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Introduction

The Managing Preprocessed Orthophotos workflow provides you with a set of geoprocessing tools that make it simple to create mosaic datasets of preprocessed orthophotos, so you can better organize and access your imagery. The workflow can also accommodate imagery with multiple resolutions and timesteps, so all your imagery can work together seamlessly.

Check out the Try It Out tab to get a guided, hands-on walkthrough of the workflow tools, included setting them up and applying them to sample data.

Check out the Workflow tab for a deeper dive into the more technical best practices for managing preprocessed orthophotos using mosaic datasets.

Ready to get the workflow scripts and tools? Download them now.

What are orthophotos?

Orthophoto imagery offers photographic detail while maintaining map-level accuracy. This makes orthophotos ideally suited for basemaps in a GIS, as well as for performing distance measurements and area calculations.

Who uses the workflow?

The Managing Preprocessed Orthophotos workflow is typically used by people managing large collections of orthophotos with experience using mosaic datasets.

Requirements

This workflow requires specific technical experience and software, and is designed to work with certain types of imagery.

RequirementDescription

Suggested Experience

Software

  • ArcGIS Desktop (Standard or Advanced)
    • ArcMap 10.2+ or ArcGIS Pro 1.4+
    • Python environment (included and installed with ArcGIS)

Imagery

  • Orthophotos
    • Formatted either as edge-matched tiles, like the Digital Ortho Quarter Quad tiles (DOQQs), or as County Compressed Mosaics (CCM), both used by the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP)

Known limitations

There are no known limitations for this workflow.

What you get

To try the Managing Preprocessed Orthophotos workflow, you will download two zip files:

DirectoryDescription

PreprocessedOrthos_Scripts.zip

ZIP archive containing Python scripts and batch files for building mosaic datasets to manage multiple collections of preprocessed orthophotos

PreprocessedOrthos_SampleData.zip

ZIP archive containing multiple preprocessed orthophotos of Portland, Oregon to use with the workflow scripts

What's new

Below are release dates and notes for this workflow.

DateDescription

March 2017

First release of the Managing Preprocessed Orthophotos workflow