The Esri Defense Mapping release at 10.4 includes enhancements to performance, several new geoprocessing tools, and POD updates for server.
New at 10.4.1 Patches
- In Patch 4, Calculate Vertical Obstruction Elevations is a geoprocessing tool that calculates and adds the HGT, ZV2, and ZVH fields to Vertical Obstruction feature classes in the input geodatabase.
- In Patch 4, the Create Contours geoprocessing tool now has a Resample_Rasters parameter that allows Input Rasters to be resampled before creating contours.
- In Patch 4, support for the MGCP TRD 4.4 schema and various support files have been added.
New at 10.4.1
Desktop
Significant improvements in performance for these two tools:
Geoprocessing tools
- Visual specification databases were converted from personal geodatabase to file geodatabase.
- Create Bands From Raster parameter can now handle multiple rasters as input.
- Map templates for MTM and TM products have been reorganized for a more efficient installation and maintenance.
Server
These improvements to the POD application are available at 10.4:
- Now consumes WFS data to create MTM and TM products
- Supports enterprise geodatabases
- Now runs input data through cartographic refinement steps, creating Hypsographic features, then applies and calculates representations to the input geodatabase
New at 10.4
Geoprocessing
A new Symbology toolset was created to contain tools that help manage visualization specifications used in Esri Defense Mapping products.
Six new geoprocessing tools were created and organized into their specified toolsets.
- Create Bands From Raster is a new tool in the Banding toolset that creates an elevation bands feature class from a Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED) raster dataset.
- Add Representation Fields is a new configuration tool in the Symbology toolset that applies representation symbology to the input features.
- Calculate Representation Fields is a new tool in the Symbology toolset that extracts all files from a zipped folder.
- Calculate Metrics is a new tool in the Features toolset that populates metrics for features in Esri Defense Mapping data models.
- Convert Labels To Annotation is a new tool in the Utilities toolset that converts MTM and TM labels to annotation based on an input annotation feature class and map document.
- Set Data Owner is a new tool in the Geodatabase toolset that alters a user database account to match the name of the specified schema and sets its default schema to the specified schema.
Other geoprocessing enhancements
The MTM product uses the latest MGCP specifications for data production and cartographic representation. At this release, the following product types have been added to various geoprocessing tools in support of the rapid graphic process:
- MTM50
- MTM100
- TM25
- TM50
- TM100
The MGCP TRD 4.3 and TDS 6.1 schemas are now supported and their various support files have been added.