ST_Clip

ST_Clip
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Name

ST_Clip — Returns the raster clipped by the input geometry. If band number is not specified, all bands are processed. If crop is not specified or TRUE, the output raster is cropped. If touched is set to TRUE, then touched pixels are included, otherwise only if the center of the pixel is in the geometry it is included.

Synopsis

raster ST_Clip(raster rast, integer[] nband, geometry geom, double precision[] nodataval=NULL, boolean crop=TRUE, boolean touched=FALSE);

raster ST_Clip(raster rast, integer nband, geometry geom, double precision nodataval, boolean crop=TRUE, boolean touched=FALSE);

raster ST_Clip(raster rast, integer nband, geometry geom, boolean crop, boolean touched=FALSE);

raster ST_Clip(raster rast, geometry geom, double precision[] nodataval=NULL, boolean crop=TRUE, boolean touched=FALSE);

raster ST_Clip(raster rast, geometry geom, double precision nodataval, boolean crop=TRUE, boolean touched=FALSE);

raster ST_Clip(raster rast, geometry geom, boolean crop, boolean touched=FALSE);

Description

Returns a raster that is clipped by the input geometry geom. If band index is not specified, all bands are processed.

Rasters resulting from ST_Clip must have a nodata value assigned for areas clipped, one for each band. If none are provided and the input raster do not have a nodata value defined, nodata values of the resulting raster are set to ST_MinPossibleValue(ST_BandPixelType(rast, band)). When the number of nodata value in the array is smaller than the number of band, the last one in the array is used for the remaining bands. If the number of nodata value is greater than the number of band, the extra nodata values are ignored. All variants accepting an array of nodata values also accept a single value which will be assigned to each band.

If crop is not specified, true is assumed meaning the output raster is cropped to the intersection of the geomand rast extents. If crop is set to false, the new raster gets the same extent as rast. If touched is set to true, then all pixels in the rast that intersect the geometry are selected.


	The default behavior is touched=false, which will only select pixels where the center of the pixel is covered by the geometry.

Enhanced: 3.5.0 - touched argument added.

Availability: 2.0.0

Enhanced: 2.1.0 Rewritten in C

Examples here use Massachusetts aerial data available on MassGIS site MassGIS Aerial Orthos.

Examples

Comparing selecting all touched vs. not all touched.

Code

WITH source AS (
    SELECT rast, geom
    FROM ST_AsRaster(ST_Letters('R'), scalex => 1.0, scaley => -1.0) AS r(rast)
    INNER JOIN ST_GeomFromText('LINESTRING(0 1,5 6,10 10)') AS g(geom)
        ON ST_Intersects(r.rast, g.geom)
), clipped AS (
    SELECT rast,
        ST_Clip(rast, geom, touched => true) AS rast_touched,
        ST_Clip(rast, geom, touched => false) AS rast_not_touched
    FROM source
), variants AS (
    SELECT 'original' AS title, ST_Count(rast) AS pixel_count, rast AS rendered
    FROM clipped
    UNION ALL
    SELECT 'all touched', ST_Count(rast_touched), rast_touched
    FROM clipped
    UNION ALL
    SELECT 'default clip', ST_Count(rast_not_touched), rast_not_touched
    FROM clipped
)
SELECT title, pixel_count, ST_AsPNG(rendered) AS image
FROM variants
ORDER BY CASE title
    WHEN 'original' THEN 1
    WHEN 'all touched' THEN 2
    ELSE 3
END;

Output

 title        | pixel_count | image
--------------+-------------+----------------------------
 original     |        2605 | PNG image, 48 x 74 pixels
 all touched  |          16 | PNG image, 11 x 11 pixels
 default clip |          10 | PNG image, 11 x 11 pixels
(3 rows)

Figure

The following self-contained example uses three simple shapes as RGB bands. It compares cropping band 1, clipping band 1 without cropping and then restoring bands 2 and 3, and clipping every band without cropping.

Code

WITH canvas AS (
    SELECT ST_AddBand(
        ST_AddBand(
            ST_AddBand(
                ST_MakeEmptyRaster(128, 128, 0, 128, 1, -1, 0, 0, 0),
                '8BUI'::text, 0::double precision, 0::double precision
            ),
            '8BUI'::text, 0::double precision, 0::double precision
        ),
        '8BUI'::text, 0::double precision, 0::double precision
    ) AS rast
), source AS (
    SELECT ST_SetValue(
        ST_SetValue(
            ST_SetValue(rast, 1, ST_Buffer('POINT(32 96)'::geometry, 22), 220),
            2, ST_Buffer('LINESTRING(18 20,110 110)'::geometry, 6,
                         'endcap=flat join=bevel'), 210
        ),
        3, ST_Buffer('LINESTRING(10 48,118 48)'::geometry, 7,
                     'endcap=flat'), 180
    ) AS rast,
    ST_Buffer('POINT(64 64)'::geometry, 34) AS clipper
    FROM canvas
), variants AS (
    SELECT 'original RGB' AS title, rast AS rendered FROM source
    UNION ALL
    SELECT 'band 1 cropped', ST_Clip(rast, 1, clipper, true) FROM source
    UNION ALL
    SELECT
        'band 1 only',
        ST_AddBand(
            ST_Clip(rast, 1, clipper, false),
            ARRAY[ST_Band(rast, 2), ST_Band(rast, 3)]
        )
    FROM source
    UNION ALL
    SELECT 'all bands clipped', ST_Clip(rast, clipper, false) FROM source
)
SELECT title, ST_AsPNG(rendered) AS image
FROM variants
ORDER BY CASE title
    WHEN 'original RGB' THEN 1
    WHEN 'band 1 cropped' THEN 2
    WHEN 'band 1 only' THEN 3
    ELSE 4
END;

Output

 title             | image
-------------------+-----------------------------
 original RGB      | PNG image, 128 x 128 pixels
 band 1 cropped    | PNG image, 68 x 68 pixels
 band 1 only       | PNG image, 128 x 128 pixels
 all bands clipped | PNG image, 128 x 128 pixels
(4 rows)

Figure