ArcGIS 3D Analyst provides powerful and advanced visualization, analysis, and surface generation tools. The user can view large datasets from multiple viewpoints, query a surface, and create realistic perspective images. Users can also drape raster and vector data over a surface, and extrude two-dimensional features to three dimensions using attribute data. Using ArcGIS 3D Analyst users can perform viewshed and line-of-sight analysis, spot height interpolation, profiling, and steepest path determination. In addition, users can model subsurface features, such as wells, mines, and groundwater, and construct models via ModelBuilder to analyze results in three dimensions. User-defined animations, using flight paths, key frames, and other interactive tools, allow the user to convey a message or concept that can easily be saved to standard video format, such as MPEG, AVI, or QuickTime.

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