Redlands, California―ESRI announces that the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC) in Salt Lake City, Utah, is now using ArcGIS Image Server to quickly deliver vast amounts of imagery throughout its organization via an intranet.

Prior to this implementation, the 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."

Benefits of the ArcGIS Image Server implementation include

·        Enhanced delivery of imagery to field offices, typically within a few seconds

·        Improved data sharing and collaborative planning with other agencies such as the Bureau of Land Management

·        Robust new imagery offerings including NationWide Select, eTopo, regions, and shaded relief

·        Increased ability to maximize the value of the Forest Service's imagery

"The USDA Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center has been an innovator for many years and has made significant contributions toward making ArcGIS Image Server a great product through our beta program," says John Steffenson, ESRI federal business development manager. "We are very gratified to see their use of this software make such a substantial impact for end users so quickly, and we look forward to working with them to apply it in new ways in the future."

ArcGIS Image Server is integrated with ArcGIS Server, which allows the data to be distributed to Web-based, mobile, and Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC)-compliant clients. For more information about ArcGIS Image Server, visit www.esri.com/imageserver, call ESRI at 1-800-447-9778, or call an ESRI regional office (to locate your regional office, visit www.esri.com/usa). Outside the United States, contact your local ESRI distributor (www.esri.com/distributors).

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