ECW is a powerful image compression format developed by ERDAS, allowing you to display large aerial photographs and other raster files. By applying advanced compression techniques available in ERDAS IMAGINE and ER Mapper, ECW files kan reduce the file size of raw image material to around 5% or less, without visual loss.
This makes ECW the ideal format to use inside web environments, where large numbers of users want to see geographic information fast. Examples include geoportals inside municipalities, water boards, provinces, but also business intelligence systems in large companies and research institutes.
The ECW format can be served directly from the ERDAS APOLLO products. APOLLO even adds the ability of streaming of the ECW's, increasing the speed of delivery even further!
For other server environments, ERDAS also offers the possibility to serve out ECW, through the so called ECW Right-to-Use program. This is a yearly, organisation-wide license, allowing organisations to serve ECW from ESRI's ArcGIS Server and others. Imagem offers this license for clients in the Benelux area and can even do the installation of the required components for you, ensuring you of a working and ready to go configuration.
The special ECW Right to Use program is only available to non-commercial organisations and may only be used to serve your own data. For organisations that wish to provide serving capabilities to 3rd parties (paid or unpaid) or wish to develop and/or market a commercial application, there is the ECW/JPEG SDK.
Get your license today, to start using ECW in your own server environment and be fully legally covered. Contact Imagem for more details, on +31 (0)182-399916 or info@imagem.nl . You can also address your regular account manager at Imagem.
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