Raster Dataset or Mosaic Dataset, what do I use?

Question

Hello,

I am not familiarize with raster images or how the tools work yet and I have several aerial photos from different 10 different years from the same area, San Juan PR. I would like to create a file geodatabase and put all the photos there and then create an image service and an app where I select one area an i can download all the photos from different years of that area and download it.

does anybody has any idea how i can accomplish this? what I have read is that I need to use a mosaic dataset, is that correct?

Thanks for your help!

Diego Llamas

DiegoLlamasOlivares · Answer

Thank you. I will try this suggestion.

Regards,

DLL

PeterBecker · Answer

Simplest is to create mosaic datasets of that data that you have and published as image services that users can directly used. Then create an app based on WABIS discovery Tool. (See sample app),  that can be used to drive a download script. You could also extend it to include Export (Ie extracted enhanced section in define projection and pixel size) as shown in the EOExplorer.  The code for both exist in the GiHub/ImageryApps and WABIS

DiegoLlamasOlivares · Answer

Hello Cody and Peter Becker‌,

I was thinking in create something like usgs has, that you can interact with the images and moved around and select your area.  once you click on the map, it shows what is available for download.

EarthExplorer

I would like to use the technologie because we already have Enterprise and image server, so I would like to do a beautiful interface with appbuilder and let people of Puerto Rico download the images we already have and let them use it.

So basically that is my idea but i need to understand how to manage my images. Thanks you for your feedback. i'm going to ready your recommendations.

Regards,

Diego Llamas