An overview of the Visibility toolset

The Visibility toolset features tools for performing various forms of visibility analysis, ranging from constructing shadow models and sight lines to generation of viewsheds and skylines.

Tool

Description

Construct Sight Lines

Creates line features that represent sight lines from one or more observer points to features in a target feature class.

Intervisibility

Determines the visibility of sight lines through potential obstructions. The potential obstructions can be any combination of rasters, TINs, multipatches, and extruded polygons or lines.

Line Of Sight

Determines the visibility of sight lines over obstructions consisting of a surface and an optional multipatch dataset.

Observer Points

Identifies which observer points are visible from each raster surface location.

Skyline

Generates a line or multipatch feature class containing the results from a skyline or silhouette analysis.

Skyline Barrier

Generates a multipatch feature class representing a skyline barrier or shadow volume.

Skyline Graph

Calculates sky visibility and generates an optional table and polar graph.

Sun Shadow Volume

Creates closed volumes that model shadows cast by each feature using sunlight for a given date and time.

Viewshed

Determines the raster surface locations visible to a set of observer features.

Visibility

Determines the raster surface locations visible to a set of observer features, or identifies which observer points are visible from each raster surface location.

Overview of tools in the Visibility toolset

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3/7/2014