Mar. 2, 2018 - Earth Imagery at Work AMA (Ask Me Anything)
Live AMA Event on GeoNet: Friday, Mar. 2, 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. (PST)
We invite you to join Earth Imagery at Work MOOC instructors Kevin Butler and Emily Windahl here on the GeoNet Community for a LIVE AMA (Ask Me Anything) event. The AMA will take place in this discussion thread on Friday March 2, 2018 from 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. (PST).
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This is an opportunity to ask Kevin and Emily questions about the course, about earth imagery data, Esri software, GIS or anything else that comes to mind.
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Hello, and thank you for doing this AMA. I have recently been curious about something and didn't exactly know who to ask it. This seems to be the perfect opportunity. So I hope that you can shed some light to it. Thanks in advance! Here it goes:
Esri World Imagery Basemap (here) uses a combination of different resolution (0.3 to 15m) imagery files. The underlying Esri High Resolution Imagery (here) claims to have 0.3m resolution imagery in the continental United States. And I believe this used to be the case because I remember using it to verify 1m resolution imagery from another source. However, recently the image quality seems to have degraded substantially (please see image below). The white object at the top of the image is a light house and three rectangular objects in front of it are cars. Clearly the resolution is not 0.3m and zooming in does not refresh the map to a higher resolution. Would you have any comments on why the higher resolution images are not available any more? I am scared to ask, but are they planned to be a part of a paid, premium subscription? Hopefully not!
Thank you for your time
Zafer
If I understand what you are asking correctly the imagery that was previously available you're speaking of has now been renamed and can be found as "World Imagery Clarity" here it has pretty decent resolution but is quite aged. Similar to what you are saying though I have noticed a major decline in resolution through ESRI's new provider of world imagery in the area I primarily use it (South Eastern Minnesota) and also in other metropolitan areas. 
I don't think anyone would agree that the "new" imagery is more clear than the old.
However, it is still available through the World Imagery (Clarity) basemap.
No, it is not. Below is the same imagery from World Imagery (Clarity) basemap. And I am not the only one who is complaining about the reduced quality of the imagery (see the comments in the blog posts mentioned above). Can somebody please refer us to a basemap that is verified to have the same (or better) resolution with the old ESRI High Resolution Imagery?
Thanks
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