Latest Contributions by SepheFox

One quick question: If this is a plantation forest, how were the various areas of the forest accessed for the initial tree planting? If roads were constructed in the past, you could start with the remains of those legacy roads. Even if abandoned, these would be visible on LiDAR. ... View more

To your second question, what exactly do you mean by "extract the rasters"? Open them, add them to the mosaic, or something else? ... View more

Check your mosaic dataset properties, and see if it has a maximum number of rasters set. ... View more

This isn't a helpful comment, but your boss seems like a bit of an a-hole. Once you get your addresses geocoded, and you have created a shapefile of points, you can use the buffer tool to make radius around each one. Luckily this part is very easy and fast: ArcGIS Help 10.1 ... View more

Hi Pierre, as Lance said, the Grid is PLSS, with tonwship and range numbers. I'm not sure what you mean by "reference" your raster though. Do you mean georeference? I doubt the grid needs georeferencing, if you got it from USGS it should be georefenced already. Is it just an image, like a picture? Please try to clarify what you're trying to do a little better. ... View more

Is there any pattern to the features it's missing? Are they always the same features regardless of how you publish them? ... View more

Can you give us some more detail? What exactly are you autocorrelating? Screenshots of your layer, tool dialog, and graph might be a good start. ... View more

Oooh, I just found this super handy description of all the Maplex options. You might find it useful: https://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/maplex-for-arcgis.pdf ... View more

Maplex labeling is definitely the way to go! I can't recommend it enough. I thought I had read somewhere about needing a higher license level though, but of course I can't find anything about it in the help files now. ... View more

You're welcome. By the way, it's customary to mark the most helpful answer as correct, and to just use "Assumed Answered" when you solved the problem elsewhere, for example. You can also click helpful on other answers that helped you. ... View more

Interesting, I was able to import it using the the Import Excel table tool, and then display x/y data, no problem. I didn't try exporting it though. ... View more

Your XY data is in geographic coordinates, or lat/long in decimal degrees. Load the original table from excel. Go through the steps you did previously--right click, display x/y data, make sure the correct fields are chosen, and be sure the coordinate system is set as: Geographic Coordinate System:   Name: GCS_WGS_1984 If it is not, change it to that before clicking ok. Once you have done that, you can use the Project tool to change it to the same UTM projection as the shapefiles. To reiterate: you must have your data projection or coordinate system defined correctly IN THE ORIGINAL PROJECTION THE DATA WAS CREATED IN, before you can change it to something new using the Project tool. ... View more

To answer in more depth your question about WGS 84, and decimal points, etc. WGS 84 is actually a datum, not a projection, and can be applied to UTM or geographic coordinates (notice the UTM projection says WGS 84 at the beginning. What you have going on here is two different coordinate systems, which can be called projections for ArcMap purposes. The numbers with two numbers before the decimal point are Geographic coordinates, or lat/long in decimal degrees, as you see in your excel table. The other numbers are UTM coordinates in meters. You might want to google these two and do a little reading on them. Bottom line is, ArcMap will read these sets of coordinates in whatever coordinate system you specify, but if you tell it the wrong one, your data will end up in the wrong place. ... View more

A word of advise though, depending on what analyses you have planned for this data, it might be a better idea to leave your shapefiles in the UTM projection, and then after you have converted your Excel data to a shapefile with geographic coordinates, change the projection of that shapefile to UTM (using the Project tool, not the Define Projection tool, of course). ... View more