Summary
Moves (slides) the raster to a new geographic location, based on x and y shift values. This tool is helpful if your raster dataset needs to be shifted to align with another data file.
Illustration
Usage
The cell size of the output raster will be the same as that of the input raster.
The number of rows and columns in the output raster will be the same as those of the input raster, no matter what parameters are specified.
The coordinates of the lower left corner of the output raster will be offset from the input raster by the x and y shift coordinate values specified.
Using a negative shift x-coordinate value will shift the output to the left. A positive shift x-coordinate value will shift the output to the right. Using a negative shift y-coordinate value will shift the output down. A positive shift y-coordinate value will shift the output to the top.
The output raster dataset is nudged according to the location of the input snap raster, so the new shifted raster dataset can be aligned perfectly with another raster dataset.
Shift does not perform any resampling or warping.
You can save your output to BIL, BIP, BMP, BSQ, DAT, Esri Grid , GIF, IMG, JPEG, JPEG 2000, PNG, TIFF, MRF, CRF, or any geodatabase raster dataset.
When storing your raster dataset to a JPEG file, a JPEG 2000 file, or a geodatabase, you can specify a Compression Type and Compression Quality in the Environments.
Syntax
Shift(in_raster, out_raster, x_value, y_value, {in_snap_raster})
Parameter | Explanation | Data Type |
in_raster | The input raster dataset. | Mosaic Layer; Raster Layer |
out_raster | Output raster dataset. When storing the raster dataset in a file format, you need to specify the file extension:
When storing a raster dataset in a geodatabase, no file extension should be added to the name of the raster dataset. When storing your raster dataset to a JPEG file, a JPEG 2000 file, a TIFF file, or a geodatabase, you can specify a Compression Type and Compression Quality in the geoprocessing Environments. | Raster Dataset |
x_value | The value used to shift the x coordinates. | Double |
y_value | The value used to shift the y coordinates. | Double |
in_snap_raster (Optional) | The raster dataset used to align the cells of the output raster dataset. | Raster Layer |
Code sample
Shift example 1 (Python window)
This is a Python sample for the Shift tool.
import arcpy
arcpy.Shift_management("c:/data/image.tif", "c:/output/shift.tif", "100",\
"150", "snap.tif")
Shift example 2 (stand-alone script)
This is a Python script sample for the Shift tool.
##====================================
##Shift
##Usage: Shift_management in_raster out_raster x_value y_value {in_snap_raster}
import arcpy
arcpy.env.workspace = r"C:/Workspace"
##Shift a TIFF image by 4.5 in X direction and 6 in Y direction
##Snap the output to a existing raster dataset
arcpy.Shift_management("image.tif", "shift.tif", "4.5", "6", "snap.tif")
Environments
Licensing information
- Basic: Yes
- Standard: Yes
- Advanced: Yes