An overview of the Elevation toolset

The Elevation toolset contains tools that operate on authoritative digital elevation models to derive surface information, such as calculating visible areas and profiles.

These tools can be accessed from either the Analysis ribbon or the Geoprocessing pane's Portal tab.

ToolDescription

Profile

Returns elevation profiles for the input line features.

Summarize Elevation

Calculates summary statistics of elevation for each input feature.

Viewshed

Returns polygons of visible areas for a given set of input observation points.

Tools in the Elevation toolset

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