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Clipping an Ocean Polygon
When building a geographic database representing a coastal area, your census data and your digital elevation model will extend beyond the shoreline and make it difficult to make maps that look decent.

 


Clipping
Elimination of parts of a data layer either inclusive or exclusive of given limits.
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[edit] Clipping
Once triangle vertices are transformed to their proper 2d locations, some of these locations may be outside the viewing window, or the area on the screen to which pixels will actually be written.

clippings related to the efforts of the league to have
Webster's Pond and the Rand tract in Syracuse, New
York, be designated a wildlife refuge.

Under Clipping mode, select the 'Mask layer' radio button and under the Mask layer dropdown menu, select our boundary layer 'usa_florida'.
Place a check next to 'Load into canvas when finished', which will add the output to the layers.

DRGClip - A tutorial on Clipping and Stitching together collared DRGs
USGS Technical Assistance - Even more info on working with and clipping DRGs from the USGS ...

clip The spatial extraction of those features from one coverage that reside entirely within a boundary defined by features in another coverage (called the clip coverage)-clipping works much like a cookie cutter. COGO 1.

Clipping Address Match and Enumeration Area Coverage beyond the modelling boundary
Clipping Census Tract and FSA boundaries
Aggregating Enumeration Area Data to Census Tract and FSA levels ...

The GIS dataset is constructed by clipping these images to a common spatial extent and converting them to raster GIS data model (grids) with a cell size of 30m X 30m.

Clip (discarding the area that intersects): clipping removes the area of overlap between two polygons. The polygon that is selected at the time acts as the "cookie cutter," removing area from the overlapping polygon(s).

Intelligent labeling tools, image clipping, and quantity takeoffs make it your best choice in the production environment. In addition, MXROAD makes it easy to establish a PDF-based process for electronic delivery of plan sets.

Syllabic abbreviations
Compound words
Clipping (morphology)
Blend (linguistics)
Contraction (grammar)
Morphology (linguistics)
Border towns in the United States with portmanteau names
List of portmanteaux
Verbal Behavior ...

My tests have demonstrated that this does not work as well as clipping for this type of problem. Several passes of the BLACKART low pass filter algorithm improved the data but did not completely remove all the negative elevations.

Conditional Simulation
Unconditional Simulation
Postprocessing (clipping, summary statistics for cells and for polygonal areas of interest) ...

Common components of GIS analysis include database query and selection, database linking, buffering, topological overlay, clipping, dissolving, etc. This work is mainly done by GIS processing software.

They would then overlay the resultant buffer data layer, a buffer polygon, with the forest cover data layer in a clipping fashion. This would result in a new data layer that only contained the forest cover within the buffer zone.

See also: Information, GIS, Image, Feature, Cover