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Image Service
URL http://<catalog-url>/<serviceName>/ImageServer
Supported Operations Export Image   Query   Download
Parent Resource Catalog
Child Resources KML Image   Raster Catalog Item   Raster File

Description

An image service provides access to published imagery. An image service supports two views of the published imagery: a mosaicked image view and a raster catalog view.

Use an image service to do the following:

The REST API image service resource represents an image service published with ArcGIS Server. The resource provides basic information associated with the image service such as the service description, its name, description, extent, pixel sizes, and band counts.

From 10 onward, this resource also returns the accessible fields of the image service.

The image service resource supports the following operations:

Also added at 10 are the following child resources:

Note that the Query and Download operations and the Raster Catalog Item and the Raster File resources are NOT available if the service does not include an accessible image catalog.

Resource Hierarchy

Image Service

Parameters

Parameter Details
f Description: The response format. The default response format is html.

Values: html | json | kmz

Example Usage

Example 1: URL to an Image Service named "MyImage".

http://myserver/arcgis/rest/services/MyImage/ImageServer

JSON Response Syntax

{
"currentVersion": <currentVersion>, //Added at 10.0 SP1
"serviceDescription" : "<serviceDescription>",
"name" : "<name>",
"description" : "<description>",
"extent" : {<extent>},
//from 10 onward - if the Image Service supports query/exportImage based on time
"timeInfo" : 
{
  "timeExtent" : [<startTime>, <endTime>],
  "timeReference" : null
 },
"pixelSizeX" : <pixelSizeX>,
"pixelSizeY" : <pixelSizeY>,
"bandCount" : <bandCount>,
"pixelType" : "<pixelType>",
"minPixelSize" : <minPixelSize>,
"maxPixelSize" : <maxPixelSize>,
"copyrightText" : "<copyrightText>",
"serviceDataType" : "<serviceDataType>",
"minValues" : [<minValue1>, <minValue2>],
"maxValues" : [<maxValue1>, <maxValue2>],
"meanValues" : [<meanValue1>, <meanValue2>],
"stdvValues" : [<stdvValue1>, <stdvValue2>],

//accessible fields - added at 10
"objectIdField" : "<objectIdFieldName>",
//Query and Download operations and Raster Catalog Item and Raster File resources
//are available only if fields is not null and not empty
"fields" : [
  {"name" : "<fieldName1>", "type" : "<fieldType1>", "alias" : "<fieldAlias1>"},
  {"name" : "<fieldName2>", "type" : "<fieldType2>", "alias" : "<fieldAlias2>"}
]
}

JSON Response Example

{
"currentVersion": 10.01,
"serviceDescription" : "Test Image Service Description",
"name" : "wsiearth.tif",
"description" : "wsiearth.tif",
"extent" : {"xmin" : -180, "ymin" : -90, "xmax" : 180, "ymax" : 90, "spatialReference" : {"wkid" : 4326}},
"timeInfo" : {"timeExtent" : [1106822673000,1125907321000], "timeReference" : null},
"pixelSizeX" : 30.386,
"pixelSizeY" : 30.386,
"bandCount" : 3,
"pixelType" : "U8",
"minPixelSize" : 0.0,
"maxPixelSize" : 0.0,
"copyrightText" : "ESRI",
"serviceDataType" : "esriImageServiceDataTypeRGB",
"minValues" : [0.0, 0.0, 0.0],
"maxValues" : [255.0, 254.0, 255.0],
"meanValues" : [82.707, 107.448, 60.118],
"stdvValues" : [39.838, 37.735, 36.466]
,"objectIdField":"OBJECTID",
"fields":[{"name":"OBJECTID","type":"esriFieldTypeOID","alias":"OBJECTID"},{"name":"Shape","type":"esriFieldTypeGeometry","alias":"Shape"},{"name":"Name","type":"esriFieldTypeString","alias":"Name"}]
}