What tool for Sum/Average/Count within x distance of each raster cell using ArcGIS Pro

Question

I'm looking for an alternate way to undertake some processing.

Is there an ArcGIS Pro toolbox tool that can take an existing raster, use each cell (cell centroid?) to produce a new raster that contains the Count/Average/Sum/Etc of the cells within x distance?

So, lets say I had a raster where cells with houses present was a value 1, and everything else was a 0, I could produce a second raster with the input query being "for each cell give me the sum of all cells within 500m". The output is a new raster with the same cell boundaries (origin, width, etc – a snap raster in ESRI terms) where each cell is a count.

My current workflow would be to take the raster, convert it to points, buffer the points by 500m and produce individual polygons, ensure all datasets had a spatial index, summarize within / zonal statistics, join the resultant table back to the points, create the raster from points. It's horribly inefficient. The issue is I can't seem to work out if there's a tool to do it all within raster processing. If one exists – I do not know it's name and can't seem to find it.

Answer 1

Try Focal Statistics:

Calculates for each input cell location a statistic of the values within a specified neighborhood around it.