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How to combine Combining corner-touching polygons into a single feature

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Merging connected How to combine corner-touching polygons (from raster cells)into a single feature

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Merging connected polygons (from raster cells)

I have created a polygon layer from rasters, and only have a single classification ID (and calculated acres) for each polygon. I would like to "dissolve" all touching features into larger, individual polygons. The 3 areas circled in red (below) contain green polygons/pixels that only touch on the points of the squares. Intuitively (from an end user perspective) all of the green polygons within a circled area should be connected and treated as a single polygon because there are no "breaks" where the features/cells do not touch.

What would be the best method to accomplish "joining" or "dissolving" all of these features using ArcGIS. I have ArcInfo and Spatial Analyst extension. If there is a better methodology for doing this in Spatial Analyst, I can pre-process the polygons that way, too.

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