Unpacking The New Arcgis Pro 10.7.
ESRI (Environmental Service Research Institute) recently announced that they will no longer be releasing the latest version of Arcmap and that it would not be supported after March 1, 2026.They are encouraging users to transition to their latest product, Arcgis-Pro which is best suited for data science and analytics.
ArcGIS Pro is desktop GIS software developed by Esri, which replaces their ArcMap software generation. The product was announced as part of Esri’s ArcGIS 10.3 release, ArcGIS Pro is notable in having a 64 bit architecture, combined 2-D, 3-D support, ArcGIS Online integration and Python 3 support.
ARCMAP Work Flow
SO..WHATS NEW?
3D Analyst
The Surface Difference tool now supports LAS datasets.
Improved progress reporting is available for Thin LAS, Tile LAS, Colorize LAS, LAS dataset to Raster, and LAS Dataset Statistics.
Classify LAS Building considers roof points when returning values that are zero, allowing support for photogrammetric point clouds.
LAS Dataset to TIN honors clip as an extent option.
Interpolate Shape has a nearest neighbor option when the input surface is a raster.
The Classify LAS Ground tool has improved performance with multiple processing boundaries.
The Contour tool has improved performance for most polygon and polyline output.
LAS files are supported natively, providing immediate access to lidar data without the need for data conversion or import.
Hydrology tool set
The Flow Distance tool has a new parameter, Statistics Type, that determines the statistics type used to compute flow distance over multiple flow paths.
The Parallel Processing Factor environment is not supported for the Sink tool.
Neighborhood tool set
The Focal Statistics tool now supports the Parallel Processing Factor environment. The tool uses multiple processors when calculating statistics of the output raster for improved performance.
Databases and geodatabases
You can no longer create user-schema geodatabases in Oracle. You can continue to use and upgrade existing user-schema geodatabases at this release, but you should begin moving your data to stand-alone geodatabases.
The use of Altibase databases with ArcGIS has been deprecated.
You cannot create a geodatabase in Microsoft SQL Server 2012 or upgrade an existing geodatabase if it resides in a SQL Server 2012 database. Upgrade SQL Server to a supported release before you upgrade your geodatabase.
Network Analyst
The ‘+’ and ‘-’ operators have been added to the Function evaluator. These operators can be used when setting up a function evaluator on a network dataset.
The Route Solver uses a new algorithm for reordering stops to find the optimal route. It improves both the quality of the solution (including an exact solution for problems with up to 16 stops) and the time it takes to solve large problems.
Hydrology toolset
The Flow Distance tool has a new parameter, Statistics Type, that determines the statistics type used to compute flow distance over multiple flow paths.
The Parallel Processing Factor environment is not supported for the Sink tool.
Extraction toolset
The Extract Multi Values to Points, Extract Values to Points, and Sample tools have been re engineered for better performance. The interpolation methods have also been improved for these tools.
Image services of multidimensional data are now supported in the Sample tool.
This looks very promising!
