What's new in version 1.8.0

New

• Uses the requests 3rd party library instead of the built-in urllib for all web requests. Benefits include:
  • increased security
  • standardized web requests
  • integrated libraries for better PKI, IWA, and other authentication
• Adds ability to install ArcGIS API for Python into Python 3.8 conda environments
• Certifies use of Pandas releases greater than 1.x

Guides

• How Named Entity Recognition Works
• How DeepLab works?

Samples

• Snow avalanche hazard mapping
• Vehicle detection and tracking
• Which areas are good cougar habitats?
• Madison city crime analysis
• Detecting settlements using supervised classification
• Reconstructing 3D buildings
• Automate Building Footprint Extraction using Deep learning
• Extracting Sinkholes from Aerial Imagery
• Temperature forecast using time series data

Module Changes

arcgis.gis

• Adds the org_settings property to the GIS object

arcgis.gis.admin

• Adds missing parameters to the ArcGIS Online history function
• all_events, event_ids, event_types, actors, owners, actions, ips, sort_order, data_format

arcgis.gis.nb

• Adds ability to execute_notebook() asynchronously with future parameter
• Adds documentation for NotebookServer, NotebookManager, Notebook, and Runtime

arcgis.features

• Adds Spatially Enabled DataFrame as input for FeatureLayer.edit_features() method

arcgis.raster

• New Raster class to work with local rasters or image services
• Adds temporal_profile() function to create time series charts
• New functionality on ImageryLayer
  • adds query_boundary() function
• Adds time parameter to compute_histograms and compute_stats_and_histograms
• Adds return_pixel_values and max_item_count parameter to identify() function

arcgis.raster.functions

• Adds code sample to con function documentation

arcgis.raster.analytics

• Adds new function:
• define_nodata()
• Adds parameters to convert_raster_to_feature
• create_multipart_features
• max_vertices_per_feature
• folder

arcgis.geoanalytics

• Adds new parameters to the find_point_clusters tool
• time_method
• search_duration
• duration_unit

arcgis.geoprocessing

• Adds choice_list attribute on the module returned from import_toolbox() to view the options list for each parameter

arcgis.mapping

• Adds OfflineMapAreaManager.offline_properties property to configure Web Map behavior offline

arcgis.widgets

• MapView.add_layers() and MapView.draw() support local rasters via new arcgis.raster.Raster instances

arcgis.learn

• New Models:
• PointCNN
• Adds TensorFlow support for:
• SingleShotDetector
• FeatureClassifier
• New export_point_dataset() function to export las files
• Adds support for additional CNN backbones to the MaskRCNN model:
• ResNet18
• ResNet34
• ResNet101
• ResNet152
• Adds capability to use Labelled Tiles and ImageNet for the dataset_type parameter in the prepare_data() function
• Adds lr_find() capability to EntityRecognizer
• Adds mixup and oversample parameters to FeatureClassifier

Fixes

Guides

• Enhancements to Deep Learning with ArcGIS guides
  • Object Detection Workflow with arcgis.learn

Samples

• Updates Integrating OpenStreetMap datasets with ArcGIS to remove reliance on Jupyter Dashboard
• Fixes errors in Automate Road Surface Investigation Using Deep Learning
• Fixes missing parameter in Spatial and temporal distribution of service calls using big data tools
• Updates How much green is Delhi as on 15 Oct 2017? title to How green is New Delhi?

Module Changes

arcgis.gis

• Fixes clone_items() between Enterprise 10.4.1 and 10.5.1
• Updates clone_items() to handle thumbnails in all situations
• Fixes BUG-000128343 Group.update() method not updating when is_invitation_only set to False
• Improves error handling for various get() functions when item does not exist or is inaccessible

arcgis.gis.admin

• Fixes BUG-000128319 WebhookManager.create() failing when events parameter is list of actions
• Updates documentation for CreditManager.deallocate() method
• Fixes CreditManager.allocate(credits=0.0) to properly set credit value

arcgis.gis.nb

• Fixes bug with execute_notebook() returning incorrect url for the server

arcgis.features

• Fixes Spatially Enabled DataFrame fails to draw if any numeric columns have null values
• Fixes FeatureLayer.query(as_df=True) if DataFrame is empty and contains a datetime column
• Fixes FeatureLayerCollectionmanager update_definition() and add_to_definition() methods on 10.8 Enterprise portals
• Fixes BUG-00012847 where delete_features() does not honor False value for return_delete_results parameter
• Fixes BUG-000128212 where create_view did not retain popup information from the hosted Feature Layer from which it was created
• Fixes query_top_features() issue with date columns causing errors when processing the resulting DataFrame or FeatureSet

arcgis.features.analysis

• Fixes find_outliers return type when output_name argument provided
• Fixes find_similiar_locations return type when output_name argument provided

arcgis.mapping

• Fixes OfflineMapAreaManger.create() error with specific Enterprise release

arcgis.learn

• Enhances module to handle training set images with missing xml files
• Fixes save() method framework AttributeError for arcgis.learn models
• Improves reporting of accuracy metrics for models
• Fixes issue where validation loss curve was not displayed when traning for more than one epoch
• Fixes AttributeError on user-defined learning rate
• Fixes DeepLab model when using multispectral imagery and the ResNet101 backbone
• Fixes Retinanet.predict_video() function when resize parameter is not set
• Fixes MaskRCNN.from_model() function to properly set default backbone when inferencing
• Fixes DeepLab.fit() and PSPNet.fit() methods run on objects created with respective from_model() methods
• Fixes prepare_data() when resize_to parameter is larger than chip_size causing reflection padding and scale the image to an incorrect size
• Fixes prepare_data() chip_size on objects prepared with transforms=False and resize_to=<int>