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fix(engine): a clipped 8-bit RGB(A) raster stays 8-bit (#1731) - #1759

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An 8-bit RGB(A) orthophoto clipped to a polygon came out with −3.4e38 as its no-data value, whatever its pixel type. clip_window (crates/engine/src/cmd/imagery.rs) gives the cells a mask leaves out the raster's no-data, or NODATA (−3.4e38) when it has none. Bytes can't hold that, so both GeoTIFF writers fall back to 32-bit floats. The COG writer also writes no no-data tag when the raster has alpha, because the alpha band marks the empty pixels, so −3.4e38 went into the colour bands untagged, alpha included. That is the issue's Float32 file that reloads as solid white. Project and export aren't involved: a clip of the unprojected image does the same.

Clip now leaves those cells the way Project Raster already leaves cells it has no value for (Canvas in crates/analysis/src/warp.rs):

  • In a raster with alpha (RGBA, or grey with alpha), a cell outside the polygons is see-through: 0 in every band, alpha included. The no-data value is unchanged (none for the issue's image), so an 8-bit image stays 8-bit and both writers keep it as bytes.
  • An RGB image with neither alpha nor no-data gains an alpha band, named "Alpha", as Project Raster gives one: 255 where the cell is kept and has a value, 0 elsewhere.
  • Any other raster works as before: the cells outside get its no-data, or −3.4e38 when it has none. That covers one band without alpha, an image with a no-data value, and a colour image with a fourth band of data and no alpha (RGB and near-infrared). That last one gets no alpha band from Project Raster either, since a colour image's alpha is read from its fourth band (rgbi in Canvas::of). This is what a Float32 grid has always had, and what the existing clip tests check.

ArcGIS handles the same case by keeping the image's pixel type when it can: Clip Raster gives the cells outside NoData that fits the type, and adding NoData to a full-range 8-bit band promotes it to 16-bit rather than to floats (NoData in raster datasets). An alpha band does it here without widening the type, as RustGIS's Project Raster already does.

The command's params text, the doc comment on process and the Analysis guide say which cells are see-through (3778f69 narrowed that to three-band colour images, after the review).

Not changed, and with the same pattern of −3.4e38 on a raster without no-data: Resample (raster.process with resample), Mosaic Rasters, the Pixel Editor's erase and the orthomosaic. Each is a separate case (an averaged cell, a gap between inputs, an erased cell, a cell no photo covers), so they're left out of this fix.

Also not changed: the issue's third point, a Float32 colour file that already has −3.4e38 in its see-through cells (one exported before this fix) is read as before. Its colour bands' statistics, which the stretch is taken from, still include those cells. Leaving them out would mean skipping cells whose alpha is 0, which changes the statistics of every RGBA raster, not only clipped ones (see the thread on imagery.rs), so it's left for its own issue. After this fix, Clip no longer writes such a file.

Testing

  • tests::a_clipped_colour_raster_stays_8_bit: a 40 × 40 UInt8 orthophoto in UTM zone 11N, as RGBA, as RGB, and as RGB with no-data 0, is clipped to a triangle as it is and after Project Raster (bilinear, 0.5 m). Each clip is UInt8 with the no-data it had (none, or 0) and four bands (RGBA, RGB) or three (RGB with no-data). A cell outside the triangle is 0 in every band, and one inside keeps its colours (the source's, for the unprojected clip) with alpha 255. The band RGB gains is named "Alpha". Each clip exported as a COG and as a plain GeoTIFF reads back as UInt8 with the same no-data, the same bands and every value from 0 to 255.
  • Reproduced first: a probe on unchanged code (41315de) with the same rasters gave each clip of the RGBA images, and each clip after Project Raster, no-data −3.4e38. Their COG exports were Float32 with no no-data and minimum −3.4e38 in all four bands, and their plain GeoTIFF exports were Float32 with no-data −3.4e38. The unprojected RGB clip kept three bands with no-data −3.4e38 and exported as Float32.
  • On Windows 11 x64, based on 6240dc0: cargo fmt --all --check and cargo clippy -p rustgis-engine --all-targets -- -D warnings pass. The engine's tests that clip or use the imagery tools pass (13): those matching clip, among them raster_clip_polygon_selection_semantics_and_partial_failure and the polygon clip of DEM tiles, plus layer_effects_and_imagery_tools, raster_tools_run_on_another_thread, derived_multiband_rasters_keep_every_band_in_the_project, rasters_made_from_rounded_ones_keep_the_rounded_note and the others whose bodies run raster.process with clip.
  • 3b3df57 merges main (f22d9bb). feat(plugins): extensions that can be turned on or off, starting with Imagery #1764 moved Process to the Imagery tab on the line whose params this PR changes, so the merge keeps both. After it, cargo fmt --all --check and cargo clippy -p rustgis-engine --all-targets -- -D warnings pass, and so do the engine's 17 tests matching clip, raster_process or extension, a_clipped_colour_raster_stays_8_bit among them.
  • 7be0ef6 merges main again (f710eb9). feat(data): remember the file a layer was read from and say when they differ #1753 added its engine test where a_clipped_colour_raster_stays_8_bit ends, so the merge keeps both. After it, cargo fmt --all --check and cargo clippy -p rustgis-engine --all-targets -- -D warnings pass, and so do the engine's 18 tests matching clip, raster_process, extension or in_step, both of those among them.
  • Not run: the whole of cargo xtask ci (the engine's hostile_params_never_panic among it), and Linux or macOS. The app wasn't opened, so the issue's reload as solid white wasn't looked at; the export test checks that the file is no longer Float32 with −3.4e38 in it.

UI evidence

No visible UI change.

Related issue

Closes #1731

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Summary

  • New Features
    • Polygon clipping makes pixels outside the selected area transparent for rasters with an alpha band.
    • Three-band color rasters without alpha or no-data values gain an alpha band when clipped. Rasters with no-data values retain their existing bands and no-data handling.
    • Clipped color rasters retain 8-bit pixel depth, including after bilinear projection and export.
  • Documentation
    • Imagery guidance clarifies clipping behavior for four-band images, including no-data handling and when an alpha band is not added.

Clip to polygons gave the cells it cuts out the raster's no-data, or
-3.4e38 when it had none, whatever its pixel type. Bytes can't hold
that, so both GeoTIFF writers fell back to 32-bit floats, and the COG
writer, which marks empty pixels with the alpha band, left -3.4e38
untagged in every band: the issue's Float32 orthophoto.

The cells outside are now left as Project Raster leaves cells it has
no value for: in a raster with alpha they are see-through, 0 in every
band, and an RGB image with neither alpha nor no-data gains an alpha
band ("Alpha", 255 or 0) for them. The no-data value is unchanged, so
an 8-bit image stays 8-bit. Any other raster works as before.
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Walkthrough

Polygon clipping now handles masked cells according to raster alpha and no-data settings. Three-band RGB rasters without no-data gain an alpha band. Regression tests cover direct and projected clipping, pixel values, metadata, and exported raster types.

Changes: Polygon clip transparency

Layer / File(s) Summary
Masked-cell handling
crates/engine/src/cmd/imagery.rs, docs/user-guide/analysis.md
clip_window clears masked cells to zero for rasters with alpha. Three-band RGB rasters without no-data gain an Alpha band. Other rasters use no-data or NODATA. The documentation describes these behaviors, including the handling of four-band images.
Clipping and export regression coverage
crates/engine/src/tests.rs
Tests cover direct and projected clips of RGB, RGBA, and RGB-with-no-data rasters. They check pixel types, band counts, masked and retained pixel values, and COG and GeoTIFF exports.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related issues

  • opengeos/RustGIS#1810: This issue describes transparent Float32 color values affecting display stretch, including clipped RGBA rasters. The current changes address clipping fill values and pixel type, but do not describe changes to display stretching.

Possibly related PRs

  • opengeos/RustGIS#1672: Its raster serialization changes have a direct connection to preserving raster bands and 8-bit samples when a clipped raster enters a project.

Suggested reviewers: elpidioassinaturas, giswqs

Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review cb34a

Clipping now keeps 8-bit colour rasters at 8-bit, which fixes the reported Float32 export. Clipped outputs now carry transparent zero cells or an added alpha band. Downstream statistics and Change Detection may count those transparent cells as valid zero values, and mosaicking clipped rasters may leave holes or reject mismatched band counts. Resolve or explicitly accept these before merge.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 3 · Failed 1

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check Warning [#1731] The change fixes the reported clip path. In clip_window (crates/engine/src/cmd/imagery.rs), masked cells in a raster with alpha become 0 in every band. Eligible RGB rasters gain an Alpha… Implement alpha-aware Float32 stretch statistics that exclude colour cells with alpha 0, so that extreme values such as -3.4e38 in those cells do not set the display range. Add an automated regression test with extreme values in masked colo…
Passed Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name Status Explanation
Title check Passed The title names the main change: clipped 8-bit RGB(A) rasters now remain 8-bit. The raw summary and objectives confirm that clip_window now sets outside-clip cells by band and no-data configuration, a…
Description check Passed The description follows the template. It has Summary, Testing, UI evidence, and Related issue sections. The UI section states 'No visible UI change.' as the template allows. The Summary explains the p…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The reviewed changes touch clip_window in crates/engine/src/cmd/imagery.rs, the regression test in crates/engine/src/tests.rs, and the clip documentation in docs/user-guide/analysis.md, with t…
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The title names the main change: clipped 8-bit RGB(A) rasters now remain 8-bit. The raw summary and objectives confirm that clip_window now sets outside-clip cells by band and no-data configuration, adds an Alpha band for RGB without alpha or no-data, and keeps the raster's pixel type. The title is specific and concise, and it references the fix and the issue number.

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Explanation

The description follows the template. It has Summary, Testing, UI evidence, and Related issue sections. The UI section states 'No visible UI change.' as the template allows. The Summary explains the problem, the fix, the behavior for each raster type, and the related cases left out. Testing lists the new regression test, the reproduction on unchanged code, and the checks run, along with the checks not run. The Related issue section says 'Closes #1731'. The description is thorough and complete.

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The reviewed changes touch clip_window in crates/engine/src/cmd/imagery.rs, the regression test in crates/engine/src/tests.rs, and the clip documentation in docs/user-guide/analysis.md, with the params text and the process doc comment. The clip change, the test, and the documentation all describe the same clipping behavior for [#1731]. The summary shows no unrelated product change. The PR description says Resample, Mosaic Rasters, Pixel Editor erase, and orthomosaic output are not changed. The summary shows no changes to those paths, so no out-of-scope change is shown.

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[#1731] The change fixes the reported clip path. In clip_window (crates/engine/src/cmd/imagery.rs), masked cells in a raster with alpha become 0 in every band. Eligible RGB rasters gain an Alpha band, and the pixel type is kept. The test tests::a_clipped_colour_raster_stays_8_bit covers clipping before and after Project Raster and checks UInt8 COG and GeoTIFF exports. The issue also states that reading a Float32 RGB file should not stretch from -FLT_MAX, for example by ignoring cells with alpha 0. The change summary lists no change to stretch or display-range code. The PR description defers stretch statistics for existing Float32 files to a separate issue. The issue remains open and lists this requirement. It is unmet at the reviewed head. Clip no longer writes the reported file, but the stretch requirement is not implemented or tested.

Resolution

Implement alpha-aware Float32 stretch statistics that exclude colour cells with alpha 0, so that extreme values such as -3.4e38 in those cells do not set the display range. Add an automated regression test with extreme values in masked colour cells. Alternatively, obtain a maintainer decision that removes this requirement from #1731 and links it to a separate issue.

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A rabbit checks the clipped frame,
The RGB stays byte-sized all the same.
Outside the shape, alpha turns low,
Inside, the colors get to show.
The bands keep names, the tests agree,
And exports hop along with glee.

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I found no crash paths, panics or silent data loss in the changed lines. I checked the new clip_window branches against the unchanged clip path, Canvas in warp.rs, per_index, and the is_valid semantics. The one substantive point is a scope gap, posted inline. Everything else is minor.

Bugs

  • None confirmed. Extent clips (no mask) and mask clips without alpha or no-data are unchanged. The new indexing uses get() and clamped chunk sizes, so hostile parameters can't panic.

Security

  • None found.

Performance

  • None found. The alpha band is computed only for kept cells, and it runs in per_index with cancel and thread handling.

Quality

  • Scope gap (medium confidence): an 8-bit four-band RGB image with no alpha (RGBI) still widens to Float32 with −3.4e38 on clip. Project Raster does the same, so the two agree. The PR text doesn't say so. Posted inline on imagery.rs:1568.
  • Edge case (low confidence): in a Float RGB image with no no-data, a kept cell whose values are all NaN keeps NaN in its colour bands and gets alpha 0. Project Raster writes 0 there. Not reachable with 8-bit input.
  • Test hygiene (nit): the test's temp directory is removed only on success, so a failing assertion leaks it. Group this with the release quality pass.

AGENTS.md

  • The PR follows the rules: no new unwrap or panic in non-test code, no unsafe, cancel-aware helpers, and a regression test for the fix.
  • The alpha-band addition is not reported through notify. Project Raster doesn't report its alpha band either, so this matches existing practice and I'm not raising it as a violation.

Prior reviews

  • No existing review threads, so nothing was left alone.

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docs/user-guide/analysis.md 135.8 KB 136.0 KB +252 B

The see-through cells are for a raster with alpha or a three-band colour
one without no-data. A colour image with a fourth band of data and no
alpha (RGB and near-infrared) keeps the old path, as Project Raster
does, which the guide, the command's params and the doc comment now say.
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Thanks for the review. Two points from the summary:

  • A float RGB image without no-data, a kept cell that is NaN in every band: it keeps NaN in its colour bands, with alpha 0, where Project Raster writes 0. It's see-through either way, and an 8-bit image can't hold NaN, so the case can't come from the issue's input. It's left for the release quality pass.
  • The test's temp folder on a failed assertion: left for the release quality pass too.

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crates/engine/src/tests.rs-40738-40738: 1

40738-40738: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value

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Clean up the temp directory when an assertion fails.

An assertion failure earlier in the test skips std::fs::remove_dir_all(dir). The directory then stays in std::env::temp_dir(). The path uses only std::process::id(), so a reused PID can see stale files. The .unwrap() on remove_dir_all can also fail the test on a cleanup error that has nothing to do with the behavior under test.

Use a drop guard or the tempfile crate if the workspace already has it. Otherwise, ignore the cleanup result.

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-    std::fs::remove_dir_all(dir).unwrap();
+    let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(dir);

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- Around line 1570-1571: Update the imagery handling around `nodata` and `fill`
so clipped-out cells remain excluded from statistics and Change Detection
through the clip mask, rather than being identified by pixel value. Preserve
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I read the diff against the base branch, the clip code and Project Raster's Canvas in warp.rs, and the helpers the new code calls. I did not compile or run the tests here. The clip rules agree with Project Raster in every case the diff handles, including the RGBI exclusion from the earlier thread. The alpha pass is cancellable through per_index, the new non-test code has no unwrap/expect/unsafe, and the test's coordinates and expected cells check out by hand.

Bugs

  • NaN in see-through colour bands (imagery.rs:1585, low-medium confidence, about 50%): a kept cell with NaN in a colour band is copied as NaN. Project Raster writes 0 there when clear is set. The NaN copy predates this PR, but the new alpha of 255 next to it is new. Suggestion is inline.

Security

  • None found.

Performance

  • None found. The alpha pass is one extra per_index pass and is cancellable. The valued closure scans bands per cell, but it exits early in the common case.

Quality (left for the release quality pass; not blocking)

  • per_index(wu * h as usize, wu, n, …) at imagery.rs:1592 passes the band count as the per-cell cost argument. The value is right, but the argument reads like a band count. A short comment would help.
  • The test's remove_dir_all runs only on success, so a failed assertion leaves the temp directory behind.
  • The test covers RGBA without no-data, RGB with and without no-data, and cog and plain exports. It does not cover GrayAlpha, or RGBA with a no-data value, which exercises the clear path with nodata set.

AGENTS.md

  • No violations in the changed code. Clip is already a background command. Docs and the params text match the code.
  • Re-raised one earlier thread (3 comments in total): the RGB + near-infrared case. The author's reply says the PR description covers it, but the staged PR body doesn't mention it, and the title still reads "a clipped 8-bit colour raster stays 8-bit". Inline comment on imagery.rs:1568. The Analysis guide does document the case.
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@bearinmindcat bearinmindcat changed the title fix(engine): a clipped 8-bit colour raster stays 8-bit (#1731) fix(engine): a clipped 8-bit RGB(A) raster stays 8-bit (#1731) Nov 11, 2026
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Major · Keep clipped RGB rasters compatible with mosaic inputs. · imagery.rs:1568

crates/engine/src/cmd/imagery.rs:1568
Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift

Keep clipped RGB rasters compatible with mosaic inputs.

A polygon clip now adds a fourth band to an RGB raster without no-data. mosaic_matches at Lines 1538–1546 rejects that result alongside the original three-band raster, although those inputs could be mosaicked before this change. Support compatible RGB and RGBA inputs in the mosaic path, or provide a conversion that preserves their band roles.

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Review comment at @crates/engine/src/cmd/imagery.rs at line 1568:
Update mosaic_matches to accept compatible RGB and RGBA rasters, including RGB rasters whose polygon clip adds an alpha band; preserve the color and alpha band roles through mosaicking, using a conversion only if it maintains those roles.
Major · Preserve mosaic gaps for transparent clipped cells. · imagery.rs:1571

crates/engine/src/cmd/imagery.rs:1571
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Preserve mosaic gaps for transparent clipped cells.

For an RGBA input without no-data, clipped-out cells now contain zero in every band. In raster_mosaic at Lines 1425–1445, zero is valid and fills the destination before later inputs are read. A later raster therefore cannot fill those transparent cells, leaving holes in the mosaic. Make mosaic composition honor alpha when selecting source pixels.

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Review comment at @crates/engine/src/cmd/imagery.rs at line 1571:
Update raster_mosaic source-pixel selection to use the alpha band for RGBA inputs, skipping fully transparent pixels so later rasters can fill those mosaic gaps. Preserve the existing selection behavior for opaque pixels and inputs without alpha.
Major · Use the pixel type’s opaque alpha value. · imagery.rs:1592

crates/engine/src/cmd/imagery.rs:1592
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Use the pixel type’s opaque alpha value.

For a UInt16 RGB raster, kept cells receive alpha 255 instead of 65535. The renderer and UInt16 COG export treat those cells as nearly transparent.

Use the opaque value for the raster’s pixel type, and preserve alpha scaling when an export changes the sample type.

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Review comment at @crates/engine/src/cmd/imagery.rs at line 1592:
Update the alpha-band generation in the `rasterops::per_index` closure to use the opaque value for the raster’s pixel type instead of hard-coding 255. Preserve alpha opacity when export changes the sample type by scaling the alpha value to the export type’s range.

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- Line 1568: Update mosaic_matches to accept compatible RGB and RGBA rasters,
including RGB rasters whose polygon clip adds an alpha band; preserve the color
and alpha band roles through mosaicking, using a conversion only if it maintains
those roles.
- Line 1571: Update raster_mosaic source-pixel selection to use the alpha band
for RGBA inputs, skipping fully transparent pixels so later rasters can fill
those mosaic gaps. Preserve the existing selection behavior for opaque pixels
and inputs without alpha.
- Line 1592: Update the alpha-band generation in the `rasterops::per_index`
closure to use the opaque value for the raster’s pixel type instead of
hard-coding 255. Preserve alpha opacity when export changes the sample type by
scaling the alpha value to the export type’s range.

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I found no bugs, security issues or AGENTS.md violations in the code. The clip logic matches Canvas in crates/analysis/src/warp.rs for the cases I traced: RGBA and grey-alpha sources, three-band RGB without no-data (alpha added), and four-band RGB+NIR (no alpha, no-data as before). The helpers used (rasterops::per_index, Raster::is_valid, ColorHint, cmd::raster::add_raster) exist with matching signatures. Rust 1.90 covers Option::is_none_or. No unwrap/expect appears in non-test code.

Bugs: none found.

Security: none found.

Performance: none found. The new alpha pass goes through per_index with the band count as its cost, which is the right weight, and it checks Cancel like the band loop.

Quality:

  • Doc comment on clip_window (crates/engine/src/cmd/imagery.rs:1554): it says any colour raster with neither alpha nor no-data gains alpha. The code only does that for three-band images. Posted inline with a suggestion. Confidence: high.
  • Nit, low confidence (~35%): valued at imagery.rs:1591 uses Raster::is_valid, which treats ±inf as no value. Canvas::set treats only NaN as no value. So a kept cell whose bands are all ±inf is transparent here but opaque in Project Raster. The PR says the two match. This only matters for infinite colour values; I did not post it inline.
  • Nit: has_alpha (imagery.rs:1567) is a long line with two matches! calls. A match would read more easily. Leave for the release quality pass.

AGENTS.md: no violations found. The params text, the process doc comment and docs/user-guide/analysis.md describe the same cases as the code, apart from the wording point above.

Prior threads: I left 7 earlier concerns alone, all already answered by the author or deferred to the release quality pass with a follow-up issue (#1810):

  • NaN handling in the see-through clip.
  • Exclusion of see-through cells from statistics and Change Detection.
  • Temp-directory cleanup on panic.
  • The RGB+NIR scope gap.
  • Export-check coverage.

I did not re-raise any of them.

Verification limits: I could not build or run the tests in this environment. The compile and runtime checks above come from reading the code and grepping the helpers it uses.

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- clip_window doc comment: only a three-band colour raster without
  alpha or no-data gains an alpha band, as the code (n == 3) does.
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let add_alpha = mask.is_some() && !has_alpha && matches!(r.color, ColorHint::Rgb { .. }) && n == 3 && r.nodata.is_none();
let clear = mask.is_some() && (has_alpha || add_alpha);
let nodata = if mask.is_some() && !clear { r.nodata.or(Some(NODATA as f64)) } else { r.nodata };
let fill = if clear { 0.0 } else { nodata.map(|v| v as f32).unwrap_or(NODATA) };

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Reopening #1810's concern with new evidence (medium confidence, behaviour change): the reply to the earlier thread says the see-through cells are "counted the way the app counts them in any RGBA raster", which is true for a raster read from a file. It doesn't cover what this PR changes. Before this PR, a polygon clip's outside cells were no-data (−3.4e38 in a Float32 output, or no-data on an RGB), so BandStats, the stretch and Change Detection excluded them. Now fill = 0.0 makes those cells valid zeros for every clipped RGB and RGBA output, and the result messages don't say so. That is a new way for clipped outputs to change statistics, and "Never silent" asks for it to be stated. Either keep the no-data for the clip output's statistics, or at least say in the command's result messages and the Analysis guide that clipped outside cells are valid zeros with alpha 0 for statistics and Change Detection until #1810 lands.

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Keeping this as it is. The outside cells are not dropped data: they are see-through, which is what the alpha band says, and the Analysis guide states it ("see-through instead (0, with alpha 0)"). That is the same convention Project Raster already uses for the cells it has no value for, so a clip and a projection of one image now agree. Keeping no-data for them is what widened the 8-bit image to Float32 in #1731, so it would undo the fix. Statistics and Change Detection that ignore alpha-0 cells for every RGBA raster are tracked in #1810. Leaving this thread open for the maintainer.

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Bugs

  • Clipped outputs now count outside cells as valid zeros (medium confidence). Before this PR, a polygon clip's outside cells were no-data, so band statistics, the stretch and Change Detection excluded them. Now fill = 0.0 makes them valid values in every clipped RGB and RGBA output, and nothing reports it. The earlier reply treats this as pre-existing, but that only holds for rasters read from files. This is a change this PR introduces, so I reopened the thread with that evidence (inline on imagery.rs:1571).
  • Float colour values that are infinite get no alpha (low confidence). The alpha check valued uses is_valid, which tests is_finite(). Project Raster's Canvas::set only checks NaN, so a cell with ±Inf in a float RGB gets alpha 0 here and 255 in Project Raster. The doc comment's claim of matching Project Raster doesn't quite hold. This is an edge case with no effect on 8-bit data.

Security

  • None found. The changed code is pure computation on engine-side rasters, and the test writes only to a process-ID temp directory.

Performance

  • None significant. The alpha pass is one extra per-cell pass that runs on the existing background path, with cancellation and threading through per_index. The cost = n argument is intentional.

Quality

  • GrayAlpha clipping has no test (medium confidence). Its behaviour changed (outside cells go from −3.4e38 to 0 with alpha 0), but the new test covers only RGBA, RGB and RGB with no-data. Inline on imagery.rs:1567.
  • Nit (left for the release quality pass): the alpha band name "Alpha" is a bare literal, the same as in Project Raster, so it's consistent with the existing code.

AGENTS.md

  • Never silent (medium confidence): the change in the statistics above is a silent semantic change for clipped outputs. Covered by the first bug.
  • Otherwise the PR follows the guidelines I checked: no unwraps, bounded indexing via get(), background path and cancellation via per_index, and the analysis guide and command help are updated.

Already raised, left alone

I left six earlier concerns alone: the NaN copy under the see-through path (the author's reasoning is coherent), the export-check and temp-directory cleanup test notes (both deferred to the quality pass), the RGB+NIR scope (now stated in the PR body), and the doc nit (fixed in e7eac3b). I reopened one (statistics), as above.

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crates/engine/src/cmd/imagery.rs 106.7 KB 108.0 KB +1.4 KB
docs/user-guide/analysis.md 137.3 KB 137.8 KB +535 B

I could not run the tests or cargo here, so the test file's API calls and the PR's reported test results are unverified.

- Test the grey-with-alpha branch of a polygon clip: UInt8, two
  bands, no no-data, 0 in both bands outside, grey and alpha kept
  inside. It fails on main, where the outside cells were -3.4e38.
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Bugs

  • Clip's "has a value" test for the added alpha band uses Raster::is_valid (finite-only). Project Raster's Canvas::set only treats NaN as no value, so a float RGB cell that is all ±Inf comes out see-through here but opaque in Project Raster. Inline comment posted with a one-line fix. Confidence ~55%, low impact (float RGB with Inf values only).

Security

  • None found. The new code indexes only within the clamped window; the extent path clamps c0..c1 and r0..r1 to the raster.

Performance

  • None found. The extra alpha pass runs once per kept cell and uses the existing per_index helper.

Quality

  • The has_alpha predicate duplicates the alpha_src logic in warp.rs. A shared helper would be cleaner. Left for the release quality pass.
  • The new test creates its temp directory with the process id and removes it only at the end, so a panic leaks it. This matches the other tests in tests.rs. Left for the release quality pass.

AGENTS.md

  • Compliant with the crash, silent-loss, background, and Cancel rules as far as the diff shows. Clip is still not a background command change, and the diff doesn't touch that path.
  • Clip's new outside-cell behaviour is documented in the params text, the process doc comment, and the Analysis guide.

Not verified

  • I could not compile or run the new tests in this session (no shell). The test assertions were checked by reading only.

Earlier review threads: 9 threads already exist. I re-raised none of them, except that the Inf finding above goes against the author's claim that valued matches Canvas::set.

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I found no new bugs, security issues, or performance problems in this change. I read the full diff, the clip_window callers, rasterops::per_index, and polygon_mask_with_failures. The per_index call passes the band count as cost, which is the intended use. Option::is_none_or is already used across the repo and the crate's rust-version is 1.90. I did not build or run the tests, since no shell was available for this review.

Bugs: none new.

Security: none.

Performance: none.

Quality:

  • Nit (high confidence): the clip_window doc comment at crates/engine/src/cmd/imagery.rs:1554 runs well past the wrap width of the lines around it. Left for the release quality pass.

AGENTS.md: no violations found. The new clip path has no unwrap, expect, or indexing, and the change adds a test for the grey-with-alpha case and for the RGB and RGBA cases. The Analysis guide and the process parameter text match the code.

Prior concerns: I left all 10 earlier review threads alone, because none has new evidence:

  • The NaN colour copy in see-through cells (answered by the author).
  • The statistics and Change Detection treatment of see-through cells (answered by a maintainer and tracked in Exclude transparent raster cells from statistics, stretch, and Change Detection #1810).
  • The Inf-versus-NaN "has a value" rule (left for the release quality pass).
  • The RGB+NIR scope, which the PR description now states.
  • The process doc-comment wording, now fixed.
  • The temporary-directory cleanup and the export-check test additions (both deferred to the release quality pass).
  • The grey-with-alpha test gap, now covered by a_clipped_grey_raster_with_alpha_stays_8_bit.

I posted no inline comments.

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The alpha band a clip adds to a three-band colour raster used
Raster::is_valid, so a cell that is infinite in every band came out
see-through, where Project Raster (Canvas::set) makes it opaque. The
rule is now the same one: see-through only when every band is NaN.
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Bugs

  • Clipped RGB no longer mosaics with unclipped RGB tiles (medium-high confidence, ~65%). A polygon clip of a 3-band RGB now produces RGBA, so raster.mosaic rejects it beside plain RGB tiles (mosaic_matches, imagery.rs ~L1538–1543). This worked before the PR and is not mentioned in the PR body or the Analysis guide. Posted inline at crates/engine/src/cmd/imagery.rs:1568.

No other new defects found. The clip branch matches Canvas::of / Canvas::set in crates/analysis/src/warp.rs: same alpha rule, same NaN-only "has a value" test, same see-through fill. Change Detection indexes bands and has no band-count check, so the extra band doesn't break it.

Security

  • None found in the changed lines.

Performance

  • None significant. The alpha pass uses per_index with the band count as cost, and cancel and progress are preserved.

Quality (nits, left for the release quality pass)

  • The doc comment on clip_window (imagery.rs ~L1554) runs past 110 columns. rustfmt won't rewrap it.
  • The colour test's temp directory isn't removed if an assertion panics. A prior thread already declined this, following the repo's existing test convention.
  • The colour test's range checks (0.0..=255.0) would also pass a Float32 export. The UInt8 assertion covers the type, so this is weak rather than wrong.

AGENTS.md

  • Never silent: the statistics and Change Detection effects of the new zero-valued cells are already covered by the prior threads and the maintainers' answer (Exclude transparent raster cells from statistics, stretch, and Change Detection #1810), so I didn't re-raise them.
  • Never crash, background work, and wasm: the changes stay within the existing per_index and cancel paths. The new tests follow the repo's temp-dir convention.
  • Rule gap to note: the Mosaic refusal above changes behaviour without a notice or doc line.

Prior threads: I left all 10 earlier threads alone and re-posted none. Two of them, the NaN-copy thread and the statistics thread, were answered by the author or a maintainer. One outdated thread about the Inf/NaN valued rule still reads as deferred to the release pass, but the head already has the NaN-only rule, so it may be stale and could be resolved.

Not run: I could not build or run the tests here (no shell access in this session), so the PR's claimed test results are unverified.

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Mosaic Rasters refuses inputs whose band counts or alpha roles differ,
so the guide says what to do with a clipped three-band image.
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Bugs

  • Mosaic doc contradicts the code (medium-high, ~80%). docs/user-guide/analysis.md:1512 says Mosaic refuses a clipped RGBA beside three-band tiles "saying which has the transparency band". In mosaic_matches the band-count check (imagery.rs ~L1538) runs before the alpha check (~L1544), so the error is "has 4 bands", not a transparency message. This is new evidence against the earlier reply on the mosaic thread. Inline comment posted.

No other correctness problems found in the clip logic. The per_index cost argument, the alpha and no-data branching, the valued NaN rule, and the test parameter names (raster.project's resampling, cellSize) all check out against the source.

Security

  • None found.

Performance

  • None found. The new alpha pass runs only on the add-alpha path and does not change the thread selection for the other bands.

Quality

  • Nit: analysis.md:1505 still says the Process clip leaves cells "no-data", and the new sentence then lists exceptions. Reword the list item so it doesn't contradict itself.
  • Nit: a clip that adds an alpha band changes the band count from 3 to 4 but reports no notice. It isn't data loss, and the result info shows the band count, so I'm not raising it as a violation.
  • Low-confidence nit: an input with ColorHint::Rgb { alpha: true } and 3 bands would gain an alpha band. A reader should not produce that, so I left it alone.

AGENTS.md

  • No violations found in the changed code. Background execution, the cancel registry and the hostile_params_never_panic path are untouched. The Alpha band name is data, not UI text, so it needs no tl!.

Earlier concerns left alone (6 threads): statistics and Change Detection counting alpha-0 cells (tracked in #1810), the NaN-to-0 choice in see-through clips, the RGB+NIR scope, the export-check test additions, and the temp-dir cleanup on panic. Three earlier threads (grey-with-alpha test, valued Inf rule, doc wording) are already fixed. The mosaic thread was re-raised above because its reply conflicts with the code.

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- Analysis guide: Mosaic Rasters refuses a clip with an added alpha
  band on its band count, which it checks before the band roles, so
  its message gives each input's band count.
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I reviewed the three changed files against the staged diff, the surrounding code, analysis::warp's Project Raster Canvas, the mosaic and change-detection consumers, and the prior review threads. I did not run the tests; this review is by reading only.

Bugs: none found. I checked the window indexing (at), the mask length, the has_alpha / add_alpha / clear decisions against Canvas::of, the no-data handling, and the band naming. All are consistent with the Project Raster convention the PR says it follows. Confidence: high.

Security: none found. The new code has no unwraps, indexing or unbounded work; get() is used throughout. Confidence: high.

Performance: none found. The new alpha pass is one extra per_index pass over the window and goes through the existing cancel and progress path. Confidence: high.

Quality:

  • The NaN-only valued rule added in eca2dc6 changes behaviour for infinite cells and has no test. Posted inline at crates/engine/src/cmd/imagery.rs:1591. Confidence: medium.
  • The PR's Testing section records runs only up to the 7be0ef6 merge. Commits after it (f4374ae, e7eac3b, eca2dc6, 804c047, 3778f69, 22b04fd) have no recorded run. Confidence: low, since the body may simply not have been updated.

AGENTS.md: no new violations. The clip result messages still don't mention the see-through cells, which is the Never-silent point already raised in the open thread below. Confidence: medium.

Already raised, left alone (6): the open thread on statistics and Change Detection treating see-through zeros as valid, including the missing result message (tracked in #1810); the RGB+NIR scope gap; the NaN colour copy in a clip; the mosaic refusal of a clipped RGB beside RGB tiles; the process-ID temp directory cleanup in the tests; and the export read-back checks. Several other threads were resolved by fixes already in the branch and are not re-raised.

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Thanks @bearinmindcat, this is a clean fix for #1731: it finds the real cause (the clip, not the projection or the export), follows the convention Project Raster already has, and the test covers RGBA, RGB and RGB with no-data through both GeoTIFF writers.

What I changed on the branch:

  • Merged main (a conflict in crates/engine/src/tests.rs where both sides added a test at the same place; both kept).
  • d73083b: the alpha band a clip adds is see-through only where every band is NaN, the same rule as Canvas::set, so a clip and Project Raster agree for infinite values too. 8-bit images are unaffected.
  • The Analysis guide now says that a clip which gained an alpha band has four bands, so Mosaic Rasters refuses it beside three-band tiles, and what to do instead.

Left for later: statistics, the stretch and Change Detection still count see-through cells as zeros in any RGBA raster, clipped ones now included. That is #1810. A test for the infinite-value alpha rule is left for the release quality pass.

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Thanks @bearinmindcat, this is a clean fix with a good write-up. I checked that a_clipped_colour_raster_stays_8_bit fails on main (no-data -3.4e38) and passes here, and the engine's clip, hostile-params and cancellation tests pass locally.

What I pushed to your branch:

  • cb34a38 and 7e03f3e merge main. The second one had a conflict in crates/engine/src/tests.rs, where a STAC test from main landed in the same spot as your tests, so I kept both.
  • e7eac3b: the doc comment on clip_window says a "three-band" colour raster gains alpha, matching the code.
  • f4374ae: a_clipped_grey_raster_with_alpha_stays_8_bit covers the grey-with-alpha branch, which had no test (it fails on main).
  • 22b04fd: the guide's Mosaic note says the error gives each input's band count, because that check runs before the band-role check.

Still open: the thread on clipped outside cells now counting as valid zeros in statistics and Change Detection. I answered it there (this is Project Raster's convention, and #1810 tracks alpha-aware statistics) and left it for the maintainer. The float infinity/NaN points are tagged for the release quality pass.

Mavrick-F pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 13, 2026
…ur statistics and Change Detection (#1810) (#1874)

* fix(data, map, tiles, engine): see-through cells are left out of colour statistics and Change Detection (#1810)

A colour band's statistics counted every valid cell, including the
cells its alpha band draws see-through. A Float32 RGBA image whose
see-through cells hold -3.4e38 (as an export from before #1759 wrote
them) was stretched from -3.4e38 and drew solid white, and see-through
zeros left by Project Raster or Clip lowered minima and raised counts.

- Raster statistics leave out, in the colour bands of a raster with
  alpha (RGBA, grey and alpha), the cells the map draws fully
  see-through: an alpha of no value, or under half a 256th of opaque.
  Opaque black cells count, and the alpha band counts every cell.
  BandStats takes each value's place, so the runs on several threads
  give the same statistics as one.
- A style mask's sampled statistics and a cloud-optimised GeoTIFF's
  stretch (read from its coarsest overview) leave them out too.
- Change Detection gives no-data where either raster is see-through,
  the second's alpha resampled onto the first's grid as its band is.
- The GeoTIFF and COG writers choose bytes from the statistics; they
  now look at the see-through cells too, so a file is written in the
  type it was before.

* docs: the see-through rule in every pixel type, not only 16-bit (#1810)

* test(engine): Change Detection on a second raster moved by whole cells; review points (#1810)

- The Change Detection test adds a second raster moved five cells east,
  see-through in its own right ten columns, so its alpha is read from
  other source columns than the first's: resampled, the change keeps
  columns 10 to 34 (1000 cells); read at the first's cells, it would
  keep 10 to 29 and compare see-through 7s.
- fits_bytes scans a colour band's see-through cells only once its
  statistics fit (and never for an 8-bit band).
- The data guide says the alpha band counts every alpha with a value.
- The #348 doc comment is back on its test.

* test(engine): the see-through rows are set through an iterator, as clippy 1.100's needless_range_loop asks (#1810)

* test(data): statistics with a validity by place are the same on any number of threads (#1810)
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[Bug]: Clipped RGB ortho exports as Float32 with -3.4e38 fill and no nodata, reloads as solid white

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