What's new in ArcGIS tutorials June 2025
Explore a scene
In this tutorial, you'll work with a 3D scene, which is a method used to display and explore three-dimensional data. You'll open an existing 3D scene and learn how to navigate it in Scene Viewer, a dedicated web app for visualizing geospatial data in 3D. You'll also apply a 3D basemap to enhance the scene, perform measurements, adjust the time of day to display shadows, and change the weather for the scene. Finally, you'll search for your hometown or other locations to continue exploring.
Create and visualize a lidar point cloud
In this tutorial, you'll discover how to create and visualize lidar point clouds with ArcGIS Pro. You'll create a LAS dataset from several LAS data files and display it in a 3D scene. Then, you'll examine it, learn about its properties, and style it based on elevation, intensity, and number of returns.
Create a tactile map
Tactile maps are maps that, when printed on swell touch paper, have raised features that can be read by touch, making them accessible to people with visual impairments.
In this tutorial, you'll create a tactile map for a friend who is visually impaired. Your friend lives in Washington, D.C., and likes to visit Murrow Park. Though they are fully able to navigate the area, they want an overview of the neighborhood to better understand its topology, including the relative locations of the park and nearby roads and buildings.
Using ArcGIS Pro, you'll map Murrow Park with symbology that is distinguishable by touch. You'll improve the map's legibility by simplifying and combining certain features and symbols. Then, you'll create a layout with a title, scale bar, and legend in Braille. Your ultimate result will be a map that is ready to be printed on swell touch paper as a tactile map.
Though this workflow maps Murrow Park in Washington, D.C., the techniques you learn can be applied to create tactile maps for locations around the world.
Create forms and templates for editing
The City of New York shares information about local parks on a public website to help residents identify recreational areas that meet their needs. To ensure information remains accurate, the New York City parks dataset must be updated regularly. In this tutorial, you'll act as a GIS Data Technician working for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. You'll create an editing form that will be used to maintain the New York City parks dataset more efficiently. To accomplish this task, you'll configure fields, implement Arcade expressions, and create templates, which help to simplify the editing workflow.
Explore imagery - Spectral resolution
An important characteristic of imagery data is its resolution. There are four types of resolution: spatial, temporal, spectral, and radiometric, as illustrated in our growing tutorial series Explore imagery resolution. In this tutorial, you'll learn about spectral resolution.
You'll become familiar with several concepts such as spectral resolution, spectral bands, multispectral imagery, band combination, and spectral profile. You'll examine and manipulate satellite imagery of different spectral resolutions in ArcGIS Pro, with a focus on the region of Brandenburg, Germany. Finally, you'll learn how to change the number of spectral bands in your imagery.
Get started with ArcGIS Web Editor
In New York City, the Parks Department is planning a city-wide tree trimming initiative to ensure public safety and maintain urban greenery. Due to recent storms, many trees are at risk of falling, requiring immediate attention. The department needs to update geographic tree-trimming data to prioritize high-risk areas. Field crews have given you data for planning the tree trimming activities in a neighborhood close to the shore where winds are high during storms. The updated data will help streamline the tree trimming process and ensure efficient allocation of resources.
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use ArcGIS Web Editor to select, create, copy, move, and reshape individual features, as well as perform bulk attribute updates.