ArcGIS Spatial Analyst Blog

Discover how density tools reveal clusters within data and aid in visualizing spatial patterns and trends for more informed decision-making.

The Spatial Analyst extension introduces new and enhanced capabilities in ArcGIS Pro 3.4. This release gives you new tools for surface and zonal analysis as well as improved capabilities for density and distance analysis. Several tools for hydrology analysis have improved performance. Some new help content is available for solar analysis. Read on to learn more.

Do you have a raster that has "holes" in it, but you want to fill in those voids? With the raster analysis tools available in the Spatial Analyst extension in ArcGIS Pro and other ArcGIS products, you can do that. This blog will show several approaches and cover how to choose the best method for your situation.

If you want to learn about how spatial data science allows analysts to extract deeper insight from data using a comprehensive set of analytical methods and spatial algorithms, this course will give you a deep dive.

The Spatial Analyst extension offers new and improved capabilities in ArcGIS Pro 3.3. You can further refine your analysis with the Suitability Modeler by excluding specific locations. Use the new output PDF report option to summarize and share key details about how the optimal locations were identified. Take advantage of expanded capabilities, better performance, and improved display in Density, Distance, Solar, and Surface analysis. Read on to learn more.

The Spatial Analyst extension introduces new and enhanced capabilities in ArcGIS Pro 3.2. This release gives you capabilities for evaluating the quality of suitability models. New tools are available for Density, Distance, and Solar analysis. Zonal analysis has a new option to improve workflows, as well as some new statistic types.

This blog introduces the new Least Cost Corridor tool in the Distance toolset in ArcGIS Pro 3.1. Read to learn more about its functionality.

This blog introduces the new Geomorphon Landforms tool in Spatial Analyst in ArcGIS Pro 3.1. Read to learn more about this new capability.

The Spatial Analyst extension in ArcGIS Pro 3.1 has new capabilities, as well as improvements in several key areas.  This includes an exciting new tool for identifying surface landforms. A new tool that makes finding corridors easier. Improvements for several tools in how they leverage parallel processing and GPUs for better performance.  The Suitability Modeler has some internal improvements. Many tools that perform per-cell raster mathematical operations have enhanced support for multidimensional input and output. Read on for more details on these changes.

ArcGIS Pro 3.0 makes some exciting new capabilities available to you for the Spatial Analyst extension. In the Suitability Modeler it is now easier to create more complex models, and there is an option to process large raster data efficiently with Raster Analytics. If you do water flow modelling, there are some very powerful new tools for hydrology analysis. There is a new tool to calculate a spatial relative risk surface. You can now perform zonal analysis with circular statistics.  Read on for details on these changes, and more.