Questions tagged [clip]
To limit or reduce the extent of one dataset by the extents or boundary of another.
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Reading shapefile in Python [closed]
My question is an extension of Vertical lines in a polygon shapefile.
There you will see a method of generating vertical lines with respect to the bounding box, at user-defined spacing. I understand ...
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Clipping raster with vector boundaries using QGIS
In QGIS I would like to clip a raster precipitation layer using an admin boundary layer that is vector data. However the Geoprocessing tools seem to be usable only for vector data.
How can I clip this ...
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Increasing speed of crop, mask, & extract raster by many polygons in R?
I'm extracting the area and percent cover of different land use types from a raster based on several thousand polygon boundaries. I've found that the extract function works much faster if I iterate ...
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Performing reverse clip in ArcMap
Is there a way to perform a 'reverse' of the clip function in ArcMap?
I am not exactly sure how to explain this so here is a diagram:
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Clipping raster in R
I am building a map for the northeastern U.S.A. The map background needs to be either an altitude map or a mean annual temperature map. I have two rasters from Worldclim.org which give me these ...
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Cropping raster layer using QGIS?
How do I crop a raster layer in QGIS?
I want to make contours from a section of a layer, and including the whole layer will create far more data than I need and slow down the rendering.
I have ...
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Crop simple features object in R
Is there a function to crop sf map object, similar to maptools::pruneMap(lines, xlim= c(4, 10), ylim= c(10, 15)) used for SpatialPolygon or SpatialLine?
I am considering st_intersection() but there ...
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Rasterfile clipping error: Cannot compute bounding box of cutline
I have a raster file and want to clip it, a vector file is supposed to be the mask layer. I use the most obvious method (Raster->Extraction->Clipper).
No matter what I do, I get this error (see ...
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Reverse clipping (erasing ) in R?
A reverse clip saves only the part of your spatial object that is outside
the bounds of another object, as opposed to a regular clip which saves the
parts that are inside the other object.
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How to perform a true GIS clip of polygons layer using a polygon layer in R?
I would like to do a true GIS Clip in R of soils polygons using a series of single boundary polygons, but I cannot find an R function to properly do it. It should work just like the clip function in ...
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Clipping line layer based on polygons with QGIS
I have a line layer and a polygon layer. Both files have the same SRS. I want in a new shape file only the lines covered by the polygons.
I tried in QGIS the Vector -> Geoprocessing -> Clip ...
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Differences Between Clip Tool and Intersect Tool
How is the clip tool different from the intersect tool in terms of how it works or the result?
I don't have a specific situation in mind. I was learning about each of these tools and was curious about ...
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Cut polygon shapefile by line shapefile
I have two shapefiles, a polygon shapefile (lake) and a line shapefile (boudary)
I want to create a new shapefile "polygon to the north of the boundary"
What tool can I use in QGIS or other ...
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Snapping raster grids in R
I am trying to align two raster grids in R. Once aligned I would like to be able to add them together.
I have tried to check whether making a stack would work:
grid_snap <- stack(habi_sdw, ...
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Gdal: clipping a raster with another raster
I'm writing a simple utility to crop batches of multi-band geotiff raster files to the same (smaller) area. Using gdalwarp, I can easily crop a file using a single-polygon clipping shapefile:
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