ArcGIS Pro 3.4.2: Clicking the Georeferencing button causes the imagery to disappear,

[JamalNUMAN]

ArcGIS Pro 3.4.2: Clicking the Georeferencing button causes the imagery to disappear,

In the screenshots below, I couldn’t figure out why clicking the Georeferencing button causes the imagery to disappear. The “Zoom to Layer” option fails to bring the imagery back into view.

What could be the issue here?

The imagery is attached

[DanPatterson]

add the data you want to georeference to first might do the trick

Overview of georeferencing—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

[JamalNUMAN]

Not sure what do you mean by "add the data you want to georeference to first"

[DanPatterson]

you need known locations to reference your image to, that is, "control points"

You might want to read up on the process in the help files

[JamalNUMAN]

Hi Dan,
The issue here is that once the “Georeference” button is clicked, the imagery disappears before starting to work with the control points and cannot be zoomed to using the “Zoom to Layer” option. How can simply clicking the “Georeference” button cause the imagery to disappear?

What could be the issue here?

[DanPatterson]

In your first image, you had an empty map with just an image and undoubtedly not coordinate system, that was probably the vanishing issue.

Did you follow the steps here then "fit to display"

Georeference a raster to a referenced layer—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

[JamalNUMAN]

Setting the coordinate system of the imagery to “Unknown” appears to resolve the issue where clicking the “Georeference” button no longer causes the imagery to disappear.

The data is attached

[AlfredBaldenweck]

If the image has not been georeferenced yet, it's floating around somewhere, typically in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. 

Like Dan says, you should add in the data you want to tie your image to, e.g. country boundaries or roads or even other imagery.

Then, after pressing "Georeference", move your camera to the rough location of where the image should go and hit "Fit to Display". This will bring it into view again. Then you can start georeferencing.

[JamalNUMAN]

Thanks, Alfred Baldenweck.

The issue was that once the “Georeference” button is clicked, the imagery disappears, and you're not given the option to perform the georeferencing steps.

[DanPatterson]

add the layer you are going to georeference to... then the un registered image, like the help says.

It won't display since it doesn't know how to display