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Sharing products

ArcGIS Drone2Map allows you to share your drone products in a wide range of formats, such as layers, animations, or exported images. The Share tab groups all the related sharing capabilities for quick access, with more sharing options available after products are processed within a project.

Where Drone2Map can share

Drone2Map can share products to either ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise. Multiple portals can be configured for sharing within the software, but only one active sharing portal can be enabled at a time. Additionally, catalog datasets and printed or exported images can be shared locally or on network paths.

To learn more about sharing to ArcGIS Enterprise, see Manage portal connections.

What you can share

Drone2Map can process and share multiple types of 2D and 3D products that help provide critical information or context to real-world problems. The following is a list of the types of sharing options available, along with some product examples:

  • Features—Flight data, control, contours, mensuration results, map notes

  • Tiles—True ortho (RGB, thermal, multispectral), digital surface model (DSM), digital terrain model (DTM), hillshade

  • Scenes—3D mesh, 3D point cloud, DSM mesh, DMS point cloud, Gaussian splat layer

  • Imagery—True ortho (RGB, thermal, multispectral), DSM, DTM, hillshade

  • Elevation—DSM, DTM

  • Web Map—Full 2D representations of project areas

  • Web Scene—Full 3D representations of project areas

  • Catalogs—Monitoring of product outputs across projects

Use cases for sharing products

For example, a farm must provide stakeholders with a publicly accessible web map that shows current vegetation health for the growing season. Using Drone2Map, the multispectral images have been processed into a radiometrically corrected true ortho with soil and vegetation indices. All the imagery products can all be published from Drone2Map directly to their portal as a web map with the sharing settings configured to be accessible internally or externally. By publishing as a web map, all the selected layers will appear exactly as they do in Drone2Map without any additional confirmation required.

For another example, a city is building an affordable housing development, and the leaders want to provide the public with access to its progress. Multiple drone flights have captured imagery of the development over the past year. The imagery has been processed in Drone2Map as true ortho products for each project. Each of these true orthos can be shared to ArcGIS Online, where they can be configured to display within a web map based off their date field. This allows the public to view the change over time of the construction zone and be assured the project is on track.

For a final example, a drone company has been hired to create a digital twin of a historic church. They have flown multiple flights around the building at oblique angles to capture all the details. In Drone2Map, the imagery was processed into a detailed Gaussian splat layer. In addition, a map notes feature layer was created that contains important facts about the statues around the church. These layers can be published as a realistic web scene or as individual layers that can be integrated into a larger map.