Oriented Imagery

Access imagery at any angle for any location

Pick a location in the map and find the best available imagery.

It's generally accepted that imagery taken looking straight down at the ground, like traditional satellite imagery, can be visualized on a map and incorporated into your GIS. Other imagery, however, is more difficult to visualize and incorporate into your GIS. Oriented Imagery from Esri solves that problem, providing a solution for managing, visualizing, and exploring imagery that's taken from any angle.

Oriented Imagery is designed to support many modes of imagery:

  • Aerial Oblique / Nadir imagery
  • Drone Imagery
  • 360
  • Panorama
  • Street-side imagery
  • Video and many more...

Key Features

The Oriented Imagery interface (for ArcGIS Pro or the web) includes the following features:

  • A 2D or 3D viewing experience
  • A viewer for oriented images (or the option to integrate a custom imagery viewer)
  • The ability to see exactly where the image is on the map—as you pan or zoom in the image, the view extent is illustrated dynamically on the map
  • Spatial navigation tools designed to work specifically with oriented imagery
  • Querying based on current view and filters (including time)
  • Built-in image enhancement tools
  • Linear and height measurement tools (when the imagery supports it)
  • The ability to create and edit features in the imagery viewer (and view them on the map)
  • The option to display extents and images similar to your current selection.

Street-side imagery in ArcGIS Pro and 3D Web App

Uses of Oriented Imagery

Oriented Imagery has a range of possible applications. A construction company might use it to review asset inventory photos taken by field workers at a construction site. An insurance company might use it to quickly review photos capturing property damage after a natural disaster, like a fire. Or a utility company might examine close-range inspection images showing electrical towers from many different angles.

In all these cases, viewing the images in the context of a map magnifies their informational value and makes them easier to use.

Street-side imagery in ArcGIS Pro and 3D Web App