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Python for ArcGIS Pro

Python for ArcGIS Pro

By : Toms, Parker
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Python for ArcGIS Pro

Python for ArcGIS Pro

4.8 (52)
By: Toms, 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)
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Part I: Introduction to Python Modules for ArcGIS Pro
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Part II: Applying Python Modules to Common GIS Tasks
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Part III: Geospatial Data Analysis
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Part IV: Case Studies
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Other Books You May Enjoy
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Index

Built-in ArcPy functions

ArcPy has many built-in functions to help with geoprocessing. ArcPy functions look like geoprocessing tools in the way they are written. When you wrote the code to create a selection feature class in the previous exercise, you wrote arcpy.analysis.Select(in_features, out_features, {where_clause}). By encasing the input features, output features, and where clause in parentheses, you were calling the function and passing to it those parameters.

That is all a function is: a bundle of code that contains instructions for how to process the data you send it.

ArcPy has functions to assist with things such as the environment settings, describing data, licensing, ArcGIS Online, raster, listing data, along with functions for specific modules like the Spatial Analyst or Mapping modules. In this section, you will explore two of the more commonly used built-in functions:

  • The Describe function
  • List functions

These are common...

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