[GIS] Creating Mosaic Dataset in ArcMap with Colormap as renderer or adding Colormap after creation

Question

I have several rasters in tiff format that have a colormap assigned to them:

I then create a Mosaic Dataset with specs matching the imagery and add all of my tiffs to it (you can ignore the warnings this is just to illustrate what i did):

Colormap does not show up and it does not let me import my Colormap from the tiffs:

Is there any way to add/import my Colormaps so that we can view the data according to those values?

Answer 1

You can apply a colormap to a mosaic using this workflow. Keep in mind that your data needs to be integer type.

First, you need to create and export a colormap from your styled raster.

Then you apply this colormap as a raster function, load your .clr file. This will create a new layer.

In the symbology tab of this new layer, export as a raster function template. It will create a file.rft.xml

The last step is to apply this function in your mosaic by using the Edit Raster Function tool.

It is not very intuitive but it can be done, you may need to calculate statistics of the mosaic but you can do it as an option when you add your rasters to the mosaic.