Aspect

Résumé

Identifies the downslope direction of the maximum rate of change in value from each cell to its neighbors.

Discussion

For more information about how this function works, see the Aspect raster function.

The referenced raster dataset for the raster object is temporary. To make it permanent, you can call the raster object's save method.

Syntaxe

Aspect (raster)

Paramètre	Explication	Type de données
raster	The input raster.	Raster

Valeur renvoyée

Type de données	Explication
Raster	The output raster.

Exemple de code

Aspect example 1

This example calculates the aspect of the raster dataset.

from arcpy.ia import *
out_aspect_raster = Aspect("elevation.tif")
out_aspect_raster.save("C:/arcpyExamples/outputs/aspect.tif")

Aspect example 2

This example calculates the aspect of the raster dataset.

# Import the system modules
import arcpy
from arcpy.ia import *

# Set the analysis environments
arcpy.env.workspace = "C:/arcpyExamples/data"

# Set the local variables
in_raster = "elevation.tif"

# Execute Aspect function
out_aspect_raster = Aspect(in_raster)

# Save the output
out_aspect_raster.save("C:/arcpyExamples/outputs/aspect.tif")