Find land uses where the species occurrences are found

[cskari]

I have around 3000 occurrences (Lat long) of an invasive species. I am interested in finding the land uses where this species is found.  for that,  I overlaid these occurrence data on landuse map (raster). I projected the species data shapefile to the same projection of the land use map. I want to find the land use where each occurrence is overlaid. So finally the attribute table of the species shapefile needs to have another column with the land use type where the record is found. Can somebody suggest the tool that I can use to join respective land use data to the species shapefile?

[AndreasHall]

Hi, take a look at this blog: How to extract raster values at point locations? (esri.com). I think it will answer your question.

[cskari]

Thanks for your reply. However, the “extract values to points” tool picks raster values. In the attribute table of my land use raster, there is a column ‘land use class’, such as plantation, nature reserve, water etc. In the analysis, I want to know land use classes where my occurrences are overlaid.

[AndreasHall · Accepted solution]

Did you try the tool with this option?

• To add all the attributes from the input raster table, check the Append all the input raster attributes to the output point features option (ALL for the add_attributes parameter in Python). The attributes will be carried over as-is to the output point features, keeping the same values. Note that, depending on the nature of the property being recorded, some of the attribute values may need to be recalculated.

From Extract Values to Points (Spatial Analyst)—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

[cskari]

Yes, it worked. Many thanks