GIS Tools

Tools for ArcMap 10.x

• Tools for Graphics and Shapes - Contains many useful routines including the latest geodesic calculations (area and length) and ocentric-ographic tools.
  • Manual (pdf)
• Crater Helper Tools v1.1 - Provides a set of tools for measuring and digitizing craters and other morphologic features.
  • Manual (pdf)
• Raster Riser v1.0 - Provides a maunal sorting method to reorder rasters within a ArcMap mosaic dataset.
  • Manual (pdf)

• Geodesic Profiler - Beta version, works in ArcMap 10.0 - 10.4.
  • Manual (pdf)

• Zonal Statistics Toolbox - Python toolbox with tools to analyze and report slope statistics for multiple landing sites. Tools include Merge Files, Topology Check, Zonal Statistics Tool, and Create Histogram Plot.
  • Manual (pdf)

• PGM Toolbox - Python toolbox with routines to automate GIS workflows common to planetary geologic mapping. Tools include New Project Geodatabase, Merge Files, Topology Check, Build Polygons, and Slope/Aspect Test.

• Nomenclature WKT Toolbar - Esri Add-in to retrieve Well Known Text (WKT) string of an object and print it to the ArcMap python console. Supports normal coordinats and 0-360 longitude.

• LIFT - Load Image from Footprint - Loads one or more images from a footprint polygon file which has a text field containing the image's path and filename.

• Display Lon Lat 180/360 and East/West - Display Longitude and Latitude using different Longitude domains 180/360 and East/West.

• Copy and Paste Raster and Feature Symbology - Copy the symbology from one ArcMap layer and paste it to one or more layers.

• Orthographic Projection Pan - Allows you to set the center of an Orthographic projection with a mouse click

• Contour Line Attribution Tool - This tool is designed to allow the user to draw a line that intersects one or more unattributed contours. The user then sets the start elevation (contour) value and the interval at which the elevation contours should increment.

• Iterative Self Select Intersected - This tool will iteratively loop over selected features (in a single layer) adding to the selected set if those features intersect any other feature.

• Tectonic Reconstruct - Tectonic Reconstruct v1.2 (beta) add-in provides a set of tools for the sequential reconstruction of tectonic features.
  • Manual (pdf)

Tools for ArcMap 9.x

• ArcMap 9.3 Archived Tools

Useful External links

• Scripts published on Esri
• Pierssen Publishing
• “GIS Viewing Tools You Shouldn't Be Without!” by GeoCommunity.
• FreeGIS - a site with links to lots of free software and viewers for GIS users

Free GIS/Image Viewers and Utilities

• QGIS 
  • Planetary radii built-in
• Global Mapper (Windows only, limited to a few layers in free version)
  • Planetary radii built-in, simple 3D viewer
• JMars (Mars, Moon, etc., )
• HiView Jpeg2000/JPIP viewer
• UDIG 
• GMT - Generic Mapping Tools
• Mirone (GMT, GDAL, Matlab mash-up, may require matlab for some OSs)
• SAGA GIS
• gvSIG
• GRASS GIS
• LandSerf
• GDAL conversion and image tools
  • Anaconda Python (all platforms, once installed run 'conda install gdal')
  • OsGeo4W (Windows Installer)
  • Macintosh OSX framework binaries
  • FWTools (Astrogeology version for Linux with Kakadu Jpeg2000 support)
  • Planetary GDAL Tips
  • GDAL Python examples (e.g. hsv_merge.py)
• PERL header scripts for ISIS2, ISIS3, PDS, and VICAR

3D Viewers

• Google Earth (for Mars and Moon)
• WorldWide Telescope (Mars Moc and HiRISE built-in)
• Worldwind
• Marble
• Blender (also see SpaceBlender or HiRISE add-on)