ArcGIS 3D Analyst allows you to effectively visualize and analyze surface data. Using ArcGIS 3D Analyst, you can view a surface from multiple viewpoints, query a surface, determine what is visible from a chosen location on a surface, create a realistic perspective image that drapes raster and vector data over a surface, and record or perform three-dimensional navigation.

The ArcGlobe application in ArcGIS 3D Analyst allows you to manage and visualize, from a local or global perspective, extremely large sets of three-dimensional geographic data. ArcGlobe provides the capability to seamlessly interact with any geographic information as data layers on a three-dimensional globe. With ArcGIS 3D Analyst you can:

• Create three-dimensional views directly using your GIS data.
• Create user-defined, photo-realistic fly-through animations
• Analyze three-dimensional data using cut/fill, line-of-sight, and terrain modeling.
• View your data from a global to local perspective
• Navigate through multiresolution terrain data seamlessly
• Do spatial analysis in two or three dimensions.
• Visualize modeling or analysis results in three-dimensions.
• Use three-dimensional models and symbols for realism.
• Export your visualizations into videos