Importance of Imagery

Geospatial Imagery is the fundamen-tal base to GIS and mapping devices.

ArcGIS enables large volumes of imagery to be made quickly accessible to a wide range of applications and users. ArcGIS provides the infrastructure that supports multiple workflows associated with collection, management, production, and exploitation of imagery. This includes the ability to serve imagery quickly through dynamic, server-side image processing which complements a rich capability for image management and dissemination.

High-performance image services support ESRI's various clients and virtually any image display, analysis, or feature extraction technology. This integration means that the world of image processing and GIS are coming together to provide users with the best of both worlds in a complete image information system.

• Quickly provide imagery to all users
• Reduce the time between imagery acquisition and use
• Manage and serve large catalogs of imagery
• Provide imagery interoperable with a wide range of GIS, CAD, imaging, and Web applications
• Dynamically mosaic different images without preprocessing

ArcGIS is a complete image information system supporting enterprise workflows.

Read some case studies to see how organizations are using ArcGIS to manage imagery.