| Strategic commands, functions and clauses: powerful tools, worth learning about |
| Creates a simple summary description of an Access database (number of tables, number of columns and records in each table, a list of column names, etc) |
| Adds a new area and/or permeter field to a polygon data source |
| Adds a new field to a table and automatically codes it with a specified pattern of values |
| Adds a new length field to a polyline data source |
| Adds new x and y coordinate fields to a feature data source table (points, lines, polygons) |
| Buffers features using a constant or field based buffer distances, and optionally copies attributes |
| Calculates the shared border line between two adjacent (or approximately adjacent) polygons, and writes the polyline and unique polygon ID's of the polygons to the output file |
| Clips an input raster using a reference data source to define the clip boundary or using user defined coordinates defining a clip rectangle |
| Clips an input raster to each polygon in a polygon data source resulting in one new raster per polygon |
| Converts lines (polylines) to points by extracting the vertices of the polylines |
| Converts points to lines (polylines) |
| Converts polygons to lines (polylines) |
| Converts polygons to points by extracting the vertices of the polygons |
| Converts length or area values from one unit to another (an interactive command line tool) |
| Copies features from one data source to a new data source |
| Counts the number of points that overlap each polygon, and writes the result to a field in the polygon attribute table |
| Deletes the features from a vector data source that meet the criteria specified using a 'where' clause |
| Changes the delimiting character used when reading/writing tabular text output such as comma delimited text files |
| Downloads files from websites via an HTTP connection |
| Exports tables to a delimited textfile format |
| Creates lines along the boundary between two pixels that have different values |
| Deletes one or more fields from a table |
| Searches fields to find the minimum and/or maximum value in each record |
| Renames a field in a table |
| Appends text files located in the same folder |
| Counts the number of lines in a text file |
| Extracts a specified range of lines from a textfile and writes them to a new file |
| Extracts a specified range of lines from a textfile and writes them to the output window |
| Splits a text file into multiple, approximately equally sized, smaller text files |
| A programming device that allows you to repeat a set of commands many times |
| Generates a regular arrangement of circles within the bounds of polygons |
| Generates a sample of random points around each input point, designed for a conditional logistic regression (case controlled) style of analysis |
| Generalizes / simplifies a thematic raster dataset based on the size of groups of contiguous pixels of the same value |
| Generates a regular arrangement of hexagons within the bounds of polygons |
| Generates minimum convex polygons (MCP's) based on a set if input points |
| Generates a single point for each polygon in the input data source |
| Generates a sample of random points, with several optional constraint parameters |
| Generates shapes (polygons) centred on a set of input points, currently supported shapes are: circles, diamonds, hexagons, squares, triangles (equilateral), rectangles and ellipses |
| Generates a sample of stratified random points (where strata are polygons), with various optional constraint parameters |
| Generates a vector grid (a series of regularly sized and spaced square/rectangular polygons) |
| Clips the geometry of the input feature data source to polygons in the clip feature data source |
| Calculates the geometric difference between the input features and the polygons in a clip feature data source |
| Splits input polygons using lines |
| Imports seas surface temperature rasters from HDF format to an ArcGIS supported raster format |
| Calculates intersections between geometries (points, lines or polygons) |
| Creates a statistical or frequency summary of raster data along a line (polyline) based on a raster layer |
| Intersect points with a raster layer and writes the cell value of the cell containing each point to the attribute table of the point data source |
| Generate summary statistics for one polygon dataset based on another polygon dataset |
| Creates summaries for each polygon based on the values in a raster layer |
| Returns the Julian day for a specified date |
| Calculates kernel density estimates based on a set of input points |
| Performs k-means clustering on a set of fields in a feature data source table |
| For each feature in an input layer this tool creates a list of other features (in the same layer or a different layer) that intersect it |
| List the names and assigned values of the variables the user has defined |
| A simple correlated random walk movement path simulator, drawing from statistical or empirical distributions, with a home range boundary constraint option |
| Simulates movement paths based on a step selection function (SSF) model |
| This function is used within other command text to construct strings from a variety of components |
| Calculates distances between points, either among points within a point data source, or among points between two point data sources |
| Computes the Delaunay (Voronoi) triangulation and Dirichlet tessalation of a set of points using the 'deldir' library in R |
| This function evaluates an expression in R, and retrieves the result |
| Changes the default graph parameters that are used to generate graphics in R |
| Creates a histogram graph using R |
| Creates a scatterplot graph using R |
| Creates a random or stratified random sample of records in a feature table |
| Reclassify a raster to create a new raster |
| Issues a series of attribute selection statements to classify tabular records |
| A raster tool that identifies contiguous blocks of cells of the same value (i.e. regions) and assigns each region a unique ID number that is written to the output raster dataset |
| Runs the commands contained in the specified script file |
| Draws samples from an empirical distirbution and writes the sample to the output window |
| Saves the contents of the output window to a new folder |
| Provides the user with a way of changing important GME system variables that control the behaviour of GME |
| Sets the current current input and output working directories |
| Shifts and/or rotates vector features and writes the result to a new output data source |
| Snaps a set of inpoint points to the features in a vector layer (containing points, lines or polygons) and writes the result to a new point dataset |
| Splits a vector dataset into several separate datasets based on an ID value in one of the attribute fields |
| Sums the lengths of the portions of all lines that intersect each polygon |
| Switches on or off the command timing utility that reports the processing time for each command in the output window |
| Reports the unique values for a specified field in an attribute table |
| The where clause allows you to define a subset of records to process using a query |
