How to Clip a Raster to a Polygon or an Extent with Python (Extract by Mask)

Clipping, extracting to masks, and subsetting rasters are common GIS operations. Using the gdal package for Python it is very easy to automate these processes. This tutorial will demonstrate how to use the Warp() function from the gdal Python API to clip rasters to a specified extent and to clip rasters to a polygon layer. These operations are also often…