SHARING VOXEL (NETCDF) TO ARCGIS ONLINE SCENE

[ArmandoFreites16]

WHAT IS the appropriate spatial reference to publish voxel, my voxler layer has "WGS 1984 Web Mercator (auxiliary sphere)

  

" or is it actually another problem why the basemap is not seen in my scene?

[Andrew--Johnson · Accepted solution]

Hi,

The issue is the Scene Viewer requires cached layers to have the same horizontal as well as vertical coordinate system. Since there is a mismatch in the vertical coordinate system the basemap is automatically dropped.

To get around this you can create a projection file with Web Mercator horizontal coordinate system only. You can then place it next to the netCDF file in the file system. From there add the netCDF as a voxel layer and create a voxel scene layer and the basemaps should remain in the scene.

https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/mapping/layer-properties/voxel-layer-freqently-asked-q... 

As a side note, in ArcGIS Pro 3.0 (June 2022 release) the GA Layer tool is updated so this arcinfo vcs will no longer show up in the output leading to this problem that you are running into.

thanks,

Andrew

[ArmandoFreites16]

Thanks , great news

[zdgra]

Hey Andrew, I was able to get the voxel layer in my Pro scene to display (as I mentioned in my reply to my other post). However, I've tried this method and it doesn't work for me.

I created a projection file from the Web Mercator horizontal coordinate system, copy/pasted the NetCDF file into the project, and then added that same NetCDF file as a multidimensional voxel layer. There is no vertical coordinate system set. What happens is that my layer is now very tiny and in the center of the coordinate system, instead of being on top of the North America region like it should be. When I share it to ArcGIS Online, its small size and centered placement is retained.

What should I do? Do you know that this method works, or is this your speculation of what should work?

[Andrew--Johnson]

From what I can tell the data is in WGS84 so go ahead and place the projection file with that coordinate system next to the netCDF file and retry and let me know.

thanks,

Andrew