https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/rescale-by-function-why-is-scale-double-not/m-p/1306069#M70848 <P>I'm wondering if anyone can explain to me why my output raster from Rescale By Function analysis tool gives values as a "double" and not as an "integer" like the input raster?</P><P>I am rescaling a weighted sum output raster to a scale of 1-9.&nbsp;</P><P>I know what the minimum and maximum possibly values could have been for my weighted sum raster.&nbsp; At the moment my weighted sum results does not include the minimum and maximum possible score values so I am using the Rescale by Function tool to rescale the results based to a scale of 1-9.</P><P>Using the "Linear" transformation function I have specified what the minimum and maximum scores would be and stated that the minimum score be scaled to 1 and the maximum score be scaled to 9</P><P>I understand I could use weighted overlay which does a similar thing and rescales the resulting raster to a specified scale. However, I would like to understand the differences and specifically why "rescale by function" gives me values of e.g. <SPAN>6.210527 integer, whereas weighted overlay output would value this as 6 and the output scale I have chosen (along with input raster) have all been "double"</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Thanks</SPAN></P> Thu, 06 Jul 2023 09:52:27 GMT EBRWE 2023-07-06T09:52:27Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/rescale-by-function-why-is-scale-double-not/m-p/1306069#M70848 <P>I'm wondering if anyone can explain to me why my output raster from Rescale By Function analysis tool gives values as a "double" and not as an "integer" like the input raster?</P><P>I am rescaling a weighted sum output raster to a scale of 1-9.&nbsp;</P><P>I know what the minimum and maximum possibly values could have been for my weighted sum raster.&nbsp; At the moment my weighted sum results does not include the minimum and maximum possible score values so I am using the Rescale by Function tool to rescale the results based to a scale of 1-9.</P><P>Using the "Linear" transformation function I have specified what the minimum and maximum scores would be and stated that the minimum score be scaled to 1 and the maximum score be scaled to 9</P><P>I understand I could use weighted overlay which does a similar thing and rescales the resulting raster to a specified scale. However, I would like to understand the differences and specifically why "rescale by function" gives me values of e.g. <SPAN>6.210527 integer, whereas weighted overlay output would value this as 6 and the output scale I have chosen (along with input raster) have all been "double"</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Thanks</SPAN></P> Thu, 06 Jul 2023 09:52:27 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/rescale-by-function-why-is-scale-double-not/m-p/1306069#M70848 EBRWE 2023-07-06T09:52:27Z