Package com.esri.arcgis.geoprocessing.tools.analysistools

The Analysis toolbox provides a powerful set of tools to perform various geoprocessing operations of all types of vector data.

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Class Summary
Buffer Creates buffer polygons around input features to a specified distance.
Clip Extracts input features that overlay the clip features.
CreateThiessenPolygons Creates Thiessen polygons from point input features.
Erase Creates a feature class by overlaying the Input Features with the polygons of the Erase Features.
Frequency Reads a table and a set of fields and creates a new table containing unique field values and the number of occurrences of each unique field value.
GenerateNearTable Determines the distances from each feature in the input features to one or more nearby features in the near features, within the search radius.
Identity Computes a geometric intersection of the input features and identity features.
Intersect Computes a geometric intersection of the input features.
MultipleRingBuffer Creates multiple buffers at specified distances around the input features.
Near Determines the distance from each feature in the input features to the nearest feature in the near features, within the search radius.
PointDistance Determines the distances from input point features to all points in the near features within a specified search radius.
Select Extracts features from an input feature class or input feature layer, typically using a select or Structured Query Language [SQL] expression and stores them in an output feature class.
SpatialJoin Transfers the attributes from one feature class to another feature class, based on the spatial relationships between the features in the two feature classes.
Split Splitting the Input Features creates a subset of multiple output feature classes.
Statistics Calculates summary statistics for field(s) in a table.
SymDiff Features or portions of features in the input and update features that do not overlap will be written to the output feature class.
TableSelect Selects table records matching a Structured Query Language (SQL) expression and writes them to an output table.
Union Computes a geometric intersection of the Input Features.
Update Computes a geometric intersection of the Input Features and Update Features.
 

Package com.esri.arcgis.geoprocessing.tools.analysistools Description

The Analysis toolbox provides a powerful set of tools to perform various geoprocessing operations of all types of vector data. With the tools in this toolbox, you can perform overlays, create buffers, calculate statistics, perform proximity analysis, and much more. When you need to solve a spatial or statistical problem, you should always look in the Analysis toolbox. Spatial features, such as buildings, pipes, or parcel boundaries, can be represented with points, lines, and areas. This type of representation is known as the vector data structure. Points, lines, and areas are stored as coordinates or sets of coordinates that define a shape. ArcGIS stores vector data as features in a feature class and collections of feature classes. There are three main formats of feature data: coverages, shapefiles, and geodatabases.

The Analysis toolbox was designed to perform analysis of vector data in a geographic information system (GIS). A powerful function of the Analysis toolbox is that the output of one procedure can be used as input to another.

The Analysis toolbox has four toolsets. Each toolset performs specific GIS analysis of vector data. The following table lists the toolsets available in the Analysis toolbox and provides a brief description of each.

Name Description
Extract Toolset Contains tools to extract features and attributes from a feature class or a table based on attribute queries or spatial extraction and stores them in a new shapefile or geodatabase feature class. These tools include Clip, Select, Split, and Table Select.
Overlay Toolset Contains tools to overlay multiple feature classes to combine, erase, or update spatial features into a new feature class. There are several types of overlay operations, such as Identity, Intersect, Union, and Update.
Proximity Toolset Contains tools to determine the proximity of spatial features within a feature class or between two feature classes. These tools include Buffer, Near, and Point Distance.
Statistics Toolset Contains tools to perform standard statistical analysis on attribute data. They perform mean, minimum, maximum, and standard deviation analysis on attribute data and save the results in a new table. These tools include Frequency and Summary Statistics.