Find Hot Spots (Grids)

Overview

The Find Hot Spots tool generates a grid of equal-sized cells based on your defined extents. You can create grid cells based on the current extent, study area extent, or extent of a feature in another layer. You can append demographic data to a grid cell to provide a normalized view of the data, identifying hot spots and areas of interest. The hot spot grid areas appear with prominent red coloring by default.

Input Prerequisites

This is a defined extent.

Example Output

This example shows a typical Grid analysis output created in Business Analyst:

Below is an example of the Grid thematic layer:

Grid thematic layer

Below is an example of the Grid attribute table. This attribute table is directly related to the thematic output above.

Grids database

Below is an example of the Grid layer added to the ArcMap table of contents:

Grids table of contents

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9/16/2010