Neighborhood focal statistics.... without the statistics?

[SethBinder]

Instead of using the Focal Statistics tool to calculate a neighborhood statistic for each focal cell, I'd like to be able to simply generate a table of the values of each cell's neighbors. In other words, I want an M-by-N table, where M is the total number of raster cells and N is the number of neighbors for each cell. (Some table entries would be null for focal cells near/at the edge of the raster.)

Is there any way to accomplish this in ArcGIS?


Thanks,
Seth

[DanPatterson_Retired]

check numpy array and masked array modues in Python, you will have to code it yourself, but it should be possible to return each neighbourhood given an input grid/matrix, there are no tools with ArcMap

[SethBinder]

Dan,

Thanks for your reply. I was afraid that was the case. Rather than using Numpy, I think I will give it a shot in Matlab, which is where I am doing much of my work anyway.

Seth