topic Cost Path Output Raster Results in ArcGIS Spatial Analyst Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-spatial-analyst-questions/cost-path-output-raster-results/m-p/759351#M10981 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>What does the 'PATHCOST' field mean in the attribute table of the cost path tool output? How is it calculated? Thanks.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 07 Nov 2013 15:39:17 GMT JosephSaltenberger 2013-11-07T15:39:17Z Cost Path Output Raster Results https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-spatial-analyst-questions/cost-path-output-raster-results/m-p/759351#M10981 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>What does the 'PATHCOST' field mean in the attribute table of the cost path tool output? How is it calculated? Thanks.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 07 Nov 2013 15:39:17 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-spatial-analyst-questions/cost-path-output-raster-results/m-p/759351#M10981 JosephSaltenberger 2013-11-07T15:39:17Z Re: Cost Path Output Raster Results https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-spatial-analyst-questions/cost-path-output-raster-results/m-p/759352#M10982 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">What does the 'PATHCOST' field mean in the attribute table of the cost path tool output? How is it calculated? Thanks.</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Hi Joseph,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The PATHCOST field holds the actual cost to travel to each destination. Each cell that belongs to a path will hold the value of the cost distance raster at the destination. In case a path is shared by more than one destination, the value will be 0. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The result can be travel time in case you used a "time per distance unit" raster as cost raster. See the Help section:</SPAN><BR /><A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#/How_the_cost_distance_tools_work/009z00000025000000/">http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/...0000025000000/</A><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN style="font-style:italic;">The cost assigned to each cell represents the cost per unit distance&nbsp; for&nbsp; moving through the cell. The final&nbsp; value&nbsp; per cell is the cell&nbsp; size&nbsp; multiplied by the cost value.&nbsp; For example, if the cost raster has&nbsp; a&nbsp; cell size of 30, and a particular cell has a cost value of 10, the&nbsp; final&nbsp; cost of that cell is 300 units.<BR /></SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Kind regards,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Xander</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 08 Nov 2013 06:34:01 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-spatial-analyst-questions/cost-path-output-raster-results/m-p/759352#M10982 XanderBakker 2013-11-08T06:34:01Z