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Use compressed imagery in any application

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ECW Open Standard image compression

Use The powerful open standard Enhanced Compressed Wavelet (ECW) image technology to compress images with higher quality and in less time than other formats.

ECW images can be read locally or served from an Image Web Server to your applications. Full map geocoding information is recorded so your imagery is always registered.

Higher quality images

  • Produce smaller images without sacrificing image quality
  • Adjustable compression ratio

Faster compression and viewing

  • Compress images in less than half the time required by other products
  • View/decompress images 4-10 times faster with interactive realtime roaming and zooming

Compresses images without limits

  • Compress Greyscale, RGB, multispectral and hyperspectral image
  • ECW can compress images larger than 2GB in size under Windows NT
  • Input files can be of any size or resolution
  • Mosaic 1,000's of images together as one compressed image

Free Viewer

  • Distribute ER Viewer freely to view ECW compressed images

Free ECW Compressor

  • Compress images using GUI or batch command line
  • Very fast and easy to use
  • Multispectral compression in also supported in the free ECW Compressor
  • Download the free ECW Compressor from er-map

Free ECW Open Standard SDKs

  • Take advantage of the free ECW compressor program (for images up to 500MB in size)
  • Develop plugins for additional applications with royalty free ECW Compression /Decompression SDK libraries
  • Use the Image Web Server's ActiveX controls with VBScript, JavaSript and HTML to easily add functions to your Web pages
  • Images of over 500MB can be compressed with ER Mapper 6.0

SDK libraries are provided free of charge by Earth Resource Mapping as part of our ECW Open Standard commitments.

Free ECW application plugins

ECW plugins are available for web browsers, Offices, GIS and CAD applications including:

  • ArcView
  • MapInfo Professional V4.5 and V5.0 and MapX
  • MapImagery for MapInfo
  • AutoCAD Map and Autodesk World
  • Photoshop
  • Microsoft Office programs such as Word and Excel (with ER Viewer 1.3)

Free Web plugins

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01/5
  • Netscape Navigator 4.5+

Many more plugins are currently under development. To see if your application supports ECW contact Jsits inc.

Prepare ECW images with ER Mapper 6.0

  • With ER Mapper 6.0 you can orthorectify, mosaic, color balance then integrate vector data to produce one compressed image
  • Directly read most popular image formats including: BMP, JPEG, TIFF (including GoeTIFF) ESRI BIL format (.HDR) SOPTView and DOQQ formats
  • Comprehensive list of satellite, seismic and airborne data imports
  • Link to common GIS and database data without importing
  • Vector and GIS imports iclude: ARC/INFO, AutoCAD DXF and DGN

Serve ECW images vie the internet with the Image Web Server

  • Interactively roam and zoom across large images in real time in any application via the internet