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unmanaged raster catalog

See Also: managed raster catalog

  1. [data structures] A raster catalog in which the raster datasets are not copied or altered by the geodatabase and there will only be a pointer connecting the raster catalog row to the raster datasets. Deleting a row in an unmanaged raster catalog will not delete the raster dataset from its storage location.