You can configure QuickCapture to automatically capture photo metadata that enables the use of oriented imagery in ArcGIS. Enabling a QuickCapture project with oriented imagery allows you to better manage and visualize your nonoblique imagery. Enabling oriented imagery on a project does not result in a change in the mobile user experience but does provide ArcGIS users with the following capabilities:
- Select a location or asset and see which photos cover it.
- Select a photo and see its footprint.
- See a correlation between ground features (on the map) and image features.
Enable orientated imagery
To enable oriented imagery in the designer, you need a QuickCapture project that is configured to take photos. Follow these steps to enable oriented imagery:
- Click the Manage project layers menu item
. - Select the menu for the point feature layer that the photos will be submitted to, and click Enable oriented imagery.
QuickCapture saves your project, adds fields to the selected feature layer, and automatically maps the required device variables to these fields in your project. It will also create an oriented imagery layer that can be opened directly in Map Viewer or ArcGIS Pro 3.2 or later.
Note:
Optionally, you may choose Enable oriented imagery (Classic). This adds different fields to the selected feature layer and automatically maps the required device variables to these fields in your project. It will also create a feature layer view with read access for users to explore oriented imagery, and an oriented imagery catalog (OIC) item. Clients such as Experience Builder, ArcGIS Pro, and custom web apps consume both of these items to work with the oriented imagery.
- Configure each button that will collect oriented images to capture at most one photo, and ensure Use photo location for captured record is enabled.
Oriented imagery capabilities are not fully supported for buttons that capture multiple photos. Device variables such as camera heading, pitch, roll, and photo longitude and latitude will only be calculated and stored to fields by the mobile app from the first capture photo.
- Click Save.
When oriented imagery is enabled, the mobile app calculates the camera heading, roll, and pitch at the time of capturing each photo.
To visualize and exploit the photos, click the Manage project layers menu item , open the menu for the layer and click View oriented imagery. This will open the oriented imagery layer in Map Viewer.
Note:
If you chose to enable classic oriented imagery, the view option will open the oriented image catalog in the Oriented Imagery app.
To share captured photos with others in Experience Builder, ArcGIS Pro, or the Oriented Imagery app, both the OIC item and the referenced feature layer view must be shared.
When using hosted feature layers in ArcGIS Enterprise, you must manually add the OIC from your portal to visualize and use the photos. In the Oriented Imagery app, specify your portal URL and sign-in details. Once you're signed in, select the target OIC and add it to the app.
Oriented imagery with nonhosted feature layers in ArcGIS Enterprise
When using hosted feature layers in ArcGIS Enterprise, the oriented imagery experience is the same as for ArcGIS Online, as described above.
When using nonhosted feature layers in ArcGIS Enterprise, the required fields are not automatically added to your feature layer when you enable oriented imagery in a QuickCapture project.
Note:
The nonhosted feature layer requires support of the Query Attachments operation. Nonhosted feature layers published from ArcGIS Desktop do not support this operation. Support for nonhosted feature services published from ArcGIS Pro was added at 10.7.1.The following fields must be manually added to the nonhosted feature layer. If these field names are used, variables will automatically be mapped in the project when oriented imagery is enabled.
| Field name | Display name | Type |
|---|---|---|
cameraheading | Camera Heading (True North) | Double |
camerapitch | Camera Pitch | Double |
cameraroll | Camera Roll | Double |
horizontalfieldofview | HFOV | Double |
verticalfieldofview | VFOV | Double |
fardistance | Far Distance | Double |
neardistance | Near Distance | Double |
cameraheight | Camera Height Above Ground | Double |
acquisitiondate | Acquisition Date | Date |
imagepath | Image Path | String |
Note:
If you choose to enable classic oriented imagery when using nonhosted feature layers in ArcGIS Enterprise, a feature layer view will not be created, and the required fields are not automatically added to your feature layer when you enable oriented imagery in a QuickCapture project. The following fields (similar but different to the fields listed above) must be manually added to the nonhosted feature layer. If these field names are used, variables will automatically be mapped in the project when oriented imagery is enabled.
| Field name | Display name | Type |
|---|---|---|
camheading | Camera Heading (True North) | Double |
campitch | Camera Pitch | Double |
camroll | Camera Roll | Double |
hfov | HFOV | Double |
vfov | VFOV | Double |
fardist | Far Distance | Double |
neardist | Near Distance | Double |
avghtag | Camera Height Above Ground | Double |
acquisitiondate | Acquisition Date | Date |