While spatial analysis is a broad term that encompasses a variety of operations available in ArcGIS Maps SDK for Swift, this chapter describes the high-performance and exploratory analysis APIs, which provide classes and members to perform analysis tasks and quickly visualize and/or persist the results. Because the API is designed to leverage GPU processing power, it is ideal for providing a responsive and interactive user experience. It also provides a framework that allows you to chain together multiple analysis operations while maintaining high performance.
Examples of high-performance spatial analysis include:
- identifying gaps in security camera coverage to determine where to place additional cameras (viewshed analysis)
- confirming that tourists have a clear line of sight between an observation deck and several landmarks (line of sight analysis)
- performing calculations on bands of multispectral raster data to derive new datasets, such as vegetation indices (map algebra operations)
