What's new in the Analysis toolbox

A number of changes were made to the Analysis toolbox at 10.1, including two new tools in the Statistics toolset; improvement to the Buffer tool to allow the creation of geodesic buffers for points, lines, and polygons; general improvement in large overlay performance; and better support for data stored in ArcSDE geodatabases.

Toolset changes

No new toolsets were added.

New tools

Toolset

Tool

Description

Statistics toolsetPolygon Neighbors

Creates a table with statistics based on polygon contiguity (overlaps, coincident edges, or nodes).

Tabulate Intersection

Computes the intersection between two feature classes and cross-tabulates the area, length, or count of the intersecting features.

Improved tools

Tool

Improvement

Buffer

Geodesic buffers can now be generated for all feature types (points, lines, and polygons).

Spatial Join

A number of new match options have been added for determining the spatial relationship between two feature classes, including INTERSECT_3D, WITHIN_A_DISTANCE, WITHIN_A_DISTANCE_3D, COMPLETELY_CONTAINS, and CONTAINS_CLEMENTINI.

Related Topics

12/17/2012