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Posted on February 2, 2023 (Updated on July 10, 2025)

Determining which polygons line crosses and length of it within each polygon using ArcGIS Desktop?

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How do you find the length of a line in ArcGIS?

Right-click the field header in the attribute table and select Calculate Geometry to open the Calculate Geometry window.

  1. In the Calculate Geometry window, select the field for Target Field, and Length (geodesic) for Property in the Geometry Property section.
  2. Select the unit of measurement for Length Unit.

How do you select overlapping polygons in ArcMap?

In ArcGIS Pro, on the Analysis tab, click Tools to open the Geoprocessing pane. Search for and open the Count Overlapping Features tool. In the Count Overlapping Features pane, for Input Features, select all the overlapping polygon layers.
 

How do you select a feature within a polygon?

Find what is inside a polygon

  1. Select a feature polygon layer in the Contents pane.
  2. On the Data tab, click Spatial Join .
  3. Click the Join Features drop-down menu and select the polygon layer.
  4. Under Match Options, choose Completely within.
  5. Change additional parameters as needed.
  6. Run the tool.


What is summarize within ArcGIS desktop?

With the Summarize Within tool, you can summarize features within existing polygons. With the Summarize Nearby tool, you can generate areas around points, lines, or polygons, and summarize features within those derived areas. You can create groups by specifying a group field from the input points.

How do you find the length of lines?

How do I find the length of a line segment with endpoints?

  1. Use the distance formula: d = √[(x₂ – x₁)² + (y₂ – y₁)²]
  2. Replace the values for the coordinates of the endpoints, (x₁, y₁) and (x₂, y₂) .
  3. Perform the calculations to get the value of the length of the line segment.

 

How do you find the length of a line in a shape?

Quote from video: It's still Pythagoras theorem you can see that l squared is going to equal well x2 minus x1 squared. That's the horizontal distance. And then add the vertical distance y2 minus y1 all sweat.

How do you find the intersection of two polygons?

Compute the center of mass for each polygon. Compute the min or max or average distance from each point of the polygon to the center of mass. If C1C2 (where C1/2 is the center of the first/second polygon) >= D1 + D2 (where D1/2 is the distance you computed for first/second polygon) then the two polygons “intersect”.
 

How do you find overlapping ranges?

1) Sort all intervals in increasing order of start time. This step takes O(nLogn) time. 2) In the sorted array, if start time of an interval is less than end of previous interval, then there is an overlap.
 

How do you fix overlapping polygons in ArcGIS?

Removing overlaps from existing polygons

  1. Select the polygon feature whose border you want to maintain. The other polygon will be clipped back to match it.
  2. Click the Editor menu and click Clip.
  3. Set the buffer distance to 0 and choose to discard the area that intersects.
  4. Click OK.


How do you measure the length of a line in Arcgis pro?

The tools on the Measure dialog box are listed below:

  1. Measure Line—Double-click to complete the line.
  2. Measure An Area—Double-click to complete the polygon.
  3. Measure A Feature—Click a feature to measure its length (line), perimeter and area (polygon or annotation), or x,y location (point features).

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