I am trying to develop a cost model for elephant use of slopes. I am stuck, have a dem also have data on energy required by elephants to climb 100 m.

[DanPatterson]

How cost distance tools work—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

Understanding cost distance analysis—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

"cost" would be the energy expenditure to traverse 100m under certain conditions, like those imposed by slopes of a certain angle

[Anonymous User]

Hi Dan: 

Thanks for providing some good starting points for Iamos. It looks like we haven't updated those links to refer to our modern distance toolset. I'll look into that. 

Iamos:

Here are some links which introduce the use of newer tools esri recommends for weighted distance analysis in recent versions of arcgis pro.

Regards,

Jim TenBrink

spatial analyst team

https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/tool-reference/spatial-analyst/distance-analysis.htm

https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/spatial-analyst/analytics/distance-analysis-simplified/