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ArcGIS: General-Purpose GIS Software

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ESRI; GIS software

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ArcGIS is a general-purpose GIS software developed by Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI). It is an extensive and integrated software platform technology for building operational GIS. ArcGIS comprises four key software parts: a geographic information model for modeling aspects of the real world; components for storing and managing geographic information in files and databases; a set of out-of-the-box applications for creating, editing, manipulating, mapping, analyzing, and disseminating geographic information; and a collection of web services that provide content and capabilities (data and functions) to networked software clients. Parts of the ArcGIS software can be deployed on mobile devices, laptop, and desktop computers and servers.

From the end-user perspective, ArcGIS has very wide ranging functionality packaged up into a generic set of menu-driven GIS applications that implement key geographic workflows. The applications deal...

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  1. ESRI, Redlands, CA, USA

    David J. Maguire

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  1. David J. Maguire
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  1. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Shashi Shekhar

  2. Management Science and Information Systems Department, Rutgers Business School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, USA

    Hui Xiong

  3. Department of Management Sciences, Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Xun Zhou

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Maguire, D.J. (2017). ArcGIS: General-Purpose GIS Software. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_68

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