How can I export lat/lon of each pixel of a raster?

[MariusSchwinning]

Hi all,

I'm new to ArcGIS and need some help: I have a raster of a particular surface area in a PolarStereographiccoordinate frame and I would like to export the lat/lon information of each pixel into some sort of array for further processing in other tools (image processing). Ist there such functionality and if so, how can I access it?

From what I understood, a GeoTIFF is geo-referenced, but "only" in terms of the corners of the image. And a simple linear interpolation of this information would not be precise enough.

Thanks,
Marius

[DanPatterson_Retired · Accepted solution]

Raster to Point—Conversion toolbox | Documentation  perhaps

Are you trying to get it to netcdf?

Raster to NetCDF—Help | Documentation 

[MariusSchwinning]

Hi Dan,

thank you very much for your hint and sorry for my late response.

First of all, "Raster to Point" works fine. Unfortunately though, the points do not have lat/lon coordinates that can be exported. So I tried the "Convert Coordinate Notation", which is way too timeconsuming for large amount of points (4 million points took 8 hours).

The weird thing is, when selecting a point, I can see the exact coordinates on the bottom of the pop-up window (see screenshot below). However, I can't access/export this information as it seems. And since it seems to be available, it shouldn't take that long to store the lat/lon information in an array I can access (at least that's my assumption).

I need the export to further process image data in Matlab. Ideal would be a matrix of:

pointid,grid_code(actuall data),latitiude,longitude

Do you have a suggestion how to faster get the lat/lon information of every point ready for export?

Cheers
Marius

[DanPatterson_Retired]

Marius,The coordinates don't automatically appear in the table, you have to add them

Add XY Coordinates—Data Management toolbox | Documentation 

Now if your raster was in decimal degrees to begin with, you are done.  However, if your raster was in a projected coordinate system, then you will need to return them in geographic coordinates

Add Geometry Attributes—Data Management toolbox | Documentation 

or you can perform the projection step separately, using the Project tool, followed by the Add XY coordinates.

[MariusSchwinning]

Dear Dan,

thank you very much, that was exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks again for your quick and great help.

Cheers
Marius