Part I – ArcGIS Image Dedicated Capabilities, Components and Configurations
Introduction
ArcGIS Image Dedicated or AID introduces raster analytics and streaming features directly to imagery within your Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure cloud setup. This service entails Esri overseeing dedicated servers positioned alongside your imagery, aiming to minimize egress costs and facilitate scalability.
ArcGIS Image Dedicated (AID) features a distinct collection of geoprocessing tools that enable users to publish and manage imagery services.
Unlocking Capabilities with ArcGIS Image Dedicated (AID)
Cloud storage, such as Azure Storage Containers, are often used as locations to store various kinds of GIS data. An example of this is when image files (rasters) are stored in the cloud and used for analysis by clients such as ArcGIS Pro.
There are two methods for authenticating and connecting to Azure Storage. The first is Azure Storage Account Access Keys, which grant unlimited access to resources within a specific storage account.
The second is Shared Access Signatures (SAS), which grant limited access to resources within a storage account. You can provide a SAS to clients who should not be trusted with your Storage Account Access Key, but whom you wish to delegate access to certain storage account resources.
The workflows in the blog were performed with ArcGIS Pro 3.1.0 installed on a machine in Azure.
The License recovery process allows users to retrieve ArcGIS licenses that have become inaccessible. This could occur due to a number of reasons including computer crashes, a corrupted license manager, a lost or stolen laptop or possibly a catastrophic failure of the machine. The licenses may also need to be recovered if the number of deauthorisations allowed within a year has been exceeded.
Note: You are allowed a maximum of four deauthorizations per year, beginning from the date of the initial deauthorization.
In the past, an administrator or authorised caller had to contact their local Esri Technical Support to submit a request to recover lost licenses. This functionality has now been built into My Esri, empowering administrators to recover the licenses quickly without the need to contact Esri Technical Support.
Note: The recovery of lost licenses is irreversible, therefore it should be used as a last resort, if deauthorisation is not possible.If you are still able to access the machine that uses the license, it’s recommended to deauthorise licenses.
When you are assigned a task to collect data for a remote sensing workflow, such as detecting objects or performing a land use change analysis, downloading data is a very important part of the workflow and can be rather time-consuming. What if you can access the data from a public server and perform analysis without downloading the data? This article aims to provide a streamlined workflow to help you access Landsat8/9 data and how to perform some basic analysis in ArcGIS Pro environment.
About Landsat 8/9 Imagery
Landsat 8/9 offers a multispectral image service (Collection 2 – Level 1) that covers the entire world with a resolution of 30 meters with top-of-atmosphere (TOA) reflectance (ranging from 0 to 1 by default) rescaled to 0 – 10,000. The band names are aligned with those of Landsat 8 and Landsat 9. The Landsat imagery is sourced from USGS and NASA and is hosted on Amazon Web Services as part of the Public Data Sets program. You can access the service via the following URL:
This service is updated daily with fresh imagery directly sourced from the USGS Landsat collection hosted on AWS.
Additional Usage Notes
Image exports are limited to 4,000 columns x 4,000 rows per request.
This dynamic imagery layer can be used in Web Maps as well as web and mobile applications using the ArcGIS REST APIs. WCS and WMS compatibility means this imagery layer can be consumed as WCS or WMS services. These workflows are not included in this article.
Workflow to access Landsat data in ArcGIS Pro
1. Add ArcGIS Server: insert tab – project group – Connections – new ArcGIS Server
3. The server is added in Catalog pane. Expand the server and navigate to MS image service. Add the image service to your map.
4. The default visualization is set to Agriculture with DRA. Bands shortwave IR-1, near-IR, blue (6, 5, 2) with dynamic range adjustment applied on apparent reflectance. Vigorous veg. is bright green, stressed veg. dull green and bare areas as brown.
5. Filter the image. If you have a defined AOI in a layer, add the layer to the map and use “zoom to layer” to focus on your AOI in your view extent. Select the image service in Content Pane, and in the Data Tab, Selection group, select Explore Raster Items.
6. In Explore Raster Items Pane, change By Area of Interest to Display Extent. Change By Attribution to Custom and build your own query and build your Definition Query. For example, we can define the Sensor Name is equal to “Landsat 9”, and Acquisition Date is after 12/31/2022, and Cloud Cover is less than 0.4. Alternatively, you can build your query with SQL:
SensorName = ‘Landsat 9’ And AcquisitionDate > timestamp ‘2022-12-31 14:44:47’ And CloudCover < 0.4
Once you finished building your query, click “Apply”, the items will show in the list on the bottom of the Explore Raster Items Pane
7. You can click Inspect tab to examine the items, including the preview. In the Select tab, you can tick the box behind the item ID and Add it to the Current Map for further inspection and analysis.
8. Once you add the image to your map, they are ready for analysis with Raster Functions or Geoprocessing Tools! The default visualization is set to Agriculture with DRA. To change the processing template, right-click on the layer in Catalog Pane and choose Properties. In the Layer Properties window, select Processing Templates. In the dropdown menu for Processing Template, you can select various processing templates. On the other hand, you can choose None for customized analysis.
Organisations may have a requirement to work with data a database management system from ArcGIS Pro without enabling it as a geodatabase.
You can connect from ArcGIS Pro and work with the data in supported database management systems. Database management systems differ from each other in how they are implemented and the functionality they provide in ArcGIS.
When migrating from ArcMap to ArcGIS Pro, a really common question we get is “How can we get our ArcMap styles into ArcGIS Pro?”
The good news is, we can get them into ArcGIS Pro.
But first, why aren’t they already in there? Styles were loaded by default in ArcMap; but the installation of ArcGIS Pro does not include all the available styles. This is by design; to save disk space and to reduce having to browse through styles that you may never use!
So how do we get the styles we want to work with into ArcGIS Pro?
There may be times, where you get persisting issues with your ArcGIS Pro software and a clean uninstall is the only solution left. This blog takes you through the workflow required to implement such a process.
Please contact Esri Support for assistance with this process if you are unsure if a clean uninstall process is required for you, or if you are unsure of any stage outlined in this blog.
General Workflow for a ‘clean’ uninstall > reinstall
Please note that this article demonstrates the ‘Clean’ uninstall/reinstall workflow on a machine using a Windows Operating Systemand administrative access is required.
When we publish web services from desktop applications (i.e. ArcMap and ArcGIS Pro) to ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Server web services transform our map content into web GIS resources. This transformation process is managed through service runtime. The behavior and functionalities of web services are determined by the service runtime and the version compatibility between our ArcGIS desktop application and ArcGIS Enterprise. Hence, we must consider the desktop products’ compatibility when publishing to ArcGIS Enterprise.
The following sections summarize the key publishing compatibility considerations when working with different versions of desktop and ArcGIS Enterprise products.
When an organization deploys ArcGIS Pro named-user licenses for ArcGIS Enterprise portal, some additional configurations and checks may need to be conducted, when an end user is receiving error messages about connectivity.
Many of today’s networks use a firewall for enhanced security from outside threats. Because the license manager uses the TCP/IP protocols, implementing such a firewall can pose problems between the license manager server and the clients connecting to it.
The problem is caused by the firewall often closing or blocking access to the ports the license manager uses to communicate.
We can perform a series of configurations at the application and system level to allow open communication between ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS License Server Administrator
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