Easily Author, Serve, and Use Geographic Data

• Usability Enhancements
• Productivity Tools

As a complete geographic information system (GIS),
ArcGIS 9.2 lets you easily

• Author data, maps, globes, and models on the desktop.
• Serve them to a GIS server
• Use them through Web, desktop, and mobile clients.

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Server-Based GIS

With ArcGIS Server, it's easy to publish your geographic information and user-focused geospatial applications. Serve models and applications authored with ArcGIS Desktop as GIS services that can be consumed by browser-based, desktop, and mobile clients. Out-of-the-box capabilities and templates let you get started creating services with no programming.

ArcGIS Server also includes the new ArcGIS Explorer client, which supports a wide variety of 3D mapping services as well as geoprocessing services for spatial analysis.

Cartography

The cartographic representations in ArcGIS 9.2 let you fully control the appearance of features separately from the underlying geometry of the data. Refinements you make to individual features are stored as overrides, allowing you to consistently apply and reuse your cartographic designs.

ArcGIS 9.2 also includes a suite of advanced drawing and symbolization tools that let you create professional-looking finished maps from your GIS.

Image Processing

ArcGIS Image Server also performs advanced image processing such as image enhancement, orthorectification, pan sharpening, and complex image mosaicking, further extending the uses of imagery and allowing organizations to get the most out of their investment in imagery.

Visualization and Analysis

 ArcGIS 9.2 lets you make better decisions through improved visualization and analysis of your data. It provides new tools that allow you to create, play back, and export time-based animations and graphs of how processes evolve, thereby revealing patterns and trends.

ArcGIS is already recognized as the world's most advanced system for true topological and raster analyses, and ArcGIS 9.2 provides new modeling and analysis tools for advanced exploration of your spatial data.

Data Management

ArcGIS 9.2 offers high-precision coordinate storage and greater flexibility in distributing your enterprise GIS data, allowing you to expand the use of large GIS systems within your organization or on the Web.

You can create and share complete or partial database replicates (copies), synchronize and reconcile edits and changes, and create archives of transaction histories to achieve better collaboration and data sharing between departments, organizations, and field staff.

Interoperability

For more than 30 years, ESRI has built open and interoperable commercial off-the-shelf software products. ArcGIS 9.2 expands ESRI's support for a number of industry standards including IT and Web services; the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC); the International Organization for Standardization (ISO); and DXF and KML.

ArcGIS 9.2 also includes better support for many transformation procedures (extract, transform, and load), FGDC standards, and metadata (ISO 19139 standard).