Creating a Legend for a Raster Catalog

Question

Hello,

I'm looking to create a legend for a raster-catalog (stored in a personal geodatabase). The catalog contains 50 raster grid data sets. 
With a Time Layer Animation I visualize the runoff after a rain event in time.

The raster catalog displays no default symbology thus when you create a legend it just display's the word "Legend". 
Has anyone an idea what I have to do?

Best Regards
Sophie

ShahFaisal · Answer

Hi James,

I have 12 raster for each month and the value ranges are as follows.
Jan: 250 - 292
Feb: 305 - 377
Mar: 333 - 379
Apr: 339 - 440
Jun: 471 - 504
Jul:  460 - 504
Aug:434 - 466
Sep: 387 - 415
Oct: 382 - 401
Nov: 335 - 373
Dec: 312 - 347

You meant that I reclassify them all to a common scale???

Thanks

JamesCrandall · Answer

Hello,

I'm looking to create a legend for a raster-catalog (stored in a personal geodatabase). The catalog contains 50 raster grid data sets. 
With a Time Layer Animation I visualize the runoff after a rain event in time.

The raster catalog displays no default symbology thus when you create a legend it just display's the word "Legend". 
Has anyone an idea what I have to do?

Best Regards
Sophie

In our case, all of the individual rasters in the catalog were to be symbolized with the same classified renderer properties (ie, the same minimum/maximum range).  So, we determined the min/max for all rasters and set the desired symbology of ONE of the rasters.  Then we exported the class breaks to an .xml and just applied this .xml to the raster catalog loaded in the TOC.  Then it was just a matter of setting the desired color scheme.

To have this show up in the legend we just used the single raster we symbolized in the inital step but renamed it to something appropriate.

ShahFaisal · Answer

Hi there,

Have you got over the problem as I just faced it and found out your thread on the same issue. Please let me know if you solved it.

I checked the link http://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/techarticles/detail/25165 but not of any help though the comments are great.

I am using ArcGIS 10.1 without any service pack.

Thanks