How can I create a cost distance matrix between polygons in the same layer?

Question

I'm trying to make a table of distances between each polygon in a layer but I want to do that using cost distance not Euclidean distance. I've made a cost distance raster but now I can't find a tool that will tabulate the distance between each polygon. Can this be done using polygons or would I have to use point data and even then why tool would do that? The near tool uses straight line distances.

Any thoughts would be very helpful.

Thanks!

XanderBakker · Answer

I suppose that if you select the polygon you want to process just before you execute the cost distance, it will use only the selected feature(s).

TaraLal · Answer

Hi Xander,

Thanks for your answer. Would I need to separate each polygon into a different layer to run a cost distance?

I will try zonal stats  to see if that can provide a solution.

Thanks again.

XanderBakker · Answer

I assume that you would need to run a CostDistance for each polygon and retrieve the values of the cost for each destination polygon (perhaps using a zonal statistics minimum or mean depending on the value you are interested in: Zonal Statistics—Help | ArcGIS Desktop ). You could also use CostPath to visualize the optimum routes between the polygons.