3D Data Management

Create, manage, and share 3D content across your organisation with ArcGIS

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Manage 3D models and data at scale

Keep your data secure and interoperable

Designed to manage vast volumes of data and formats, ArcGIS is a complete enterprise IT system for enabling teams to create, organise, store, retrieve, and maintain 3D content. Access ready-to-use, authoritative data sources and integrate with other systems to enhance collaboration and unlock new insights.

Integrate with leading 3D data formats

ArcGIS supports a variety of industry-standard and open 3D formats for maximum compatibility and data integration with other systems.

Ensure data accuracy and control

Maintain high-quality data, reduce the risks of errors, and improve decisions with tools in ArcGIS for data validation and quality control.

Create and share dynamic 3D content

Improve coordination and communication with powerful data creation and sharing capabilities to enable better collaboration.

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Robust 3D data management capabilities

Organise, integrate, and share your organisation’s authoritative data with geospatial context and meet the needs of your mission, teams, and projects.

Enhance your 3D data with geographic context

ArcGIS ensures interoperability across systems, software, and devices. Maximise the full potential of your data with 3D spatial context to plan scenarios, deliver projects, and perform analysis with greater precision.

Optimise managing all your 3D data

ArcGIS centralises data and content with location intelligence to serve as a 3D system of record for organisations of all sizes. Discover the powerful data management capabilities in ArcGIS for addressing your current and future needs as they evolve.

Data integration

ArcGIS supports the integration of data from disparate, authoritative, and open sources into a comprehensive enterprise IT system that is powered by location. Connect to other databases, knowledge graphs, and real-time sensor data for improved analysis and collaboration across subject matter expertise.

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Performance

ArcGIS has advanced capabilities to handle large amounts of 3D data for a smooth, interactive visualisation of complex 3D environments. The open 3D content delivery format—Indexed 3D Scene Layers (I3S)—is used to quickly stream large amounts of 3D geographic data across web, mobile devices, and desktops from the cloud and physical servers.

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Content creation and modelling

ArcGIS offers a range of low-code and advanced techniques to efficiently generate 3D content and highly detailed models of natural and built environments. Combined with GeoAI, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) with spatial data, science, and geospatial technology, users can generate large volumes of 3D data at any scale from various data capture methods.

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Editing and maintenance

Easily perform precise adjustments to geometry, attributes, properties, and object positioning or replacement within 3D scenes. Keep data updated and synchronised with automated processes that help collaborators stay current with changes.

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Data integrity

ArcGIS offers tools for verifying the precision, entirety, and uniformity of your data. Automated quality control and assurance measures such as error identification algorithms can be applied to both imported and exported data.

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Sharing and collaboration

ArcGIS makes it easy to share data and work together with your organisation, stakeholders, and the public. Share 3D models, interactive scenes, and analysis results for feedback while improving communication, understanding, and decisions. Ensure the right people have access to the latest data to reduce delays and duplicative efforts.

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3D content processed by ArcGIS. Open source data provided by City of Zurich, SBB, swisstopo, and Wingtra.

ArcGIS delivers 3D capabilities across industries

Businesses, governments, and academic institutions around the world depend on ArcGIS and its 3D geographic information system (GIS) capabilities to unlock the full potential of their data with location intelligence.

  • Architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC)

    Plan, design, and deliver projects in context to their real-world surroundings by connecting 3D GIS and location intelligence with CAD and building information modelling (BIM) data.

  • Utilities and energy

    Facilitate accurate 3D spatial analysis and modelling to aid in the planning of complex infrastructure networks, resource exploration, and renewable energy development.

  • State and local government

    Enhance urban and regional planning, disaster management, and infrastructure maintenance with 3D data to improve decision-making, citizen engagement, and transparency.

  • Environment and natural resources

    Monitor and manage ecosystems, analyse habitat suitability, and assess environmental impacts to support sustainable resource management and conservation efforts.

  • National security

    Visualise and analyse geospatial intelligence with ArcGIS to aid in mission planning, threat assessment, and situational awareness for effective defence and security operations.

  • Education

    Create immersive learning experiences for students to explore and analyse spatial data in 3D to foster a deeper understanding of geographic, engineering, and urban planning concepts.

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Support for open standards

Esri’s open vision and ArcGIS

ArcGIS is engineered to be an open, secure, and interoperable system that supports open 3D data formats such as Industry Foundation Classes (IFC), CityGML, and 3D Tiles. Esri actively contributes to standards development organisations, including the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO).

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