This map presents satellite imagery for the world and high-resolution aerial imagery for the United States and hundreds of cities around the world. The map includes NASA Blue Marble: Next Generation 500m resolution imagery at small scales (above 1:1,000,000), i-cubed 15m eSAT imagery at medium-to-large scales (down to 1:70,000) for the world, and USGS 15m Landsat imagery for Antarctica. It also includes 1m i-cubed Nationwide Select imagery for the continental United States, and GeoEye IKONOS 1m resolution imagery for Hawaii, parts of Alaska, and several hundred metropolitan areas around the world. I-cubed Nationwide Select is a seamless, color mosaic of various government imagery sources, including United States Geological Survey (USGS) imagery for metropolitan areas and the best available United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) imagery and enhanced versions of United States Geological Survey (USGS) Digital Ortho Quarter Quad (DOQQ) imagery for other areas. The map also includes imagery assembled by ESRI from various sources through the ArcGIS Online Content Sharing Program. Sources for this imagery include USGS and other organizations.
For details on the coverage in this map, view the list of Current ArcGIS Online Content Sharing Program contributors.
The coverage includes 1m imagery for the continental United States and for all or part of more than 2,000 cities and towns:
- More than 875 cities with populations of more than 50,000 people. View a list in HTML or Excel (XLS) format.
- More than 1,200 towns with populations of more than 20,000 people. View a list in HTML or Excel (XLS) format.
View the coverage maps below to learn more about the coverage for the 1m imagery:
- World coverage map: Shows the areas with high-resolution imagery throughout the world.
- North America coverage map: Indicates the areas with high-resolution imagery in North America.
- Europe coverage map: Shows the areas with high-resolution imagery in Europe.
- Asia coverage map: Indicates the areas with high-resolution imagery in Asia.
This map is metadata-enabled. With the Identify tool in ArcMap or in Web mapping applications, you can see the resolution, collection date, and source of the imagery at the location you click. The metadata applies only to the best available imagery at that location. You may need to zoom in to view the best available imagery.