This layer presents low-resolution satellite imagery for the world and high-resolution satellite and aerial imagery, typically within 3-5 years of currency, for most of the world. A brief summary of the item is not available. Add a brief summary about the item.
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Item created: Dec 12, 2009 Item updated: Jan 29, 2025 View count: 229,385,507
Description
World Imagery provides one meter or better satellite and aerial imagery for most of the world’s landmass and lower resolution satellite imagery worldwide. The map is currently comprised of the following sources:
- Worldwide 15-m resolution TerraColor imagery at small and medium map scales.
- Maxar imagery basemap products around the world: Vivid Premium at 15-cm HD resolution for select metropolitan areas, Vivid Advanced 30-cm HD for more than 1,000 metropolitan areas, and Vivid Standard from 1.2-m to 0.6-cm resolution for the most of the world, with 30-cm HD across the United States and parts of Western Europe. More information on the Maxar products is included below.
- High-resolution aerial photography contributed by the GIS User Community. This imagery ranges from 30-cm to 3-cm resolution. You can contribute your imagery to this map and have it served by Esri via the Community Maps Program.
Maxar Basemap Products
Vivid Premium
Provides committed image currency in a high-resolution, high-quality image layer over defined metropolitan and high-interest areas across the globe. The product provides 15-cm HD resolution imagery.
Vivid Advanced
Provides committed image currency in a high-resolution, high-quality image layer over defined metropolitan and high-interest areas across the globe. The product includes a mix of native 30-cm and 30-cm HD resolution imagery.
Vivid Standard
Provides a visually consistent and continuous image layer over large areas through advanced image mosaicking techniques, including tonal balancing and seamline blending across thousands of image strips. Available from 1.2-m down to 30-cm HD.
Updates and Coverage
You can use the World Imagery Updates app to learn more about recent updates and map coverage.
Citations
This layer includes imagery provider, collection date, resolution, accuracy, and source of the imagery. With the Identify tool in ArcGIS Desktop or the ArcGIS Online Map Viewer you can see imagery citations. Citations returned apply only to the available imagery at that location and scale. You may need to zoom in to view the best available imagery. Citations can also be accessed in the World Imagery with Metadata web map.
Use
You can add this layer to the ArcGIS Online Map Viewer, ArcGIS Desktop, or ArcGIS Pro. To view this layer with a useful reference overlay, open the Imagery Hybrid web map.
Feedback
Have you ever seen a problem in the Esri World Imagery Map that you wanted to report? You can use the Imagery Map Feedback web map to provide comments on issues. The feedback will be reviewed by the ArcGIS Online team and considered for one of our updates.
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No acknowledgements.Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, and the GIS User Community
Comments (108)
Hello, are the world imagery wayback atmospherically corrected? Thanks
Is there a way for a user to know the date when the image of a particular place was taken?
Yes, with the World Imagery Wayback : https://livingatlas.arcgis.com/wayback/#active=13968&mapCenter=-92.39258%2C47.08955%2C4
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The world imagery is poor quality in Escambia County Florida. Please obtain 2022 imagery from Florida DOT. Esri has utilized it in the past, and it is much better than the fuzzy imagery there now.