Publish hosted imagery layers

To upload hosted imagery layers, the environment must be configured properly, and you must have publishing privileges. Begin publishing imagery by accessing it through the home page or at any time on the side navigation menu under Publish Layer.

To create and publish an imagery layer, complete the following steps:

1. Click Publish New Hosted Web Layers on the Excalibur home page.

   Alternatively, from the side navigation menu, click Publish Layer .

2. Choose a new imagery layer configuration from the Imagery Layer pane:
   • Single Image—Create one imagery layer from a single image resource.
   • Image Mosaic—Create one imagery layer by mosaicking many images. This is useful to blend overlapping images into a single, seamless image layer.
   • Image Collection—Create an imagery layer that manages a collection of many images. This is useful to query the resulting imagery layer for the properties of individual images.
3. For Item Name, provide an item name for the layer.
4. For Folder Name, specify where the new layer will be created.
5. Optionally, for Summary, provide a description of the layer.
6. Optionally, for Tags, provide one or more tags.

   Separate the terms with commas. For example, federal land is one tag, but federal, land is two tags.

7. Choose Share to specify who can access the layer:
   • Owner—Only the owner can access the imagery layer.
   • Organization—Members of the portal organization can access the imagery layer.
   • Everyone—Anyone with the URL can access the imagery layer.
8. Optionally, click Show Groups to choose organization groups to share the imagery layer with.
9. Click Next Step.
10. Browse to the image data and metadata files to publish with the layer under Data Source.

    Alternatively, drag the files into the drop zone.

    Remove the files to start over if necessary.

11. Click Next Step.
12. For Service name of the hosted image layer, type a service name.

    The service name can be different than the item name for this layer. Service names cannot contain spaces or invalid characters.

13. For ArcGIS Online, choose Dynamic Imagery layer or Tiled Imagery layer for the layer type.
14. Click Next Step to view a summary of choices before publishing.

    Alternatively, click Back to make changes.

15. Click Publish.

The pane begins uploading the files to the new service layer. Depending on the size of the files and network bandwidth, this process may take some time. A new notification appears on the App Notices dialog box once the imagery layer is published.