Space Time Cube with a lot of bins?

Question

"Create Space Time Cube"  tool in ArcGIS Pro version 1.1 fails if the parameters specified result in a cube with more than two billion bins. Is there to way to let user reset this limit? Could I set the custom limit to 5 billion bins or so?

Thank you in advance.

Best,

Devika

DanPatterson_Retired · Answer

I couldn't find any advanced setting tools/scripts. So short of changing the extent or resolution, I suppose you could examine the scripts to see if the hard limits are there (sscube and ssutilities I think) but there may be a limit for other reasons

DevikaKakkar · Answer

Thanks Dan! The problem is not the data structure, its the cube resolution. If I make cube of 1day/1km resolution with my dataset it works fine but for 1hour/1meter I get the error message: "ERROR 110005: This Space Time cube cannot be created because it would have more than the maximum two billion bins."

As I increase the cube resolution and make it more fine-grained, the number of bins in the cube start increasing and the Create Space Time Cube is configured to only make cubes with maximum of two billion bins. I wanted to know if there is a way to change that configuration/limit?

DanPatterson_Retired · Answer

from here Create Space Time Cube—ArcGIS Help | ArcGIS for Desktop

your space-time cube cannot be created, the tool may be unable to structure the data you have provided into ten time-step intervals. If you get an error message running this tool, examine the timestamps of the input points to make sure they include a range of values. The range of values must span at least ten seconds as this is the smallest time increment that the tool will take. Ten time-step intervals are required by the Mann-Kendall statistic.

What is your data structure