AutoCAD WS 1.6.1 Released – AutoCAD Utility Design Now Supported

Description

AutoCAD WS enables you to view, edit, and share AutoCAD® drawings with anyone, anywhere using your mobile device. Annotate and revise drawings in the office, in the field, or in a meeting. Work on designs without an internet connection, and easily open DWG, DWF, and DXF™ files directly from email. Simplify design creation, review, and approval using powerful, built-in social design collaboration tools. Unleash the power of AutoCAD design beyond the desktop with AutoCAD WS.
✓View
• Open 2D and 3D DWG drawings uploaded to your free* AutoCAD WS online account
• Work offline, then easily upload changes when you are back online
• Upload and open files directly from email on your device
• See all aspects of your DWG file, including external references, layers, and image underlays
• Use multi-touch zoom and pan to easily navigate large drawings
• Use your device’s GPS to orient yourself within a drawing

✓Edit
• Draw and edit shapes with accuracy using Snap
• Select, move, rotate, and scale objects
• Add and edit text annotations directly on your drawing; no need for paper mark-ups
• Validate distance measurements in the drawing while you are onsite
• Save edits to your AutoCAD WS online workspace, so your drawings stay up to date

✓Share
• Share your designs with others directly from the mobile app
• Add comments and images and invite responses using the Design Feed
• Print remotely from your mobile device using HP’s ePrint & Share service
• Plot your designs to PDF or DWF and share them via email

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Mastering AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012

Dig Deep into Civil 3D with This Expert Guide
The new version of this Autodesk Official Training Guide has been completely revised and updated by two renowned Civil 3D experts, who bring a fresh perspective on using Civil 3D 2012 in professional environments. Quickly build your skills and effectively manage every stage of your projects with this detailed reference and tutorial, which covers everything from the Civil 3D user interface to surveying and alignments, advanced corridors and roundabouts, sanitary and storm analysis, cost estimating, styles, and much more.
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Coverage includes:
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E-book : Remote Sensing of Planet Earth

Edited by Yann Chemin

Monitoring of water and land objects enters a revolutionary age with the rise of ubiquitous remote sensing and public access. Earth monitoring satellites permit detailed, descriptive, quantitative, holistic, standardized, global evaluation of the state of the Earth skin in a manner that our actual Earthen civilization has never been able to before. The water monitoring topics covered in this book include the remote sensing of open water bodies, wetlands and small lakes, snow depth and underwater seagrass, along with a variety of remote sensing techniques, platforms, and sensors. The Earth monitoring topics include geomorphology, land cover in arid climate, and disaster assessment after a tsunami. Finally, advanced topics of remote sensing covers atmosphere analysis with GNSS signals, earthquake visual monitoring, and fundamental analyses of laser reflectometry in the atmosphere medium.

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E-book : Remote Sensing - Applications

Edited by Boris Escalante-Ramirez

Nowadays it is hard to find areas of human activity and development that have not profited from or contributed to remote sensing. Natural, physical and social activities find in remote sensing a common ground for interaction and development. This book intends to show the reader how remote sensing impacts other areas of science, technology, and human activity, by displaying a selected number of high quality contributions dealing with different remote sensing applications.

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E-book : Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Edited by Pei-Gee Peter Ho

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Edited by Jaroslav Burian

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E-book : Application of Geographic Information Systems

Edited by Bhuiyan Monwar Alam

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DEM Surface Tools for ArcGIS

Description:  This extension provides you with tools to generate a variety of surface characteristics of a landscape, using both projected and unprojected (i.e. latitude / longitude) digital elevation model (DEM) rasters. These tools include:

1. Surface Area and Ratio of a landscape
2. Slope, with 3 slope algorithm options
3. Aspect, with 3 aspect algorithm options, and an additional tool to apply a traditional directional Aspect symbology to an existing Aspect raster.
4. Hillshade, with optional hypsometric tinting
5. Multi-directional Oblique-Weighted Hillshade, with optional hypsometric tinting
6. Seven types of Landscape Curvature

ArcGIS has many useful tools for calculating slope, aspect, hillshade and curvature from DEM rasters. This extension offers some advantages over these existing tools in that:

• These tools correctly handle Latitude / Longitude Data: The existing ArcGIS tools typically do not work well with data in a geographic coordinate system (i.e. Latitude / Longitude coordinates). They expect the vertical units of a digital elevation model to be the same as the horizontal units, and at best they only allow you to enter in an adjustment factor (generally called a "Z-factor") to adjust your Z-units to your X/Y-units. This Z-factor adjustment method is cumbersome to implement with latitude/longitude coordinate systems because the correct Z-factor is both hard to calculate and changes with latitude. Geographic data is especially confounding because the X-units are not the same as the Y-units. Both are in "degrees", but a degree in latitude (Y-units) is not the same distance as a degree in longitude (X-units).                                                                         Unfortunately, most free elevation data available online is only available in latitude/longitude coordinates. This data can be projected, but projecting raster data introduces errors in resolution and precision (see horizontal and vertical artifacts on illustration in manual). This extension modifies the algorithms used to calculate common morphological characteristics of the landscape so that they accurately work with latitude/longitude data without projecting the data or using Z-factor adjustments. All methods are described in detail in the manual, but in general this extension will always automatically detect the coordinate system of the raster and use the method appropriate for that coordinate system

• These tools offer several options not available in the standard ArcGIS tools: Including multiple slope and aspect algorithms, optional hypsometric shading for hillshades, the MDOW model for hillshades, and many more options for landscape curvature. 

• Surface Area and Ratio: This extension allows you to generate Surface Area and Surface Ratio rasters from an existing Elevation raster. The cell values for these new rasters reflect the surface area and (surface area) / (planimetric area) ratio for the land area contained within that cell's boundaries. Both Surface Area and Surface Ratio provide useful indices of topographic roughness and convolutedness, and can give a more realistic estimate of the land area available than you can get from the simple planimetric area. 

• These tools do not require Spatial Analyst: This extension uses only standard ArcGIS ArcObjects functions and therefore does not require a license for either Spatial Analyst or 3D Analyst.

Requires:  ArcGIS 9.2 or better, at any license level, or ArcGIS 10.

Important:  This extension does not require Spatial Analyst or 3D Analyst.  It will work just fine without any add-on extensions

Thanks to  Jeff Jenness    

To download the extension :

http://www.jennessent.com/arcgis/surface_area.htm

DEM Surface Tools Manual

New IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine !!!

Beginning in March 2013, GRSS will publish the new IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine, which was approved by the IEEE Technical Activities Board in 2012. This is an important achievement for GRSS since it has never had a publication in the magazine format. The magazine will provide a new venue to publish high quality technical articles that by their very nature do not find a home in journals requiring scientific innovation but that provide relevant information to scientists, engineers, end-users, and students who interact in different ways with the geoscience and remote sensing disciplines.

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Hawth’s Tools – Free Tools for Spatial Analysis

Hawth’s Analysis Tools provides a suite of solutions for tasks common in spatial analysis. Specifically developed for ecological studies, these tools can be used in any application for analyzing spatial data. They extend (and in some cases simplify) core ArcGIS functionality that is not available out-of-the-box. The extension consists of more than fifty tools that cover a broad range of analysis types including analyzing, sampling, and editing vector as well as raster data, and tools for common operations in tables and CSV files. All tools and descriptions can be found here:

Tool Descriptions

Analysis Tools Intersect Point Tool Distance Between Points (Within Layer) Distance Between Points (Betw. Layer) Count Points In Polygons Polygon In Polygon Analysis Sum Line Lengths in Polygons Line Raster Intersection Statistics Enumerate Intersecting Features Line Metrics Sampling Tools Create Random Selection Random Selection Within Subsets Generate Random Points Generate Regular Points Conditional Point Sampling Tool Create Vector Grid (lines/polygons) Create Sample Shapes (various shapes) Generare Random 3D Points Animal Movements Create Minimum Convex Polygons Calculate Movement Parameters Convert Locations To Paths Convert Paths to Points CRW Simulation I CRW Simulation II Kernel Tools Fixed Kernel Density Estimator Batch Fixed Kernel Density Estimator Percent Volume Contour Raster Tools Clip Raster Clip Raster By Polygons Landscape Characterization (fast) Extract Raster Edge Thematic Raster Summary (by polygon) Zonal Statistics ++ (by polygon) Spatial Replace Tool Maximum Grid Separation Tool Cellular Automata (1D x Time) Grid Spread (Cellular Automata) Raster Pixel Type Conversion Table Tools Add Area Field To Table Add Length Field To Table Add XY To Table List Unique Values Sum Values Delete Multiple Fields Add XY Line Data (creates line layer) CSV Management Tool Vector Editing Tools Create Buffers (Retain Attributes) Vector Rotation and Shifting Tool Snap Points To Lines Tool Intersect Lines (Make Points) Split Vector Layer By Unique Value Field Specialist Tools River Sample Extraction Point Redistribution Tool PLSS Point Finder Julian Day Lookup Other Tools Digitize XY Coordinates Set/Zoom To View Extent Bookmark

The tools run on ArcGIS 9.x at the ArcView, ArcEditor, and ArcInfo license levels. *These tools do not support on-the-fly projection changes, so it is important that tools that use more than one input layer have the same projection.

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http://www.spatialecology.com/htools/download.php

Tools for Comparing and Analyzing Geodatabase Schemas

I found a very intersting  suite of tools written in Python for analyzing components of a geodatabase and for finding the differences between geodatabase schemas and thanks to Brooke Reams , Geospatial Analyst at Esri, for this suite. 
 The tools are accessible through an ArcGIS Toolbox called SchemaInspector.tbx. They are grouped into three categories:
1. Analyzer Tools
2. Diff & Compare Tools
3. Diff Tools

There are five tools under the Analyzer Tools toolset. These tools are for printing properties of a single geodatabase component. Each tool has parameters for the input workspace and the output text file (the output text file does not have to pre-exist).
1. Analyze Domains
- Prints properties to a text file for each domain in a workspace including Domain Type, Range, Field Type, Merge Policy, and Split Policy.

2. Analyze Feature Classes
 - Prints properties to a text file for each feature class in a workspace (geodatabase or feature dataset) including Shape Type, Shape Field Name, Feature Type, Spatial Index, Has M, and Has Z.

3. Analyze Fields
- Prints properties to a text file for each selected field in a feature class including Type, Alias, Base Name, Domain, Editable, Nullable, Length, Precision, Required, and Scale.

4. Analyze Relationship Classes
- Prints properties to a text file for each relationship class in a workspace including Backward Path Label, Cardinality, Class Key, Destination Class Names, Forward Path Label, Attachment Relationship, Attributed, Composite, Reflexive, Key Type, Notification, and Origin Class Names.

5. Analyze Tables
- Prints properties to a text file for each table in a workspace including Has OID and OID Field Name.


There are six tools under the Diff & Compare Tools toolset. These tools are for comparing particular geodatabase components between two workspaces. Each tool has parameters for the two schemas to compare and the output text file.
 1. Domain Diff & Compare
- Prints the names of domains that are not common between workspaces to a text file. Searches common domains and prints domain names and properties (same properties as the Analyze Domains tool) for domains with the same name but with different properties.

2. Feature Class Diff & Compare
- Prints the names of feature classes that are not common between workspaces to a text file. Searches both standalone feature classes and feature classes in feature datasets. Searches common feature classes and prints feature class names and properties (same properties as the Analyze Feature Classes tool) for feature classes with the same name but with different properties.

3. Field Diff & Compare (by Feature Class)
- Prints the names of fields that are not common between feature classes to a text file. Searches common fields and prints field names and properties (same properties as the Analyze Fields tool) for fields with the same name but with different properties.

4. Field Diff & Compare (by Workspace)
- Prints the names of fields that are not common between all feature classes in the workspaces to a text file. Searches both standalone feature classes and feature classes in feature datasets. Searches common fields and prints field anmes and properties (same properties as the Analyze Fields tool) for fields with the same name but with different properties.

5. Relationship Class Diff & Compare
- Prints the names of relationship classes that are not common between workspaces to a text file. Searches common relationship classes and prints relationship class names and properties (same properties as the Analyze Relationship Classes tool) for relationship classes with the same name but with different properties.

6. Table Diff & Compare
- Prints the names of tables that are not common between workspaces to a text file. Searches common tables and prints table names and properties (same properties as the Analyze Tables tool) for tables with the same name but with different properties.


There is one tool under the Diff Tools toolset. This tool is called Workspace Diff and combines all of the tools under Diff & Compare toolset into a single tool. There are parameters for the two schemas to compare and the output text file.


All of the tools can be used with Basic, Standard, and Advanced license levels. The tools can be used with ArcGIS 10.0 or higher, with the exception of the Analyze Domains tool, the Domain Diff & Compare tool, and the Workspace Diff tool which require ArcGIS 10.1 or higher (to use the Workspace Diff tool on 10.0, simply comment out the lines that compare domains [361 - 387] in the ws_diff.py file).

The SchemaInspector.tbx and all of the tools described above can be downloaded from the Geospatial Database for free. Right click on the link below and select Save As... to download the zip containing the .tbx and .py files. Unzip all of the files to the same folder location (toolbox and scripts use relatives paths). The tools can be accessed and executed from both ArcMap and ArcCatalog.

Schema Inspector Toolbox

Below is an image of the Workspace Diff tool and the output text file that is created when the tool is executed.