Remote Sensing Solutions

There is exponential growth in the availability and resolution of remotely sensed imagery from earth-orbiting satellites and airborne, hydrographic, and terrestrial sensors. Remotely sensed data is a primary source for defense and national mapping organizations (NMOs) in their geospatial production and maintenance.

News and Events Bayerische Staatsforsten Improves Forest Management Using the Image Extension to ArcGIS Server USDA and Remote Sensing: Global Agriculture Monitoring [MP3] Inaugural GIS/RS Summit Held at ESRI U.C. Imagery Users Create Community at the ESRI Remote Sensing and GIS Summit ArcGIS Online Now Offers Quick Access to Premium Imagery Data ESRI and i-cubed's Launch of DataDoors for ArcGIS Advances User Acquisition of National and International Imagery Data

NMOs are challenged to manage rapidly expanding catalogs of imagery from various sources and trust it will be accessible in near real time.

Find out how the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service benefits from sharing files
Sharing Files Across the Agency, ArcUser, September 2007

Solutions to Meet Your Challenges

Data latency, accuracy, and accessibility to variable data formats are constant challenges for NMOs. They need reliable, robust systems with the following capabilities:

• Enterprise integration and management of large raster datasets to provide accessibility
• Standards-based GIS to enable interoperability
• Dynamic server-side image processing from native data sources to minimize data latency

Improve Your Workflow

An effective workflow provides solutions for data collection, management, production, and exploitation of the data.

Traditionally, workflows have been linear. ArcGIS Image Server is linear, circular, and transactional. The traditional image-chain processing would require referencing the data, performing analysis, creating a product, and making the product available. ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Image Server transform this linear processing chain into transactional processing. You author, serve, and use the data immediately for any of these processes as soon as the data is loaded.

Case Studies

• Imagery for the Nation Proposal Gains Momentum
• Sharing Files across the Agency
• Streamlining the Process [PDF]
• Why Use ArcGIS Image Server?
• Other case studies