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Imagery or terrain gaps

Your map imagery or terrain might display one or more of these issues:

• Small gaps in both imagery and terrain that change as you zoom in or out.
• Dropoffs to zero values in the terrain at the edges of your tiles.
• A permanent black seam at the edges of tiles where they meet the adjacent tiles.
• Gaps or tears in the imagery that appear at seemingly random places, and that disappear when the terrain is turned off.

To resolve these issues:

• Make sure that the input imagery doesn't have gaps, seamlines, or holes.
• If there is usable data to each extent of your imagery, you can remove the mask.
• By default, the automask tool assues that the pixel value of the green band is the fill data pixel value for the entire image. This is used for masking as well as the hole check. Make sure that the Nodata field contains a 0. Don't leave it blank.
• If placing a 0 in the Nodata field doesn't resolve the issue, create a mask file manually with the gemaskgen command and recreate the kmp folder in Fusion. See instructions below.

To manually create the mask file:

1. Locate and record the full path to the resource kip and kmp folders:
   gequery --outfiles resources/imagery/resource_i.kiasset

   You'll need this information for building the automask and importing the mask product.

2. Locate the path to the mask.tif file created by the automasker:
   gequery --outfiles resources/imagery/resource_i.kiasset/maskgen.kia
3. Navigate to the mask.tif file and rename it to mask.tif.bak.
4. Create the new mask file:
   gemaskgen --mask --band 1 --fill 0 --feather 0 \ --holesize 100 /path/to/resource_i.kiasset/product.kia/ver/raster.kip \ -o ./mask.tif

   If your source files are MrSID files, you might need to add a mask tolerance value (for example, --tolerance 3).

5. Navigate to the resource kip and kmp folders, and move the mask.kmp folder to mask.kmp.bak.
6. Create the new mask.kmp:
   gerasterimport --alphamask /path/to/mask.tif --dataproduct /path/to/raster.kip \ --output ./mask.kmp
7. Launch the Fusion GUI and preview the image resource.