Create index/outline of rasters

JanetBrewster

Hi All,

I'm trying to create an index of 60+ rasters -- I just want a simple polygon file that shows the outlines of the images so I can see where they are at a glance, rather than having to open each raster. These are all individual .imgs. The only out-of-the-box tools I have found are for mosaics, not for individual files (we already have a composite of the rasters, so I don't want to take the time or network space to create an unnecessary, monstrous mosaic). Is there a non-manual, non-Python way to do this?

Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks!


ps - I can use 10.1 or 9.3.1

T__WayneWhitley

What I have on file somewhere is a short Python script that will do it, but you don't want Python?  As far as I know, the best way to do it is by script of some kind - VBA, or even a compiled tool, but why bother with the install when you already presumably have Python installed?  The script I cobbled together loops to retrieve the min and max XY extent of the rasters to then insert polygons for....and the speed of it is shocking, processing thousands of raster datasets in mere seconds.  I set it up so I'd have both a shapefile (or feature class) and, if I export to a table, a legacy image catalog (because I have it also write IMAGE, XMIN, YMIN, XMAX, YMAX in the attribute table).

Do you still want some other solution?