Hello all,
I am looking for input or suggestions from anyone who has experience with hardware-intensive georeferencing workflows in ArcGIS Pro.
I have several sets of historic imagery (hundreds of images) that I am georeferencing to a 3-inch 2022 aerial survey. I work for a city, so my hardware has been limited to (initially) a laptop with very wimpy specs (no dedicated graphics) and (subsequently) a server running remote application of ArcGIS Pro with lots of RAM and CPU (but no dedicated graphics). The reference aerials are on the city Enterprise Connection geodatabase - this may be a throttle on rendering speed, but the remote app was expected to resolve that issue as the server it runs on is proximal to the Enterprise GDB.
Throughout the process, the workflow has been bottlenecked by very slow rendering. Given the necessity to consistently pan, zoom, and toggle different imagery layers on/off rapidly, this has made my progress extremely slow (~50% of time on this project is spent just waiting for Pro's drawing to catch up with the last pan, toggle, zoom etc.).
I suspect that, more so than virtually any other Pro-based workflow, georeferencing demands GPU in addition to RAM and CPU - is this reasonable? I am talking with IT folks and my supervisor about trying to improve hardware to improve workflow efficiency, but I want to have some idea of what kind of hardware I would need to see a significant improvement.
If anyone has experience with this kind of project, could you please weigh in with:
1) what specs your workstation has,
2) if those specs result in a smooth, efficient process, and
3) if you have been able to improve rendering speed and smoothness for a workflow like this without needing new hardware?
Thanks in advance for any insights or suggestions!
