World Imagery—ArcGIS Data Appliance

This map is a compilation of satellite and aerial imagery worldwide.

Map Service Name: World_Imagery

Description

World Imagery provides one meter or better satellite and aerial imagery for most of the world's landmass and lower resolution satellite imagery worldwide. The map is currently comprised of the following sources:

Worldwide 15-meter resolution TerraColor imagery at small and medium map scales.
Maxar imagery basemap products around the world: Vivid Premium at 15-centimeter High-Definition (HD) resolution for select metropolitan areas, Vivid Advanced 30-centimeter HD for more than 1,000 metropolitan areas, and Vivid Standard from 1.2-meter to 0.6-centimeter resolution for the most of the world, with 30-centimeter HD across the United States and parts of Western Europe. More information on the Maxar products is included below.
High-resolution aerial photography contributed by the GIS User Community. This imagery ranges from 30-centimeter to 3-centimeter resolution. You can contribute your imagery to this map and have it served by Esri via the Community Maps Program.

Maxar Basemap Products

Maxar imagery basemap products include Vivid Premium, Vivid Advanced, and Vivid Standard.

Vivid Premium

Provides committed image currency in a high-resolution, high-quality image layer over defined metropolitan and high-interest areas across the globe. The product provides 15-centimeter HD resolution imagery.

Vivid Advanced

Provides committed image currency in a high-resolution, high-quality image layer over defined metropolitan and high-interest areas across the globe. The product includes a mix of native 30-centimeter and 30-centimeter HD resolution imagery.

Vivid Standard

Provides a visually consistent and continuous image layer over large areas through advanced image mosaicking techniques, including tonal balancing and seamline blending across thousands of image strips. Available from 1.2-meter down to 30-centimeter HD.

See the Maxar blog, Introducing HD: See More, Do More with High-Definition Imagery, for more information.

Attribution

Sources: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, and the GIS User Community

Coordinate system

Web Mercator Auxiliary Sphere (WKID 102100)

Tiling scheme

Web Mercator Auxiliary Sphere

Map service data format

Map server cache in JPEG format

Metadata

When the data appliance is installed, citation data (also known as metadata) is automatically exposed through the REST endpoint for the World_Imagery service. These are not feature services but rather feature layers within a map service. The key difference is that feature layers can be queried, but they cannot be edited. In ArcGIS Pro, use the Explore tool on the Map tab to see the resolution, collection date, and source of the imagery at the location you click. In Map Viewer, with pop-ups enabled on the layer, click the location to identify the source information. In ArcMap, use the Identify tool to identify the source information at the location you click. Values of 99999 mean that metadata is not available for that field. The metadata applies only to the best available imagery at that location. You may need to zoom in to view the best available imagery.

You can view the citation layer at http://<services.arcgisonline.com>/arcgis/rest/services/World_Imagery/MapServer/4 (substitute <services.arcgisonline.com> with the local ArcGIS server name).

Coverage

As illustrated in the coverage maps below, worldwide coverage is provided in World Basic (Collection 1) down to ~1:144,000; World Standard (Collection 2) down to ~1:1,000, and World Advanced (Collection 3) down to ~282; and regional coverage is provided in North America Standard (Collection 4) down to ~1:1,000, and North America Advanced (Collection 5) down to ~282.

World Basic Imagery coverage