topic Re: Averaging Multiple Hillshades in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Averaging Multiple Hillshades

mllobera — Thu, 08 May 2025 17:52:34 GMT

I am using ArcGis Pro 3.4

I have several related questions I hope people can help me with or provide some examples I can revise.

More specific:

I am trying to use the modelbuilder to average multiple hillshades. At the moment I am having problems with just generating multiple hillshades. Here is the model I have so far,

Re: Averaging Multiple Hillshades

DanPatterson — Thu, 08 May 2025 17:53:45 GMT

what hillshades are you trying to average? by orientation? by time?

Hillshade—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

have you seen the multiple directional hillshade function (which can be done with the above by setting the hillshade type to 1)?

Hillshade function—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

Re: Averaging Multiple Hillshades

mllobera — Thu, 08 May 2025 18:27:52 GMT

I wanted to change both orientation and elevation (but I just started with the former).

Thanks I was aware of the function but still wanted to reproduce the process as a way to focus on the more generic question I posted.

Re: Averaging Multiple Hillshades

MervynLotter — Fri, 09 May 2025 15:05:02 GMT

When adding multiple rasters, look into using the Cell Statistics GP tool https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/3.4/tool-reference/image-analyst/cell-statistics.htm.

You can calculate mean, median, standard deviation, etc.