topic Re: Transform raster data from decimal degree to UTM coordinates in Data Management Questions

Transform raster data from decimal degree to UTM coordinates

BotondMar — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 15:52:37 GMT

Hy, I have a raster data which coordinate system is wgs84 and has decimal degree coordinates. I want to reproject this raster data to UTM wgs84,zone40. I used the projection tool from the toolbox and this transformed my raster to utm but when I import to arcgis it shows me the coordinates in decimal degree format, but i want to show me the UTM coordinates like: 645789.890, 2562667.123.
How can I resolve this projection? Could you give an answer? Thanks

Re: Transform raster data from decimal degree to UTM coordinates

MelitaKennedy — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:39:26 GMT

I can think of two possibilities:

1. If you're looking at the raster in ArcMap, make sure that the data frame's display units (data frame properties, general tab) are set to meters).
2. Did you use the Define Projection Tool or the Project Raster Tool? The first one updates the metadata but doesn't change the raster's extents or georeferencing. If you did use the Define Projection tool, use it again to set the coordinate system back to WGS84, then use the Project Tool.

I hope this helps,
Melita