Spatial analysis services | Documentation

Spatial analysis allows you to discover patterns, find trends, and gain insights into your geospatial data. As a developer, you can use client and server APIs and toolsTools, also known as developer tools, are ArcGIS software applications such as portal and ArcGIS Pro that developers can use to prepare content and data for custom applications they are building.Learn more to build your own custom spatial analysis applications. You can use ArcGIS Maps SDKsArcGIS Maps SDKs are developer products for building mapping and spatial analysis applications for web browsers, native devices, and game engines.Learn more to perform client-side analysis such as buffering or 3D visual analysis such as calculating viewsheds. You can also perform advanced server-side analyses by using the spatial analysis serviceA spatial analysis service, also known as a feature analysis service, is a service used to perform spatial analysis operations on feature data such as finding, comparing, summarizing, analyzing patterns, and calculating geometries.Learn more to process large featureFeature data is a general term for one or more features, which are records that represent real-world geographic entities, stored as a feature collection, feature layer, or hosted feature layer.Learn more datasets or the raster analysis serviceThe raster analysis service is a service that can be used to perform operations on raster data such as pattern analysis, summarization, proximity analysis, data conversion and performing deep learning analysis.Learn more to process satellite and remotely sensed raster data. To help prepare data and perform preliminary analyses, you can use tools such as Map ViewerMap Viewer is a browser-based mapping tool that can view, create, and save web maps. It can also perform mapping, visualization, and spatial analysis operations.Learn more and ArcGIS ProArcGIS Pro is a professional desktop GIS application that can explore, visualize, analyze, and manage 2D and 3D data.Learn more.

What's in this guide

This guide shows you how to use spatial analysis tools and APIs to build applications that perform the following:

Geometry analysisGeometry analysis is a type of client-side analysis that performs one or more spatial operations on a point, polyline, or polygon to solve a geometric problem.Learn more
Feature analysisFeature analysis is a type of server-side analysis that uses the feature analysis service to perform geometric and analytic operations on feature data.Learn more
Raster analysisRaster analysis is a type of server-side analysis that uses the raster analysis service to perform geometric and analytic operations on raster data.Learn more
3D visual analysisA 3D visual analysis is a type of client-side analysis that calculates and displays spatial information derived from the terrain, buildings, and other 3D objects contained within a scene.Learn more