ESRI has announced that the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC) in Salt Lake City, Utah, is now using ArcGIS Image Server to quickly deliver vast amounts of imagery throughout its organization via an intranet.
Prior to this implementation, the Forest Service struggled to make large volumes of imagery available to staff in its nine regions across the 50 states. Users often had difficulty loading the imagery due to limited storage capacity.
"We were looking for something that would move us up to an enterprise-level imagery management system," says Mike Morrison, training and technology awareness program leader for RSAC and manager of image software program deployment for the Forest Service. "We wanted to resolve storage management problems and be able to very quickly stream imagery to field offices. That’s when we started looking at ArcGIS Image Server."
"The USDA Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center has been an innovator for many years and has made significant contributions toward making ArcGIS Image Server a great product through our beta program," says John Steffenson, ESRI federal business development manager. "We are very gratified to see their use of this software make such a substantial impact for end users so quickly, and we look forward to working with them to apply it in new ways in the future."