How can I remove black edges while mosaicking?

Question

I want to mosaic three images. Each image has a black back ground. The background is still there even after mosaicking the images, so it's like a gape between the image. Please help me to remove this black color.

I am using ArcGIS, QGIS, and FME.

Answer 1

Removing the black collar is very easy using ArcMap 10:

1. Select the "blue identify tab". Then select the black background to determine the pixel value (in my case the black background pixel value is set to 0).
2. Right click on your raster layer in the table of contents, select Properties > Symbology.
3. Choose the color display you want.
4. Check the "Display Background Value" "YOUR_VALUE_HERE" as "No Color".

Alternatively, you can Reclassify your raster data and either exclude certain values or set the black collar pixel values to "NoData".

Answer 2

use gdalwarp as following code:

gdalwarp -srcnodata 0 -dstalpha input.tif output.tif

-srcnodata value [value...]: Set nodata masking values for input bands (different values can be supplied for each band). If more than one value is supplied all values should be quoted to keep them together as a single operating system argument. Masked values will not be used in interpolation. Use a value of None to ignore intrinsic nodata settings on the source dataset.

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-dstalpha: Create an output alpha band to identify nodata (unset/transparent) pixels.

i hope it helps you...