Topographic attributes are often very important to agriculture and natural resource applications. Many natural and human processes are dependent on functions of these variables such as slope, aspect, curvature, and stream flow. You can use both attributes and location to solve your problems with the Spatial Analyst. One application of this is to use the distance and proximity functions to ask questions concerning how far something is and to generate allocated areas. Using the ArcView Spatial Analyst you can use spatial statistics to drive your models and generate information.
Additional functions are available to perform more operations on grids.
These include such things as reclassification, export by shape or value, and transforming grids. The ArcView Spatial Analyst extension also includes an extensive suite of more advanced raster analysis tools that can be accessed through Avenue. Developers will be able to deliver very sophisticated spatial analysis applications based on these extended capabilities.