Rasters are regular grids of values, usually stored in an image-like format.

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Why is Orthorectify button not active in Image Analysis Windows in ArcGIS10?

I wanted to Ortho rectify GeoEye HR imagery using existing RPC and IFSAR DTM in Image Analysis. According to ArcGIS Resource center ...
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Resample, ArcGIS: How do I avoid resample taking into acount NoData values?

I am trying to Resample a raster dataset to match the resolution of another dataset. I have fine resolution data on small islands (surrounded by NoData in the sea). When I re-sample the data to a ...
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How to generate TFW files for a list of images?

I have a few digital images that are not georeferenced. E.g.: Img01.tif Img02.tif ... Img99.tif On the other hand, I have a text file, which contains georeferencing information for these ...
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mosaic raster to file geodatabase yields missing raster sections

Since upgrading to ArcGIS 10.1 (SP 1) from 10.0, I've been encountering an issue when running the arcpy.MosaicToNewRaster_management() tool with output to a file geodatabase. I'm principally working ...
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Maintain 8-bit pixel depth in Raster Calculator

Would anyone know how to maintain 8-bit pixels when computing raster calculations in ArcMap?
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Sum all cells in raster using javascript

I'm creating an agent-based model in Agent Analyst for ArcGIS and I need to sum all the values in a raster that has about 7 million pixels. I'm a very beginner in programming, and have a script that ...
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How to convert Rotated Polar grid raster to Non Rotated Polar Raster?

I have a RCM data which is in rotated Polar system , I want it to convert into non-rotated polar RCM. How can i do this things ? Please give some guidance
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Get pixel value from a raster in a xy table

I'm trying to find a way to convert a raster (in my case it's a Landsat satellite image) into a table with 3 columns which would represent: 1) x coordinates (the so called "xllcorners" in ASCII ...
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Clipping a raster in R

I am building a map for the northeastern U.S.A. The map background needs to be either an altitude map or a mean annual temperature map. I have two rasters from Worldclim.org which give me these ...
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Raster as Attribute Field Error

I'm using Arc 10.1. I am creating a parcel inventory where I would like to have a photo of the property attached as an attribute and view-able with an HTML popup. I have a polygon feature class built ...
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Attempting to bring 2,300 .sid files into one raster

I've tried all of the raster tools within ArcToolbox with no luck having such a large number of files. There are about 7GBs worth of MrSID files totaling about 2,300. Most tools fail or process too ...
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ArcMap 10.1 - Tabulate Area tool “doubling up” for Overlapping Buffer Zones

This question is related to a previous question I asked: Raster Version of Spatial Join (one to many) I used the Tabulate Area tool to crosstabulate values between an overlapping "buffrast" raster ...
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MapServer 6.0.2 pmapper 4.3.0 config_default.xml display group of raster layers

I'm aware the CONNECTIONTYPE UNION allows grouping of vector layers but not rasters. I've got several raster tiffs and want to allow the user to select checkboxes based upon the YYYY-MM-DD and only ...
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polygon/raster intersection artifacts

I'm intesecting a polygon with a raster using PostGIS > 2.0. The outer boundary of the polygon is formed by the convex hull of polygons (building outlines plus safety margin) and the inner rings are ...
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Grid vs TIF vs IMG

As the title suggests both of the above three formats are raster files. In ArcGIS, apparently there's no difference between them. So what's the difference between these three formats?
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How to Calculate Utilization Distribution Overlap Index (UDOI) in ArcGIS 10?

I was wondering if any of you happen to have any information on how to calculate the Utilization Distribution Overlap Index (UDOI) in ArcGIS 10? If I understand it correctly the UDOI takes two kernel ...
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How to clip rasterdata for later processing?

My need to dwell with geographical tools is only temporary, thus I am not well versed and my question is difficult to pinpoint exactly. But here it goes: -I have about 5-10 sites, for which I need ...
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Field added to raster data is not visible in attribute table

I am new to raster data and my background is software engineering so this might be a trivial question for GIS specialists. Some raster files have attribute table but some do not. On those with ...
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USGS GeoTiff extent via GDAL

I have 2006 land cover GeoTiff from the USGS site (for a county in VA, USA). The projection is Albers Conical Equal Area Units. The download came with an HTML metadata file that tells me the geo ...
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Raster to polygon conversion's raster field takes only “Value”

Recently I am working with raster data and arcobjects.net. Here I find something new for me. And here some question arises in my mind. I tried to search some document that can satisfy my mind, but I ...
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value field name after raster to polygon conversion

When I perform Raster to polygon conversion using tool, sometimes it creates a field named "GRIDCODE", sometimes the field name is "grid_code". Why does it create random name of a field?
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Can a single raster pixel hold more than one value?

I am a newbie with raster data. Maybe this is a trivial question. Can a single pixel of a raster hold more than one value?
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Can ArcPy collapse layer in current data frame?

Online arcgis resource help provides a list of layer properties which can be used as needed. I am not able to find a way to collapse a layer using arcpy in it. Please suggest if there is a way to ...
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Problem loading raster to PostGIS using QGIS

I am having trouble loading a raster (.asc) file to PostGIS 2.0.1 using the plugin Database - PostGIS Raster - Load raster to postgis in QGIS 1.8.0 on Win Vista 64 bit. I get the following error ...
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Why does the Zonal Statistics tool always return 0?

I have a slope raster created from a DEM raster with the DEM Analysis tool. Now, I would like to calculate the average slope in a given area represented by a vector polygon layer. I thought I could ...
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Loading raster from PostGIS DB into QGIS: succeeded yesterday, fails now

I have a PostgreSQL(v.9.2)/Postgis(v.2.0.3) database which includes raster layers (added through raster2pgsql). To open them in QGIS (v.1.8.0-Lisboa), the "Add Postgis layer" menu will not work; ...
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Zonal Statistics-Weighting

I have a raster file on precipitation and I want to create zonal statistics as a table using a shape file wiht boundaries of countries across the world. However it appears that I need to take into ...
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Creating randomly shaped clumps of cells in a raster from seeds of 1 cell/pixel?

As my title says, I wish to "grow" clumps of cells from seeds within a raster. My base raster is full of 1's and 0's, 1's indicate land and 0's sea/NA areas. From the 1's I wish to select 60 random ...
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How can I reclassify a raster to floating point values?

I have a raster of landuse values that I need to reclassify into pollution concentration values. I have the pollution values in a separate table. They are decimal values (ex. 0.0056), and my landuse ...
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Problem with calculating the total cell values

aa= arcpy.RasterToNumPyArray("water_depth") sum = numpy.sum(aa) print sum -2933737 Why I am getting negative values ? In my raster there is no any negative ...
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Raster Version of Spatial Join (one to many) [duplicate]

I have two raster layers that are identical in shape (they overlap exactly) and I need to perform the raster equivalent of a Spatial Join (one to many). My files need to stay in raster format ...
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Tabulate Area crashes Python and ArcGIS

I have a script that runs Tabulate Area on a single feature class multiple times with different rasters. In total Tabulate Area runs 5 times. 2 of the input rasters are provided as arguments to the ...
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Extract Raster Value into Polygon Attribute

I have Raster Data for a State which has Elevation Data in its pixels. I also have Vector layer which has the 300 divisions of State. what I need is, I want to get the average elevation value of ...
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How can i calculate the width of the dam?

I am working with Reservoir design. Now I am facing problem to calculate the width of the dam. I need to calculate the width based on DEM and height of dam at various points using Python. I am working ...
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GDAL: add metadata to Bands when creating new GeoTIFF

This is a metadata question :-). I am processing airborne laser scanning full-waveform data to extract information and I store this information by creating a multiband GeoTIFF using GDAL. I will have ...
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Apply rotation before FeatureToRaster_conversion

I am converting polygon shapefiles to rasters. With arcpy I am using the function FeatureToRaster_conversion. gp.FeatureToRaster_conversion(InFeatures, InField, OutRaster, InCellSize) This function ...
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How do I use polygons to apply a unique value to all raster cells within those polygons?

In ArcGIS 9.3, I have a raster file that I would like to "mask" with polygons, giving a single value to all the raster cells that overlap the polygons. How can I do this? Here's a screen shot, where ...
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Different results from Spatial Analyst GP Tool and Python

I am writing a script that has to subtract one raster from another. The rasters I have represent 1) Parking Lots (1 = Parking Lot, 0 = not Parking Lot) and 2) a buffer around the Parking Lot (1 = ...
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QGis Grid statistics for polygons error - Module caused access violation!

I'm trying to calculate statistics for a raster layer using an overlaying polygon layer, I'm using SAGA "Grid Statistics for polygons" function, but it returns an error, sadly.. So in the sextante log ...
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Raster to vector with gaps in Landsat ETM

I need to find size of water area from a raster (jpg) using QGIS 1.8.0-Lisboa. The raster is a Landsat image with gaps of data in it. I used Polygonize, but the output file shows wrong polygon size ...
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Can I create a legend of a map that I had get from a WMS?

Can I create a legend of a map that I had get from a WMS? Can I create a legend of a raster map with Qgis version 1.7.4, or only with the 1.8 version?
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Add a time dimension in ESRI mosaic raster dataset

I am in the process of creating a script to pull daily .asc files from a ftp server, convert them to a raster format, and push them into a mosaic raster dataset. Ultimately, the raster dataset will be ...
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Is it possible to batch clip rasters in Quantum GIS?

I have been able to batch clip rasters in one directory using python in ArcGIS. However, I am not sure how to do the same in Quantum using the python console. Is this possible? If there are different ...
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ArcGIS 10.1 Data Driven Pages Raster Rendering from Current extent

Data Driven Pages are not honoring the Raster Rendering by current extent when exporting multiple pages to pdf. The current map page works fine, but subsequent pages use the same color rendering (ie ...
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Extraction of raster cell values based on 'rgeos' and 'raster' buffering approaches in R

I am trying to extract cell values from a raster that lie within a certain distance from a given location (i.e. buffering). Evaluating different approaches, I found out that applying gBuffer(..., ...
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Polygon to Raster Tool Problem

I am trying to create a raster data set from county level polygon data for the US. I have successfully created one raster from a dataset, but when attempting another, it does not work. I am ...
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Calculating Volume of Reservoir using python and ArcMap10? [duplicate]

I have a raster file with different water depth in each cell. I am using Aster DEM so my resolution of that file is 30m by 30m. Now I want to calculate the total volume in that area by multiplying ...
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How to combine two rasters, preferring the values of one over the other? [duplicate]

I have two rasters that I need to combine (not using the Combine tool). The values of the 1st raster are preferred to those of the 2nd raster, so I want to keep these values if they exist. Where the ...
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Stuck in loading raster to PostGIS

I am running running Mac OS X (10.7.5), PostgreSQL (9.2) and PostGIS (2.0.2) (installed via Postgres.app). The PostGIS extension seems to work perfectly with vector and raster layers. Once I enable ...
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How to represent trend over time?

I have a time series of rasters where the cells of each raster represents some value at a certain time. I'd like to generate a map that highlights the magnitude of positive or negative trends in this ...

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