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Licensing requirements for spatial analysis

The administrator of your organization must grant you the required privileges to perform analysis. You must have the privileges to create, update, and delete content; publish hosted feature layers; and perform standard feature analysis.

The required privileges for feature analysis are available through the following user types and roles:

  • Creator, Professional, or Professional Plus user type
  • Publisher or Administrator role, or an equivalent custom role

Raster analysis tools require additional privileges for imagery analysis, including ArcGIS Image Server configured for raster analysis.

Additional privileges may be required for some tools. The tables below summarize the licensing requirements for all tools.

Summarize data tools

The following table summarizes the licensing requirements for tools in the Summarize data category:

ToolServersAdditional privileges or utility services

Aggregate Points

None

None

Join Features

Summarize Within

Summarize Center and Dispersion

Summarize Nearby

None

Network Analysis (required to use travel modes)

The following routing services are required to use travel modes:

  • Service Area (Asynchronous)
  • Routing utility service

Zonal Statistics (Summarize Raster Within in Map Viewer Classic)

Professional or Professional Plus

ArcGIS Image Server configured for raster analysis

None

Zonal Statistics as Table

Find locations tools

The following table summarizes the licensing requirements for tools in the Find locations category:

ToolServersAdditional privileges or utility services

Find by Attributes and Location (Find Existing Locations and Derive New Locations in Map Viewer Classic)

ArcGIS Server Advanced (required to create a spatial expression using Does not intersect or Not within a distance when Include only the parts of features that meet the criteria is checked)

None

Find Centroids

None

None

Find Similar Locations

Create Viewshed

None

ArcGIS Online World Elevation service

Create Watersheds

None

ArcGIS Online Hydrology service

Trace Downstream

Choose Best Facilities

None

Network Analysis

The following routing services are required:

  • Location Allocation (Asynchronous)
  • Routing utility service

Geocode Locations from Table

None

Geocoding privilege (required to perform geocoding using the ArcGIS World Geocoding Service)

Locate Regions

Professional or Professional Plus

None

Enrich data tools

The following table summarizes the licensing requirements for the tool in the Enrich data category:

ToolServersAdditional privileges or utility services

Enrich Layer

None

GeoEnrichment privilege

ArcGIS GeoEnrichment Service or a custom GeoEnrichment service

Network Analysis (required to use travel modes)

The following routing services are required to use travel modes:

  • Service Area (Asynchronous)
  • Routing utility service

Analyze patterns tools

The following table summarizes the licensing requirements for tools in the Analyze patterns category:

ToolServersAdditional privileges or utility services

Calculate Density

ArcGIS Server Advanced.

None

Interpolate Points

Calculate Composite Index

None

None

Find Hot Spots

None

GeoEnrichment (required to use Esri population data)

ArcGIS GeoEnrichment Service or a custom GeoEnrichment service (required to use Esri population data)

Find Outliers

Find Point Clusters

None

None

Calculate Density (raster analysis)

ArcGIS Image Server configured for raster analysis

None

Interpolate Points (raster analysis)

Use proximity tools

The following table summarizes the licensing requirements for tools in the Use proximity category:

ToolServersAdditional privileges or utility services

Calculate Travel Cost (Connect Origins to Destinations in Map Viewer Classic)

None

Network Analysis (required to use travel modes)

The following routing services are required to use travel modes:

  • Route (Asynchronous)
  • Routing utility service

Create Buffers

None

None

Distance Accumulation

ArcGIS Image Server configured for raster analysis

None

Distance Allocation

Optimal Path as Line

Optimal Path as Raster

Optimal Region Connections

Find Closest (Find Nearest in Map Viewer Classic)

None

Network Analysis (required to use travel modes)

The following routing services are required to use travel modes:

  • Closest Facility (Asynchronous)
  • Routing utility service

Generate Travel Areas (Create Drive-Time Areas in Map Viewer Classic)

None

Network Analysis

The following routing services are required:

  • Service Area (Asynchronous)
  • Routing utility service

Plan Routes

None

Network Analysis

The following routing services are required:

  • Vehicle Routing Problem (Asynchronous)
  • Routing utility service

Manage data tools

The following table summarizes the licensing requirements for tools in the Manage data category:

ToolServersAdditional privileges or utility services

Extract Raster (available in Map Viewer Classic)

ArcGIS Image Server configured for raster analysis

None

Remap Values (available in Map Viewer Classic)

Convert Feature to Raster

Convert Raster to Feature

Nibble

Sample

Dissolve Boundaries

None

None

Extract Data

Generate Tessellations

Merge Layers

Overlay Layers

ArcGIS Server Advanced (required to enable Erase as an overlay type)

None

Analyze terrain tools

The following table summarizes the licensing requirements for tools in the Analyze terrain category:

ToolServersAdditional privileges or utility services

Derive Continuous Flow

Professional or Professional Plus

ArcGIS Image Server configured for raster analysis

None

Derive Stream As Line

Derive Stream As Raster

Fill

Flow Accumulation

Flow Direction

Flow Distance

Geodesic Viewshed (Create Viewshed in Map Viewer Classic)

Stream Link

Surface Parameters

Watershed

Use deep learning tools

The following table summarizes the licensing requirements for tools in the Use deep learning category:

Use multidimensional analysis tools

The following table summarizes the licensing requirements for tools in the Use multidimensional analysis category:

Custom web tools

Custom web tools require the same user type and privileges as spatial analysis.

Custom web tools published from ArcGIS Notebooks also require the Run web tools privilege and any privileges required to run the individual tools within the notebook. The Run web tools privilege is included in the Administrator role.

Note:

Custom web tools created in Notebooks are hosted as tool items.

Learn more about custom web tools

Resources

Use the following resources to learn more: