topic masking of features outside a polygon in ArcGIS Spatial Analyst Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-spatial-analyst-questions/masking-of-features-outside-a-polygon/m-p/612744#M8916 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have a shapefile of India on which I have interpolated some data of AOD, which consists data points of the neighbouring countries and oceans and seas surrounding india also. I need to mask the features ouside the shape file of India, I tried the masking tool in cartography toolbox...........PLEASE HELP..</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 10 Apr 2014 06:16:29 GMT SourangsuChowdhury 2014-04-10T06:16:29Z masking of features outside a polygon https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-spatial-analyst-questions/masking-of-features-outside-a-polygon/m-p/612744#M8916 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have a shapefile of India on which I have interpolated some data of AOD, which consists data points of the neighbouring countries and oceans and seas surrounding india also. I need to mask the features ouside the shape file of India, I tried the masking tool in cartography toolbox...........PLEASE HELP..</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 10 Apr 2014 06:16:29 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-spatial-analyst-questions/masking-of-features-outside-a-polygon/m-p/612744#M8916 SourangsuChowdhury 2014-04-10T06:16:29Z Re: masking of features outside a polygon https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-spatial-analyst-questions/masking-of-features-outside-a-polygon/m-p/612745#M8917 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Assuming that the data you wish to mask by the India shapefile are features, use Clip in the Analysis toolbox to clip the input features to the India shapefile.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If you have interpolated points to create a raster, then you can use Extract By Mask in Spatial Analyst to perform a similar operation.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Cheers</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Malcolm</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 14 Apr 2014 04:10:32 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-spatial-analyst-questions/masking-of-features-outside-a-polygon/m-p/612745#M8917 MalcolmNunn 2014-04-14T04:10:32Z