diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a3916bf..f5105de 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
   - update tig to be able to run with arm architecture
 - ** Add image uploading **
   - update tig to upload tig image to ecr
+- ** Add palette support to generating configuration **
+  - [issue/44] (https://github.com/podaac/hitide/issues/44): Add support to palette, ppd, fill_missing in csv in generating configuration
 ### Changed
 ### Deprecated
 ### Removed
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c052c55..2289a7c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -79,6 +79,14 @@ latitude: latitude variable include the group if they're in a group defaults to
 time: time variable include the group if they're in a group defaults to time
 footprint_strategy: strategy to generate footprint will default to None options should be ["periodic", "linestring", "polar", "swot_linestring", "polarsides", "smap"]
 
+### CSV Columns
+
+variable: name of variable
+min: min value for variable
+max: max value for variable
+palette (optional): the palette to be used for the variable
+fill_missing (optional): if the generated images have missing pixel in images most likely resolution is to big, either lower resolution or we can fill in the pixels with surrounding pixel
+ppd (optional): resolution of the variable, must be an integer
 
 
 ## How to load and use tig module
diff --git a/example_vars.csv b/example_vars.csv
index 0b534ca..389042e 100644
--- a/example_vars.csv
+++ b/example_vars.csv
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-variable,min,max
-data_01/ku/ssha,-0.2,0.2
-data_01/ku/swh_ocean,0,30
+variable,min,max,palette,fill_missing,ppd
+data_01/ku/ssha,-0.2,0.2,paletteMedspirationIndexed,TRUE,20
+data_01/ku/swh_ocean,0,30,palette_AQUARIUS,FALSE,15
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/podaac/tig/generate_hitide_config.py b/podaac/tig/generate_hitide_config.py
index e846485..cc9176d 100644
--- a/podaac/tig/generate_hitide_config.py
+++ b/podaac/tig/generate_hitide_config.py
@@ -104,9 +104,9 @@ def generate_hitide_config(granule, dataset_id, include_image_variables, longitu
             's2': '0:*,*:*'
         }
 
-    vars_min_max = {}
+    vars_data = {}
     if include_image_variables:
-        vars_min_max = read_min_max_csv(include_image_variables)
+        vars_data = read_min_max_csv(include_image_variables)
 
     with nc.Dataset(granule, 'r') as dataset:  # pylint: disable=no-member
 
@@ -115,28 +115,46 @@ def generate_hitide_config(granule, dataset_id, include_image_variables, longitu
 
         try:
             for data_var in data_var_names:
-                if vars_min_max and data_var in vars_min_max:
+                if vars_data and data_var in vars_data:
                     variable = dataset[data_var]
 
                     units = variable.units if 'units' in variable.ncattrs() else ''
                     long_name = variable.long_name if 'long_name' in variable.ncattrs() else ''
 
-                    if data_var in vars_min_max:
-                        min_max = vars_min_max[data_var]
-                        min_val = float(min_max['min'])
-                        max_val = float(min_max['max'])
+                    palette = 'paletteMedspirationIndexed'
+                    fill_missing = False
+                    ppd = 16
+
+                    if data_var in vars_data:
+                        min_val = float(vars_data[data_var]['min'])
+                        max_val = float(vars_data[data_var]['max'])
+                        palette = vars_data[data_var].get('palette')
+                        fill_missing = vars_data[data_var].get('fill_missing', False)
+                        ppd = vars_data[data_var].get('ppd', 16)
                     else:
                         min_val = variable.valid_min if 'valid_min' in variable.ncattrs() else ''
                         max_val = variable.valid_max if 'valid_max' in variable.ncattrs() else ''
 
-                    dataset_config['imgVariables'].append({
+                    if not palette:
+                        palette = 'paletteMedspirationIndexed'
+
+                    dataset_dict = {
                         'id': data_var,
                         'title': long_name,
                         'units': units,
                         'min': min_val,
                         'max': max_val,
-                        'palette': 'paletteMedspirationIndexed'
-                    })
+                        'palette': palette
+                    }
+
+                    if fill_missing:
+                        fill_missing = fill_missing.lower().strip()
+                        dataset_dict['fill_missing'] = fill_missing == "true"
+
+                    if ppd != 16 and ppd.isdigit():
+                        dataset_dict['ppd'] = int(ppd)
+
+                    dataset_config['imgVariables'].append(dataset_dict)
 
         except Exception as ex:  # pylint: disable=broad-exception-caught
             print(f"Error: Failed on variable {data_var}, exception: " + str(ex))
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 77c631e..76237c5 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "podaac-tig"
-version = "0.9.0-rc.0"
+version = "0.9.0-alpha.4"
 description = "Tool for Image Generation (TIG)"
 authors = ["podaac-tva <podaac-tva@jpl.nasa.gov>"]
 license = "Apache-2.0"