USDA Forest Service
 

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United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Enterprise

United States Department of Agriculture USDA Forest Service Enterprise Program

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Link Tool Name Category Short
Description
Long Description Platform Updated
Click here to download tool _DV AML Tools toolbox AML Tools Toolbox containing tools that run AMLs. More Info PC 05/25/2006
Click here to download tool _DV Analysis Tools toolbox Analysis Tools Toolbox containing tools for analysis. More Info PC 05/26/2006
Click here to download tool _DV Conversion Tools toolbox Conversion Tools Toolbox containing Conversion tools. More Info PC 05/17/2006
Click here to download tool _DV Data Management Tools toolbox Data Management Tools Toolbox containing Data Management tools. More Info PC 05/31/2006
Click here to download tool _DV Linear Referencing Tools toolbox Linear Referencing Tools Toolbox containing Linear Referencing tools. More Info PC 04/30/2006
Click here to download tool _DV Miscellaneous Tools toolbox Miscellaneous Tools Toolbox containing miscellaneous tools. More Info PC 05/16/2006
Click here to download tool _DV Region Tools toolbox Region Tools Toolbox containing tools for Region subclasses. More Info PC 05/25/2006
Click here to download tool Add to Raster Catalog (tabular) Data Management Tools Adds rasters to an existing Tabular Raster Catalog. More Info PC 05/11/2006
Click here to download tool ADDROUTEMEASURE2 Dynamic segmentation Like ARC ADDROUTEMEASURE, but only reports one measure for each point/node.   All 1/9/2000
Click here to download tool ADJPOLY Attribute Automation & Update Reselects adjacent polygons with like attributes.   ALL 4/17/2000
Click here to download tool ADJROUTE Dynamic Segmentation Create an INFO table that lists the routes that attach to each node in a coverage.   All 5/21/1999
Click here to download tool AE_IDENTIFY Reporting Identify the item value of a coverage feature.   All 8/11/1997
Click here to download tool AFTERR String manipulation Like [AFTER] but returns the <string> after the right-most occurrence of the <search_string>, and returns the whole <string> if the <search_string> does not occur in the <string>.   All 3/26/1996
Click here to download tool APPEND2 Dynamic segmentation Combines up to 500 coverages into one coverage. Like ARC APPEND, but appends route systems based on the route-system name instead of the route-system User-ID.   All 4/18/2000
Click here to download tool ARCDLG2 Data Conversion Creates a DLG3 file from an ARC/INFO coverage. Unlike the ARCDLG command in ARC, ARCDLG2 is designed to handle alphanumeric attributes not just major/minor-code pairs. Files created by ARCDLG2 can be read by LT4X.   IBM 2/12/1998
Click here to download tool ARCEVENT Dynamic Segmentation Create linear events from arc attributes. More Info All 2/29/2004
Click here to download tool ARCLABEL2 Feature automation & update Generate a point coverage from a line and/or point coverage. One point is generated for each arc (or group thereof) and each point. Arcs are grouped based on {id_item} and contiguity.   All 9/22/1999
Click here to download tool ARCPOLY Feature automation & update Assigns the attributes from the arcs in a coverage to the polygons bounded by the arcs. It builds the polygons first if they have not already been built. Developed with CFF data in mind.   All 4/28/1997
Click here to download tool ARCREGION Feature automation & update Creates a new region subclass by aggregating polygons bounded by selected arcs.   All 5/6/1996
Click here to download tool ARCROUTE2 Dynamic segmentation Like ARC ARCROUTE, but creates a dendritic route system. Routes are created by tracing upstream from each mouth to its furthest headwater.   UNIX 7/9/1999
Click here to download tool ARCSTATS Attribute automation & update Generate statistics for the arcs in a coverage. Available statistics are FORWARD_AZIMUTH, REVERSE_AZIMUTH, and MILES.   All 5/13/1997
Click here to download tool AREAAGGREGATE2 Feature automation & update Aggregate clusters of polygons. AREAAGGREGATE2 is similar to the ARC AREAAGGREGATE command, but does not aggregate polygons that have different attributes. More Info All 09/17/2003
Click here to download tool AUTOSIZE Modifying data file item definitions Minimize output width of character items in an INFO file.   All 7/8/1997
Click here to download tool BASINSTATS Attribute automation & update Identify various statistics for watershed basins. Available statistics are: LENGTH (the length of the main stream of each basin).   IBM 5/11/1999
Click here to download tool Batch Process Miscellaneous Tools Recursively executes a command using a wildcard or text file for input. More Info PC 05/16/2006
Click here to download tool BEFORER String manipulation Like [BEFORE] but returns the <string> before the right-most occurrence of the <search_string>, and returns null if the <search_string> does not occur in the <string>.   All 3/26/1996
Click here to download tool BINT Mathematical & trigonometric Returns nearest integer value <= the input value.   All 1/10/1997
Click here to download tool BISECT Feature automation & update Bisect each of the selected arcs in ArcEdit.   All 2/16/2000
Click here to download tool Buffer By Percent Analysis Tools Buffer input polygons by percentage of the total area of the polygons. More Info PC 05/26/2006
Click here to download tool BUFFIDENT Creating reports Summarize acres of a polygon coverage within a specified radius of each point in a point coverage.   All 8/5/1996
Click here to download tool CALCLLID Dynamic segmentation Recalculate the LLID of a route using the lat/long of the beginning of the route.   All 8/27/1998
Click here to download tool CALCLLID_POLY Dynamic segmentation Recalculate the LLID of polygons.   All 12/21/1999
Click here to download tool Calculate Field (with Join) Data Management Tools Calculates a field to an expression. Supports Joins. More Info PC 05/28/2006
Click here to download tool Calculate Measures Linear Referencing Tools Calculates the measure length of each route in a Feature Class. More Info PC 04/30/2006
Click here to download tool CALIBRATEEVENTS Dynamic segmentation Calibrate the measures in an event table to the measures in a route system.   All 4/6/2000
Click here to download tool CART2PLS Data Conversion Converts cartesian coordinates (e.g. lat/long or UTM) into Public Land Survey (PLS) descriptions. cart2pls.tar comes with UNIX and Windows versions. It is not an AML. More Info PC 9/21/2004
Click here to download tool CASE Attribute automation & update Changes the values of an item in a coverage feature attribute table or other INFO table to a user specified case: lowercase, UPPERCASE, Capitalize. CASE is in the R6Toolset.   UNIX 11/6/1998
Click here to download tool CEILING Mathematical & trigonometric Return the nearest integer value greater than or equal to the input number.   All 12/16/1999
Click here to download tool CENTROIDLABELS2 Feature automation & update Moves label points for coverage polygons. Similar to the CENTROIDLABELS command in ARC, but has two additional methods for placing labels: the THICKEST or WIDEST locations.   IBM 2/12/1998
Click here to download tool CHECK_ARGS Reporting Check arguments. Format is similar to menu widgets.   All 1/20/1999
Click here to download tool CIRCLECELLS Reporting Determine the actual area of CIRCLEs used by GRID functions, such as FOCALSUM.   All 6/11/1997
Click here to download tool CIRQUE Grid tools Identify cirque-like basins on an elevation surface.   All 1/21/1998
Click here to download tool CLASS_TEXT ArcTools Modified version of the class_text.aml in $ATHOME/maplib. Modified to support a % character in a Text string in a Map layout.   All 9/16/1998
Click here to download tool CLUSTER Landscape metrics Like REGIONGROUP, but a cluster is defined as all cells which are within a <maximum_distance> of any other cell in the cluster.   All 6/17/1999
Click here to download tool COLLAPSE Feature automation & update Collapse polyons into centerlines. Only polygons less than a specified width will be collapsed. Connectivity with a specified line coverage is maintained. More Info All 07/23/2003
Click here to download tool COLLAPSE2 Feature automation & update Typify polygons. Polygons with a perimeter less than a specified length will either be removed or collapsed into a centerline. Polygons not connected to any arcs are removed. Polygons connected to one or more arcs are centerlined. More Info All 07/23/2003
Click here to download tool COMLOOP Command automation Recursively execute a command based on a file containing a list of object names or a template matching a set of objects. More Info All 7/18/2002
Click here to download tool COMMA_DELIM String manipulation Convert a list of values to comma_delimited format.   All 2/20/1996
Click here to download tool COMMA_DELIM2 String manipulation Like COMMA_DELIM, except that it appends an _ to every value.   All 2/20/1996
Click here to download tool COMPAREFAT Applications Compares the Feature Attribute Tables (FATs) from multiple coverages and reports differences in an output file. These differences can then be eliminated using MATCHFAT. More Info ALL 9/18/2001
Click here to download tool CONNECTIVITY Landscape metrics Measrue the connectivity of a set of polygons. More Info PC & IBM 9/29/2004
Click here to download tool CONTOUR2 Feature automation & update Create a contour-line coverage from an elevation grid. Similar to CONTOUR command, but CONTOUR2 creates contours that are more consistent with the flow of the land. More Info All 10/07/2003
Click here to download tool CONV_FACT Mathematical & trigonometric Calculate AREA and LENGTH conversion factors between different units of measure.   All 12/12/1997
Click here to download tool COSTPATH2 Grid tools Determine the least cost path between two points, and output/append the result to arc arc coverage.   All 10/8/1998
Click here to download tool Create Raster Catalog (tabular) Data Management Tools Creates a Tabular Raster Catalog and populates it. More Info PC 05/11/2006
Click here to download tool CREATEEVENT Dynamic segmentation Create events using point coverage or graphics cursor. More Info PC & IBM 9/27/2004
Click here to download tool DBMSRUN Database integration Runs an SQL script by parsing the script into SQL statements, or PL/SQL blocks, and executing each individually using DBMSEXECUTE.   All 2/7/1997
Click here to download tool DESCRIBE2 Reporting Like &DESCRIBE but for other info. Available variables are: .dsc2$nodes (the number of nodes in the coverage).   All 2/3/1997
Click here to download tool DIFFINFO Attribute Automation & Update Compares the contents of two INFO files. More Info ALL 8/9/1996
Click here to download tool DIRECTORY2 Reporting Like DIRECTORY command, but writes the info to global variables.   All 5/8/2000
Click here to download tool DISSOLVEEVENTS2 Dynamic Segmentation Like ARC DISSOLVEEVENTS, but also dissolves duplicate or overlapping events (after first sorting the table.) More Info All 8/3/2003
Click here to download tool DISSOLVEPOINT Feature automation & update Removes duplicate points from a point coverage, creating a new point coverage. Duplicate points are those that are in the same location and possess the same attribute(s) as a preceding point.   All 3/26/1997
Click here to download tool DISSOLVESEC Dynamic segmentation Joins together adjacent records in route-system section tables that belong to the same route system, same arc, and have connected F-MEAS and T-MEAS, and F-POS and T-POS.   All 7/21/1998
Click here to download tool DLGARC2 Data Conversion Converts a DLG3 file into a ARC/INFO coverage. As apposed to the ARC DLGARC command, DLGARC2 is designed to handle features with text-string attributes not major/minor-code attributes. DLG3 files with text-string attributes can be created by LT4X.   All 11/3/1999
Click here to download tool DOWNARCS Feature automation & update Flip arcs downstream using an elevation grid to determine direction.   All 12/18/1999
Click here to download tool EDARC ArcTools Fix UNSPLIT error in $ATHOME/aelib/edarc.aml.   All 3/16/1999
Click here to download tool EDITLUT Data editing A MENU editor for lookup tables (LUTs).   All 10/1/1997
Click here to download tool EVENTSDISPLAY Dynamic segmentation Displays the events on a line coverage's route system.   All 7/10/1996
Click here to download tool EVENTTRANSFORM2 Dynamic segmentation Like ARC EVENTTRANSFORM, but handles input events that span mulitple output routes.   All 2/24/1998
Click here to download tool EXISTS2 File management Like [EXISTS] function but for other object types: TABLES, VIEW, and SEQUENCE.   All 7/8/1999
Click here to download tool EXTRACT String manipulation Like [EXTRACT] function, but reads the elements from a file.   UNIX 2/12/1998
Click here to download tool FILECMP File management Determines whether two paths point to the same file.   UNIX 2/12/1998
Click here to download tool FILELIST2 Reporting Like [FILELIST] function, but for other types: MOSS.   All 11/22/1996
Click here to download tool Flip Route Linear Referencing Tools Flips selected routes in a feature class. More Info PC 04/30/2006
Click here to download tool FLIPROUTE Dynamic Segmentation Flip routes. Like ARCEDIT FLIP, but a lot faster. It also has an option to flip routes based on azimuths stored in an INFO table.   ALL 7/27/2000
Click here to download tool FLOWDIRECTION2 Grid tools Create flow direction grid. Uses GRID FLOWDIRECTION, but alters flow direction to more realistically handle areas where surface crenulations aren't well defined.   IBM 5/9/1999
Click here to download tool FOCALCLOSE Grid tools For each location on an input grid, find the closest value of the adjacent cells and send it to the corresponding cell location on the output grid.   All 4/2/1997
Click here to download tool FOCALDENSITY Grid tools Create a grid from the lines in a coverage. The value of each cell is the density of lines within the cell's neighborhood.   All 10/27/1997
Click here to download tool FORMS2 Data editing Same as ARCEDIT FORMS, but the last graphic display window (if there is more than one) is automatically zoomed to the selected feature when [NEXT] or [FIRST] buttons are pressed.   All 11/4/1997
Click here to download tool FRAGMENTATION Landscape metrics Measure the fragmentation of a set of polygons.   All 4/10/1999
Click here to download tool FULLFEATURE Reporting Return the full name for a feature class given an abbreviated name. E.g. given POLY, return POLYGON.   All 3/3/1997
Click here to download tool GENERALIZE Grid Tools Generalize an integer grid   ALL 7/7/2000
Click here to download tool GENERALIZE2 Feature automation & update Generalize the arcs in a line coverage. GENERALIZE2 is similar to ARC GENERALIZE (BENDSIMPLIFY option), except that in the process of generalizing arcs it also moves them to resolve spatial conflict with other arcs, a la OVERPOSTing. More Info All 07/31/2003
Click here to download tool GENERALIZEPT Feature automation & update Move the points in a coverage to remove spatial conflict with other points and/or lines. More Info All 07/23/2003
Click here to download tool GENPT Feature Automation & Update Generates regularly or randomly distributed points within the features in an existing polygon coverage. More Info ALL 7/19/2002
Click here to download tool GETCHOICES User-file input/output Display a menu of a list of choices from which one or more selections can be made.   All 5/12/1997
Click here to download tool GETCHOICES2 User-file input/output Display a menu of a list of choices from which one or more selections can be made. Like GETCHOICES, but a user specified string can be attached to each selection.   All 11/10/1997
Click here to download tool GETCONNECT User-file input/output Tool for selecting a database connection.   All 12/12/1996
Click here to download tool GETCOVERSC User-file input/output Get list of coverages from command-line response.   All 5/7/1997
Click here to download tool GETFILE2 User-file input/output ArcTools getfile.aml with addition of file type and noextension options.   All 11/27/1995
Click here to download tool GETITEM2 User-file input/output ArcTools getitem.aml with feature class option.   All 5/5/1998
Click here to download tool GETITEMS User-file input/output ArcTools getitem.aml for multiple items.   All 12/4/1996
Click here to download tool GETPATH File management Return the path of an object.   All 11/5/1999
Click here to download tool GETREGIONITEM User-file input/output Tool for browsing the file system to select a coverage, a region subclass, and one of its items.   All 3/19/2003
Click here to download tool GETROUTEITEM User-file input/output Tool for browsing the file system to select a coverage, a route-system, and one of its items.   All 6/19/1998
Click here to download tool GETVALUE User-file input/output Tool for browsing the file system to select an object (e.g. coverage or INFO file), a feature class, one of its items, and one of the item's values.   IBM 2/12/1998
Click here to download tool GETVALUES User-file input/output Tool for selecting unique value(s) from an item in an INFO table.   All 9/24/1998
Click here to download tool GRADIENT Attribute automation & update Calculate slope gradient along the arcs in a coverage, summarize by item, and store in an INFO file.   All 9/1/1999
Click here to download tool HAB_PATCH Grid tools Create a grid from an existing grid by grouping cells of similar habitat into patches. Unlike GRID REGIONGROUP, which groups cells that are connected, HAB_PATCH also considers other factors when it "grows" patches. See chapter 5 of "HABSCAPES" Reference   IBM 9/29/1998
Click here to download tool HOMERANGE Landscape metrics Identify clusters of polygons that are within a specified dispersal distance of each other.   IBM 4/12/1999
Click here to download tool HORIZON Grid tools Create horizon percent and aspect grids from an existing elevation grid. The values in the horizon-percent grid represent the percent of the view from each cell that is taken up by sky. The values in the horizon-aspect grid represent the azimuth from ea   IBM 2/12/1998
Click here to download tool INDEXR String manipulation Like [INDEX] function, but returns the position of right-most occurrence of <search_string>.   All 10/4/1995
Click here to download tool INFONAME File management Return the name of the INFO file that belongs to a given feature class of a coverage.   All 12/5/1997
Click here to download tool INFOREPORT ArcTools Link AML which runs INFOREPORT2 AML. This affects the REPORT WRITER under TABLES, TABLES SUMMARIES of COMMAND TOOLS in ArcTools.   All 2/7/2000
Click here to download tool INFOREPORT2 Creating Reports Creates a report with the INFO REPORT writer. INFOREPORT2 is an adaptation to the report writer in ARCTOOLS (INFOREPORT). INFOREPORT2 has many things not in INFOREPORT, including AREA & LENGTH unit conversion, use of RELATEd items, FREQUENCY option, round More Info ALL 3/1/2002
Click here to download tool INVANGLE2 Mathematical & trigonometric Return angle in radians between two lines.   All 7/23/1996
Click here to download tool ITEMINFO2 Reporting Determine information about an INFO item: MINLEN (minimum length of values), MAXLEN (maximum length), MINFLD (minimum number of words in values), MAXFLD (maximum number of words), and UNIQUECOUNT (number of unique values).   All 10/11/1996
Click here to download tool ITEMNAME String manipulation Convert a string to a valid INFO & ORACLE item name.   All 3/13/2000
Click here to download tool ITEMS2 Reporting Like ARC ITEMS, but saves results to global variables.   All 9/11/1996
Click here to download tool JCTANGLE Attribute automation & update Calculates the angle between arcs where they flow together at a node. More Info All 3/30/2003
Click here to download tool Join Many Data Management Tools Joins a table to a feature class based on a common field to create a new feature class that contains one feature for each match. It supports one-to-many relationships. More Info PC 04/30/2006
Click here to download tool JOINITEMMANY Attribute automation & update Run ARC JOINITEM on many input INFO files.   All 9/26/1996
Click here to download tool LATTICEDEM2 Data conversion Run ARC LATTICEDEM, and then modify the output DEM to be more in line with USGS specifications.   UNIX 9/27/1999
Click here to download tool LATTICEPOLY Grid tools Create a polygon coverage from an elevation grid. Polygons are formed by dividing the surface into slope, aspect, and/or elevation classes.   All 9/7/1999
Click here to download tool LENGTHGRID Grid tools Create a GRID from arcs in a coverage and assign each cell a value equal to the length of the arcs within that cell.   All 6/9/1997
Click here to download tool LININT2 Mathematical & trigonometric Determine whether two line segments intersect. If so, it returns the point of interesection.   All 3/20/1996
Click here to download tool LISTALL Reporting Return a list of values of an item within an INFO table.   All 10/1/1997
Click here to download tool LISTEVENTS Reporting Return a list of eventsources that may relate to a specific route system (I.e. the route system RAT contains the route key item listed in the eventsource.)   All 2/2/1998
Click here to download tool LISTITEM2 Reporting Like [LISTITEM] function, but also lists RELATEd items.   All 5/14/1999
Click here to download tool LISTSELECT2 Reporting Return info about a selection file.   All 7/30/1996
Click here to download tool LOGICAL ArcTools Build a complex logical selection expression in ARC. Modified from logical.aml in $ATHOME/arclib to automatically quote character item values. This affects the LOGICAL EXPRESSIONs in ARCTOOLS.   All 5/7/1996
Click here to download tool MANDITEMS Reporting Return the names of the manditory items in the INFO file that belongs to a given feature class of a coverage.   All 2/2/1997
Click here to download tool MARKERSET2 Data display Like MARKERSET command, but also copies any necessary font files to the current workspace so that the <markerset> is usable.   UNIX 1/8/1999
Click here to download tool MARKERSETFONTS Reporting Return a list of the fonts used by the current markerset.   All 12/3/1997
Click here to download tool MATCHFAT Attribute Automation & Update Modifies the Feature Attribute Tables (FATs) from multiple coverages so that they match each other. What modifications are necessary is determined by the report created by COMPAREFAT. More Info ALL 11/8/2002
Click here to download tool MATCHMEASURE Dynamic segmentation Calibrate a route system based on the measures from the "same" route system in another coverage. For two route system to be considered the "same" they must bear the same route names. Their arcs need not be coincident.   IBM 3/31/2000
Click here to download tool MBC Feature Automation & Update Calculate the Minimum Bounding Circle (MBC) that contains one or more features. More Info ALL 1/4/2003
Click here to download tool MEASURE2 Data query Report the location of a point on the screen map display. Like ARCPLOT MEASURE WHERE but reports in any projection, or PLS (township, range, section, subsection). More Info PC & IBM 9/28/2004
Click here to download tool MEASUREROUTE Dynamic segmentation Return measure along a route. Like MEASURE ROUTE, but only returns route#,measure of closest point.   All 2/16/2000
Click here to download tool MERGE2 Grid Tools Like GRID MERGE, but 1) accepts a wildcard of list file to specify input grds, 2) reprojects input grids into common projection before merging, 3) supports up to 2401 input grids (in theory), and 4) fills gaps between grids after merging. More Info ALL 7/23/2002
Click here to download tool MERGEDRG Grid tools Merge DRGs (after removing collars).   UNIX 5/12/1999
Click here to download tool MOSSARC2 Data Conversion Imports MOSS file(s) into Arc/Info by running MOSSARC, CLEAN (or BUILD for point data), and ERASE (for polygon data), and optionally also ELIMINATE and DISSOLVE (for polygon and line data).   UNIX 7/7/1999
Click here to download tool MOSSTOPOQ Reporting Determines whether a MOSS file is point, line, or polygon.   All 8/3/1996
Click here to download tool NEARPOLY Landscape Metrics Calculates the distance from each polygon to the nearest neighboring polygon. More Info ALL 8/7/2002
Click here to download tool NEIGHBOR Attribute automation & update Produce an INFO table listing neighbors of each polygon.   All 2/14/1999
Click here to download tool NETDISTANCE Attribute automation & update Calculate the distance from points or polygons to network centers. More Info All 08/02/2002
Click here to download tool Oracle NAD27 to NAD83 Data Management Tools This tools allows you to convert the coordinates stored within Latitude/Longitude fields in Oracle from NAD27 to NAD83. More Info PC 04/30/2006
Click here to download tool ORDER Attribute Automation & Update Calculate STRAHLER & SHREVE stream order for the arcs in a coverage. The arcs must be oriented downstream for ORDER to work. More Info ALL 04/27/2006
Click here to download tool PARENTPOLY Attribute automation & update Create an INFO table listing for each polygon the largest polygon that is part of the same cluster. A cluster of polygons is a group of polygon that touch one another.   All 12/10/1999
Click here to download tool PATHEVENT Dynamic segmentation Create linear events along the path between point events. The path can span multiple routes. More Info PC & IBM 9/26/2004
Click here to download tool PATHEVENT2 Dynamic segmentation Create linear events along the path between point events. Like PATHEVENT AML, but handles multiple pairs of point events.   IBM 2/16/2000
Click here to download tool PATHRELATIVE File management Return the path of a file relative to a directory.   UNIX 3/23/1996
Click here to download tool PID Reporting Return PID for current ARC/INFO session.   IBM 11/18/1996
Click here to download tool PLS2CART Data Conversion Converts Public Land Survey (PLS) descriptions into cartesian coordinates (e.g. lat/long or UTM). pls2cart.tar comes with UNIX and Win2K versions. It is not an AML. More Info ALL 7/2/2002
Click here to download tool PLSARC Data Conversion Converts a file of Public Land Survey (PLS) descriptions into an ARC/INFO point or polygon, coverage or generate file. In addition to the input descrption file, a ARC/INFO polygon coverage of the PLS sections is required.   IBM 3/8/1999
Click here to download tool POINTAGGREGATE Feature Automation & Update Aggregate clusters of points into single points. More Info ALL 07/23/2003
Click here to download tool POINTCATCHMENT Feature automation & update Generate region coverage of the catchment areas above points. Each input pour point receives its own catchment region in the output coverage.   All 2/11/2000
Click here to download tool POINTREMOVE Feature automation & update Remove points that are within a specified distance of linear features. More Info All 07/23/2003
Click here to download tool Polygon to Region Region Tools Creates a Region framework for a polygon feature class. More Info PC 05/25/2006
Click here to download tool POLYGONCOLOR Attribute Automation & Update Assign color to each polygon in a coverage such that no two adjacent polygons are assigned the same color. More Info PC 9/30/2002
Click here to download tool POLYGONSHADES Data display Like ARCPLOT POLYGONSHADES, but accepts color name as well as symbol number.   All 9/9/1999
Click here to download tool POLYPOINT Feature automation & update Create a point coverage from a polygon coverage. A point is created at the centroid of each polygon. More Info All 07/23/2003
Click here to download tool POLYROUTE Dynamic segmentation Create a route system of polygon boundaries. A route is created of the boundary around each polygon. However, each boundary is included in only one route. So when a boundary is shared by two polygons, then the {rank_item} determines which polygon's rou   All 5/23/2000
Click here to download tool POLYSTATS Attribute Automation & Update calculate statistics for each polygon in a coverage. The statistics are: average WIDTH and LENGTH. More Info ALL 1/18/2003
Click here to download tool PRJ_PROJECT ArcTools Projects a coverage. Modified from prj_project.aml in $ATHOME/arclib to not close all file units so that it can be called from another AML that has units open. This affects the PROJECT command tool in ARCTOOLS.   All 12/16/1999
Click here to download tool Project XY Point Data Management Tools Project an XY coordinate pair from one coordinate system to another. More Info PC 05/31/2006
Click here to download tool PROJECT2 Feature automation & update Projects a cover or grid from one coordinate system to another. PROJECT2 is a command-line front-end to the Project Tool in ARCTOOLS.   All 12/16/1999
Click here to download tool Public Land Survey (PLS) to Feature Class Conversion Tools Converts a file of Public Land Survey (PLS) descriptions into a shapefile or geodatabase feature class, as points or polygons. More Info PC 05/17/2006
Click here to download tool QHELP Getting started QuickHELP is a menu tool which provides access to the ARC7.2 ASCIIHELP text files.   All 3/1/1999
Click here to download tool QUADS Feature automation & update Generates quadrangle and tic coverages in accordance with the GIS File Structure.   All 1/26/1999
Click here to download tool REDEFINE Modifying data file item definitions Redefines an item within an INFO file. REDEFINE is similar to the REDEFINE command in TABLES, but runs from ARC and has some additional options.   All 10/21/1996
Click here to download tool REDEFINE2 Modifying data file item definitions Same as REDEFINE2 AML, except no error checking to increase speed.   All 10/21/1996
Click here to download tool Region Poly Count AML Tools Creates an INFO table with counts the number of regions per polygon. More Info PC 05/08/2006
Click here to download tool Region Poly List AML Tools Creates an INFO table that lists the polygons that belong to each region. More Info PC 05/08/2006
Click here to download tool REGIONPOLY Feature automation & update Converts a region subclass into a polygon coverage. This is a copy of the ARC REGIONPOLY ATOOL which has been modified to accommodate pathnames greater than 80 characters.   All 10/28/1997
Click here to download tool REGROUP Grid tools Change pixels along the boundary of a zone to the adajcent zone, when the raw value of the pixel is more similar to the adjacent zone.   All 11/24/1997
Click here to download tool RELATE ArcTools Modified version of the relate.aml in $ATHOME/lib. Modified so that all tables are displayed, not just those owned by the user.   All 5/3/1999
Click here to download tool Remeasure Linear Referencing Tools Remeasures the routes in a Feature Class using the values in From and To fields. More Info PC 04/30/2006
Click here to download tool REPLACEFAT Attribute automation & update Replace a coverage feature attribute table with another INFO table.   All 3/29/1999
Click here to download tool RMS Mathematical & trigonometric Return the RMS (Root Mean Square) of the values in an INFO table item.   All 4/10/1999
Click here to download tool RMSE Mathematical & trigonometric Determine the RMSE (Root Mean Squared Error) between the values in two INFO table items.   All 3/13/1998
Click here to download tool ROADCATCHMENT Attribute automation & update Calculate the area upstream of each arc (or group thereof) in a line coverage and report acreage by watershed and a second theme.   All 2/7/2000
Click here to download tool ROADDENSITY Grid tools Creates GRID of road density using a circular moving window. More Info All 9/29/2004
Click here to download tool ROADPREP Dynamic segmentation Create a route system for a road coverage based upon Forest Service 7-digit road numbers.   All 8/8/1996
Click here to download tool ROADQUAD Data display Generate map composition(s) of the Forest Service road route system by quad.   All 2/12/1998
Click here to download tool ROUTEBUFFER Feature automation & update Buffer a route coverage to create a region coverage. Each route can be buffered aw a whole, or broken up into even length segments first.   All 8/26/1999
Click here to download tool ROUTEERRORLOG Dynamic segmentation Log route errors in ARCEDIT by running ROUTEERRORS2 and ROUTESTATS2 AMLs.   All 8/27/1998
Click here to download tool ROUTEERRORS2 Dynamic Segmentation Identify potential errors in the positions and measures of the sections which make up the routes in a route system. It is similar to the ARCPLOT ROUTEERRORS command, but instead of drawing the errors (which can sometimes be hard to make out) ROUTEERRORS2 More Info ALL 8/21/2003
Click here to download tool ROUTESTATS2 Dynamic Segmentation Generate statistics for the routes in a specified route-system. ROUTESTATS2 is like ARC ROUTESTATS but has a few additional statistics: MA_RATIO, EVT_HIGMEASURE, ME_RATIO, and AZIMUTH.   ALL 7/27/2000
Click here to download tool RXPREGION Feature automation & update Create a region subclass from an RXP INFO table, such as that created by ARC REGIONPOLYLIST.   All 1/30/2000
Click here to download tool SCRATCHNAME2 File management Like [SCRATCHNAME] function but for other types: relates, eventsources, cursors, INFO items, database tables, region subclasses, route systems.   All 4/27/1999
Click here to download tool SELECTPATH Data editing Like ARCEDIT SELECT PATH, but allows for the entry of intermediate locations.   All 8/12/1998
Click here to download tool SELMORE ArcTools Modified version of selmore.aml in $ATHOME/aelib. This version of SELMORE has an additional tool: ADJPOLY. ADYPOLY selects all adjacent polygons which bear the same attribute in a specified PAT item. This affects the 'More Selection Tools' menu in ARCT   All 4/17/2000
Click here to download tool SETITEM Attribute automation & update Evaluates an expression and assigns its value to a target item for the specified feature class of the specified coverage, or in the specified INFO data file. Uunlike the CALCULATE and MOVEITEM/MOVE commands in ARCPLOT and TABLES, SETITEM is not data type More Info All 4/28/2003
Click here to download tool SETWINDOW2 Data editing Like GRID SETWINDOW command, with option to fit window to the DATA within a grid.   All 5/5/2000
Click here to download tool SLOPEDISTANCE Grid tools Calculate for each cell the straight-line slope distance to the closest source cell.   All 5/1/1997
Click here to download tool SLOPEPOSITION Grid tools Create a grid of slope position from a grid of elevation. Values in the output grid range from 0 (valley floor) to 100 (ridge top).   All 12/20/1999
Click here to download tool SNAPPOUR2 Grid tools Like GRID SNAPPOUR, but snaps point to nearest cell whose flow accumulation as greater than or equal to a specified minimum accumulation. When no candidate cells are within the snap distance, or when candidate cells from more that one branch of the strea   All 2/9/2000
Click here to download tool SORT2 Attribute automation & update Similar to TABLES SORT, but runs from ARC and is much faster using UNIX SORT.   UNIX 5/5/2000
Click here to download tool SORTROUTE Dynamic segmentation Sort routes by increasing length.   All 10/15/1998
Click here to download tool SPLITTER Feature automation & update Like ARC SPLIT command, but it automatically names the output coverages using the values from the <split_item> inserted into the <out_cover_template>.   All 10/15/1996
Click here to download tool SPOTEVENT Dynamic segmentation Create point event.   All 9/28/2004
Click here to download tool SRT (STREAM ROUTING TOOL) Applications SRT Automates the process of building LLID routes on hydrographic data using dynamic segmentation. Also provides some simple ARC editing tools which can be used for improving the quality of the coverage. More Info ALL 09/12/2003
Click here to download tool SRT2NRIS Attribute Automation & Update Convert coverage created by SRT to NRIS Water data standards.   ALL 7/10/2000
Click here to download tool STREAMLINE2 Grid tools Create a stream coverage in a similar manner as is described in "Surface hydrologic analysis" in ArcDoc. However, STREAMLINE2 employs two outside programs, RESAMPLE2 and FLOWDIRECTION2, which lead to better results.   IBM 10/4/1999
Click here to download tool SUBST Attribute automation & update   More Info All 09/29/2003
Click here to download tool TIMECONVERT Reporting Convert time between seconds and hours/minutes/seconds.   All 3/9/1996
Click here to download tool TOKEN String manipulation Like the [TOKEN] function, but reads the elements from a file.   All 7/3/1999
Click here to download tool TRACEROUTE Dynamic segmentation Similar to ARCPLOT TRACE, but the input is routes instead of nodes, and the output is in the form of a route system. There is one output route for each input route.   All 5/5/2000
Click here to download tool TRUENORTH Mathematical & trigonometric Calculate grid-to-ground rotation angle between grid north and true north. This can be used as the {rotation_angle} in ARCCOGO.   All 4/1/2000
Click here to download tool UNDERPASS Feature automation & update Extend, or shorten, the length of underpass features (CFF code 145.) More Info All 07/23/2003
Click here to download tool UNIQUE Reporting Checks for uniqueness of item values in an INFO table.   UNIX 9/14/1999
Click here to download tool UNIX Reporting Execute a unix command (or other executable), direct the output to a file, and read the records of this file into global variables.   All 1/24/2000
Click here to download tool USERITEMS Reporting Return the names of the non-manditory items in the INFO file that belongs to a given feature class of a coverage.   All 9/26/1997
Click here to download tool VALUECOUNT Reporting Return the number of records in an INFO table contain a specific value within a specific item.   UNIX 2/2/1998
Click here to download tool VISIBILITY2 Grid tools Performs visibility analysis on a grid. VISIBILITY2 is similar to GRID VISIBILITY, but is faster and has a MAGNITUDE option. MAGNITUDE records the approximate percentage that each grid-cell location contributes to the total view from the observation poi   IBM 10/4/1999
Click here to download tool WATERSHED2 Grid Tools Like GRID WATERSHED, except that the output is in the form of a catchment region coverage. Each pour point receives its own catchment region. More Info ALL 8/5/2002
Click here to download tool WB_WS_CREATE Feature Automation & Update Create Water Body (WB) and Water Shoreline (WS) coverages in accordance with the OR/WA State Hydrography Framework.   ALL 8/1/2000
Click here to download tool ZEROPAD String manipulation Pads integer number with leading zeros, and return values.   All 8/14/1996
Click here to download tool ZONALGEOMORPH Grid tools Summarize for each zone of the input zone grid geomorphic calculations of the input elevation grid and record them in the output INFO table. The geomorphic calculations include various measurements of elevation, slope, aspect, and curvature. More Info All 2/17/2000
Click here to download tool ZOOM2SEL Data editing Zoom the last ARCEDIT window (if more than one are open) to the selected features.   All 8/13/1998

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