Using Drone2Map to Process,

Analyze and Share your data in Enterprise

Sudhir Raj Shrestha

sshrestha@esri.com

2017 ESIP Summer Meeting, Bloomington, IN. July 24, 2017

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What we will cover today
• Comprehensive Image Management Ingesting

• Ingesting and Managing

• Visualizing and Analyzing

Sharing Managing
• Disseminating and Consuming
Scientific

• Application(s) and Use case

Computing

Visualizing Analyzing

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ArcGIS is an Open Platform

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ArcGIS is a Comprehensive Imagery Platform
Drones Integrate into the Complete ArcGIS Platform Share

Analyze

Professional
Imagery & Manage
Geospatial
Analysts
Extract Information
from Imagery Server

Manage and
Process Imagery
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Challenges

Manage Analyze Share

variety of formats portability integration

volume & velocity scalability standards
redundancy reproducibility accessibility

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Managing and Processing your Data

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Drone workflow

Esri

Extending
Flight Planning Collection Processing Analytical Share
Capabilities

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Workflow for drone imagery based on camera & operational mode

Orthorectified
Mosaics

3D Point
Close range
imagery Clouds &
(inspection) Meshes

Drone2Map Close-range
Oblique
imagery Inspection
Nadir imagery Photos

Full Motion
Video

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 Image Management using Mosaic Dataset
mosaic dataset

Desktop

Create Catalog of Imagery

Image collections spatially-indexed catalog • Reference Sources
HDF, GRIB, netCDF multi-resolution, multivariate, multidimensional • Ingest & Define Metadata
d-aware rasters reduce storage redundancy & pixel resampling • Define Processing to be
Applied
defines information products
on-demand processing Apply:
• On-the-fly Processing
• Dynamic Mosaicking

Access as Image or Catalog

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Raster Function: Transforming Raster Data

raster function

raster-valued transformation
piecewise, scale-aware
local / focal
on-demand processing
unary, binary, …, n-ary, polyadic

Learn more at: github.com/Esri/raster-functions

Choose from dozens of built-in functions or implement your own algorithm using Python
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Manipulating and Analyzing your Data

Source Source Derived Multi-project image service

Imagery Mosaic Mosaic Dataset
Datasets Add raster functions as
appropriate
Color Infrared
True Color
NDVI

f Hillshade
(DSM, DTM)

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Drone2Map
Setting up a Project

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Drone2Map
Working in 3D

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Data Products from UAV (Drone2Map workflow)

• Orthorectified mosaic

Close range
• Digital Surface Model (DSM)
imagery

• Orientation metadata (nadir/oblique)

(inspection)

• Multiple view angles

Nadir
Oblique imagery
imagery • 3D point clouds

• 3D models

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Share Drone Imagery Fast
Get Imagery Products To Your Users When They Need It

ArcGIS

3D products
2D products
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Sharing your Data as Image Service
Multidimensional Image Services

Serve data (not a picture)

• LERC compression to maintain data quality
• Perform analysis and analysis through the web

Multiple clients:
• Desktop clients
• Web Map Viewers
• JavaScript etc.
• WMS/WCS
• Time=t1&Elevation=z1
• DIM_Time=t1&DIM_depth

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Sharing data & information products
Mosaic Dataset Share As Web Layer

Enable access to a dynamic representation of your information product as an image service

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Consuming your services
• In any ArcGIS application or any WMS client
• In a web map
• Identify web services driven by maps or datasets
• Bring service layers into a web map
• In a map-based application
• Configurable apps
• Story Maps
• Web AppBuilder
• Custom web apps using ArcGIS API for JavaScript

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Let’s take a look
Drone2Map and its capabilities in ArcGIS Enterprise
Image Service and what can you do with it ?

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