[gradsusr] Crop country boundary or masking an area - still not working

[Yaqiang Wang]

You can use maskout function to crop your grid data. Or use basemap
script to 'crop' your figure.

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Rafanoharana Serge Claudio
<rafanoharana at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear John,
>
> Thank you for your answer. I do have ogr2ogr and a shapefile of the study
> area. Thank you anyway for the file.
> In your command, you only deal with .shp files, and ogr2ogr cannot be used
> within GrADS.
> The problem is that I have a .nc file which contains a variable. I want to
> clip this .nc file (but not a .shp file). I am not sure that ogr2ogr can
> deal with .nc format (I also tried but not working).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Serge
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Huddleston, John
> <Huddleston at cira.colostate.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Serge
>>
>>
>>
>> Attached is your study area shapefile (Study_Area.shp). Use ogr2ogr to
>> clip your data.
>>
>>
>>
>> You can get ogr2ogr from http://www.gdal.org/ogr2ogr.html or if on Linux
>> use ‘apt-get install gdal-bin’.
>>
>>
>>
>> Use the following command:
>>
>>
>>
>> ogr2ogr -clipsrc Study_Area.shp output.shp Your_input_data.shp
>>
>>
>>
>> where Study_Area.shp is a shapefile in the attached zip file and
>> Your_input_data.shp is the shapefile you want to clip.
>>
>>
>>
>> John Huddleston, PhD
>>
>> Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From: gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org [mailto:gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org]
>> On Behalf Of Rafanoharana Serge Claudio
>> Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 12:59 PM
>> To: GrADS Users Forum
>> Subject: [gradsusr] Crop country boundary or masking an area - still not
>> working
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I've already posted this message before but I can't get it worked.
>> If any of you have any idea to crop the study area, please let me know.
>> One said that it is possible to grab a shapefile of the top part  and fill
>> it with black (I guess he meant re-setting the value of the variable covered
>> by this shapefile to 0). If you have any experience or any tips on how to do
>> that, thanks in advance for your help.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Serge
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Rafanoharana Serge Claudio <rafanoharana at gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 7:53 AM
>> Subject: Crop country boundary
>> To: GrADS Users Forum <gradsusr at gradsusr.org>
>>
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I would like to ask if there is a way to crop the data to a specific area.
>> In GrADS, if we use 'set mpdset hires', we have the country boundary.
>> However for my case I only need the study area (please refer to the attached
>> file).
>>
>> I found that http://www.diva-gis.org/datadown provides Grid data. Can we
>> use the data from this Website to crop it or...?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> --
>> Serge
>>
>>
>> --
>> Serge
>>
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