The ArcGIS Solutions Geoprocessing Toolbox is a set of models, scripts, and tools for use in ArcGIS Desktop. These tools provide specialized processing, workflows, and analysis for defense, intelligence, emergency management, and other solutions domains.

• Features
• Requirements
• A Tale of Two Toolboxes
• Instructions
  • General Help
  • Getting Started with the tools
  • Downloading Test Data
  • Running Verification Tests
• Resources
• Issues
• Contributing
• Credits
• Licensing

• Specialized geoprocessing models and tools for general defense and intelligence analysis tasks including

  • Tools for visibility and range analysis
  • Tools for analyzing the battlefield environment
  • Tools for data management and coordinates

• The capability folder contains:

  • ERG (Emergency Resources Guide) Tools
  • Helicopter Landing Zone Tools
  • Point Of Origin Tools

• The data_management folder contains:

  • Adjust Sample Data Dates Tools
  • Build Elevation Mosaic Tools - To be deprecated, replaced by Elevation Tools
  • CADRG ECRG Tools
  • CIB Tools
  • Elevation Tools
  • Geonames Tools
  • Imagery Basemap Tools - To be deprecated, replaced by CIB Tools
  • Import and Conversion Tools - formerly Position Analysis Tools
  • LiDAR Elevation Tools
  • Network Data Preparation Tools
  • Patrol Data Capture Tools
  • Publishable Task Tools
  • Scanned Map Basemap Tools - To be deprecated, replaced by CADRG ECRG Tools
  • Topographic Basemap Tools - To be deprecated, replaced by Elevation Tools

• The operational_graphics folder contains:

  • Clearing Operations Tools
  • Range Card Tools

• The patterns folder contains:

  • Change Detection Tools
  • Incident Analysis Tools
  • Landsat Pre Processing Tools
  • Movement Analysis Tools

• The suitability folder contains:

  • Maritime Decision Aid Tools
  • Military Aspects of Terrain Tools
  • Military Aspects of Weather Tools
  • Path Slope Tools

• The visibility folder contains:

  • Sun Position Analysis Tools
  • Visibility and Range Tools
  • Visibility Data Prep Tools

• ArcGIS Desktop 10.3+ or ArcGIS Pro 1.0+
  • Check Releases for tools for previous versions of ArcGIS Desktop
• Apache Ant - used to download and extract dependent data and run test drivers
• Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Developer Kit (JDK) (required by Ant)
• Some tools require additional licenses (these tools will be disabled if license is unavailable), see READMEs for more information:
  • ArcGIS Desktop Advanced (ArcInfo)
  • ArcGIS Spatial Analyst Extension
  • ArcGIS 3D Analyst Extension
  • ArcGIS Network Analyst Extension
  • For example these tools require Desktop Advanced and Spatial Analyst:
    • Path Slope Tools.tbx\Path Slope
    • Visibility and Range Tools.tbx\Range Fan

The solutions-geoprocessing-toolbox repo is now supporting toolboxes for both ArcMap/ArcCatalog/ArcGlobe/ArcScene (collectively called ArcGIS for Desktop) and also ArcGIS Pro. Toolboxes that are modified in ArcGIS Pro are not backwards compatible with other ArcGIS Desktop applications (ArcMap), so most toolboxes are duplicated for one or the other. The naming of these toolboxes is as follows:

• Toolboxes that are for ArcGIS Desktop 10.3 will include _10.3 after the toolbox name. For example: Visibility and Range Tools_10.3.tbx
• Toolboxes with a 'unversioned' name are for ArcGIS Pro 1.0. For example: Visibility and Range Tools.tbx

Please note that some toolboxes are for ArcGIS Pro only, or ArcGIS Desktop 10.3 only. These toolboxes will follow the above naming convention, but will not have a duplicate.

• Product info for ArcGIS Pro
• Help for ArcGIS Pro

New to Github? Get started here.

Downloading Test Data and Running Verification Tests are only available through the GitHub repository, and are not available from other download versions of the repository.

• Download the Github repository
  • If repository was downloaded as a zip, extract the zip file
  • Make note of this directory, the steps below assume it will be called "solutions-geoprocessing-toolbox"

• Install and configure Apache Ant
  • Download Ant from the Apache Ant Project and unzip to a location on your machine, for example 'c:\apache-ant-1.9.2'.
  • Set environment variable ANT_HOME to Ant Install Location (e.g. the folder from first step)
  • Add Ant\bin to your path: %ANT_HOME%\bin
  • NOTE: Ant requires Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Developer Kit (JDK) to be installed and the environment variable JAVA_HOME to be set to this location
  • To verify your Ant Installation: Open Command Prompt> ant -h and verify it runs and returns the help options correctly
  • You may optionally install the PyDev Eclipse Plugin for Python if you plan to use Eclipse to run/debug
• To download the data dependencies
  • Open Command Prompt>
  • cd solutions-geoprocessing-toolbox
  • > ant
  • Verify “Build Succeeded”

• Configure and verify Ant as described in the previous steps
• To run all unit tests
  • > cd solutions-geoprocessing-toolbox
  • > ant -f run_all_tests.xml
  • Note/Warning: this will run the test drivers from each test directory and can take several hours to run
• To run individual unit tests
  • Open Command Prompt>
  • Go to the folder for the area you would like to test, the example below uses the environment area/folder, but each area has similar tests
  • > cd solutions-geoprocessing-toolbox\environment\test
  • > ant
  • Verify “Build Succeeded”

• Learn more about ArcGIS Solutions.
• Learn more about ArcGIS for the Military.
• Learn more about ArcGIS for Intelligence.
• Learn more about ArcGIS for Emergency Management.
• Learn more about ArcGIS Pro.

• Find a bug or want to request a new feature? Please let us know by submitting an issue.

Esri welcomes contributions from anyone and everyone through GitHub. Please see our guidelines for contributing.

Start contributing to the solutions-geoprocessing-toolbox repo by making a fork and cloning it to your local machine.

• Fork the repo in github.com with
• Clone your remote onto your local system
• Get the mdcs-py submodule:
  • > git submodule init
  • > git submodule update

Setting the parent repo to get changes from.

• > git remote -v

if no upstream is listed continue with:

• > git remote add upstream https://github.com/Esri/solutions-geoprocessing-toolbox
• > git remote set-url upstream --push no_push

check that an upstream is registered:

• > git remote -v

The solutions-geoprocessing-toolbox repo changes often, so make sure you are getting the latest updates often.

• > git fetch upstream
• > git merge upstream/master

If you've made changes to the repo that you want to share with the community.

• Commit your changes to your local
• Sync local with your remote fork
• Make a Pull Request from your remote fork on github.com

Mosaic Dataset Configuration Scripts (MDCS) is an Esri repo available at https://github.com/Esri/mdcs-py and licensed under Apache License Version 2.0, January 2004.

Copyright 2015 Esri

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

A copy of the license is available in the repository's license.txt file.

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