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New image service to be available for serving rasters in ArcGIS Server 9.3

A recent ArcUser article mentions the new image service that will be available in ArcGIS Server 9.3:

"A new and fast service for use in browsers or desktop image processing programs, the Image Service is new in ArcGIS 9.3. It is a lighter-weight service optimized for delivering raw or finished imagery that can be RGB, panchromatic, multispectral, or elevation data stored in a geodatabase or file system. Data sources for Image Services are raster datasets, in formats such as TIFF, MrSID, IMAGINE (IMG), or JPEG2000, or can be raster mosaics. With the Image Server extension, Image Services can also use compiled image service definition (ISCDef) data. Image Services can be managed either with the ArcGIS Server Manager or ArcGIS Desktop ArcCatalog application."

The article also mentions that optionally you'll be able to expose image services through the OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) specification:

"With WCS, clients can obtain subsets of data; request that data be resampled, reprojected, or returned in a specific raster data format; and output files in GeoTIFF, National Imagery Transmission Format (NITF), Hierarchical Data Format (HDF), JPEG, JPEG2000, and PNG formats."

Published Monday, May 19, 2008 11:48 AM by sterlingdq
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# re: New image service to be available for serving rasters in ArcGIS Server 9.3

Is there an efficient way to access the new image services in existing ArcIMS web applications?  Thanks.

Monday, May 19, 2008 8:23 PM by jim52

# re: New image service to be available for serving rasters in ArcGIS Server 9.3

jim52- The image services will not be directly consumable by web applications. However, they will have a WMS capability so that you can expose them as WMS. You could use the Web ADF to add the  WMS service to your ArcIMS web application. Note that WMS is basically just a map image, so you will not get all of the image processing abilities offered by core image services and WCS.

Another thing you could do is add the image service to a map document (.mxd), then publish the .mxd as an ArcGIS Server map service and add it to your ArcIMS application using the Web ADF.

Tuesday, May 20, 2008 9:05 AM by sterlingdq

# re: New image service to be available for serving rasters in ArcGIS Server 9.3

Can the new Image Service be accessed with REST like a Map Service can?
Monday, June 02, 2008 3:19 PM by Richard Pruitt

# re: New image service to be available for serving rasters in ArcGIS Server 9.3

Richard- Yes, the image service can be accessed through the REST API. You can request images in various formats or you can request a KML ground overlay.

Sterling

Monday, June 02, 2008 4:40 PM by sterlingdq

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