Spatial subset
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Interactice box selection
- Click the Add raster layer and select the file C:/OSGeo4W64/geodata/raster/s2/Subset_S2A_MSIL2A_20170619T.tif.
- After clicking Open, the raster layer appears on the QGIS canvas.
- Raster --> Extraction ---> Clipper...
- Input file (raster): Choose a loaded file name fron the drop down list or click Select to browse to a file.
- Output file: click Select to choose a new file name for the subset image.
- The clipping mode is now already active. Hold a left click on the map canvas dragging a box of your region of interest.
- Adjust the extent coordinates in the text file rounding the coordinates of 1 (upper left corner) x, y and 2 (lower right corner) x, y.
- Click OK.
Vector Polygon
- Load the vector file C:\OSGeo4W64\var\geodata\vector\Landkreis_Goe_neu_utm32.shp. This is the actual boundary of the county Göttingen. We create a new vecto file with the boundary of the municipality Göttingen.
- Right click on Layer name in the Layers PanelProperties --> General. Change the Data source encoding from System to UTF-8. Click UTF-8.
- Right click on Layer name in the Layers Panel and open the Attribute table.
- Click and select by the expression: "NAME_4" ='Göttingen'. Select.
- Right click on Layer name in the Layers Panel Save as...