How to calculate area for each feature in a Spatially Enabled Dataframe?

[Josh-R]

How does one calculate area for each feature in a Spatially Enabled Dataframe?  I read it in from a shapefile and need the acreage of each feature. I also would like to store the area as a new column.  This should be simple but I can't find a straight forward answer that works, I've referenced the two similar posts. Thank you!

sedf = pd.DataFrame.spatial.from_featureclass(myShapeFile)

[DanPatterson]

you could just calculate in the shapefile first

[Josh-R]

Please excuse the simplified example. I'm doing a bunch geoprocessing beforehand that I'm not showing, so I would like an updated calculation. I can do it in arcpy no problem but I am curious if the arcgis api has a way to do it.

[jcarlson · Accepted solution]

You want to get a GeoSeriesAccessor and use its area property, maybe pipe that into a new field.

sedf = pd.DataFrame.spatial.from_featureclass(myShapeFile)

gsa = arcgis.features.GeoSeriesAccessor(sedf['SHAPE'])

# add column using insert
sedf.insert(0, 'the_area', gsa.area, True)

# alternatively, just add a new column at the end of the sedf
sedf['the_area'] = gsa.area

[Josh-R]

Exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!

[DavidAnderson_1701]

I found this answer helpful.

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