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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

Summary

In this chapter, we introduced ArcPy and showed you how to verify a proper install of ArcPy. A shortcut to the version of IDLE that connects to ArcPy for ArcGIS Pro was created and used to write Python code in both the IDLE Shell and in a standalone script file. You learned how to use the ArcGIS Pro Python window for listing data, and the wildcard parameter to filter lists. The data returned to the list was extracted and used for geoprocessing analysis. Raster analysis was completed using the Spatial Analysis module.

In the next chapter, you will be introduced to the ArcGIS API for Python for connecting ArcGIS Pro to ArcGIS Online. ArcGIS Notebooks will also be introduced as a way to write and store Python code.