Introducing Geographic Information Systems with ArcGIS: A Workbook Approach to Learning GIS, 3rd Edition

ArcScene

With ArcScene you can:

• Create surfaces with a number of tools and techniques.
• Analyze surfaces in a variety of ways.
• Drape raster images over surfaces.
• Drape vector features over surfaces.
• View three-dimensional surfaces in perspective from multiple observer points.
• View scenes differently by changing the shading, transparency, and illumination properties of 3-D layers.
• Change the “Z” visual component of 3-D scenes (exaggerate the vertical).
• Create surface models from rasters and TINs.
• Make queries on raster values.
• Get instantaneous information about the elevation, slope, and aspect of TINs.
• Create contours of surfaces.
• Find the steepest path on a surface.
• See a surface under different levels of illumination.
• Calculate the volume between a horizontal plane and three-dimensional surface specified by a TIN.
• Determine what parts of a landscape can be seen from various vantage points.
• Draw lines of sight across landscapes.
• Create a 2-D cross-section profile graph of a 3-D surface, given a line across the surface.
• Create 3-D features from 2-D data.
• Digitize 3-D features.
• Extrude 3-D features from 2-D features.
• Simulate “flying through” a landscape, using animation capabilities