Oriented images are displayed in the Oriented Imagery Viewer. The viewer includes tools that support exploring and managing images in an oriented imagery layer. Click a point on a map or a scene, and view any image in the collection that depicts that point. You can view assets from multiple directions and enhance contrast, brightness, and sharpening to better view an image. As you pan and zoom in an image, the camera's field of view dynamically updates on the map, and can be related to any vector data in the map.
Explore images
Select the Explore Images tool and click the map or scene. The best available image of the location is loaded (assuming the oriented imagery layer has coverage in that location). The red cross in the loaded image is seen at the
best estimate for the selected location.
Explore additional images in the Oriented Imagery Viewer
To explore additional images in the Oriented Imagery Viewer, do the following:
- Select the Navigation tool
to explore the images that contain the selected location on the map using a compass.
The selected location is visualized as a red cross
in the center of the Navigation tool and on the map. Camera location for images that include the selected map location are shown as points on the tool, arranged based on their distance and heading relative to the red cross
. The tool is divided into four quadrants (north, south, east, and west); each quadrant is divided into three segments that show the relative distance of each camera location from the selected location on the map. Segments with images are shown in white; segments without images are gray.
For the current image in the Oriented Imagery Viewer, the camera location and heading relative to the red cross
are shown in red. Additional camera locations depicting the selected map location are shown in blue. To view a different image of the selected map location, click a blue dot, or click another segment (in white).
- Select Image Gallery
to explore a carousel of low-resolution thumbnails of all images that depict the selected map location. Click a thumbnail to view the full-resolution image in the oriented imagery viewer.
Note:
The Image gallery is supported only for image formats that are internally tiled, such as .mrf or .cog. The Image gallery is not supported for JPEG images. If the image format is not supported by Image gallery, the tool is unavailable.
Image enhancement
Select the Image enhancement tool to adjust brightness, contrast, and sharpness of the image in the Oriented Imagery Viewer using interactive sliders. New settings will be maintained for subsequent images loaded in the Oriented Imagery Viewer. Use the Reset button
to reset to the original values at any time.
Note:
The Image enhancement tool is not available for 360-degree images.
Pop-up
Click the Pop-up button to view the pop-up for the image in the Oriented Imagery Viewer. Refer to Configure pop-ups for details on configuring pop-ups for feature layers.