topic Re: Invert Raster in ArcGIS Spatial Analyst Questions

Invert Raster

jamiefinney — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:23:48 GMT

Is it possible to invert a raster in ArcView + spatial analyst?

I can manually invert the raster using the following expression "(("Fac" - Z_Max) * -1) + Z_min" where z_max/min are manually looked up and replaced using the legend eg. (("Fac" - 1000) * -1) + 0.

however i've got lots of these to run in batch so i don't want to have to manually look up the values each time. i need to run the cost distance tool on these files so they can't have negative numbers my only option at the moment is to use generic min/max numbers then reclass any negative numbers to 0 which isn't ideal

this seems like a pretty straight forward task i'm sure there must be a better way.

Re: Invert Raster

jamiefinney — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:39:35 GMT

or is there a way to follow the highest cost path rather than the least cost path?

Re: Invert Raster

TimothyHales — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 06:46:22 GMT

Here is something I threw together really quick. It ran fine for me and properly inverted the values of the input raster.

import arcpy
from arcpy.sa import *
arcpy.CheckOutExtension("Spatial")
 
InputRaster = "\\c:\\temp\\Input.img"
OutputRaster = "\\c:\\temp\\Output.img"

RasterMax = arcpy.GetRasterProperties_management(InputRaster,"MAXIMUM")
OutputRasterMax = (RasterMax.getOutput(0))

RasterMin = arcpy.GetRasterProperties_management(InputRaster, "MINIMUM")
OutputRasterMin = (RasterMin.getOutput(0))

RasterInvert = ((Minus(InputRaster, float(OutputRasterMax))*(-1)+ float(OutputRasterMin)))
RasterInvert.save(OutputRaster)

Re: Invert Raster

jamiefinney — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:37:13 GMT

thales007 thanks just the function i was looking for, knew there must be a way.

Re: Invert Raster

TimothyHales — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:51:16 GMT

No problem. Glad to be able to help.