Sanborn

Sanborn, Colorado Springs, Colorado—a GIS, photogrammetric, and remote-sensing services provider—uses ArcGIS Image Server to serve large imagery datasets to its numerous clients. As a company that processes hundreds of terabytes of imagery per month, Sanborn immediately saw the advantages of ArcGIS Image Server and became an Esri implementation partner. The ability of ArcGIS Image Server to process data on the fly instead of preprocess or alter the source data intrigued Sanborn because part of the company's delivery process is facilitating a client QA review. ArcGIS Image Server, combined with ArcGIS Server, makes it possible for clients to perform QA reviews online rather than wait for datasets to be processed and delivered on CD. The online QA tool also reduces quality check error rates while ensuring customer requirements are met. "By offering immediacy and consistency, ArcGIS Image Server helps provide a turnkey solution in which Sanborn can offer clients the ability to easily manage large datasets through a time-saving quality assurance process," says John Copple, chief executive officer of Sanborn.

United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC) in Salt Lake City, Utah, is using ArcGIS Image Server to quickly deliver vast amounts of imagery throughout its organization via an intranet. Prior to this implementation, the USDA Forest Service struggled to make large volumes of imagery available to staff in its nine regions across the 50 states. Users often had difficulty loading the imagery due to limited storage capacity. "We were looking for something that would move us up to an enterprise-level imagery management system," says Mike Morrison, training and technology awareness program leader for RSAC and manager of image software program deployment for the Forest Service. "We wanted to resolve storage management problems and be able to very quickly stream imagery to field offices. That's when we started looking at ArcGIS Image Server."

CenterPoint Energy

CenterPoint Energy, a large power company based in Houston, Texas, began using ArcGIS Image Server in the fourth quarter of 2006, adding its capability to the company's enterprise-wide ArcGIS system. Its ArcGIS Image Server application was initially configured to support mission-critical needs in the event of a large-scale natural disaster, such as a hurricane, that disrupts service to CenterPoint customers. "We set ambitious goals for using our imagery data, and we needed fast processing times to meet these demands," says Cynthia Salas, the company's GIS manager. "When we tested ArcGIS Image Server, we found designers, technicians, and digitizers were all very pleased with the processing time. It was twice as fast, in some cases even faster, than previous systems. And they were impressed with the resolution. This is the first time, since I've been here, [that] we have tested new technology and staff immediately came to us requesting that technology go into full production."