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Welcome to the Vexcel Viewer! Here you will find a powerful tool for analyzing and interpreting aerial imagery. This page will get you off to a successful start. 

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Supported Browsers

The Viewer is supported in Chrome, the new Microsoft Edge, and Firefox.

Internet Explorer is not supported. Performance is not guaranteed in any other browser.

Viewer Access

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The Viewer can be accessed here: http://app.gic.org or http://app.vexcelgroup.com .

Access via Federated Authentication

Vexcel’s federated authentication capability allows users to easily access the Viewer through their own corporate credentials instead of having to remember another username and password. For this to work, your company must be set up to use federated authentication with the Viewer.

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If your company would like to be set up to use federated authentication, the setup process is easy. Contact your customer advocate representative to begin the process.

Traditional Account (Username and Password)

If your company is not set up to use federated authentication, you will need to provide a traditional username and password to access the Viewer. These accounts must be initiated by your customer advocate representative and the setup must be completed by you, the account owner.

Setting Up Your Traditional Account

When your traditional Viewer account is initiated by your customer advocate representative, you will receive an email welcoming you and directing you to complete the setup of your account. Click Activate Account in your welcome email and follow the directions. You will be prompted to enter your name and create a password. Passwords must:

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Note

Warning: The use of special characters apart from the approved list (! @ # $ % ^ & *) may cause problems when requesting API authentication tokens.

Logging In and Resetting Your Password (Traditional Accounts)

Log in with your email and password.

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Once you log in, you will be greeted with the Viewer. The appearance of the Viewer, as well as availability of data, features, and other components may vary depending on your service agreement.

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Viewer Tools Overview

In the upper-right corner of the top banner there is a user menu with a several options options.

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Right-clicking anywhere on the map opens a small menu. Here you can copy the latitude and longitude for that location, re-center the map to that location, zoom in or out, or open an information box open the Property and Location Information tool to get info for that location, or open the Export GeoTIFF tool.

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Right click > Get Info opens the property and location information tool , andshows the information box for the location. The information box displays:

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There is also an option to Open image gallery. For documentation regarding this feature, please refer to the Image Gallery section.

There is also a section for Elements property information. For documentation regarding Elements, please refer to the Elements section.

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Most tools and functions in the Viewer have hover-over messages that appear when you hover your mouse above the button. These are useful for understanding what a tool does or understanding the status of a tool that might be unavailable for a certain reason.