topic Units of Polygon Volume Tool in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Units of Polygon Volume Tool

TristanGruppPENN — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 17:46:16 GMT

I calculated volume for a polygon with an area of 22.5 hectares using a TIN. I got a very small volume measure of: 4.3061518071E-05

What are the units of volume in the Polygon Volume Tool?

Side note: the TIN was created from an ASTER DEM using a height of 9m to define the plane. I calculated volume below the plane. In the attached image, I'm interested in finding volume for the grey area called "Kanjumarg Cell 1"

Re: Units of Polygon Volume Tool

DanPatterson — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 17:52:15 GMT

What are the coordinate units in? meters or decimal degrees?

Re: Units of Polygon Volume Tool

TristanGruppPENN — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 17:56:00 GMT

Angular unit is degree for the TIN (WGS-1984)

Re: Units of Polygon Volume Tool

DanPatterson — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 18:10:29 GMT

Projected data would be best since I see no mention of the data being projected prior to calculations, hence a small coverage in decimal degrees is being interpreted as meters giving rise to the small volume.

Give it a try... project the input data used to derive the TIN (is it raster or vector???), produce the TIN, then derive the volume would be my workflow