Move the icon from the middle of the screen to the top left corner of the map.Press F11 to make your map go full screen.This will reset the view angle to be “top down” and rotates the map so that it is “north up” Navigate to the area and extent that you want to use in ArcMap.Go to Tools -> Options, and change the “Show Lat/Long” option to “Decimal Degrees”.

In the Layers panel, turn everything off.Then, you will add 4 control points on each corner of the image, record their latitude/longitude coordinates, and export the image as a jpg file. You will navigate to the location in Google Earth that you want to bring in to ArcMap. One huge advantage of using Google Earth imagery is that you will be able to bring in historical data that is now available. As an alternative method to bring in satellite imagery into ArcMap, the following tutorial guides you through the steps of bringing in selected screenshots from Google Earth into ArcMap. However, this requires a robust network connection because you are constantly feeding in live data from their servers. ArcMap 10 now allows you to bring in Bing Maps imagery as baselayers to your project.

Google earth historical images