Fast Access to Imagery

In many cases, the value of imagery is directly related to its currency. ArcGIS Image Server substantially reduces the time between data acquisition and data delivery, thereby giving users accelerated access to more complete, more accurate data.

ArcGIS Image Server provides access to source data—which can be file-based or reside in a database management system (DBMS)—without requiring any preprocessing. This allows multiple representations of imagery products to be served from native data sources, eliminating data redundancy, extra storage requirements, and making imagery available to clients quickly.

ArcGIS Image Server authoring tools allow you to easily define image services without having to reformat or load the raster data. These authoring tools are available through ArcGIS Desktop as well as through an application programming interface (API).

ArcGIS Image Server loads the raster properties, including orientation, projection, and metadata, contained in the imagery while leaving the pixel data in its native form. This allows the server to optimize the image service for quality and performance without altering the source data. At the same time, metadata is provided for the service and for the individual images with important information such as acquisition date and sensor attributes.

Clients can access source and service metadata such as shown here with a QuickBird image, bands 3, 2, 1.