Generate ESRI grid with xllcenter/yllcenter in header

Question

I'm trying to generate ARC/INFO ASCII GRID (*.asc) from point feature class using Create TIN - TIN to raster - Raster to ASCII functions. I'm looking for a way to have the output raster file header referring to center of left lower pixel instead of corner. (xllcenter/yllcenter instead of xllcorner/yllcorner).

Is there a way to get this type of header directly from ArcGIS? If not - is it correct if I just rewrite the header from corner to center and change the coordinates to coordinates of center of the left lower pixel (as shown below)?

This is the header from Raster to ASCII tool:

ncols 1000
nrows 1000
xllcorner 1271000
yllcorner 7269000
cellsize 5.0000

This is the header I need:

ncols 1000
nrows 1000
xllcenter 1271002.500
yllcenter 7269002.500
cellsize 5.0000

Answer 1

An .asc file is also known as ESRI ASCII Raster format. The file header takes both xllcenter or xllcorner (and yllcenter or yllcorner) arguments, which represent the X coordinate of the origin by center or lower left corner of the cell, respectively.

And you are correct, it is not possible to output with xllcenter and yllcenter. The Raster to ASCII tool help says:

This tool only writes the origin as the lower left corner of the lower left cell.

Therefore, the solution is to alter the header the way you've suggested:

ncols 1000
nrows 1000
xllcenter 1271002.500
yllcenter 7269002.500
cellsize 5.0000