The oriented imagery viewer allows you to explore the oriented images that depict a point in a map. 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.
View oriented imagery layers
The oriented imagery viewer includes tools that support exploring and managing images in an oriented imagery layer. You click a desired map location. The selected location is seen as a red cross 
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.
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, complete the following steps:
- Confirm that you are signed in and, if you want to save your changes, that you have privileges to create, update, and delete content.
Note:
You can explore maps, add and configure layers, and more without signing in. To save your work, sign in before creating a map. - Open the map containing an oriented imagery layer or add the layer to a new map.
- On the Settings (light) toolbar (Map Viewer), click Layers
if the Layers pane is not open. - 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, you cannot access the oriented imagery viewer. - 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 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, complete the following steps:
- 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 only supports 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. The images should be available in publicly accessible cloud storage or as feature attachments (.tif only). 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—Enable the option to overlay all the camera locations (feature points) from the layer that intersects with the footprint of the loaded image.
- Overlay map features—Enable the option to 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.
Note:
The symbology and visibility settings of the map features you overlay in the oriented imagery viewer correspond with those shown on the map. Any updates to the map feature's symbology will be reflected in the viewer upon refresh.Image measurement
Select the Image measurement tool 
to list the various measurement options that can be applied to the image in the oriented imagery viewer. Currently, four ground-related measurement options are available:
- Ground distance—Click Ground distance
from the measurement options available in the drop-down menu. Click two or more points on the image in the oriented imagery viewer. The distance between the first and last point selected by the user are calculated and displayed. - Ground area—Click Ground area
from the measurement options available in the drop-down menu. Click multiple points on the image in the oriented imagery viewer. The area bounded by the ground points, corresponding to the points selected by the user, are calculated and displayed. - Height above ground—Click Height above ground
from the measurement options available in the drop-down menu. In the oriented imagery viewer, click a point at the
base of the item and move the cursor upward to start the measurement.
A rubber band that is always perpendicular to the ground plane is displayed, locking the cursor movement direction. Based on the movement of the cursor (up/down), the asset's height above the ground is displayed. - Ground location—Click Ground location
from the measurement options available in the drop-down menu and click the image in the oriented imagery viewer. The ground coordinates in the map that correspond to the selected point are computed and displayed.
Note:
- The Image measurement tool is enabled only if the Orientation Accuracy property is defined for the oriented imagery layer.
- After selecting the measurement option (except Ground location), users need to explicitly click New Measurement for execution.
- For all the ground-related measurement options (except Ground location), the last point is identified by a double-click.