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Python for ArcGIS Pro

By : Silas Toms, Bill Parker
Book Image

Python for ArcGIS Pro

By: Silas Toms, Bill Parker

Overview of this book

Integrating Python into your day-to-day ArcGIS work is highly recommended when dealing with large amounts of geospatial data. Python for ArcGIS Pro aims to help you get your work done faster, with greater repeatability and higher confidence in your results. Starting from programming basics and building in complexity, two experienced ArcGIS professionals-turned-Python programmers teach you how to incorporate scripting at each step: automating the production of maps for print, managing data between ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, creating custom script tools for sharing, and then running data analysis and visualization on top of the ArcGIS geospatial library, all using Python. You’ll use ArcGIS Pro Notebooks to explore and analyze geospatial data, and write data engineering scripts to manage ongoing data processing and data transfers. This exercise-based book also includes three rich real-world case studies, giving you an opportunity to apply and extend the concepts you studied earlier. Irrespective of your expertise level with Esri software or the Python language, you’ll benefit from this book’s hands-on approach, which takes you through the major uses of Python for ArcGIS Pro to boost your ArcGIS productivity.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part I: Introduction to Python Modules for ArcGIS Pro
5
Part II: Applying Python Modules to Common GIS Tasks
10
Part III: Geospatial Data Analysis
14
Part IV: Case Studies
18
Other Books You May Enjoy
19
Index

ArcPy Raster tools

Now that you understand how to create a raster object, let’s explore the use of raster objects with raster tools. These tools are the same ones available in ArcToolbox and are executed by passing the same parameters as you do when using the user interface through ArcGIS Pro.

However, by using Python, we can automate the analysis and run it as a script, or run these tools in the Jupyter Notebook environment in ArcGIS Pro, as shown below.

In this section, you will use a digital elevation model to explore the tools that are available. These tools include Slope, Hillshade, and Conditionals, to name just a few. Some of these tools can be used without a Spatial Analyst license, but most advanced raster tools in ArcGIS Pro require Spatial Analyst. You can use the same Notebook you created at the start of the chapter for this code exploration.

The Spatial Analyst toolset and the sa module

The Spatial Analyst toolset enables advanced spatial modeling...