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GIS Assignment 2

This document describes how to clip raster data in ArcGIS. It explains that clipping extracts only the target data that lies within a clip polygon boundary, discarding all other areas. The steps to clip a raster using the Image Analysis toolbar are provided: 1) enable the toolbar, 2) select the raster and polygon boundary, 3) click the clip icon, 4) export the clipped raster. An example calculates the total area of a clipped raster by multiplying its cell size by the number of rows and columns.

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GIS Assignment 2

This document describes how to clip raster data in ArcGIS. It explains that clipping extracts only the target data that lies within a clip polygon boundary, discarding all other areas. The steps to clip a raster using the Image Analysis toolbar are provided: 1) enable the toolbar, 2) select the raster and polygon boundary, 3) click the clip icon, 4) export the clipped raster. An example calculates the total area of a clipped raster by multiplying its cell size by the number of rows and columns.

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FACULTY OF BIO-SYSTEMS AND WATER RESOURCE

ENGINEERING

ASSIGNMENT ON: GIS AND REMOTE SENSING


TITLE: Clipping Raster Data on ArcGIS.
 BY: ERMIAS EYASU
ID NO: GPWREMR/0006/12

SUBMITTED TO: DR.NIGATU W. (PHD)

SEP 2020,
HAWASSA, ETHIOPIA
a) Description on how to clip( not more than a page)
In GIS to clip is to overlay a polygon on one or more target features (layers) and
extract from the target feature (or features) only the target feature data that lies
within the area outlined by the clip polygon. In other words, the boundaries of
the second polygon are imposed on the first polygon. All other areas is
discarded and is no longer part of the first polygon feature, the clipped data
becomes a new feature. This is analogous to “cookie cutter” being used to cut a
specific area out of a map to create new, smaller map.
Clipping to form a new feature class creates a study area or specific area of
interest that is an important function when working in GIS. This become
advantageous when an analyst only needs to work with a certain focus area,
he/she can discard the unnecessary spatial information with no loss to his/her
core data. Example of using the clip tool would be analyzing traffic patterns at a
college campus, so he/she may clip the road data to college.
We are interested in getting the elevation data just for a country.
First we will clip the DEM to match with the boundary.
To clip using the arc toolbox:
 Go to data management tools
 raster-
 raster processing
 clip
Most of even with or without the spatial extent of a DEM or any other dataset is
greater than our area of interest. In such case to avoid an additional
computational burden from extra data we clip the data to match our area of
interest. We call this process as “clipping” or intersection.
Clips a raster using a rectangular shape according to the extreme defined or will
clip a raster to the shape of an input polygon feature class. The shape defining
the can clip the extent of the raster or clip out an area within the raster.

Here are the steps to clip raster using the image analysis toolbar in ARCGIS.
 Step 1. Enable image analysis toolbar. Enable the image analysis toolbar
(windows> image analysis)…
 Step 2. Select raster to clip
 Step 3. Select polygon boundary to clip
 Step 4. Click clip icon
 Step 5. Export raster
b) Clipped image with frame and map cosmetics
C) Vector data used with the necessary map cosmetics
D) Calculate the area

Solution.

30m 30mx30m= 900m2


Then to calculate total area first we know number of rows and columns.

30m Number of columns = 926


Number of rows =553
Total area =926*553 = 512,078
= 900*512,078
= 460,870,200m2

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