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I do not have much experience with GIS. Currently, I have two raster files in ArcMap. I will have to derive data from these rasters for over 5000 xy coordinates. Below I described the approach I am currently using. However, it is very time consuming like this. Anyone who knows a better approach?

  • use go to xy tool
  • enter x and y manually
  • use identify tool and click on the xy
  • copy values of both rasters to Excel
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If you have a Spatial Analyst Licence, you can use the Extract Values to Points tool which:

Extracts the cell values of a raster based on a set of point features and records the values in the attribute table of an output feature class.

If your 5000 xy coordinates are not a Feature Layer, you can follow these steps to convert a table (e.g. a csv or Excel file) to a Point Feature Layer.

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  • Thanks! Solved it
    – Pauline
    Jan 20, 2020 at 10:22
  • @Pauline Great! If this answer solved your question, please mark it as accepted. If you solved it other way, please add that solution as an answer so future readers can benefit from it.
    – Marcelo Villa-Piñeros
    Jan 20, 2020 at 10:45

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