Hi everyone, I am currently taking the Natural Capital course by Stanford University on edx. In the Urban Cooling section, I can’t properly import the raster maps into ArcGis because of their different coordinate system. I tried changing their coordinate system by Project Raster Tool but I keep getting failures.
Hi @Mahan_Safarian ,
Thanks for taking the original MOOC, “Introduction to the Natural Capital Project Approach”, and for writing in to the forum.
As stated on the course’s pages:
PLEASE NOTE: Some of the content of Module 2 is now out of date, because some of our models have been updated, and all of the models are now provided under a single Workbench interface. We are working on updating our modeling tutorials, but meanwhile please see the InVEST User Guide for the latest information on the software, installation, and individual models.
We are no longer actively supporting this course and much of the content is now outdated. However, I did investigate the Urban Cooling sample data and note that there are two rasters included, “lulc.tif” and “et0.tif”. I confirmed that they have different CRS between them, but I am able to reproject either in ArcGIS Pro.
Please provide more details on your specific issue or the error message you receive. Did you attempt to reproject each one? Which CRS did you choose for the “Output Coordinate System” for which input raster? What resampling technique did you select? I recommend using ‘Nearest neighbor’ for the LULC since it’s categorical and ‘Bilinear interpolation’ for ET0 since it represents continuous data as multi-year averages and “new”, averaged values can be reasonably assumed. If any “.tif.xml” file types were produced by the tool, please share those here.
Please also refer to this GIS for InVEST Tutorial video: “Coordinate Systems using ArcGIS”, but be aware that it deals with ArcGIS Desktop, not the newer ArcGIS Pro, although the tools work similarly.
Thanks,
Jesse