ArcGIS 9 is a scalable system intended to help individuals and large companies to build, manage and analyze geographic data. TheArcGIS architecture enables the users to deploy GIS wherever it is needed: in desktops, servers, web, or in the field.
- ArcGIS Desktop
- ArcView - – offers extensive tools for viewing geographic data, building geographic maps, obtaining information from the maps; there are also simple tools for editing and spatial operations.
- ArcEditor - maintains all ArcView functions and adds the editing of topologically integrated features in geo database or coverage function, multiple user editing support, versioning of user defined feature classes, notes linked to the features, and dimensioning
- ArcInfo - is the most powerful product in the ArcGIS family. It includes all the functionality of ArcEditor and adds advanced geoprocessing tools that make ArcInfo a complete system for data creating, updating and analyzing, and for map building
- ArcReader
- ArcGIS extensions (for instance, ArGIS 3d Analyst, ArcGIS Spatial Analyst, Maplex for ArcGIS, etc.)
- Server GIS
- Embedded GIS
- Mobile GIS
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