An overview of the Visibility toolset

The Visibility toolset features tools for performing various forms of visibility analysis, ranging from constructing shadow models and sight lines to generation of viewsheds and skylines.

Tool	Description
Construct Sight Lines	Creates line features that represent sight lines from one or more observer points to features in a target feature class.
Line Of Sight	Determines the visibility of sight lines over a surface defined by a multipatch, raster, TIN, terrain, or LAS dataset.
Observer Points	Identifies which observer points are visible from each raster surface location.
Skyline	Generates a line or multipatch feature class containing the results from a skyline silhouette analysis.
Skyline Barrier	Generates a multipatch feature class representing a skyline barrier or shadow volume.
Skyline Graph	Calculates sky visibility and generates an optional table and polar graph.
Sun Shadow Volume	Creates closed volumes that model shadows cast by each feature using sunlight for a given date and time.
Viewshed	Determines the raster surface locations visible to a set of observer features.

Overview of tools in the Visibility toolset