Need a geoprocessing tool that can find all DTED tiles that intersect an AOI

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06-11-2013 09:51 AM
ReneeCammarere
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Does a geoprocessing tool exist that can find all DTED tiles that intersect an AOI (or Polygon feature class)? I have a area of interest represented by a polygon and DTED tiles (some of which intersect with the AOI). Is there a tool that I can use to find which tiles intersect? Thanks!
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deleted-user-VeC5jUIlNXtq
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Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the question but could Select By Location not solve this?

Select all DTED tiles that intersect with the AOI layer?
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ReneeCammarere
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@GeoffAppleby I did look into the Select By Location tool.  However I must not be using it correctly because it only displayed as "selected" the one layer that I indicated as input.  It didn't select any overlapping rasters (which is what I would need).  Somehow I don't think that this is the kind of selection that I need in this case.  Thanks so much for your suggestion though.
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MarcoBoeringa
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Does a geoprocessing tool exist that can find all DTED tiles that intersect an AOI (or Polygon feature class)? I have a area of interest represented by a polygon and DTED tiles (some of which intersect with the AOI). Is there a tool that I can use to find which tiles intersect? Thanks!


If you create a Mosaic Dataset, you can than use the included Footprint layer of the Mosaic to find out which DTED tiles intersect your AOI.
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deleted-user-VeC5jUIlNXtq
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@GeoffAppleby I did look into the Select By Location tool.  However I must not be using it correctly because it only displayed as "selected" the one layer that I indicated as input.  It didn't select any overlapping rasters (which is what I would need).  Somehow I don't think that this is the kind of selection that I need in this case.  Thanks so much for your suggestion though.


Ahhhh, apologies. I didn't make the connection that it was raster data you were working with.

Sounds like mboeringa2010 has the answer though!
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ReneeCammarere
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Evidently there is no tool that can find all tiles that intersect an AOI.  The answer lies in creating a Python script from my C# code that does this.
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