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World Imagery

Highg-resolution detailed imagery of the Colosseum in Rome, Italy

Map Service Name: World_Imagery

Description: This map presents low-resolution imagery for the world and high-resolution imagery for the United States and other areas around the world. The map includes NASA Blue Marble: Next Generation 500m resolution imagery at small scales (above 1:1,000,000), i-cubed 15m eSAT imagery at medium-to-large scales (down to 1:70,000) for the world, and USGS 15m Landsat imagery for Antarctica. The map features i-cubed Nationwide Prime 1m or better resolution imagery for the contiguous United States, Getmapping 1m resolution imagery for Great Britain, AeroGRID 1m to 2m resolution imagery for several countries in Europe, IGP 1m resolution imagery for Portugal, and GeoEye IKONOS 1m resolution imagery for Hawaii, parts of Alaska, and several hundred metropolitan areas around the world.

i-cubed Nationwide Prime is a seamless, color mosaic of various commercial and government imagery sources, including Aerials Express 0.3 to 0.6m resolution imagery for metropolitan areas and the best available United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) imagery and enhanced versions of United States Geological Survey (USGS) Digital Ortho Quarter Quad (DOQQ) imagery for other areas.

The coverage for Europe includes AeroGRID 1m resolution imagery for Belgium, France (Region Nord-Pas-de-Calais only), Germany, Luxembourg, and The Netherlands and 2m resolution imagery for the Czech Republic, plus 1m resolution imagery for Portugal from the Instituto Geográfico Português.

In addition to the countries listed above, coverage also includes GeoEye IKONOS 1m imagery for all or part of more than 1,575 other cities and towns around the world:

More than 725 cities with populations of more than 50,000 people. View a list in HTML or Excel (XLS) format.
More than 850 towns with populations of more than 20,000 people. View a list in HTML or Excel (XLS) format.

View the coverage maps below to learn more about the coverage for the high-resolution imagery:

World coverage map: Shows the areas with high-resolution imagery throughout the world.
North America coverage map: Indicates the areas with high-resolution imagery in North America and Central America.
Europe coverage map: Shows the areas with high-resolution imagery in Europe.
Asia coverage map: Indicates the areas with high-resolution imagery in Asia.
Imagery update map: Indicates areas where imagery was updated in this release.

Attribution: Source: Esri, i-cubed, USDA FSA, USGS, AEX, GeoEye, AeroGRID, Getmapping, IGP

Coordinate System: WGS 1984 Web Mercator (Auxiliary Sphere)

Units of Measure: Decimal degrees

Extent in Decimal Degrees:
     Maximum Longitude: 179.999989
     Maximum Latitude: 85.000000
     Minimum Longitude: -179.999989
     Minimum Latitude: -85.000000

Map DPI: 96

Tile Size of Map Cache: 256 pixels by 256 pixels

Map Service Data Format: Map Server Cache in JPG Format

Map Service Size: 8.78 TB

Map Service Size on Disk: 9.86 TB

Map Service Number of Files: 582,118,550

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