topic Re: Image service best practices in ArcGIS Enterprise Questions

Image service best practices

Anonymous User — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 15:29:19 GMT

Hi,

We want to create Image Services out of our orthophotos (tiff files ~500Gg) and are wondering whether we need the Image Server Extension or not. We cover different MTM Zones so the images are projected in 4 different projections systems. We would create different Image services based on different region. They will be used as basemaps, view only, no analysis required.

Thank you,

Line Champagne

Montreal

Re: Image service best practices

JonathanQuinn — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 16:45:22 GMT

You don't need to create an image service if you're not planning on performing any analysis on the service; you can use a simple map service and cache it. If you are planning to use mosaic datasets, though, you'll need the Image Server Extension.

Re: Image service best practices

RebeccaStrauch__GISP — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 17:33:28 GMT

You may want to look thru these to documents...

Create Cache and TPK without ArcGIS for Server - Workflows for Desktop users

Publish a Tiled Service to ArcGIS Online w/o ArcGIS for Server or Utilizing Your Credits

From my recent experience, creating a mosaic dataset and using the Image Server Extension for createing a cache allowed me to add an additional 4 scales (14 LODs instead of 10) and reduced the amount of caching time from 8 weeks to about 10 days. To me that alone makes it worth it. PLus other functions can be used with services for things like hillshade, slop, aspect, and other byproducts of raster/mosaic datasets can be used in services on-the-fly and not be cached. I have not done this yet and do not have a good list of these other functions, but that is promising for us. However, the cost is a chunk of money, so you have to weigh the options.

Mosaic data sets to services will allow you to take data from different coordinate systems, and produce a single service without having to reproject or duplicate the data. However, if using it for a base map, I would probably still cache this....that is my preference. we have about 2TB of imagery.

Other links that are helpful (sme links are still 10.2 ...copying and pasting from another doc):

Key concepts for Image Services ArcGIS for Server (Windows) - Key concepts for image services

image management guide book Image Management

ArcGIS Image Management Workflows (AGOL listing)
http://www.arcgis.com/home/group.html?id=b65f2601e0084e32afab3eb488fa8a67

Imagery community and blog
Imagery | ArcGIS Resource Center

imagery script (from AGOL…zip file)
http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=08a57579df294f569906cee1c69381a6

(....I need to reread these myself!)

Hope this helps.

Re: Image service best practices

ChadKopplin — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 17:40:37 GMT

I agree with both responses so far, the response of our mosaics after creating Image Services has been great, just for loading and displaying the data.

Re: Image service best practices

Anonymous User — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 22:03:27 GMT

Thanks Rebecca,

Useful info.

Line

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