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ArcGIS Pro 2.5: The “back link raster” obtained from “cost distance” appears to contain incorrect values for some of its cells particularly around the source point,

JamalNUMAN

For example, in the screenshot below, the red color around the source point is expected to indicate moving “upper-left” but not “up” in order to best approach the source point!

What could be the issue here?

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JamalNUMAN

The source point is located the point of intersection of cell#23, 24, 33, and 34. Why is it considered as if at the center of cell#34?

danretired

Notice that your source cell (in gray) is numbered 34, Your point is identified as being that cell, so the cell 24 is indeed Up (7)

JamalNUMAN

Let me then remove the source point to the original location as in my first post (which is at the upper left corner of cell#24)

Are the directions that appear for the cells of the “back link” correct?

The data is attached

CostDistance.gdb.zip

DavidPike

It really looks like you're moving the 'source' point but not recomputing the cost distance, or using the old output, if it's not set to override it will output something like BackLink_1

JamalNUMAN

Do you mean that the colors of the cells surrounding the source point are correct? The description of colors don’t match the best way the neighboring cells should approach the source point

danretired

measure to the cell center not the upper corner edge

JamalNUMAN

I moved the source point to the center of cell # 24. I reviewed the output Back Link raster and found out that the description of the colors doesn’t match the correct direction the cell needs to go in order to approach the source point.

For example, cell # 25 needs to move to “left” but not “upper left”.

danretired

How cost distance tools work—Help | Documentation

From your related question, the cost calculation methods for diagonal and adjacent cells are described here

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