topic Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.9.1 Raster NoData Showing as White in ArcGIS Pro Questions

ArcGIS Pro 2.9.1 Raster NoData Showing as White

WillPlatt — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 18:19:57 GMT

ArcGIS Pro 2.9.1

I downloaded a couple of FAA Sectionals as GeoTiffs from here and clipped them using the "Clip Raster" tool. I assigned the "NoData Value" field to 256. In the new GeoTiff the NoData area is displaying as white and not clear. In the Layer Properties under Raster Information, the NoData Value field has a value of 256. The symbology for both the original GeoTiff and the clipped GeoTiff is set to "Colormap". In ArcMap 10.2.1 the NoData shows up as clear.

I'm a little stumped at why the NoData is showing white. Anyone know of another setting somewhere?

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.9.1 Raster NoData Showing as White

AndyAnderson — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 21:12:46 GMT

Check the symbology of the layer, in particular the mask. NoData should be set to “No color” (see the attached).

— Andy

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.9.1 Raster NoData Showing as White

AlexeyShvets — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 12:37:48 GMT

ArcMap has such issue. To understand if you really have nodata value better open it in qgis. It might represent quite different. You can try also mark/unmark alpha channel in symbology - RGB composite

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.9.1 Raster NoData Showing as White

WillPlatt — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 20:56:01 GMT

That is what I have it set as:

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.9.1 Raster NoData Showing as White

AndyAnderson — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 21:47:08 GMT

That should do it.

The only other thing I can think of is that a colormap typically uses up much less than 256 values, and perhaps you can get away with assigning NoData to 255 (or some other unused value). If nothing else that should halve the size of your raster since it won’t then need to use 16-bit unsigned integers for the colormap. Guessing that ArcGIS Pro isn’t handling them properly since it’s an unusual situation.

— Andy

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.9.1 Raster NoData Showing as White

WillPlatt — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 13:50:14 GMT

Unfortunately Pro is still showing No Data as white. I'm really stumped on this one.

Will

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.9.1 Raster NoData Showing as White

TamsenWaldron — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:07:51 GMT

I am running into this issue as well. I have shown my no data as not a symbol, I also went in and physically set the no data values and this did not work as well. I noticed that the white space on the sid is set to 255, 255, 255