ArcGIS Excalibur is a web-based, imagery application that modernizes and enhances image-based workflows through intuitive experiences. These experiences enable you to search for, discover, and work with imagery in fully integrated workflows for image analytics and exploitation.

For more information, see What is ArcGIS Excalibur.

Prior to installing ArcGIS Excalibur, you need an ArcGIS Enterprise 10.7 or later base deployment. You can install the base deployment on one or more machines, any of which can be physical, virtual, or cloud machines.

Download ArcGIS Excalibur from My Esri by logging in with your Esri account that is associated with your customer number. ArcGIS Excalibur should be installed on the machine where Portal for ArcGIS is installed.

Once ArcGIS Excalibur is installed, an authorization file must be obtained and authorized.

For more information on installing and authorizing, see Install and authorize ArcGIS Excalibur.

ArcGIS Excalibur is a premium application and requires a separate portal license file. You must have a Creator or GIS Professional user type with the appropriate roles before an ArcGIS Excalibur license can be assigned to you.

For more information, see Assign members an ArcGIS Excalibur license.

No. ArcGIS Excalibur 1.0 is not available in ArcGIS Online and is only available in ArcGIS Enterprise 10.7 and later.

No. ArcGIS Excalibur 1.0 does not support customization using an API.

No. Anyone who wants to discover, analyze, report, and efficiently disseminate image derived information to consumers can use ArcGIS Excalibur. Users include all-source analysts, imagery analysts, and imagery and geospatial managers in industries such as national security, emergency response, local and federal government, humanitarian relief, and public works.

You can obtain an imagery web service URL to through any of the following:

• Content tab of your Enterprise portal—You can search My Content or My Organization's Content for the layer type imagery layer.
• ArcGIS REST Services directory (for example, https://host.domain.com/arcgis/rest/services)—Any service defined as an ArcGIS Image Server Service denoted by (ImageServer) is a supported service.
• Your organization's GIS administrator.

For more information on using imagery web service URLs, see Explore an imagery web service.

Before performing a search, an active imagery service layer must be set in the Currently Searching menu in the imagery search catalog. To populate the Currently Searching menu, go to Available Imagery and select the imagery service layers of interest as your favorites.

In addition, ensure that your map extent or Area of Interest filter is set to a location where imagery exists.

Image focus view is available on images that have sensor transformation information, such as rational polynomial coefficients (RPC) or frame cameras. Not all image services contain imagery with this sensor information.

For more information on the image focus view, see Use image views.

Project tools are only available when you open an imagery project in the imagery exploitation canvas. The Create Observations and Create Many Observations tools are only available when you open an observation imagery project.

For more information on creating an imagery project, see Create an imagery project.

By default, imagery projects are saved in a folder called Excalibur Imagery Projects in My Content and are shared with your organization. You can change the share setting for your imagery projects in the portal.

Setting the share option directly in ArcGIS Excalibur when you create an imagery project is planned for a future release.

Yes. User settings are stored and saved with your portal identity allowing you to access the ArcGIS Excalibur application on different machines in different locations while maintaining your customized experience.

Yes. ArcGIS Excalibur uses the ArcGIS platform and its information model to consume and create content that can be applied to other ArcGIS applications. In particular, content created in an observation type imagery project is written to a hosted feature service and can be used in other applications such as Map Viewer and ArcGIS Pro and web applications such as Operations Dashboard and Insights for ArcGIS. You can also use exported views from the imagery exploitation canvas in Esri Story Maps templates.