Image Management

ArcGIS Server provides a number of options for serving raster data on the Web. Users can build image services from virtually any raster data source and serve them openly using Web services standards such as SOAP XML, REST, and the OGC WMS and WCS interfaces.

The types of imagery that can be published include:

• A broad set of image file formats such as JPEG 2000, IMG, TIFF, MrSID, and ESRI Grid
• Raster datasets managed in geodatabases
• Compiled image service definitions that are defined using the optional Image Server extension to ArcGIS Server 

See the Web Help for ArcGIS Server for more information on publishing image services using ArcGIS Server.

The optional Image Server extension to ArcGIS Server extends the image capabilities of ArcGIS Server. For example, using your original image sources, you can:

• Put your valuable imagery into use quickly
• Dynamically create and serve mosaics on-the-fly from the original imagery, without the need to pre-compute the mosaics. 
• Serve multiple views using the original imagery
• Exploit overlapping imagery, perform on-the-fly image processing, and explore temporal changes using the advanced image serving capabilities of this extension.