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I want to use a cell count of an integer raster as a variable in Arcgis 10 ModelBuilder (and later in a python script), but can't seem to find how to access this information.

Is there a (python) function that will return a cell count for a particular value? eg. something like 

count([raster], value)?

Or how do I access the count column for a particular value in the raster table?

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You could try to access it by reading the attribute table (assuming you have one; if you don't there is also a python function to create one). 

# loop through attribute table    
Rows = ARCPY.SearchCursor( shapefile ) 

SomeValue = 'Count' # or some other column header name
for row in Rows:
    val = row.getValue( SomeValue ) 
    print val
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  • To build the raster attribute table: arcpy.BuildRasterAttributeTable_management("c:/data/image.tif", "Overwrite")
    – scw
    Mar 3, 2011 at 3:11
  • Thanks, to get counts for a particular value in the raster table I used this in the for loop: val = row.getValue('Value') count = row.getValue('Count') if val==1: return count getValue worked with single quotes, but row.Value also worked.
    – CCID
    Mar 3, 2011 at 4:19
  • great - I'll clarify my answer to explain what I meant by SomeValue; I choose print just to illustrate the result; return is better of course but you need to create a function.
    – djq
    Mar 3, 2011 at 10:54

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