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Tabulated Area Gives Results that don't make sense

BabakJfard

I am using tabulate area in Spatial Analyst Tools to calculate the percentage of different land types in each CONUS state. But the final results does not make sense. For example the percent "CULTIVATED CROPS" land types are much lower than expected and even the ranks do not make sense!! For example highest cultivated crops is over 26% for Florida! While Iowa is number 29 with only 1.27% crops land, or Nebraska 36 with 0.77%!!

I simply added all land type values from Tabulate Areas and then divided CROPS_LAND by total!

So here is the process:

I'm using ArcGIS Pro 2.7.0 .

* Feature zone is a vector layer containing state boundaries of CONUS from TIGER/Line Shapefiles of Census Bureau

* The raster layer is the National LandCover Database (NLCD 2016) which is an .img file with 30mx30m land types over CONUS. (over 1 GB file size)

here is a picture of them

(projection for the map is NAD 1983 ContiguousUSA Albers.)

Tabulate area completes without error (Although takes a lot of time each time and the following table is resulted (with 49 rows of values for states in CONUS and the District of Columbia):

NAME

UNCLASSIFIED

OPEN_WATER

PERENNIAL_SNOW_ICE

DEVELOPED__OPEN_SPACE

DEVELOPED__LOW_INTENSITY

DEVELOPED__MEDIUM_INTENSITY

DEVELOPED__HIGH_INTENSITY

BARREN_LAND

DECIDUOUS_FOREST

EVERGREEN_FOREST

MIXED_FOREST

SHRUB_SCRUB

HERBACEUOUS

HAY_PASTURE

CULTIVATED_CROPS

WOODY_WETLANDS

So I add all values in columns from OPEN_WATER to WOODY_WETLANDS to calculate the total. Then do CULTIVATED_CROPS/total.

I am really confused and don't know what I am missing here.

I would appreciate your helps and suggestions.

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BabakJfard

That makes sense. But when I right-lick any of the two layers in the same map and do (Properties) there is no tab to check the Coordinate systems for those.

However, I could check their files through the Catalog:

* The raster is GCS-WGS-1984 and its projection is Albers-Conical-Equal-Area

* The feature layer is NAD 1983 with no projection.

Do you suggest that I change my feature layer into the same as the raster, and then put them both inside a map with the same projection? (I just checked Batch Project in Geoprocessing toolbar, and it seems to work only on feature layer).

(Since I am extracting areas it also makes more sense to change everything into the same system as my raster. Is this correct?)

Thank you very much for your help.

JayantaPoddar

Projecting the layer on the fly is not same as reprojecting the datasets (Properties > Coordinate System) to the same Projected Coordinate System.

I suggest you give it a try, and see how the results come.

By the way, what Projection System do the Raster layer and the Feature Zone Layer have?

BabakJfard

Thank you very much. But I have both in the same map, and isn't it that everything added to the same map will automatically adapt the same Coordinate System?

JayantaPoddar

Please ensure both the Raster layer and Feature Zone layer have same Projected Coordinate System (say NAD 1983 Contiguous USA Albers).

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