Hi again! The conversion between Arcgis rasters such as grids and others to the Idrisi format is fairly simple. However, when you run some of the analyses in Idrisi such as Varcost or to use the Land Change Modeller, you will realize soon that Idrisi gives you an error such as “floating point overflow” and others. This seems to occur when one or more of the rasters you are using have NoData values that are extremely large such as -9999.
The way to solve it is to reclassify your raster either in Arcgis or Idrisi:
1. In arcgis with the reclassification tool delete all the entries leaving only the “NoData” value. Give these values a new value of -1 (for instance)
2. If you have your file already in Idrisi, run reclassify and if you have for instance values of -9999 where in arcgis was NoData, you just Assign a new value of -1 To all values from -9999 To just less than 0.
I hope this is useful for somebody because it took me a while to find the solution to this 🙂
Have a great day!
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