How mat lab Helpful to mapinfo software And Arcgis softwares?

I am using matlab softwares to read shape files and some Earth related projects . So for that i am using mapinfo software it is GIS software . is matlab is helping to do such map related projects? if yes how?

Answer 1

[Cedric]

Look for the Mapping Toolbox manual here: http://www.mathworks.com/help/pdf_doc/allpdf.html

The toolbox will allow you to read/write shapefiles/rasters/etc, perform basic GIS operations, and display geo-referenced data. Note that ESRI File Geodatabases are a "proprietary format/structure" and they are therefore not supported by the Mapping toolbox (so you might want to avoid using it in ArcGIS).

Also, the ArcGIS toolbox is available as a "library" for Python called Geoprocessing/Geoprocessor until ArcGIS 9.3.1 and Arcpy from version 10 on. This allows you to create a Python "wrapper" for tools from the ArcGIS toolbox, that you can call from MATLAB. I don't recommend this though, because it is heavy to maintain projects based on and mixing MATLAB/Python/ArcGIS.

[usman shamim]

I want to perform the optimization of sensors in the Arc Map.I have created the model on the ArcMap of the terrain but i dont have any code which can be implemented on the arcmap for the placement.

Any idea how can i get the genetic algorithm and then implement it on the arcmap or i can import the map on the python and can perform the task.