Area of Interest¶

All AOI tools set the same search filter -- the STAC intersects geometry -- so only the last one you use takes effect. The current AOI is summarized as text below the AOI buttons; Clear AOI removes it.

Draw¶

Click Draw... and choose Draw Point, Draw Line, or Draw Polygon. This activates an ArcGIS Pro sketch tool on the active map -- draw your shape and it becomes the search AOI. Requires an open map view.

Use Extent¶

Sets the AOI to the active map view's current visible extent (reprojected to WGS84 automatically). Requires an open map view.

Browse for AOI...¶

Loads an AOI from a local .shp or .geojson/.json file. Unlike the other AOI tools, this works even without an open map view -- useful before you've added any data to the project. Multiple features in the file are unioned into a single AOI geometry.

A polygon AOI drawn/loaded on the map

Select Features¶

Click Select Features, then click (or drag a box over) existing features on the active map. Their combined geometry (unioned if more than one) becomes the search AOI, and the picked features get the normal Pro selection highlight. Requires an open map view.

Use Layer¶

Pick a layer from the Map Layer dropdown (click Refresh if a layer you just added isn't listed), then click Use Layer.

If the layer has features currently selected on the map, only those are used.
If not, the whole layer's features are used (unioned into a single geometry).

The checkbox next to Use Layer (checked by default, tooltip "Use selected features") controls this: uncheck it to always use the whole layer, even if some of its features happen to be selected.

Mosaic All to Map¶

Not an AOI source itself, but lives in the same panel: builds one merged mosaic dataset from the current raster (COG) results and adds it to the map. See Mosaic & Footprints.