So here's the problem. I have two rasters containing bathymetry data: one containing the bathymetry of the sea floor, we'll call this raster1, and another containing the difference between two previous scans of the same area, we'll call this raster2. I have to query raster2 such that any areas where the value is >10% of raster1's value will be highlighted. I tried to do this through the Extract by Attribute in ArcGIS but could not figure out the SQL statement. Any ideas on what the SQL query would look like?
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I would use a Con() statement in Raster Calculator. Something such as:
Con("raster2" / "raster1" > 0.1, 1, 0)
This will generate a new raster where values of 1 represent areas where raster2 is > 10% of raster1, and values of 0 is <10%
answered Jul 27, 2015 at 18:48
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1+1. But given that division by zero can cause problems and that "raster2" likely contains negative as well as positive values,
abs("raster2") > 0.1 * "raster1"is more advisable--and notice thatconis unnecessary.– whuberCommented Jul 27, 2015 at 20:48 -
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@whuber, I've got another question about this. I used your expression in raster calculator and it worked great, but do you know how I could use it in a script? I attempted to just use the same expression using the math toolset but the output raster only shows the "0" values. Commented Aug 10, 2015 at 18:33