I was wondering if there is a way to control the background drawing, or not drawing of a RasterLayer. Specifically I am using a MrSidRasterLayer. By background drawing I mean the areas on the image file where there is not data. I have included two files to illustrate the functionality I need.
In the first image (image_before) you can see the actual image data does not include the entire extent of the image canvas. If I try to tile two spatially coincident images on the map the black areas block out the neighboring image.
The second image (image_after) shows the image drawn without drawing the background. In this case I can successfully spatially coincident images.
The desired functionality I illustrated in image_after was archived using ArcMap. In the layer properties I was able to select an option that told it to draw the background with RGB as 0,0,0. I am hoping there is a similar way I can achieve the same results using the MrSidRasterLayer.
Any feedback is greatly appreciated. Thanks
Eric S.