Need a geoprocessing tool that can find all DTED tiles that intersect an AOI

Question

Does a geoprocessing tool exist that can find all DTED tiles that intersect an AOI (or Polygon feature class)? I have a area of interest represented by a polygon and DTED tiles (some of which intersect with the AOI). Is there a tool that I can use to find which tiles intersect? Thanks!

ReneeCammarere · Answer

Evidently there is no tool that can find all tiles that intersect an AOI.  The answer lies in creating a Python script from my C# code that does this.

deleted-user-VeC5jUIlNXtq · Answer

@GeoffAppleby I did look into the Select By Location tool.  However I must not be using it correctly because it only displayed as "selected" the one layer that I indicated as input.  It didn't select any overlapping rasters (which is what I would need).  Somehow I don't think that this is the kind of selection that I need in this case.  Thanks so much for your suggestion though.

Ahhhh, apologies. I didn't make the connection that it was raster data you were working with.

Sounds like mboeringa2010 has the answer though!

MarcoBoeringa · Answer

Does a geoprocessing tool exist that can find all DTED tiles that intersect an AOI (or Polygon feature class)? I have a area of interest represented by a polygon and DTED tiles (some of which intersect with the AOI). Is there a tool that I can use to find which tiles intersect? Thanks!

If you create a Mosaic Dataset, you can than use the included Footprint layer of the Mosaic to find out which DTED tiles intersect your AOI.