Image Web Server Product Information
The Image Web Server enables a Microsoft Web Server to send imagery of unlimited size over the Internet directly into a user's web browser or application. Instead of dealing with low resolution JPEG images or enormous databases of image tiles, your users can now view and share one set of full resolution image files residing on a remote server. This is made possible by the revolutionary Enhanced Compressed Wavelet (ECW) image format, that allows imagery to be compressed up to 50:1 with almost no visual loss of information.

Earthstar Geographics focusses on geographic imagery applications for the Image Web Server, such as serving large mosaics of orthophotos, satellite images, or scanned maps. Click here to visit EarthEtc.com and try the Image Web Server technology to view images and mosaics up to several hundred GB in size. (You may be prompted to download a plug-in for your web browser to enable this.)

Features and benefits of the Image Web Server include: 

  • World's fastest Internet image delivery system, designed for the web 
  • Zoom and pan rapidly over very large, high resolution images 
  • Free plug-ins to integrate with existing applications - nothing new to learn 
  • Distribute imagery on-line directly into any application via the Internet or an intranet without the need to distribute physical media  
  • Integrates with most IMS applications (ArcIMS, MapServer, etc.) 
  • Uses client-side processing to dramatically reduce server load