ArcPro-Intersect issue

LaneDahl

I am using intersect to join 4 different shapefiles. the four names of the shapefiles are Ownership, Disturbance, Sections, Respread. When I combine ownership and disturbance i check my acres at 5155 total acres. When i combine disturbance and sections i get 10,xyz. When i look into what caused this issue it shows that some areas are being counted more than once. So in the ownership/disturbance table i have one result for "Area 1" but when i look at disturbance and sections together i may have 2 or 3 results for "area 1".

 

I have my Acres/Ownership/Landuse in one shapefile, then i need to add sections and respread in that shapefile to have a complete file. i have the data just cant get it together. Maybe there is a better tool.

 

Something must be wrong with my section shapefile. Any help is appreciated 

 

 

DavidPike

Depends on the shape of your polygons.  Would make sense if there's multiple regions of non continguous overlaps.

You can probably just clean up with a Dissolve https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/tool-reference/data-management/dissolve.htm

against a common attribute (FID_MD ?) and keep in mind the single/multipart options.

Or Tabulate Intersection may be a better tool to use https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/tool-reference/analysis/tabulate-intersection.htm

But not entirely sure what your end goal is.  Might be best to offer up the problem in its entirety (pictures are always helpful) and see if a better way can be found - as the multiple intersections might be quite complicated, error-prone and more difficult to reproduce if you have any later adjustments to your input data.