idea Remove Statistics from raster dataset in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Remove Statistics from raster dataset

Technical_Services — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 18:06:44 GMT

When building overviews for a mosaic raster dataset, statistics are automatically calculated.

When statistics are present for a raster, clipping is automatically applied making the image look overblown and unnatural.

In ArcMap, you could remove statistics as outlined in this article:

https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/manage-data/raster-and-images/removing-statistics.htm

Doing this removes the automatic clipping and images return to their natural looking state.

Currently, it is impossible to remove statistics from a raster in ArcGIS pro. Please implement statistics removal in ArcGIS pro so that I do not need to use ArcMap to do it. Until this feature is implemented, I will need to continue to use ArcMap to remove statistics. If you want everyone to migrate to Pro, be sure you have the complete functionality of ArcMap, ESRI!

Re: Remove Statistics from raster dataset

Technical_Services — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 18:21:52 GMT

Sorry, by automatically clipping I meant automatically "Stretching"

Re: Remove Statistics from raster dataset

JudithWammack — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 14:45:42 GMT

I, too, would like this be an option within Pro. I am having to use ArcMap as well unless their is a new way of doing this now.

Re: Remove Statistics from raster dataset

BobMasin — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 20:22:40 GMT

I agree. I ran into this same issue this spring. I couldn't believe the option was not in Arc Pro. I had to go into Arcmap to remove the statistics which took about a minute. I can't imagine having to re-process huge raster datasets because the calc stats can't be removed. Going to be a huge problem when arcmap is no longer accessible. This is core functionality that should be in ArcPRO. PLEASE FIX ESRI!!

Re: Remove Statistics from raster dataset

AC_LC — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 22:16:28 GMT

Same issue in ArcGIS Pro 3.5.3.

There currently is no way to remove automatically generated statistics and stretch using ArcGIS Pro. I have to revert to ArcMap to remove the statistics in the Feature Class's properties.

Re: Remove Statistics from raster dataset

RoseF — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 13:45:30 GMT

Trying to kudos this idea, I get a message that the action can't be completed.

Re: Remove Statistics from raster dataset

AC_LC — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:41:54 GMT

Bumping this idea. I just generated a Mosaic Dataset in ArcPro.

The resulting dataset was not stretched and did not have statistics generated. Of course, the output did not display properly at all zoom levels, so overviews must be built.

Once overviews are built, my dataset displays properly, but is now stretched and has statistics generated for it.

There is absolutely no way in ArcGIS Pro to remove statistics to prevent the stretch from happening when adding the layer to a project. Thus ArcMap is needed to remove the statistics and have the resulting dataset display normally in ArcGIS Pro.

It is far too much work to babysit users who add the dataset to ArcPro, to help them remove the stretch everytime. The stretch SHOULD NOT be enabled by default. If ArcPro did not stretch by default, we could have statistics on our mosaic datasets no problem.

Re: Remove Statistics from raster dataset

GauteAaSolaas — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 07:34:44 GMT

An acceptable workaround is to copy the mosaic dataset to a work-copy before adding overviews to it. Then append in the overviews to the original. The original should then have overviews and no statistics.

Re: Remove Statistics from raster dataset

GeoMarc — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 06:08:06 GMT

Same Problem (still)

This is a huge problem, especially with large grids (100GB+).