What's new in version 1.9.1

New

• API-Reference documentation updates across many modules
  • Adds hyperlinks to return value objects
  • Adds text emphasis to terms within class, property, method and function descriptions
  • Adds and expands upon code snippets
  • Adds conceptual grouping of classes and submodules in mapping module instead of presenting members alphabetically

Guides

• Working with geometries
• Part 3 - Spatial operations on geometries
  • Adds Area and Lengths sections to Pattern using arcgis.geometry.functions: uses server-side geometry engine section
• Deep Learning with ArcGIS
• Deep learning on time series data
  • Adds Sequence Length section

New Guides:

• Adds Using MMSegmentation with arcgis.learn
• Adds Part 1 - Introduction to the Spatially Enabled DataFrame. Subsequent parts are to be published in upcoming releases.

Samples

• GIS analysts and data scientists
• New Samples:
  • Wildlife Species Identification in Camera Trap Images
  • Multi-class change detection using image segmentation deep learning models
  • Detecting deforestation in the Amazon rainforest using unsupervised K-means clustering on satellite imagery
  • Coastline classification using Feature Classifier
  • Classification of SfM-derived point clouds using deep learning
  • Glacial Terminus Extraction using HRNet
  • Finetuning Pre-trained Building Footprint Model

Module Changes

arcgis.gis

• Enhances security through added checks to update certifi library
• GIS
  • Adds proxy keyword argument documentation to handle either http or https protocols
• ContentManager
  • clone_items()
  • Extends support for unhandled Item types by allowing for definition, registration and unregistration of custom classes
  • Adds support for hosted Map Services
• User
  • Adds code snippet to folders property

arcgis.gis.server

• Add documentation to clarify return values for list() methods on ServerManager, ServicesDirectory, and ServiceManager

arcgis.gis.nb

• New Classes
• NotebookDataAccess
  • accessed with the NotebookServer.data_access property
• NotebookFile
• NotebookServer
• Adds data_access property

arcgis.gis.workflowmanager

• Adds documentation for:
• JobLocation
• JobTemplate
• Group
• SavedSearchesManager
• WMRole

arcgis.gis.features

• New Class
• EditFeatureJob
  • returned when edit_features(future=True)
• FeatureLayer
  • Adds future parameter to edit_features() so function can run asynchronously
• Adds ability to create a Spatially Enabled DataFrame from the Protocol Buffer Format
• FeatureSet
• Fixes issue where initializing an object from a file incorrectly formats date fields

arcgis.features.managers

• FeatureLayerCollectionManager
• Fixes BUG-000133695 where overwrite() converts a hosted Feature Layer to a hosted Table when the source data is Excel

arcgis.raster

• RasterCollection
  • median()

arcgis.raster.analytics

• Adds md_to_upload parameter to allow publishing ImageryLayers from existing mosaic datasets in ArcGIS Online to:
  • create_image_collection()
  • copy_raster()
• Adds code snippets for:
  • optimal_path_as_line()
  • optimal_region_connections(),
  • manage_multidimensional_raster()
  • sample()
  • zonal_statistics_as_table()
• create_image_collection()
  • Adds documentation to highlight support for local rasters as input_rasters argument

arcgis.raster.functions

• Enhances API Reference documentation with more details and converts parameter lists to tabular format
• convolution()
• Adds NumPy array as an option for the kernel parameter
• stretch()
• Adds colorramp parameter
• wndwi()
• Adds documentation

arcgis.geoanalytics

• use_proximity
• Adds group_by_proximity() tool

arcgis.geometry.functions

• Simplifies how units are specified by introducing two Enumerations. See code snippet for area_and_lengths: area_and_lengths:
  • AreaUnits for input as the area_unit parameter
  • LengthUnits for input as the length_unit parameter

arcgis.widgets

• Adds note and code snippet for using MapView in a Jupyter Notebook running over http

arcgis.learn

• Blocks model training and adds error when training is not supported in ArcGIS Online Notebooks
• Suppresses warning and info messages in ArcGIS Pro when tool execution is not impacted
• Adds support for torch.distributed on Windows machines with the gloo backend
• Adds data checks when searching across multiple folders to data to initialize object
• Adds warning message when training classes do not match validation classes for data

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• Data Preparation Methods
• prepare_data()
  • Adds warning message when using prepare_data() for Tabular models with a batch size less than default because subsequent lr_find() operations fail
  • Adds support for multiple image types when dataset_type=ObjectTracking
  • Deprecates unnecessary keyword arguments. See API reference for warning
• prepare_textdata()
  • Adds parameter table to reference documentation
• Object Classification Models
• FeatureClassifier
  • Adds parameter table to show_results() documentation
  • Deprecates following methods:
    • categorize_features()
    • classify_features()
• Object Detection Models
• SingleShotDetector
  • Fixes OverflowError when training that occurs because of error initializing object
• Pixel Classification Models
• ChangeDetector
  • Adds Classified Tiles to supported_datasets
• Image Translation Models
  • New Models
    • Pix2PixHD
  • Fixes predict() not working for Multispectral images of more than 4 bands for:
    • CylceGAN
    • Pix2Pix
  • Pix2Pix
    • Enhances show_batch() and show_results() by adding gap between ground truth and predictions for similar images
    • Enhances code for predict() and from_model()
  • ImageCaptioner
    • Adds support for data exported from ArcGIS Pro
• Object Tracking Models
• Adds support for data exported from ArcGIS Pro to:
  • SiamMask
  • DeepSort
• DeepSort
  • Adds evaluation metrics in addition to valid_loss
• Feature, Tabular and Timeseries Models
  • AutoML
    • Enhances from_model() to handle empty_data parameter internally
    • Enhances fit() method to save model in temp directory

Fixes

Guides

• Get Started
• Install and set up
  • Updates Install deep learning dependencies and Install using Python Command Prompt or Anaconda section
• Mapping and visualization
• Smart Mapping
  • Updates search string for USA freeway system layer
• Deep Learning with ArcGIS
• Point cloud classification using PointCNN
  • Updates terminology to classification from segmentation
  • Adds tips for new features
  • Adds 3D tool information
  • Refines environment setup steps
  • Adds information about deprecated features
• How Multi-Task Road Extractor works ?
  • Updates Implementation in arcgis.learn and Setting up the environment sections
• Classification of Raw Point Clouds using Deep Learning & generating 3D Building Models
  • Updates workflow to reflect enhancements and deprecation in API
  • Updates public data to reflect new geoprocessing workflow
  • Expands information about parameters and formatting

Module Changes

arcgis.gis

• GIS
  • Fixes issue with proxy servers that do not support https
  • Fixes issue when initializing with GIS("Pro") if not signed into an organization in ArcGIS Pro
  • Fixes issue when initializing with GIS("Pro") if active organization uses Integrated Windows Authentication
• Item
  • publish()
    • Fixes failure for file_type='excel'
    • Fixes inconsistencies in publishing csv and excel files to ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise
  • Fixes BUG-000123987 where download method stripped non-alphanumeric characters from the file name on ArcGIS Online

arcgis.gis.admin

• EnterpriseUsers
• Fixes incorrect request format sent by get() method
• Fixes BUG-000141402 where create() returns AttributeError when creating builtin user

arcgis.gis.server

• LogManager
• Fixes BUG-000141231 where query(export=True, export_type='CSV') returns TypeError

arcgis.gis.mission

• LogManager
• Fixes BUG-000141231 where query(export=True, export_type='CSV') returns TypeError

arcgis.gis.nb

• LogManager
• Fixes NameError when start_time and end_time arguments are used with query()
• Fixes BUG-000141231 where query(export=True, export_type='CSV') returns TypeError

arcgis.gis.features

• Optimizes request sent to server for default where clause of query() method for:
• FeatureLayer
• Table
• FeatureLayer
• Fixes edit_features() to accept Geometry.JSON as input format for geometries
• Fixes AttributeError when query() used on services that do not cache results
• GeoAccessor - the Spatially Enabled DataFrame
• Fixes issue with plot() and the Class Breaks Renderer where largest value in the classifiction becomes a class by itself
• Fixes issue with to_featureclass() changing field names upon export
• FeatureCollection
• Removes hard-coded image link for default symbology code

arcgis.features.analysis

• arcgis.features.use_proximity
• Fixes issue with multiple functions when using dictionaries as input to various parameters
• arcgis.features.analyze_patterns
• find_point_clusters()
  • Fixes ENH-000140250 where Failed to execute error returned if the output_name argument has spaces in it

arcgis.features.managers

• ParcelFabricManager
• Fixes incorrect property check with duplicate() method

arcgis.raster

• RasterCollection
  • Fixes code snippet for map() method
  • Fixes max() failure on object created from an ImageryLayer url
• ImageryLayer
  • Fixes compute_histograms() to properly work with time extent passed as a list of datetime.date objects

arcgis.raster.analytics

• predict_using_trend_raster
• Fixes incorrect format used in the request sent with a dimension_values argument for ArcGIS Online

arcgis.raster.functions

• convolution()
• Fixes issue with incorrect output for user-defined kernels
• multidimensional_filter()
• Fixes issue where function returns the same data if the input is reclusively aggregated data
• compute_change()
• Fixes issue when chaining with other functions

arcgis.geometry

• Fixes BUG-000135965 where WKT and WKB properties of Geometry objects were returning non-standard ogc formatting
  • implements GeoMet library to address issue
• Fixes issue where JSON property returned incorrect format

arcgis.geometry.functions

• Fixes missing distance_unit parameter and logic to distance()
• Corrects areas_and_lengths() documentation

arcgis.mapping

• WebMap
• Fixes BUG-000133736 where a Vector Tile Service item saved in a WebMap returned "The item you requested cannot be found. The item may have been deleted or you may have entered an incorrect URL" when attempting to open it
• OfflineMapAreaManager
• Fixes issue with create() using the active_gis instead of the WebMap item's gis
• Fixes issue where tile_services argument is ignored

arcgis.learn

• Fixes extra checkpoint getting saved with fit(checkpoint='all', early_stopping=True) on models
• Fixes inferencing with multiple GPUs on Linux servers
• Fixes OSError: Too many files open error when calling save() on:
  • SuperResolution
  • Pix2Pix
  • ChangeDetector
  • MultiTaskRoadExtractor
• Fixes IndexError when training of models is interrupted during the first epoch

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• Data Preparation Methods
• prepare_data()
  • Fixes incorrect format for downsample_factor keyword parameter
  • Fixes incomplete progress when applying transformations for dataset_type='ObjectTracking'
  • Fixes issue where function exits cleanly even when no valid images are provided
• Object Classification Models
• FeatureClassifier
  • Suppresses unnecessary warning messages and lack of predicted images when visualizing with:
    • plot_hard_examples()
    • predict()
  • Fixes AttributeError on model intialized with MultiLabel RGB or MultiSpectral data and subsequently running fit(epochs = 10,monitor='multi_label_fbeta')
  • Fixes RuntimeError when using training data created with images of different sizes
• Object Detection Models
• MMDetection
  • Fixes initialization with fcos and vfnet models with an ArcGIS Pro environment
  • Suppresses unnecessary warning messages when intializing using data in cascade_rpn, fcos, nas_fcos, or vfnet formats
• Pixel Classifiction Models
• MMSegmentation
  • Fixes issue with lr_find() and fit() failing when a customer configuration is passed as the model argument during initialization
  • Suppresses unncessary warning when initializing with the dmnet model
• PSPNetClassifier
  • Fixes issue with incorrect accuracy score written to the emd file
• Object Tracking Models
• SiamMask
  • Fixes from_model() when used with a model output from save()
• DeepSort
  • Fixes output format for supported_backbones
  • Fixes issue where accuracy is returning binary values for show_results()
• Feature, Tabular and Timeseries Models
• MLModel
  • Fixes issue with feature_importances_ property returning no output
• AutoML
  • Fixes from_model() to handle empty_data to correctly search when notebook is in a different directory than model
  • Fixes predict_proba() to correctly search field names used as explanatory variables
• FullyConnectedNewtork
  • Fixes show_results() ignoring rows argument
  • Fixes save(publish=True) properly returning the dlpk item id
  • Removes unintended warnings from predict() and feature_importances_()
  • Disables explain argument on predict() which fails with a TypeError when True