I am working with a LIDAR generated DEM for an island, and there is a lot of noise and artificial geometry in the raster. I can successfully clip the island with a vector mask, but that returns a very irregularly shaped raster and seems to be breaking all of my spatial analyst tools. Ideally, I would like to classify every value outside of the mask as 0 to maintain a workable raster, but I am unsure of how to do this. Every tool that I've used with the mask (extract, clip) just gives me the island-shaped raster. My question is two-fold - is there a better way to do this and are irregularly shaped rasters fundamentally unusable with surface modeling tools?
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