Latest Contributions by JeffreySwain

Which version of ArcMap are you using?  The rft should work for the information provided.  What is the published service doing? ... View more

Consider using the skip factor for the long processing.  It is outlined here, but the recommendation is to identify a reasonable skip factor value is to divide the number of columns by 1,000 and use the quotient (integer) as the skip factor. ... View more

I think I am following the description.  You have 4 individual rasters with each representing a particular band. It seems you have processed the bands to remove the NoData and now want to combine them?  If that is the case, then use the Composite Bands tool. It will create a single raster with 4 bands.  Hopefully the NoData issue will be resolved by your attempt, but at worse will need to be handled at this point. ... View more

Image classification can be accomplished through supervised or unsupervised.  For more object-oriented classification, you may be interested in eCognition or Feature Analyst. ... View more

You will have to emulate that account on the remote server if you are only able to access it via that account. So you are on the right track. Whatever account you can see the source rasters from on your local machine, must also be emulated on the server. Usually if you are publishing the service, it is important to keep the SOC account emulated on systems running 10.0 and under and emulating the ArcGIS Server account is required. The account must be added explicitly, simply making it open to 'Everyone' usually doesn't suffice. Per the help, during the setup you'll be asked to provide one account that will access your GIS resources and data and run the ArcGIS Server service. This account is the ArcGIS Server account. At 10.1, there is no postinstallation to complete, and there are no SOM, SOC, or ArcGIS web services accounts to configure. ... View more

What you will need to do is create a raster function template from your symbology and then apply to the published image service. This should preserve what you are doing and allow the image service to be classified as desired when added to ArcMap or blended into a web map.  Configuring an image service to use a raster function template You add the .rft.xml files to the image service when you configure the parameters for it before publishing. Steps:    If the image service is published and running, stop it.     Access the image service properties.     From the left menu of the Service Editor dialog box, click Function.     Click the Manage button to open the Manage Raster Function Templates dialog box.     Add one or more .rft.xml files to the list.     Optionally, choose a raster function template to apply by default by selecting it in the Default drop-down menu.     Click OK to close the dialog boxes.     Publish the image service. ... View more

There is an extension that should be used to view the rasters in ArcMap.  Here is the install guide. From the website, it appears that you must contact them to download it.  Best of luck. ... View more

Glad that worked out.  As a former Support Analyst, I have used this technique before.  Since tifs can be created from a multitude of programs and there is a standard published, there are still instances that the best technique is to save the raster over in ArcMap and then see if it displays better.  Also bilinear pyramids are always seem to do better with 1 bit rasters. ... View more

If the rasters are one bit, then the issue is probably with the conversion of one bit to the copy or the pyramids that are 8 bit.  You can also look at the pyramids and the resampling method. ... View more

There is no 'Image Server' stand alone anymore.  So if they asked you for an image service, then you will need the Image Server Extension.  At 9.2 - 10, there was a completely different setup to perform and a toolbar.  Now the image server extension grants the ability to publish mosaic datasets and mosaic datasets can be created via geoprocessing tools in ArcToolbox. There is no need for a separate toolbar nor different install. ... View more

The information is still valid at 10.2.  Image Server is an extension for server that grants the ability to publish mosaic datasets.  Here is a functionality matrix that may help some more of the details. The gist is still the same.  Mosaic datasets replace ISDEFs and to publish them (even in an mxd as a map service.. this includes you raster catalog) you need the Image Server Extension.  This workflow replaces the older (slower and file storage dependent process) of using SDE databases to store the raster imagery. The mosaic dataset is much more forgiving of raster differences and does not require the separate toolbar that the ISDEF did. So to recap your question.  The Image Server is an extension on ArcGIS Server and it creates an image service.  You can also create an image service with ArcGIS Server, but it must be of a singular raster.  So you can publish your tif, img or Esri GRID, but not a collection of them.  Hope that helps. ... View more

Check out the help document here for more assistance to add the raster files to an mxd. ... View more

The Pyramid level shouldn't be a factor. I was trying to point out if your raster was a gray scale, single band raster with simply the values indicated then it should work, but if you have more than one band in it, there will not be an attribute table.  For an attribute table to be created, you must have a single band raster with integer values.  So that there will be a 'Grid_code' or value field that can be populated with an integer value.  Then the attribute table can have values added based on that.  The original poster indicated that they had a raster with 32 bit values, which would not be possible to add an attribute due to the extremely high number of unique values.  Take a look at the help documentation for more information about raster attribute tables. ... View more

Raster attribute tables cannot be built on floating point rasters to answer the first poster.  In terms of your 8 bit raster, is it single band? Or multiband.  If multiband then it will not take the values.  If you are using single band then what is the format? ... View more

It sounds as if there are NoData pixels being considered as real pixels and your NoData value is indicated as something else.  I would consider trying the Reclassify or something to reclassify the values back to NoData.  Or perhaps a Extract by Attribute process to strip out the erroneous pixel values that are skewing the statistics. ... View more