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Once you’ve set your goal and chosen your criteria, you can start building your suitability model. In the Suitability Modeler app, there are four different ways to add your criteria: 1. Add Criteria Layers from the Contents Pane* This is the most common method. * Click the Dropdown Arrow icon in the Suitability pane to…
A suitability modeling workflow helps you find the best locations for a specific purpose. For example, you can use it to choose sites for housing developments, schools, corporate headquarters, wildlife conservation, or fire prevention. No matter what the application is, the general process is similar. ArcGIS Pro’s…
When building a suitability model, you work with different criteria—such as elevation (measured in meters above sea-level), land use (described using text), and distance from roads (measured in miles). Because these criteria use different units and formats, you must first transform them to a common scale to compare and…
In ArcGIS Pro's Suitability Modeler, the output layers are automatically updated whenever a transformation or weight is applied or changed, provided that the Auto Calculate option is checked on the Suitability ribbon. This is the default behavior. However, this automatic updating may not be desired in all cases. For…
I have criteria which are already transformed to a common scale, how can I use them in Suitability Modeler to create a suitability map and find the most suitable locations? We can use the Submodels input type and treat the transformed criteria as submodels and in so doing avoid the transformation step. On the Settings tab…
When using the Suitability Modeler in ArcGIS Pro, the criteria must be transformed onto a common scale, and this is done on the Transformation Pane. These transformed criteria are combined to create the suitability map. Unless explicitly set, all these layers are processed as raster functions, which processes raster data…
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