We believe imagery is an integral part of a GIS. ESRI has engineered imagery into its products starting in the early 80’s with its first GIS software products. Today ArcGIS users are the largest collection of imagery users in the world.

The remote sensing world is obtaining larger and larger volumes of data. As a result there is growing interest in data management and dissemination technology within this community. ESRI technology is now supporting users of remote sensing data including scientists and GIS professionals as well as a broad range of commercial and casual users. ESRI is committed to providing technology that fully integrates imagery with other GIS data. This increases both the value of imagery as well as other GIS datasets.

ArcGIS provides an enterprise image management system that enables users to manage catalogs of rasters and imagery from various sources. We work closely with our partners who provide specialized imagery tools for collecting, managing, producing and exploiting all forms of geospatial data

ESRI will continue to innovate new technology that integrates imagery with GIS. Over the last few years ESRI has added the ability to dynamically process as well as serve imagery. A significant addition to ArcGIS Server 9.3 has been the new image services capability that provides efficient serving of imagery and raster data to web applications.

This year we will be having our first Remote Sensing and GIS Summit and GIS Summit, to be held the Sunday prior to the UC. We will be discussing all of this and demonstrating the many ways imagery and rasters can be integrated into workflows.