The Project Details page is where you can view important information and details about the Excalibur project. You can access the page from the Excalibur Projects List by clicking View Details for the desired Excalibur project. If you are the owner of the project, you can edit information about the Excalibur project. You can view the following on the Project Details page for an Excalibur project:
- Project Name
- Project Summary
- Project Description
- Analyst Instructions
- Owner
- Date Created
- Date Last Modified
- Tags
- Share Settings
- Focus Layer in the Project and Image IDs
- Observation Layers in the Project
- Web Map and Operational Layers in the Project (if applicable)
In addition, if you view the project details of an Excalibur project, you also see the project capabilities like observation layers. You can open the Excalibur project, delete the Excalibur project if you own it or have administrator privileges, or return to the project list from this view.
Edit the project details
If you are the project owner, you can make textual edits to your project's details. Editable fields have an edit button. These fields include Project Name, Project Summary, Project Description, and Analyst Instructions. To edit project details, complete the following steps:
- Browse to the Project Details page of the desired project.
- Click the Edit button on the Project Name, Project Summary, Project Description, or Analyst Instructions field.
- Edit the text.
- Click Save to update the details, or click Cancel to revert to the original text.
Add an observation layer to the Excalibur project
You can add an existing observation layer to the Excalibur project to collect observations from your imagery or create an observation layer to fit your project needs.
Choose an existing observation layer
To add an existing observation layer, complete the following steps:
- Click View Details on a project of interest. The Project Details page appears.
- Click Add Observation Layer.
- Click Select Existing Layers.
You can also search for layers by most recent, most viewed, highest rated, title, and owner.
- Click Select on one or more observation layers. Click Cancel to return to the Project Details page.
The new layer appears in Observation Layers in this Project.
Create an observation layer
To create an observation layer, see Publish hosted observation layers for more information.
Manage system fields and settings
You can manage the system fields and settings of an observation layer that was not created in ArcGIS Excalibur by adding the following fields:
- ics_xy_excalibur
- image_classification_excalibur
- image_dtg_local_excalibur
- image_dtg_utc_excalibur
- imageid_excalibur
- mapscale_excalibur
- observation_dtg_local_excalibur
- observation_latlon_excalibur
- predicted_niirs_excalibur
- projectid_excalibur
- raster_id_excalibur
- service_url_excalibur
These fields are managed by ArcGIS Excalibur and are used to automatically populate information from the image when an observation is collected. Your layer will also be time-enabled if it is not already. You cannot undo adding and appending these fields to the observation layer.
To add Excalibur managed fields to an existing observation layer that does not contain these fields already or is not time-enabled, complete the following steps:
- Click View Details on a project of interest that contains existing observation layers that were created outside of ArcGIS Excalibur.
- Navigate to the Observation Layers in the Project section.
A button will appear next to any layer if the layer does not contain the Excalibur managed fields or is not time-enabled.
- Click Manage System Fields and Settings.
A modal appears.
- Click Add Fields.
A status indicator appears while the fields are added to your layer.
Once the fields are successfully added to your layer, you can begin using it in your project to automatically populate information from the image with every observation you collect on that layer.
Note:
If your layer already contains the automatically populated Excalibur fields and the time-enabled capability, and you click Manage System Fields and Settings, a message appears stating so. If your layer contains the automatically populated fields but is not time-enabled, you can click Manage System Fields and Settings and follow the same workflow.
Enhance an Excalibur project with GeoEnrichment definitions
Adding a GeoEnrichment definition to your project helps enhance your observations with information from a related layer to help automate the observation collection workflow. You can choose which fields are automatically populated in your point observation layer by matching them to fields in one or more related polygon context layers. When an observation is collected within or intersects the selected polygon layer, attributes from that layer will automatically populate in the observation layer.
To create a new GeoEnrichment definition in your Excalibur project, you must be the project owner or a portal administrator. You also must have a point observation layer in your Excalibur project and have a polygon context layer in a web map that has been added to your project.
Only one GeoEnrichment definition can be made per observation layer, but each observation layer can have multiple context layers as a part of its definition helping to automate the process of relating an observation to one or more contextual layers in your project.
Create a GeoEnrichment definition in an Excalibur project
To create a GeoEnrichment definition in a project, complete the following steps:
- Click View Details on a project. The Project Details page appears.
- In the Web Map Referenced in this Project section, click Change the project web map and add a web map that contains at least a polygon layer.
- In the Observation Layers in this Project section, select an existing or create a new point observation layer and add it to your project.
- Click the Add GeoEnrichment Definition button.
A new page opens to start your workflow. A message appears if your project does not meet the requirements to create a GeoEnrichment definition.
- Provide a required description for the GeoEnrichment definition.
- Select a point observation layer as your destination layer from the drop-down menu.
- Select a web map layer as your source layer.
- Once your destination and source layers have been selected, choose the field names from each layer in which you want to match.
- Click Add.
Once you add a field matching pair, the table populates. Click Remove to remove the matched fields.
- Choose additional fields to match if desired, repeating steps 9 and 10.
- Click Update Layer when finished. Click Cancel to return to the project details.
A status indicator appears while your GeoEnrichment definition is created.
- After your GeoEnrichment definition is created successfully, click Open Excalibur Project to view your project, click Edit Project Details to view the project details, or click Create Another Layer to add more layers.
View GeoEnrichment definitions in an Excalibur project
To view a GeoEnrichment Definition in a project, complete the following steps:
- Click View Details on a project of interest. The Project Details page appears.
- In the Observations Layers in this Project section, locate the point observation layer with a GeoEnrichment definition and click View GeoEnrichment Details.
Your GeoEnrichment definition expands with the corresponding details.
- Click View GeoEnrichment Details to collapse the details.
Edit a GeoEnrichment definition in an Excalibur project
You can edit a GeoEnrichment definition if you are a project owner or administrator. To edit a GeoEnrichment definition in a project, complete the following steps:
- Click View Details on a project of interest. The Project Details page appears.
- In the Observations Layers in the Project section, locate the point observation layer with a GeoEnrichment definition and click View GeoEnrichment Details.
- At the bottom of the table, click Update.
A new page opens where you can do the following:
- Edit the Description.
- Remove existing field matches.
- Edit existing field matches.
- Add new field matches.
- Click Update Layer once you make changes to the definition.
A status indicator appears while your GeoEnrichment definition is updated. After your definition is successfully updated, you return to the project details page.
Remove a GeoEnrichment definition in an Excalibur project
You can remove a GeoEnrichment definition if you are the project owner or administrator. To remove a GeoEnrichment definition in a project, complete the following steps:
- Click View Details on a project of interest. The Project Details page appears.
- In the Observations layers in the Project section, locate the point observation layer with a GeoEnrichment definition and click View GeoEnrichment Details.
- At the bottom of the table, click Remove.
- Click Remove to confirm the removal the GeoEnrichment definition
Change the project web map
Excalibur projects are configured to use the default portal web map. However, you can change the project web map at any time in the project details.
- Click View Details on a project of interest. The Project Details page appears.
- Click Change Project Webmap.
- Choose a web map from My Content, My Organization, My Groups, or Everyone.
You can also search for layers by most recent, most viewed, highest rated, title, and owner.
- Choose a webmap and click Select. Click Cancel to return to the Project Details page.
The new web map appears in Web Map Referenced in this Project. You can change the web map again using the same process.
- You can also click Reset to Default to return to your default web map.
Delete an Excalibur project from the project details
If you are the owner of an Excalibur project, you can delete an Excalibur project from the View Details page. To delete a project, complete the following steps:
- Browse to the Project Details page for the desired project.
- Click Delete Project.
- Click Delete to permanently delete your project. Optionally, click Cancel to return to View Details.