New Breakthrough Technology

The Image Web Server uses powerful ECW (Enhanced Compressed Wavlet) compression technology to allow you to interactively roam and zoom across high resolution images in real time, via the Internet.

Serve images to any application with free plugins

• Use Image Web Server images online within all popular image processing, GIS, CAD and Microsoft Office products
• Images can be served to any application - not just to web browsers

Combine different types of data

• View mosaics of different types of data even when the resolution (cell size) varies

E-Commerce enabled (Enterprise edition only)

• Integrate with standard E-Commerce web server billing services
• Sell your data by the megabyte, transferring only the portion of the image required
• Charge yearly subscription fees, charge per-view or bill customers per MB
• Catalogue your data and sell it over the internet using low cost web serving hardware
• Expend your data sales to a global market
• Produce on-line data catalogues
• Customers can easily purchase sub-sets of images on-line

High resolution data at high speed

• No need produce thousands of low resolution thumbnail JPEG images
• Serve the same high resolution data anywhere in the world via the Internet at its original resolution from a standard PC server
• Roam and zoom Terabyte (1,000GB) size images in real time over the Internet or on secure Intranets
• Interactivively manipulate data stored on a central server through secure Intranets

Embed images directly into any application with free plugins

• ArcView
• MapInfo Professional V4.5 and V5.0 and MapX
• MapImagery for MapInfo
• AutoCAD Map and Autodesk World
• Photoshop
• Microsoft Office programs such Word and Excel (with ER Viewer 1.3)

Web plugins

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01/5
• Netscape Navigator 4.5+

Customize your Web pages

• Use the Image Web Server's ActiveX controls with VBScript, JavaScript and HTML to easily add functions to your Web pages

Free ECW Compression and Decompression SDK's

Create plugins for your own applications with free open standard ECW Compression and Decompression SDK libraries.

There are free developer packs to help you develop plugins almost any application.

SDK libraries are provided free of change by earth Resource Mapping as part of our ECW Open Standard commitments.

There are 5 editions of the Image Web Server

• Enterprise edition : For organizations selling digital imagery.
• Corporate edition : For corporations with large internal Intranets serving imagery to Web, Office, GIS and CAD within the corporation

• Office edition : For offices using imagery within an office for high speed sharing of imagery across Web, Office, GIS and CAD users.

• ER Mapper edition : For projet work groups.
• Free edition : For evaluation and use of limited sized images.

For pricing and further details on the range of Image Web Servers contact your nearest Earth Resource Mapping Regional Office.