topic Output above ground level raster with Viewshed tool in Geoprocessing Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/output-above-ground-level-raster-with-viewshed/m-p/6938#M277 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am trying to run the Viewshed tool on a DEM in order to produce an above ground level raster - i.e. a raster showing the minimum height a object has to be to be visible. The tool is generating the viewshed raster but is not producing the above ground level raster. There is no error message. I have tried both shapefiles and feature classes for the observer points, and both grids and fgdb rasters for the DEM.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I am running ArcGIS 10.1 build 3143, on Windows 7 64-bit.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:33:12 GMT HishivShah2 2013-01-29T13:33:12Z Output above ground level raster with Viewshed tool https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/output-above-ground-level-raster-with-viewshed/m-p/6938#M277 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am trying to run the Viewshed tool on a DEM in order to produce an above ground level raster - i.e. a raster showing the minimum height a object has to be to be visible. The tool is generating the viewshed raster but is not producing the above ground level raster. There is no error message. I have tried both shapefiles and feature classes for the observer points, and both grids and fgdb rasters for the DEM.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I am running ArcGIS 10.1 build 3143, on Windows 7 64-bit.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:33:12 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/output-above-ground-level-raster-with-viewshed/m-p/6938#M277 HishivShah2 2013-01-29T13:33:12Z Re: Output above ground level raster with Viewshed tool https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/output-above-ground-level-raster-with-viewshed/m-p/6939#M278 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>What is the format for the output above ground level raster? </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Are there any output rasters added to the display when the tool finishes?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:08:35 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/output-above-ground-level-raster-with-viewshed/m-p/6939#M278 XuguangWang 2013-01-29T15:08:35Z Re: Output above ground level raster with Viewshed tool https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/output-above-ground-level-raster-with-viewshed/m-p/6940#M279 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am outputting the above ground level raster to ESRI GRID format.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The viewshed raster is added to display at the end, but not the above ground level raster.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:54:51 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/output-above-ground-level-raster-with-viewshed/m-p/6940#M279 HishivShah2 2013-01-30T09:54:51Z Re: Output above ground level raster with Viewshed tool https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/output-above-ground-level-raster-with-viewshed/m-p/6941#M280 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Please try some other output formats. For example, output to FGDB raster. That would help in determining what is going on.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Also, try changing the scratch workspace and workspace to some other folder or FGDB to see if that helps.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:04:54 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/output-above-ground-level-raster-with-viewshed/m-p/6941#M280 XuguangWang 2013-01-30T18:04:54Z Re: Output above ground level raster with Viewshed tool https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/output-above-ground-level-raster-with-viewshed/m-p/6942#M281 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have tried putting all inputs and outputs into a file geodatabase, and running the tool within a model builder model. This time I am getting an error message:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>ERROR 010160: Unable to open raster C:\NEViewsheds\south_downs_test.gdb\agl3.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Failed to execute (Viewshed).</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 04 Feb 2013 08:19:03 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/output-above-ground-level-raster-with-viewshed/m-p/6942#M281 HishivShah2 2013-02-04T08:19:03Z Re: Output above ground level raster with Viewshed tool https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/output-above-ground-level-raster-with-viewshed/m-p/6943#M282 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>The fact that the error message showed up means that the tool was attempting to create the AGL raster output. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Did you set the workspace and scratchworkspace in the environment settings? Try to set them to be the same as the output FGDB.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:58:16 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/output-above-ground-level-raster-with-viewshed/m-p/6943#M282 XuguangWang 2013-02-04T15:58:16Z Re: Output above ground level raster with Viewshed tool https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/output-above-ground-level-raster-with-viewshed/m-p/6944#M283 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have tried running again, this time setting the workspace and scratch workspace to the output geodatabase, but still get the same error message.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:43:17 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/output-above-ground-level-raster-with-viewshed/m-p/6944#M283 HishivShah2 2013-02-05T09:43:17Z