The latest release of ArcGIS Excalibur continues to bring the image management and analysis capabilities to the web. This release focuses on streamlining the user interface, an enhanced experience around supporting information products, data integration with complementary ArcGIS technology, and a more mature video publishing experience. There are big things coming to Excalibur this year and this release is no exception.
Publishing Continues to Mature
While publishing video layers was introduced at the previous version of Excalibur, the 3.1 release furthers this support for different protocols. There is an enhanced publishing workflow that leverages livestreams originating through UDP, RTSP, and RTMP. This extends the supported video data types that can be published into the ArcGIS System of record to be utilized in downstream analysis. These video layers integrate directly within ArcGIS allowing the web application to leverage the familiar search and discover experience.
Enhanced collaboration in Excalibur projects
For those looking for an easier way to find and access content created with Excalibur projects, we have added enhanced support for related information products. Content, such as reports, screenshots, or video frames, are created using export tools in Excalibur or other web apps and can then be viewed and downloaded by anyone with access to the project or to the item in their ArcGIS Enterprise portal for a more collaborative experience.
Additionally, users can search for this content to support a project. Similarly, the Excalibur project now allows you to attach supporting materials to provide further instructions for collaborators. You can think of these as references or resources that complement a particular use case. There is also a newly redesigned experience for working with observation layers which are central to the Excalibur project focused experience. Observation layers can be leveraged outside of a project and a familiar user experience provides this additional functionality.
Integrating with ArcGIS Knowledge
At the 3.1 release, ArcGIS Excalibur will support the knowledge graph layer directly. ArcGIS Knowledge graph layers contain spatial information through access to entity and relationship types. Excalibur will support adding graph layers directly as an observation layer within the project. This expands on the already rich ecosystem of supported layer types within the application. The observation collection workflow will be familiar in that it leverages a similar experience to other hosted feature layers.
We hope you are as excited about these enhancements as we are and are here to support you. To stay up to date on product news, sign up for our newsletter on the Excalibur Webpage or visit the Esri Community page to ask a question or leave feedback.
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