You can use hosted imagery layers to manage and share raster and imagery data in your organization. You can also manage large collections of imagery and include imagery layers in hosted apps and maps.
License:
To configure image hosting, you must have an ArcGIS Image Services on Kubernetes license. This license does not include the functionality available from the raster analytics premium capability.
Introduction to image hosting
Hosted imagery layers are different from raster tile layers. Raster tile layers support visualization of imagery and raster data but do not support analysis. Hosted imagery layers allow access to the imagery or raster data, including pixel or cell values across multiple raster bands, and multidimensional data.
Additionally, verify that your administrator has allocated sufficient resource quota and worker nodes to support this premium capability.
Configure image hosting
Image hosting allows you to host your own imagery to share in applications within your organization. Hosted imagery layers can be used to maintain a series of images to see change over time or provide custom visualization options.
The following configuration steps may require changes to the way you've deployed ArcGIS in your organization; review them carefully before proceeding. Before using image hosting, you must add supporting raster stores and configure it as a capability in ArcGIS Enterprise Manager.
Add raster stores
You must add two raster stores to support image hosting: one cloud store and one relational store.
- In ArcGIS Enterprise Manager, click the Data stores button in the sidebar.
The data stores page appears.
- In the Raster stores section, click Add store to add the first raster data store.
If you have not already added stores, this section will be empty.
- Enter a name for the raster store.
- Select Storage service. Select one of the following options:
- Amazon S3
- Azure Blob
- Google Cloud Storage
- For specifications for each cloud storage service, see steps to add a raster store.
- When finished, click Add store.
The raster store is registered and will appear in the Raster stores section. The raster store will contain the imagery that is added to the organization and the results of any raster analysis tools.
- From the Data stores page, click Add store to add the relational store.
- Enter a name for the relational store.
- Select Storage service and choose a relational store.
- Click Choose File to add your database connection file.
The relational database will store the mosaic datasets for hosting imagery layers.
- Click Add store.
The raster store is registered and will appear in the Raster stores section.
Enable image hosting
Next, enable image hosting as a capability for the organization.
- In ArcGIS Enterprise Manager, click the Capabilities button in the sidebar.
The capabilities page appears.
- Turn on the Image hosting toggle button.
You are prompted with a message that indicates the process to enable may take some time.
- Click Enable.
A request to enable image hosting is submitted. This process will validate prerequisites and activate supporting resources. The following system services will be automatically started:
- RasterAnalysisTools
- RasterProcessing
- RasterRendering
If the capability fails to enable, repeat the above steps to ensure that the raster data store has been added and the image server license is valid. Review the logs to identify the requirements for this capability.
Image hosting is now configured. You can host imagery in your organization.