Introduction to Sun Position Analysis

Sun Position Analysis can be used to identify areas of potential natural concealment.

The sun’s illumination on a given terrain can conceal areas from visual detection. Identifying when, and where, the sun’s illumination will create natural areas of concealment helps mission planners decide where to place assets and anticipate where they may encounter oppositional forces.

The Sun Position Analysis solution delivers a set of capabilities that help you visualize the sun’s illumination on a given terrain and share that information with military planners and decision makers.

Deploy the solution

This ArcGIS solution can be deployed in your ArcGIS organization.

See Deploy an ArcGIS solution for more information.

Requirements

Sun Position Analysis requires the following apps:

  • ArcGIS Enterprise
  • ArcGIS Pro 3.1 or later (Basic, Standard, or Advanced)
    • ArcGIS Spatial Analyst extension

Information products

Sun Position Analysis includes the following information products:

ItemDescriptionMinimum user type

Sun Position Analysis Project

A zipped file with an ArcGIS Pro project used to identify areas of potential natural concealment

GIS Professional (Basic, Standard, or Advanced)

When you deploy this solution in your ArcGIS organization, you also get an ArcGIS solution item that organizes the key information products and summarizes all the ArcGIS items (applications, forms, projects, maps, feature layers, feature layer views, and so on) included with the solution. The ArcGIS solution item also illustrates any dependencies items have on each other.

Release notes

The following are the release notes:

VersionDescription
1.1
  • Updated Sun Position and Hillshade tool syntax to work with supported versions of ArcGIS Pro.
1.0
  • First release of Sun Position Analysis