World Imagery Collection overview
The Data Appliance World Imagery Collection 5.0 for ArcGIS provides small- to large-scale imagery and topographic map cache services that you can use to support your GIS work.
Global, multiresolution imagery down to 15 m is available in the World Imagery Collection. |
The collection includes a high-resolution imagery nationwide mosaic for the contiguous United States. This is an example in San Diego, California. |
The collection includes high-resolution imagery for over 700 major metropolitan areas around the world. This example provides a detailed view of Athens, Greece. |
The World Imagery Collection includes IKONOS 1 m resolution color imagery. This example provides a detailed view of Moscow, Russia. |
What you get with the World Imagery Collection
The World Imagery Collection contains map resources that you can publish on your ArcGIS Server system:
- Map caches generated in the ArcGIS Online/Bing Maps/Google Maps tiling scheme in WGS 1984 Web Mercator (Auxiliary Sphere) projected coordinate system
- An ArcGIS Server 10 tiling scheme (conf.xml) file for each map cache
- Map document (.mxd) files that reference the map caches for use in creating the map services on your ArcGIS Server 10 system
Learn more
See Directory of maps for information on the basemaps included with the World Imagery Collection.
See Deployment overview for instructions on publishing the map, globe, and task resources to your ArcGIS Server 10 system.
See Using the services for information on how to use the services included with the World Imagery Collection.