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Working with geospatial video in ArcGIS

By Cody Benkelman

Short segment of video survey over Belt Creek (central Montana) - drone video after multiplexing, via Motion Imagery tools in ArcGIS Pro
Video survey over Belt Creek (central Montana)

Do you have video that you’d like to use in ArcGIS?  It may have been captured by a professional aerial video system, or more commonly from a modern drone – or you might even have mobile video from a dashcam, or a 360 degree action camera.  As the options for capturing video with geospatial metadata continue to expand, the ArcGIS System is adding more methods to work with video as a data type.

Brief video clip of 360 degree video in Red Rocks Park, Colorado - oriented imagery layer shown in Experience Builder
360 degree video in Red Rocks Park, Colorado

As long as your video has metadata regarding the camera location and orientation, it is likely that you can use it in the context of your GIS.       Pro Tip:  The ArcGIS Flight app will capture the required metadata for you!!

Refer to this recent blog on the Esri Community https://esriurl.com/GeoVideo for an overview of geospatial video metadata, and the options for working with video in a variety of ArcGIS client apps.

Diagram of the two data models in ArcGIS for geospatial video

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