Shadow Impact Analysis | ArcGIS Solutions for Local Government

Overview

Shadow Impact Analysis is a configuration of ArcGIS Pro that can used by local government staff to evaluate the shadow impact of proposed or existing buildings on the surrounding community.

For example, planners and architects can use Shadow Impact Analysis to determine the additional shadow impact of a proposed development on a neighboring public park or school playground for any day in the year.

Requirements What you get What's new View Scene

Requirements

To deploy Shadow Impact Analysis with the ArcGIS Solutions Deployment Tool requires specific software.

Requirement	Description
Software	Solution deployment and scene authoring ArcGIS Pro 2.3 - 2.4 (Advanced), and ArcGIS Spatial Analyst extension, and ArcGIS 3D Analyst extension Solution hosting ArcGIS Online subscription, or ArcGIS Enterprise 10.5 - 10.7 (Standard or Advanced) with managed data store

Requirement

Description

Software

Solution deployment and scene authoring

ArcGIS Pro 2.3 - 2.4 (Advanced), and
ArcGIS Spatial Analyst extension, and
ArcGIS 3D Analyst extension

Solution hosting

ArcGIS Online subscription, or
ArcGIS Enterprise 10.5 - 10.7 (Standard or Advanced) with managed data store

What you get

When you download Shadow Impact Analysis, you'll find the following files:

Item	Description
ShadowImpactAnalysis.ppkx	An ArcGIS Pro project package used to evaluate shadow impact of proposed or existing buildings on the surrounding Local Government 3D Basemaps.

What's new

Below are the release dates and notes for Shadow Impact Analysis.

Date	Description
June 2019	Resolved an issue when Visibility Assessment is installed as well. Support for ArcGIS Pro 2.4
March 2019	Support for ArcGIS 10.7
January 2019	Support for ArcGIS Pro 2.3
June 2018	Support for ArcGIS Pro 2.2
April 2018	Shadow Impact Analysis can now be deployed in your ArcGIS organization with the ArcGIS Solutions Deployment Tool. Fixed a bug in the Shadow Analysis and Compare Shadows tools when a layer file could not be found.
January 2018	Additional documentation describing a step by step guide on shadow impact analysis. Support for ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6 and ArcGIS Pro 2.1.
September 2017	Resolved an issue in the EvaluateShadows.tbx that occurred when meters were used as a unit to derive sun locations.
June 2017	Support for ArcGIS Pro 2.0. New task to do a quick Shadow Check with export to popular movies formats.
March 2017	Ability to select a 2D feature as observer Compare individual time steps as well as shadow hours
January 2017	First release of Shadow Impact Analysis

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