Publish hosted imagery

You can upload your own hosted imagery layers. 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 Imagery. The primary raster files supported in this workflow are .tif, .ntf, and .jp2.

Upload your hosted imagery layer

To upload your own hosted imagery layer, complete the following steps:

  1. Browse to the Upload Hosted Imagery area from the home page or the side navigation menu.
  2. Provide basic information about your layer:
    • Item Title (required)
    • Item Summary
    • Item Tags (required)
  3. Choose to share your layers with your organization or keep them private.
  4. Click Next.
  5. Choose how the new imagery layer is configured when created. You have the following options:
    • Image Mosaic Layer—Create one imagery layer by mosaicking many images. This is useful to blend overlapping images into a single, seamless image layer.
    • Image Collection Layer—Create one imagery layer that manages a collection of many images. This is useful to query the resulting imagery layer for the properties of individual images.
  6. Click Next.
  7. Select files to upload. Optionally, click Clear to delete your uploaded files.

    The files you upload populate a list categorizing File Name, File Date, File Size, and File Type.

  8. Click Next.

    A message appears stating that all the necessary information to publish a new imagery layer is fulfilled.

  9. Click Publish New Imagery Layer.

Depending on the size of your files and network bandwidth, this process may take some time. You can use other parts of ArcGIS Excalibur while your new imagery layer publishes. You can leave the page but continue to monitor the progress of your layers through App Notices center at the top of the application. A new notification appears once your imagery layer is published.