image service

An image service is a data serviceData services, also known as hosted data services, are services created dynamically to store and provide access to your data in ArcGIS. Examples are feature services, vector tile services, map tile services, image services, and scene services.Learn more that provides functionality to store, process, analyze, and share raster dataA raster is a matrix of cells (or pixels) organized into rows and columns (or a grid) where each cell contains a value representing information, such as temperature. Rasters include digital aerial photographs, imagery from satellites, digital pictures, and scanned maps.Learn more. Client applications can use an image service to query, manage and analyze raster data, as well as display raster data in a map or scene. Image services can return data in two different formats as static tiles or dynamically created images. The data is managed and accessed with a hosted tiled imagery layer (item) or an hosted imagery layer (item). Image services are also used as input for raster analysis operations. They are typically created by using ArcGIS portal or ArcGIS Pro.