Hi, I have a layer displaying tree canopy cover for the United States. I want to trim it to just the state of Utah, how would I go about this?
Do I just make a polygon for the state boundary and then clip the layer to it, or is there another way?
Yes. In fact you should be able to find the boundary of the state readily available online or in existing Esri datasets.
Thanks! Can I do this with a living atlas layer? When I go to clip, only my polygon shows up as an option for the input features.
Use the state resources
Utah Mapping Portal
GIS map data looks promising
That site doesn't have tree canopy data unfortunately. I'd just like to clip the one I already found with the Living Atlas, is this possible?
Just adding to the soup, you can also use the "Clip Layers" option in Map Properties.
Comes in handy sometimes. The clip feature here is one object from a dataset with all counties, so a definition query is used as well on this layer.
Result:
No clipping:
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