An overview of the Raster toolset

The Raster toolset in the Data Management toolbox provides tools to perform raster data management and raster processing. These tools allow you to work with raster dataset properties and create and process raster data.

The following table lists the available toolsets in the Raster toolset and provides a brief description of each.

Toolset

Description

Mosaic Dataset

Allows you to create and edit mosaic datasets.

Raster Catalog

Allows you to work with raster catalogs. These tools allow you to copy, create, edit, and delete raster catalogs and their items.

Raster Dataset

Allows you to create and mosaic raster datasets.

Raster Processing

Allows you to perform tasks to get your raster data ready for use.

Raster Properties

Provides tools to create, view, or edit the raster dataset properties.

List of Raster Data Management toolsets

An overview of the Mosaic Dataset toolset

The following table summarizes the tools in the Mosaic Dataset toolset.

Tool

Description

Add Rasters To Mosaic Dataset

Adds raster datasets to a mosaic dataset from many sources, including a file, folder, raster catalog, table, or web service.

Alter Mosaic Dataset Schema

Prepares the schema of a mosaic dataset in ArcSDE by generating any tables or fields that may be required. This allows the nonowner of the mosaic dataset to make modifications, such as adding raster data.

Analyze Mosaic Dataset

Examines a mosaic dataset to determine solutions for known errors and other issues, and to detect methods for optimization. The errors, warnings, and messages can be examined when the mosaic dataset is open within ArcMap.

Apply Adjustments

Applies the geographic adjustments to the mosaic dataset items. This tool uses the solution file from the Compute Adjustments tool.

Build Boundary

Generates the boundary polygon for a mosaic dataset. By default, the boundary merges all the footprint polygons to create a single boundary representing the extent of the valid pixels.

Build Footprints

Computes the footprints for each raster dataset in a mosaic dataset.

Build Mosaic Dataset Item Cache

Inserts the Cached Raster function into the function chain for items within a mosaic dataset.

Build Overviews

Defines and generates overviews for a mosaic dataset.

Build Seamlines

Automatically generates seamlines for your mosaic dataset.

Calculate Cell Size Ranges

Computes the minimum and maximum cell sizes for the rasters in a mosaic dataset.

Color Balance Mosaic Dataset

Color balances a mosaic dataset so that the tiles appear seamless.

Compute Adjustments

This tool is used to compute the adjustments to the mosaic dataset. This tool will create a solution table that can be used to apply the actual adjustments.

Compute Dirty Area

Identifies an area within a mosaic dataset that has changed since a specified point in time.

Compute Tie Points

Computes the tie points between the overlapped mosaic dataset items. The tie points can then be used to compute the adjustments for the mosaic dataset.

Create Mosaic Dataset

Makes an empty mosaic dataset in a geodatabase.

Create Referenced Mosaic Dataset

Creates a new mosaic dataset from an existing raster catalog, a selection set from a raster catalog, or a mosaic dataset.

Define Mosaic Dataset NoData

Allows you to specify one or more NoData values for a mosaic dataset.

Define Overviews

Defines the tiling schema and properties of the preprocessed raster datasets that will cover part or all of a mosaic dataset at varying resolutions.

Delete Mosaic Dataset

Removes a mosaic dataset, its overviews, and its item cache from disk.

Edit Raster Function

Adds, replaces, or removes a raster function template to a mosaic dataset, items in a mosaic dataset, or a raster layer that contains a raster function. A raster function template defines a raster function chain. The template is stored as an rft.xml file, which can be exported from the Raster Function Editor.

Export Mosaic Dataset Paths

Creates a table listing the paths to the mosaic dataset items. The table can display all the file paths or just the ones that are broken.

Generate Exclude Area

Allows you to set the exclude area, based on color mask or histogram percentage. The output of this tool is used within the Color Balance Mosaic Dataset tool.

Import Mosaic Dataset Geometry

Modifies the feature geometry for footprints, the boundary, or seamlines in a mosaic dataset to match those in a polygon feature class.

Remove Rasters From Mosaic Dataset

Removes selected rasters (items) from a mosaic dataset.

Repair Mosaic Dataset Paths

Repairs broken file paths within a mosaic dataset.

Set Mosaic Dataset Properties

Sets the properties of a mosaic dataset. Many of these properties define the defaults used when displaying the mosaic dataset or how it can be used when it's published as an image service.

Synchronize Mosaic Dataset

Rebuilds or updates each raster item in the mosaic dataset and updates affected fields in the attribute table, using the raster type and options that were used when it was originally added.

List of tools in the Mosaic Dataset toolset

An overview of the Raster Catalog toolset

A raster catalog is a collection of raster datasets. It is organized into rows; each row contains a raster dataset, which is called a raster catalog item. The Raster Catalog toolset allows you to copy, create, edit, and delete raster catalogs and their items.

The following table lists the tools available in the Raster Catalog toolset and provides a brief description of each. The output for all these tools is a raster catalog.

Tool

Description

Copy Raster Catalog Items

Makes a copy of a raster catalog, including all of its contents, or a subset of its contents if there is a selection.

Create Raster Catalog

Creates an empty raster catalog in a geodatabase.

Delete Raster Catalog Items

Deletes raster catalog items, including all its contents, or a subset of its contents if there is a selection.

Export Raster Catalog Paths

Creates a table listing the paths to the raster datasets contained in an unmanaged raster catalog or a mosaic dataset. The table can display all the file paths, or just the ones that are broken.

Repair Raster Catalog Paths

Repairs broken file paths or deletes broken links within an unmanaged raster catalog or a mosaic dataset.

Workspace To Raster Catalog

Loads all the raster datasets stored in the same workspace into an existing raster catalog.

List of tools in the Raster Catalog toolset

An overview of the Raster Dataset toolset

A raster dataset is the basic data model for rasters. A raster dataset is an organized array of pixels, which can have a single band or many bands. This toolset provides the tools to copy, create, or append raster datasets.

The following table lists the tools available in the Raster Dataset toolset and provides a brief description of each. The output for all these tools is a raster dataset.

Tool

Description

Copy Raster

Makes a copy of a raster dataset, loads raster datasets into a raster catalog, or converts a mosaic dataset into a raster dataset.

Create Random Raster

Creates a random raster dataset based on a user-specified distribution and extent.

Create Raster Dataset

Creates a raster dataset as a file or in a geodatabase.

Download Rasters

Allows you to download the source files of the selected rasters from an image service or mosaic dataset.

Mosaic

Mosaics multiple input rasters into an existing raster dataset.

Mosaic To New Raster

Mosaics multiple raster datasets into a new raster dataset.

Raster Catalog To Raster Dataset

Mosaics the contents of a raster catalog into a new raster dataset.

Workspace To Raster Dataset

Mosaics all the raster datasets stored within the specified workspace into one raster dataset.

List of tools in the Raster Dataset toolset

An overview of the Raster Processing toolset

The Raster Processing toolset is used to perform some tasks to get your data to a workable form. The raster processing tools allow you to perform several tasks with your data to prepare it for analysis and display.

The following table lists the tools available in the Raster Processing toolset and provides a brief description of each. The input and output for all these tools is a raster dataset.

Tool

Description

Clip

Creates a spatial subset of a raster, including a raster dataset, mosaic dataset, or image service layer.

Composite Bands

Creates a single raster dataset from multiple bands and can also create a raster dataset using only a subset of bands.

Create Ortho-Corrected Raster Dataset

Creates an orthocorrected raster dataset using the rational polynomial coefficients (RPC) associated with a raster dataset.

Create Pan-Sharpened Raster Dataset

Fuses a high-resolution panchromatic raster dataset with a lower-resolution multiband raster dataset to create a red-green-blue (RGB) raster with the resolution of the panchromatic raster.

Extract Subdataset

Extracts raster datasets stored within a subdataset raster file.

Raster To DTED

Splits a raster dataset into files based on the DTED tiling structure.

Resample

Alters the raster dataset by changing the cell size and resampling method.

Split Raster

Creates a tiled output from an input raster dataset.

List of tools in the Raster Processing toolset

An overview of the Raster Properties toolset

A raster dataset has various properties that are associated with it: color maps, pyramids, statistics, attribute tables, world files, and cell values. The tools in this toolset help you create, delete, or edit the various properties that may exist for a raster dataset.

The following table lists the tools available in the Raster Properties toolset and provides a brief description of each.

Tool

Description

Add Colormap

Adds a color map to a raster dataset if it does not already exist or replaces a color map with the one specified.

Batch Build Pyramids

Builds pyramids for multiple raster datasets.

Batch Calculate Statistics

Calculates statistics for multiple raster datasets.

Build Pyramids

Builds raster pyramids for a raster dataset.

Build Pyramids and Statistics

Traverses a folder structure, building pyramids and calculating statistics for all the raster datasets it contains. It can also build pyramids and calculate statistics for all the items in a raster catalog or mosaic dataset.

Build Raster Attribute Table

Adds a raster attribute table to a raster dataset or updates an existing one.

Calculate Statistics

Calculates statistics for a raster dataset or mosaic dataset.

Delete Colormap

Removes the color map associated with a raster dataset.

Delete Raster Attribute Table

Removes the raster attribute table associated with a raster dataset. Since raster attribute tables can only be built on single-band raster datasets, this tool is only valid for raster datasets with a single band.

Export Raster World File

Creates a world file based on the geographic information of a raster dataset. The pixel size and the location of the upper left pixel is extracted for the world file.

Get Cell Value

Retrieves the pixel value at a specific x,y coordinate. For multiband raster datasets you can specify from which bands to retrieve the cell value. If you do not specify any bands, the pixel value for all the bands will be returned for the input location.

Get Raster Properties

Returns the properties of a raster dataset, mosaic dataset, or a raster product.

Set Raster Properties

Sets some properties on a raster dataset or mosaic dataset, such as data type, statistics, and nodata values.

List of tools in the Raster Properties toolset

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11/18/2013