Using the GeoAnalytics Server without time-enabled data

DalindaDamm

There seems to be a huge focus on analyzing space AND time components with GeoAnalytics. I work for a client that would like to potentially use GeoAnalytics Server 10.6 along with ArcGIS Pro 2.1, but doesn’t have many workflows that include time-enabled data. They would like to use it to process very large vector (spatial-only) datasets. Are there still ample benefits with using GeoAnalytics if you don’t use a lot of time-enabled data?

There is a slightly alternative way to think of this question:

Is the GeoAnalytics Server meant to be more specialized than just utilizing the distributed geoprocessing capabilities for ‘run-of-the-mill’ spatial data?

SarahAmbrose

Hi Dalinda Damm,

 

Great question! GeoAnalytics definitely works for space only. We often emphasis time in presentations and documentation because it’s a new concept for analyzing GIS data. Most customers of GeoAnalytics have time enabled data, since big data is often observational data accumulated over time, but many don’t use time at all!

 

There are only 2 tools at 10.5/10.5.1 that require time, Create Space Time Cube and Reconstruct Tracks. At 10.6, the tool Detect Incidents requires time. Other than those listed tools, you can take advantage of lots of ‘run of the mill’ tools that have been implemented for distributed analysis. For example, some of our most popular tools that don’t require time are Aggregate Points, Join Features, Summarize Attributes, Find Hot Spots and Copy to Data Store.

 

Please let me know if you have any follow up questions.

 

Thanks,

Sarah Ambrose

Product Engineer, GeoAnalytics Team