An oriented imagery layer is a type of feature layer for visualizing oriented imagery in the context of a map. Oriented imagery layers can be viewed and managed in Map Viewer using the oriented imagery viewer. To learn more about how to create and manage oriented imagery layers, refer to Introduction to oriented imagery in ArcGIS Pro.
When added to the map, each point in an oriented imagery layer indicates the location of the camera that captured the image. The attributes of the point include the path to where the image is stored and the key metadata required to visualize the image in the oriented imagery viewer.
An oriented imagery layer can be shared to a hosted feature layer in ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise 11.2 or later, and in ArcGIS Server feature layers in ArcGIS Enterprise 11.2 or later.
When published, the oriented imagery layer is added to a feature layer item. You can also publish the optional coverage footprint features as a polygon layer in the same feature layer item. When the oriented imagery layer or the feature layer item is added to the map, if an oriented imagery footprint layer exists, both the oriented imagery and footprint layers will be added together as a group layer.
View oriented imagery layers
The oriented imagery viewer allows the exploration of oriented images. The viewer includes the tools that support exploring and managing images in an oriented imagery layer. You click on a desired map location, and the oriented imagery viewer displays the best image available for the selected
location. As you pan and zoom in an image, you will see the camera's field of view dynamically update on the map. This allows you to see how the oriented imagery data relates to vector data displayed on the map. The selected location is seen as a red cross 
.
It is not necessary that you select a camera location on the map. The image displayed is the best available for the selected location and may not correspond to the selected camera location.
Note:
The oriented imagery viewer supports JPG, JPEG, TIF, and MRF image formats. The images should be available in publicly accessible cloud storage or as feature attachments.
To view and manage oriented imagery, follow the steps listed below:
- Ensure you are signed in to ArcGIS Online and have the necessary privileges to access the feature layer items you want to view.
You can explore, add, and configure public maps and layers without signing in. To save your changes, you must have the required privileges.
- In Map Viewer, open a map that contains an oriented imagery layer or add a feature layer item containing an oriented imagery layer to a new map.
- On the Contents dark (toolbar), click Layers
. - Select the oriented imagery layer.
Note:
If the feature layer includes both oriented imagery and footprint layers, expand the group layer and explicitly select the oriented imagery layer. If the oriented imagery layer is not selected, Oriented Imagery
is not available. - On the Settings (light) toolbar, click Oriented Imagery to open the oriented imagery viewer.
- Click anywhere on the area covered by the oriented imagery layer to view the best image of the location. Use the footprint layer as a reference if available.
- Pan and zoom to navigate the image. This dynamically updates the image footprint on the map.
View current footprint, additional footprints, and additional camera locations
There are three graphics layers you can visualize to better understand how images in an oriented imagery layer relate to the map. These include the current footprint, additional footprints, and additional camera locations. These layers can be shown or hidden by using the oriented imagery viewer.
Note:
In the oriented imagery viewer, the footprint of an image is displayed as a red polygon on the map. As you navigate the image, the footprint dynamically updates on the map to highlight the area that is visible in the image. The current footprint, additional footprints, and additional camera locations graphic layers cannot be accessed from the Layers pane, and their symbology cannot be modified.
To view the current footprint, additional footprints, and additional camera locations, do any of the following:
- Click Current footprint to show or hide the footprint on the map.
- Click Additional footprints to show or hide the footprints of additional images for a location. Additional footprints are displayed as blue polygons on the map.
- Click Additional camera locations to show or hide the camera locations of additional images for a location. Additional camera locations are displayed as blue dots on the map.
Explore additional images
To visualize additional images of the same location, follow the steps below:
- Follow the first five steps of the View oriented imagery layers workflow above.
- Select the Navigation tool
to explore the images that contain the selected location on the map using a compass.Note:
The selected location is seen as a red cross
in the center of
the Navigation tool and on the map. The 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 icon . 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.For the current image in the oriented imagery viewer, the camera location and heading relative to the red cross icon
is shown in red.
Additional camera locations depicting the selected map location are
shown as blue dots.To view a different image of the selected map location, click a blue dot, or click a tool segment to view the best image from that segment. Segments with images are shown in white; segments without images are gray.
- 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.When additional footprints are shown on the map, hovering over a gallery image will highlight the corresponding footprint.
Note:
Image gallery supports only the image formats that are internally tiled, such as MRF or COG. It does not support JPEG images (not tiled) and MRF and COG formats without the file extension .mrf or .tif. If the Image gallery is disabled, the current image in the oriented imagery viewer is not internally tiled or does not have the required file extension.
Enhance images
Select Image enhancement to adjust the brightness, contrast, and sharpness of the image using sliders. The enhancements will be maintained in the oriented imagery viewer and applied to all the images viewed later, until the oriented imagery viewer is closed. Click Reset 
to reset to the original values at any time.
Note:
Image enhancements are not supported for 360-degree images.
Show pop-ups
Select Show pop-ups 
to view the pop-up for the image in the oriented imagery viewer. See Configure pop-ups to learn more about configuring pop-ups for feature layers.
Image overlays
Select Image overlays to list the feature layers available in the layer list and overlay them on the selected image in the oriented imagery viewer.
There are two types of overlay options available:
- Overlay camera locations—You can overlay all the camera locations (feature points) from the layer that intersects with the footprint of the loaded image.
- Overlay map features—You can overlay map features from the current map view, excluding the oriented imagery layers. You can select from all available feature layers, such as points, lines, or polygons, which are listed in the layer list and rendered on the map.