Product Overview

Importance of Imagery

Geospatial imagery is the fundamental base to most geographic information systems and mapping devices. The quantity of imagery available is growing exponentially from sources such as scanned aerial films, digital cameras, satellite imagery, scanned maps and digital terrain models.

A New Approach to Using Imagery

With the huge quantities of imagery come large problems in how to manage, process, and distribute the imagery. The value of imagery is highest when a large number of users have access to the data quickly. With conventional solutions, image processing and distribution is difficult and time-consuming, and end users have difficulty accessing and utilizing the imagery in their standard applications. ESRI's ArcGIS Image Server is one component to the image solution, providing a new approach to storing, managing, processing, and distributing geo-imagery.

On-the-fly Image Processing

On-the-fly image processing is one of the key features of ArcGIS Image Server. It enables imagery to be processed by the server prior to being sent to the Web or client application. The imagery stored in the server can be preprocessed imagery (e.g., ortho imagery) or primary imagery (e.g., raw scanned frames or satellite imagery). Utilizing the server's processing power, multiple image products can be derived from a single data source, with different radiometric, geometric processing, and compression options. This removes data management problems associated with multiple preprocessed datasets as well as substantially reducing data storage requirements.