I am trying to clip a raster layer with a polygon layer using the "clip raster" tool. I've clipped other raster layers with the same polygon layer (study area) but this raster layer will not clip? I am attaching the SSURGO raster to be clipped and the clip area (StudyArea) here. Thank you.
Here's another thing to try: the raster is really really big, so something to try is to clip out just the area of the soil map you are interested in with right click the raster layer > Export. The clip tool may be more friendly with a smaller raster.
Beyond that if you have no local resources to help you, you pay for your Esri software license for a reason - contact support.esri.com and see if they can help you.
Does that raster have the same coordinate system as the study area polygon?
Do the extents overlap.
(ps, *.lyrx files aren't going to be useful because they reference the data. A screen grab of the layers and the properties of the raster and the polygon would be useful)
What's the raster format? Can you share a map package of the data?
If it's a raster loaded into a File GDB, then try exporting to Tif and clipping that instead. I often have failed raster geoorocesses with rasters in FGDB, and then the GP tool works as a tif.
That's a really good suggestion. TIFF is a much better format for processing data, fgdb rasters are a better choice for view only of your final product (in my experience).
Hi - the coordinate systems are not the same (see below). I'm not sure how to change that and which one to pick.
NAD 1983 California (Teale) Albers (Meters)
USA Contiguous Albers Equal Area Conic USGS
Use the Project tool (not Define Projection) to convert the polygon layer to the same coordinate system as the soils layer. Then try clipping by the new polygon that has the same CS as the soil raster.
I am changing the coordinate system with Project tool but it has been running for nearly an hour. For the future should I always change the coordinate system of all layers to match one another? I have not been doing this with my projects... If so, which coordinate system do you choose.
I was still not able to do this after changing the coordinate system of the polygon layer and clipping the tiff instead of the GDB version of the raster so I hesitate to accept a solution?
Thank you - that worked! And I had no idea that support.esri.com existed so thank you twice! Much appreciated.
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