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Posted on January 5, 2023 (Updated on July 10, 2025)

Clipping a raster using an irregular polygon with Python

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How do you clip a raster with a polygon?

Here are the steps to clip rasters using the Image Analysis toolbar in ArcGIS:

  1. Enable Image Analysis Toolbar. Enable the Image Analysis Toolbar (Windows > Image Analysis).
  2. Select Raster to Clip.
  3. Select Polygon Boundary to Clip To.
  4. Click Clip Icon.
  5. Export Raster.

 

How do you clip raster data in Python?

To perform the clip you:

  1. Open the raster dataset that you wish to crop using xarray or rioxarray.
  2. Open your shapefile as a geopandas object.
  3. Crop the data using the . clip() function.

 

Can I clip a raster?

An existing raster or vector layer can be used as the clip extent. If you are using a feature class as the output extent, you can clip the raster by the minimum bounding rectangle of the feature class or by the polygon geometry of the features.

How do I clip raster with raster Qgis?

If you have raster data, you will need to use the Clipper tool.



Click on the Raster menu, mouse-over Extraction, and click on Clipper…

  1. Verify the raster you want clipped is the Input file.
  2. Click “Select…” next to the Output file, find your working folder, and name the output raster.

How do you clip a polygon in Python?

clip() will clip the data to the boundary of the polygon layer that you select. If there are multiple polygons in your clip_obj object, clip() will clip the data to the total boundary of all polygons in the layer. Now you can plot the data to see the newly “clipped” points layer.
 

Can you intersect a raster with a polygon?

Summary. It is sometimes necessary to determine the areas where the attributes of a raster layer intersect a polygon layer. In studies involving multiple attributes and covering massive acres of land, the intersecting areas may provide helpful information.
 

How do I crop raster data?

Use the crop() function to crop a raster object. Use the extract() function to extract pixels from a raster object that fall within a particular extent boundary. Use the extent() function to define an extent.

What is the difference between clip and extract by mask?

Clip only does a rectangular area (envelope) however extract by mask will extract to an irregular/multipart/doughnut polygon. If you want only the data in an extent use clip, it’s much faster, but if you need to trim to an irregular shape then use extract by mask.
 

What is clipping a raster?

Clipping rasters allows you to only work on or display a certain area of interest. It could be defined by a boundary from a vector shapefile, or it could be defined by the extent of the window.
 

Where do you clip polygons in a clipping window?

Sutherland Hodgeman polygon clipping algorithm is used for polygon clipping. In this algorithm, all the vertices of the polygon are clipped against each edge of the clipping window. First the polygon is clipped against the left edge of the polygon window to get new vertices of the polygon.

What is clipping explain polygon clipping?

Polygon clipping is defined by Liang and. Barsky (1983) as the process of removing those parts of a polygon that lie outside a. clipping window. A polygon clipping algorithm receives a polygon and a clipping window. as input.
 

How do you clip a raster in Arcpro?

Quote from video: Now let's look at a situation in which we want to clip our raster down to the polygon layer here I have the green mountain national forest. Management units like to clip my raster data down to one of

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