You can publish hosted web layers from within Excalibur to include new imagery and video layers and new observation layers. Your environment must be configured to handle the publishing of these layers and you must have the proper permissions to publish them.
Hosted imagery layers are dynamic image services that run on ArcGIS Image Server sites your portal administrator has federated with the portal. This makes it easier to manage, publish, and share imagery with your organization and for your analysis. To upload hosted imagery layers, your environment must be configured properly, and you must have privileges to publish them. You can begin publishing imagery by accessing it through the home page or at any time on the side navigation menu under Publish Layer. The primary raster files supported in this workflow are .tif, .ntf, and .jp2.
To create an imagery layer, complete the following steps:
- On the Excalibur home page click Publish New Hosted Web Layers. Alternatively, from the side navigation menu click Publish Layer.
- In Imagery Layer, choose new imagery layer configuration:
- 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.
- Type a Layer Name.
- Choose the folder that the new layer will be created in.
- Optionally, provide a Summary that describes the layer.
- Type one or more Tags.
Separate the terms with commas. For example, federal land is one tag, but federal, land is two tags.
- Choose the Sharing Level:
- Owner—Only the owner can access the imagery layer.
- Organization—Members of the portal organization can access the imagery layer.
- Everyone—Accessible to anyone with the URL.
- Optionally, click Show Groups to choose organization groups to share the imagery layer.
- Click Next Step.
- Browse to the Data Source and metadata files to publish the layer. Alternatively, drag and drop the files into the drop zone.
Click Clear All Files to start over.
- Click Next Step to configure your imagery service name. The service name can be different than the portal item name for this layer. Service names cannot contain spaces and invalid characters.
- Click Next Step to view a summary of your choices before publishing. Alternatively, click Back to make changes.
- Click Create Layer.
Depending on the size of your files and network bandwidth, this process may take some time. A new notification appears in the App Notices dialog once your imagery layer is published.