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Mosaicked DEM has half the range of values of the originals

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04-27-2013 07:47 PM
ErinWarford
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I have two DEMs that I would like to stitch together for least-cost path analysis. One DEM ranges from 100-399; the other ranges from 182-474.

I've tried several approaches. I created a mosaic dataset and added the rasters to it, which results in a big grey rectangle. I had the most luck with the Mosaic to New Raster tool, but the resulting raster has values from 93 to 255--about half the range of the original rasters, and not nearly enough contrast for what I need. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong--I just want a raster that has the same elevation data as the original two rasters, but in one dataset! Any ideas?

Thanks!
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Luke_Pinner
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Use the Mosaic To New Raster (Data Management) aand set the pixel type of your  output raster to 16_BIT_UNSIGNED.
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