What's new in the Geostatistical Analyst toolbox

The new and improved functionality of Geostatistical Analyst in ArcGIS 10.1 includes a new empirical Bayesian kriging tool and a tool that aggregates areal interpolation layers to new polygons.

Learn more about what's new in ArcGIS Geostatistical Analyst 10.1

New tools

Toolset	Tool	Description
Interpolation toolset	Empirical Bayesian Kriging	Empirical Bayesian Kriging is an interpolation method that accounts for the error in estimating the underlying semivariogram through repeated simulations.
Geostatistical Layers toolset	Areal Interpolation Layer To Polygons	Reaggregates the predictions of an Areal Interpolation layer to a new set of polygons.

Improved tools

Tool	Improvement
GA Layer To Points	Added the Append all fields from input features parameter. This parameter specifies whether all fields of the input feature class will be copied to the output feature class.