Shift (Data Management)

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.

• This tool does not perform any resampling or warping.

• You can save the output to BIL, BIP, BMP, BSQ, DAT, Esri Grid, GIF, IMG, JPEG, JPEG 2000, PNG, TIFF, MRF, or CRF format, or any geodatabase raster dataset.

• When storing a raster dataset to a JPEG format file, a JPEG 2000 format file, or a geodatabase, you can specify a Compression Type value and a Compression Quality value in the geoprocessing environments.

• This tool supports multidimensional raster data. To run the tool on each slice in the multidimensional raster and generate a multidimensional raster output, be sure to save the output to CRF.

  Supported input multidimensional dataset types include multidimensional raster layer, mosaic dataset, image service, and CRF.

Parameters

Dialog

Label	Explanation	Data Type
Input Raster	The input raster dataset.	Mosaic Layer; Raster Layer
Output Raster Dataset	The output raster dataset. When storing the raster dataset in a file format, specify the file extension as follows: .bil—Esri BIL .bip—Esri BIP .bmp—BMP .bsq—Esri BSQ .dat—ENVI DAT .gif—GIF .img—ERDAS IMAGINE .jpg—JPEG .jp2—JPEG 2000 .png—PNG .tif—TIFF .mrf—MRF .crf—CRF No extension for Esri Grid When storing a raster dataset in a geodatabase, do not add a file extension to the name of the raster dataset. When storing a raster dataset to a JPEG format file, a JPEG 2000 format file, a TIFF format file, or a geodatabase, you can specify Compression Type and Compression Quality values in the geoprocessing environments.	Raster Dataset
Shift X Coordinates by	The value used to shift the x-coordinates.	Double
Shift Y Coordinates by	The value used to shift the y-coordinates.	Double
Input Snap Raster (Optional)	The raster dataset used to align the cells of the output raster dataset.	Raster Layer

Python

arcpy.management.Shift(in_raster, out_raster, x_value, y_value, {in_snap_raster})

Name	Explanation	Data Type
in_raster	The input raster dataset.	Mosaic Layer; Raster Layer
out_raster	The output raster dataset. When storing the raster dataset in a file format, specify the file extension as follows: .bil—Esri BIL .bip—Esri BIP .bmp—BMP .bsq—Esri BSQ .dat—ENVI DAT .gif—GIF .img—ERDAS IMAGINE .jpg—JPEG .jp2—JPEG 2000 .png—PNG .tif—TIFF .mrf—MRF .crf—CRF No extension for Esri Grid When storing a raster dataset in a geodatabase, do not add a file extension to the name of the raster dataset. When storing a raster dataset to a JPEG format file, a JPEG 2000 format file, a TIFF format file, or a geodatabase, you can specify Compression Type and Compression Quality values 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

Compression, Current Workspace, Extent, Geographic Transformations, NoData, Output CONFIG Keyword, Output Coordinate System, Parallel Processing Factor, Pyramid, Raster Statistics, Resampling Method, Scratch Workspace, Snap Raster, Tile Size

Licensing information

• Basic: Yes
• Standard: Yes
• Advanced: Yes