Esri Launches Content Store for ArcGIS to Provide Easier Access to On-Demand, GIS-Ready Imagery

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Esri, the global market leader in location intelligence, is launching Content Store for ArcGIS, a new web app that simplifies the process of purchasing and integrating commercial satellite imagery. This app, developed by Esri and SkyWatch, allows organizations to buy high-quality imagery from Esri’s cornerstone partner, Maxar, as well as other leading providers. Previously, users had to manage multiple providers and manually import data, but Content Store for ArcGIS streamlines this workflow, making it easier and more efficient.

“Content Store for ArcGIS offers a seamless, on-demand experience for accessing premium commercial imagery, right within the ArcGIS platform,” said Richard Cooke, Esri Corporate Director of Global Business Development. “This new experience addresses the challenges our users have shared with us as their use of commercial imagery expands into more and more of their business or mission critical workflows. We believe this will also add significant value to the open imagery sources already available through ArcGIS Living Atlas.”

“SkyWatch is thrilled to partner with Esri to bring Content Store for ArcGIS to life,” said James Slifierz, Co-Founder and CEO of SkyWatch. “Our mission is to make premium geospatial data easily accessible in the broadest range of applications, and this integration with ArcGIS illustrates the power of the SkyWatch Platform. We are excited to support Esri users in enhancing their spatial analyses with high resolution imagery, and other forms of geospatial data to follow.”

In addition to the launch partners, Esri and SkyWatch will be working together to continually add other providers to Content Store for ArcGIS, to give users even greater flexibility to find and acquire the content that best meets the needs of their work.

“We are proud to continue our decades-long partnership with Esri by augmenting the Maxar imagery basemaps already available through ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World,” said Paul Granito, Maxar’s General Manager and Senior Vice President of Enterprise. “We partnered with Esri and SkyWatch to provide Content Store for ArcGIS with access to our most current, very high-resolution imagery to support users who need frictionless access to that data within ArcGIS. We look forward to empowering the geospatial community with our data to enable critical workflows and better organizational decision making.”

Imagery from open datasets such as Landsat or Sentinel is a valuable asset to organizations that use geospatial data in their workflows. But increasingly, users in fields like land management, urban planning, sustainable development, asset risk management, and infrastructure planning need more diverse, up-to-date, higher resolution satellite imagery than ever before. Content Store for ArcGIS eliminates the friction involved in acquiring and integrating this commercial imagery. Instead of navigating multiple provider portals and contracting with each one separately, enterprise data procurement managers can log in and purchase imagery directly within ArcGIS using their existing credentials. This integration not only streamlines the process of acquiring commercial imagery but also complements the extensive data available from ArcGIS Living Atlas and other public repositories, enhancing the overall value and functionality for ArcGIS users.

To learn more about Content Store for ArcGIS, visit esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-online/imagery/access-commercial-imagery-in-arcgis/.

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Esri, the global market leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, location intelligence, and mapping, helps customers unlock the full potential of data to improve operational and business results. Founded in 1969 in Redlands, California, USA, Esri software is deployed in hundreds of thousands of organizations globally, including Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, nonprofit institutions, and universities. Esri has regional offices, international distributors, and partners providing local support in over 100 countries on six continents. With its pioneering commitment to geospatial technology and analytics, Esri engineers the most innovative solutions that leverage a geographic approach to solving some of the world’s most complex problems by placing them in the crucial context of location. Visit us at esri.com.

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