I am working on a class project with a group which involves surface modeling. We are attempting to recreate what a strip mined area would look like if it had not been mined. It was recommeded that we convert the cut-out raster to point first. We did this but as a side effect, the edge points have made our mined areas smaller. We have been trying to remove the outermost edge points befpre running the surface modeling tool, but have been unable to do so. Does anyone have any recomendations on how to remove these points or a better method of surface modeling?