGIS Extensions [PDF-3.70 MB, 20 pages]

ArcGIS [PDF-5.10 MB, 9 pages]

ArcGIS 9.2 Functionality Matrix [PDF-147 KB, 48 pages]

ArcGIS 9.2 Functionality Matrix Poster [PDF-612 KB, 3 pages]

Articles

Product Review: ArcView 9.0 with ArcGIS 3D Analyst, GeoInformatics, Oct./Nov. 2004 [PDF-441 KB, 5 pages]

White Papers

ArcGIS Enterprise Security: Delivering Secure Solutions
Date: July 2005
Subject: Effective enterprise security can be a challenge for IT architects and security specialists who design, deploy, and support mission-critical solutions. While recent industry advancements, especially in the areas of Web services standards and services-oriented architectures, are helping architects to more effectively meet their security objectives, these new capabilities are also contributing to an already complex set of protocols, tools, and architectures. ESRI is committed to helping you determine the best way to apply security alternatives in your GIS solutions

ESRI Cartography: Capabilities and Trends
Date: June 2004
Subject: This white paper gives an overview of the cartography and map production capabilities of ESRI ArcGIS software and highlights how the products are being enhanced to provide the world's leading solution for database driven map publishing. [PDF-1.90 MB, 16 pages]

ESRI Data & Maps 2005
Date: December 2005
Subject: This white paper provides information on the ESRI Data & Maps 2005 CD. This paper covers the data sets, the updated data sets, map documents (MXDs), completely updated metadata, and added layer metadata. [PDF-842 KB, 41 pages]

ESRI Data & Maps 2004
Date: August 2004
Subject: This paper discusses ESRI Data & Maps data bundle which has been updated for 2004 and has a metadata file that provides content, quality, condition, and other characteristics of the data set. [PDF-493 KB, 38 pages]

ESRI Data & Maps 2003
Date: April 2003
Subject: This white paper discusses the ESRI Data & Maps 2003 data bundle and has a metadata file that provides content, quality, condition, and other characteristics of the data set.
[PDF-792 KB, 28 pages]

ESRI Shapefile Technical Description White Paper
Date: July 1998
Subject: This white paper defines the shapefile data format. It also provides all the technical information necessary for writing a computer program to create shapefiles without the use of ArcView or other ESRI software for organizations that want to write their own data translators.
[PDF-126 KB, 34 pages]

Technical Papers

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