ArcInfo

ArcInfo is a professional GIS designed to meet all the geographic analysis, display, management, and processing needs of both individual users and organizations striving to establish an enterprisewide GIS. It contains all the tools necessary to build and maintain geodatabases; to display, query, manipulate, and analyze geographic data; and to create charts, reports, and maps. The same technology can be deployed as a stand-alone, lightweight viewer or a collection of networked, fully functional, sophisticated editing and analysis stations.

Within the ArcGIS software family, ArcInfo is the most comprehensive GIS available. It includes all the functionality of ArcView and ArcEditor and adds the advanced geoprocessing and data conversion capabilities that make ArcInfo the de facto standard for GIS. ArcInfo is the complete GIS data creation, update, query, mapping, and analysis system. ArcInfo is composed of ArcInfo Desktop and ArcInfo Workstation.

ArcInfo Desktop includes all the functionality of ArcEditor and adds a complete set of data management, analysis, and conversion tools to the ArcToolbox application. With these tools, you can perform data conversion, generalization, aggregation, overlays, buffer creation, statistical calculations, and much more. Each of these tools has a menu-driven interface with wizards where appropriate. ArcInfo Desktop operates on Windows NT and Windows 2000.

ArcInfo Workstation provides geoprocessing via the classic user interface (ARC, ARCEDIT, ARCPLOT, ARC Macro Language [AML], and more). In addition to providing the user environment familiar to many ArcInfo users and found in countless existing GIS applications, ArcInfo Workstation includes fundamental and matchless geoprocessing functionality. ArcInfo Workstation operates on Windows NT, Windows 2000, and several UNIX platforms.

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