Extracting cell values falling within buffer features

[AustinReeves]

Hello all,

I am currently trying to find a tool that will help me with this problem. I have a feature class containing many buffers created from a point dataset. I also have a raster dataset where the cells are classed into simple groups. I am trying to find a tool that will give me an output that contains both the input feature class (buffers) data, along with respective cell counts for each cell class that fall within each buffer. I have tried the "extract by mask" tool, but the output of that keeps no data from the buffers. I was wondering if some tool could keep the same data table format as the feature class in the output, yet still add the cell value counts from the raster overlay. Anything helps! Thanks

-Austin

[AustinReeves]

I did consider this, and it would indeed save many hours of processing given the size of the dataset. However, my point datasets have not had the extent of query done to them as my buffers (as the buffers are my main extent features), and I would have to additionally go back and manage each point set. Hindsight is always wonderful ha-ha!