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Earth Resource Mapping supports Journey’s Into Space
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Perth, 7 August 2001 - Earth Resource Mapping has donated three Image Web Server
licenses to Australia’s major exhibition on space ‘Journey’s into Space: Quest for the Origins
of Life’, to open at the Australian National Museum, Canberra in December 2001.
The exhibition is being planned to present Australia’s past and present role in space research
with emphasis on the contributions made by specialists in space industries. Earth Resource
Mapping donated the Image Web Server licenses to Australian Centre for Remote Sensing
(ACRES) and CSIRO, who will develop a stand-alone interactive touch screen kiosk for the
exhibition.
ACRES and CSIRO are collaborating to develop the kiosk that serves numerous high-
resolution mosaic images of Australia. Earth Resource Mapping’s Internet serving technology,
Image Web Server, was chosen as the application to serve the high-resolution images
because of its speed and Enhanced Compressed Wavelet (ECW) compression format.
Jim Mollison, Remote Sensing Product Manager at ACRES said,”The interactive touch screen
will allow Museum visitors to zoom and pan around a detailed satellite image mosaic of
Australia at 25 metre resolution. The imagery will also be geo-linked to a range of different
scaled raster maps. An appropriate scaled raster map is automatically displayed depending
upon the zoom level. This will allow users to easily locate their area of interest at any scale
and view the corresponding imagery”.
The patented ECW compression technology is fast becoming the spatial industry standard for
wavelet-based imagery compression. ECW provides up to 100:1 multi-band compression at
speeds up to 50% faster than its closest competitor. The ECW format also provides viewing
that is 300% faster than any other wavelet-based compression format, thus adding the ability
to efficiently deal with gigabyte sized image files.
Earth Resource Mapping is the world's leading image handling and integrated mapping
software company, with a network of resellers worldwide. People in 120 countries use
ER Mapper to prepare imagery, ECW to compress and use the Image Web Server to serve
imagery.
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