Auto map production

[BenLeslie1]

I have over 4500 image tiles.  I've become aware that, in some places, adjacent tiles do not match tone/colour.  So I'd like to create a plan of each tile together with its 8 adjacent tiles so I can quickly flick through each plan and hopefully pick up where the edges do not match.

As far as I can tell, when creating a map book I have to have all layers pre-loaded into Arc - clearly I cannot do this with 4500 images - (I can load about 80 before Arc keels over).

So, is it possible to automatically load-in and load-out the relevant tiles as the maps are automatically produced - (they are not in a single folder....they are in many sub folders based on easting/northing)?

Is there another/better method for finding subtle mismatches between adjacent images?

[JayantaPoddar]

Hi Ben,

Try working with a mosaic dataset (enables Dynamic Raster mosaicking)

ArcGIS Help (10.2, 10.2.1, and 10.2.2)

Interactively, keep adding and removing the image tiles, as desired.

Thanks,

Jay

[BenLeslie1]

hmm I thought that was going to work really easily....but...

when I preview the map pages in ArcMap the imagery loads automatically, as you said......but...

when I export the maps the imagery does not load???