What's new in ArcGIS Bathymetry for ArcGIS Pro 3.5
ArcGIS Bathymetry introduces two new tools with the release of ArcGIS Pro 3.5, along with enhancements to existing tools and to the Bathymetric Information System (BIS) schema .
The expansion to the Bathymetry toolbox focuses on exports, with a new tool for exporting BIS footprints and another for exporting BIS points. With these additions, the Bathymetry toolbox in ArcGIS Pro has achieved parity with the Bathymetry toolbox that was available in ArcMap.
The tool allows you to export footprints from the BisCatalog to a new feature class. These footprint polygons can be useful in supplementing nautical charts, hydrographic models, and spatial analysis workflows including . When exporting, you can optionally deconflict the footprints.
When footprints are deconflicted, they are exported as nonoverlapping polygon features in which footprints with the highest draw order are preserved and ones drawn below that are modified to exclude overlapping areas. This tool also accepts filters created with the Explore Bathymetry tool and rules and models created with the Compose Surface tool to define the subset and order of data that is exported when the tool is run.
Watch a demo of the Export Footprints tool
The Export BIS Points tool allows you to export a point or multipoint feature class from point and point cloud data registered to a BIS. Like the Export Footprints tool, this tool also accepts filter, rule, and model files to determine which point datasets are exported and the order of the output. Similar to deconflicting footprints, you can opt to remove overlaps in the exported point datasets.
Watch a demo of the Export BIS Points tool
The tools that add data, Add Data To BIS and Add Point Data To BIS, have both been enhanced to support the Geographic Transformations environment setting to specify transformation methods that will be used to project data on the fly.
Learn more about Geographic Transformations
Other enhancements with this release include an update to the BIS schema, which has an added Depth field, and a Replace Footprints script tool available in the product data files that can be used to replace dataset footprints with user-defined footprint polygons.
For more information, visit the ArcGIS Bathymetry page or the What’s new documentation and post your questions in the ArcGIS Bathymetry board in Esri Community.