topic Re: determining south facing roofs in ArcGIS Spatial Analyst Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-spatial-analyst-questions/determining-south-facing-roofs/m-p/572#M7 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>This may be oversimplistic, but what about using the Aspect tool? If your roofs are vectors, run the Polygon to Raster tool first, and then use that output for Aspect.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 25 Jun 2013 19:52:51 GMT JanetBrewster 2013-06-25T19:52:51Z determining south facing roofs https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-spatial-analyst-questions/determining-south-facing-roofs/m-p/571#M6 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I was wondering if there is a way to determine south facing roofs within a city. I am doing a project where I trying to determine houses that would be suitable for solar panels. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Thank you</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 29 May 2013 23:48:49 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-spatial-analyst-questions/determining-south-facing-roofs/m-p/571#M6 NicolasTurinski 2013-05-29T23:48:49Z Re: determining south facing roofs https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-spatial-analyst-questions/determining-south-facing-roofs/m-p/572#M7 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>This may be oversimplistic, but what about using the Aspect tool? If your roofs are vectors, run the Polygon to Raster tool first, and then use that output for Aspect.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 25 Jun 2013 19:52:51 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-spatial-analyst-questions/determining-south-facing-roofs/m-p/572#M7 JanetBrewster 2013-06-25T19:52:51Z Re: determining south facing roofs https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-spatial-analyst-questions/determining-south-facing-roofs/m-p/573#M8 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>The issue would also have to account for flat roofs, ones with a particular slope, multipitched roofs.&nbsp; So you are going to have to refine your question to deal with these cases.&nbsp; But a combination of slope and aspect is a mental starting point.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 25 Jun 2013 22:56:06 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-spatial-analyst-questions/determining-south-facing-roofs/m-p/573#M8 DanPatterson_Retired 2013-06-25T22:56:06Z