DecisionTree's Features

DecisionTree combines a powerful calculation engine with a customizable toolbox and a user-friendly interface.

Weight multiple geographic factors and generate a heat map that highlights optimal locations for your activities.

Interactive criteria weighting
Users prioritize locations by assigning weights to the criteria of significance to them.  Weights can be set manually by moving a slider bar or by typing a number between -5 and 5.  DecisionTree calculates the locations best meeting the weighted criteria.

View individual or aggregated search results
Users can view not only the map of hotspots based on the combined criteria but also the results for each individual criterion included in the search.

Save analysis scenarios to your account
Once individualized criteria weights have been determined, these settings can be saved to users’ accounts for future retrieval.

Find and display specific locations on the map
Specific addresses can be input for display alongside the calculation results.

Bookmark map views
Map views can be saved to facilitate easy viewing of areas of particular interest.

Link to additional resources
Supports ‘smartlinks’ which connect to additional resources based on a selected map location.  For example, selection of a parcel might enable linking to a crime mapping application centered on that parcel.

Calculation masks
Limits calculations to specific areas such as tax incentive areas, a particular municipality or other zones.

Customize map display
DecisionTree enables users considerable control over the final map display including several choices for color ramps, adjustable transparency of the prioritization layer, and the ability to turn off or on additional resource map layers.

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Integration with ESRI products

Business Analyst Online API
For organizations in need of demographic and business activity reporting, DecisionTree offers an optional module that accesses ESRI’s Business Analyst Online services to generate reports and maps regarding the lifestyle, socio-economic characteristics, and buying behaviors of households in the study area.

DecisionTree's Toolbox
The DecisionTree Toolbox leverages the ArcGIS Geoprocessing Toolbox to enable easy generation of raster layers for inclusion of your data in DecisionTree. These tools support several types of calculation including:

• Feature Density – calculates the density of features per square mile. Example: calculate the density of roads or crime incidents.
• Feature In/Out – assigns values to features whether they are inside a defined polygon or outside of that polygon. Example: create a business promotion area or special services district.
• Feature Value – reclassifies values in a range of 1 to 100 based upon the source features values. Example:  look at per capita income or population distribution.
• Proximity Tools – calculates the degree of proximity to a set of features.  There are three different tools that will generate decision factors for Short Drive to features, Walking Distance to features and being next to them.
• Reclassification – groups or reclassifies an existing data set into a data range that can be used in DecisionTree.  Four tools are available including: Equal Interval, Quantile, Defined Interval and Geometrical Interval.
  
  

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