Output surface raster in Kriging

MeghanWessel — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:58:04 GMT

Hello all,
There must be something I am not understanding correctly, but I can not get kriging to work with my data. I have about 30 geographically defined points across a 4 acre field that I have labeled with clay percent of the soil. I also have a layer that I created with x and y data of the field (created using kriging in another program from an extensive map of gps coordinates that I collected). Then I created a raster file using the x, y based field layer.

However, I can not seem to get ArcMap (10.1) to create a kriged map of clay on the x, y based field. When I put in my field (created raster file) into the output surface raster location a little red x on the left side of where the file location is entered I get the error, "It cannot be overwritten since overwritten is off."

1. Should I just turn the overwritten to on? If so, how is this done?
2. Is there not a way for ArcGIS to create a new file with the kriged clay contents?

Thanks for the help!
Meghan

Re: Output surface raster in Kriging

curtvprice — Mon, 20 May 2013 03:13:49 GMT

The input for kriging should be your x,y points, not a raster you created somewhere else.

The setting for overwriting existing rasters, if you want to do that is in the menu choice Geoprocessing / Geoprocessing Options.

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