Raster Band properties

Summary

The Describe function returns the following properties for Raster Bands. Table Properties and Dataset Properties are also supported.

A Raster Band returns a dataType of "RasterBand".

Properties

Property	Explanation	Data Type
height (Read Only)	The number of rows	Integer
isInteger (Read Only)	Indicates whether the raster band has integer type	Boolean
meanCellHeight (Read Only)	The cell size in y direction	Double
meanCellWidth (Read Only)	The cell size in x direction	Double
noDataValue (Read Only)	The NoData value of the raster band	String
pixelType (Read Only)	The pixel type U1 —1 bit U2 —2 bits U4 —4 bits U8 —Unsigned 8 bit integers S8 —8 bit integers U16 —Unsigned 16 bit integers S16 —16 bit integers U32 —Unsigned 32 bit integers S32 —32 bit integers F32 —Single precision floating point F64 —Double precision floating point	String
primaryField (Read Only)	The index of the field	Integer
tableType (Read Only)	The class names of the table Value —Values in the table are used for values only, not for indexing. Index —Values in the table are used as indexes in the raster table. Invalid —Values are invalid.	String
width (Read Only)	The number of columns	Integer

Code sample

Raster Band properties example (stand-alone script)

The following stand-alone script displays some properties for a raster band.

import arcpy

# Create a Describe object from the raster band
#
desc = arcpy.Describe("C:/data/preston.img/Band_1")

# Print some raster band properties
#
print "Height: %d" % desc.height
print "Width:  %d" % desc.width
print "Integer Raster: %s" % desc.isInteger