topic Re: How to shift a raster in Geoprocessing Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/how-to-shift-a-raster/m-p/596308#M19747 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Thanks,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>actually the problem is more complicated than shifting a raster.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I am working with data sets from a climatological software (called COSMO) and imported these netcdf files into the ArcGIS. Now these files are based on a rotated coordination system, and not on a the real geographical system.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>When I plot the country of interest - which should be in the middle of the domain I get its data as netcdf files from COSMO - the country is away from the domain. This is logic, because the country has the real geographical coordination system.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I wanted to shift the country to be in its (rotated) coordination system and to match the netcdf-based domain. This is correct but very inaccurate. Why? because all the x&amp;y coordinates of the country should be transformed into the rotated coordination system. There is a FORTRAN script I wrote to transform these points. But the question now is:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>*** How to get the whole x and y coordinate of a certain polygon, a country?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 17 Feb 2011 10:09:18 GMT TaiseerHarb 2011-02-17T10:09:18Z How to shift a raster https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/how-to-shift-a-raster/m-p/596306#M19745 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have a raster (a rectangle). I want to shift it through giving the four corners new coordinates.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Could anyone help,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Thanks</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:36:36 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/how-to-shift-a-raster/m-p/596306#M19745 TaiseerHarb 2011-02-15T11:36:36Z Re: How to shift a raster https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/how-to-shift-a-raster/m-p/596307#M19746 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>shift....</SPAN><BR /><A href="http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//00170000007t000000.htm">http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//00170000007t000000.htm</A><BR /><SPAN>but why would you want to specify the four corners?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:46:05 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/how-to-shift-a-raster/m-p/596307#M19746 DanPatterson_Retired 2011-02-15T16:46:05Z Re: How to shift a raster https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/how-to-shift-a-raster/m-p/596308#M19747 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Thanks,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>actually the problem is more complicated than shifting a raster.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I am working with data sets from a climatological software (called COSMO) and imported these netcdf files into the ArcGIS. Now these files are based on a rotated coordination system, and not on a the real geographical system.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>When I plot the country of interest - which should be in the middle of the domain I get its data as netcdf files from COSMO - the country is away from the domain. This is logic, because the country has the real geographical coordination system.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I wanted to shift the country to be in its (rotated) coordination system and to match the netcdf-based domain. This is correct but very inaccurate. Why? because all the x&amp;y coordinates of the country should be transformed into the rotated coordination system. There is a FORTRAN script I wrote to transform these points. But the question now is:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>*** How to get the whole x and y coordinate of a certain polygon, a country?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 17 Feb 2011 10:09:18 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/how-to-shift-a-raster/m-p/596308#M19747 TaiseerHarb 2011-02-17T10:09:18Z