Direct—Distance between two points Horizontal—Horizontal distance between two points Vertical—Vertical distance between two points While you are measuring, a second laser line indicates where the vertical plane along the checkered line intersects the terrain in all directions, such as with buildings,...
The shortest line between two points on the earth's surface on a spheroid (ellipsoid). One use for a geodesic line is to determine the shortest distance between two cities for an airplane's flight path. This is also known as a great circle line if based on a sphere rather than an elli...
Measure distance Use the Measure distance tool to calculate the distance between two points in a scene. This tool labels the direct, horizontal, and vertical distance lines in the scene and displays the values in the panel. Direct—Distance between two points Horizontal—Horizontal distance between...
Measure distance The Distance toolmeasures the distance between two or more points. To measure distance, complete the following steps: Click the layer in theContentspane. Click theImagerytab. In theMensurationgroup, click the drop-down arrow to display all the tools, and choose theDistancetool. ...
This could be the shortest distance between points on the globe surface or the shortest distance between a point on the globe surface and a 3D feature, such as a window on a building. Also, this can be used to find the shortest distance between two points of interest floating indep...
Depending on the distance and location of your measurement, the line you drew may be curved. This is because the Measure tool must take into account the natural curvature of the earth to calculate the shortest path between two points. The curve you see is called a geodesic curve. Lines and...
In ArcGIS Pro, the distance between points and the nearest edge of a polygon can be measured. It can also be used to find how far a feature is from a border or boundary.This article provides two workf
Distance and Angle- measures the distance between two or more points. Area and Perimeter- calculates the size and perimeter of an area. When 'Measure in 3D' is checked, it will use the DEM to refine the calculation. Point Location- measures the location of a point. ...
The measured distance isgeodetic/geodesic distance. Geodetic distance is calculated in a 3D spherical space as the distance across the curved surface of the world. You can find more information about the differences between geodesic and planar distance in theArcGIS Pro documentation. ...
The figure below is an example of the results of the two tools when measuring the distance between two points when the dataset and data frame use the same coordinate system. Both tools display the same distance. Note: In cases where both the dataset and data frame have the wrong coordinate...