Engage a Wider Range of Users

Express Server delivers imagery to any device over any connection. Imagery distributed using Express Server is interoperable not only with applications supporting open standards such as OGC’s WMS, but also with web browsers, custom web applications and third-party applications such as Google Earth. You can also use the JPIP protocol to stream massive images over networks in bandwidth-constrained environments. Express Server also speeds up image delivery with ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Image Server.

  Make the World Your Data Library

Web Map Service (WMS) support in Express Server means WMS-enabled clients can integrate your Express Server image repositories with WMS-compliant geospatial data stores anywhere in the world. Your imagery is accessible to worldwide users while locally you leverage the fastest raster delivery technology available.

  Visual Quality

The wavelet-based MrSID, and JPEG 2000 formats enable high compression of images while retaining high resolution and making labor- and storage-intensive image pyramids unnecessary.

  Leverage Sample Applications

Express Server's sample web applications have been updated and are included with the installation, so you can view or show off your imagery using a number of viewing methods - including JavaScript, Flash, and Ajax - right out of the box. LizardTech's ExpressView^™ Browser Plug-in is a freely downloaded viewer that opens all imagery delivered by Express Server. Customizing the sample applications is an easy way to get started running Express Server.

  Deliver a Better User Experience

In panning and zooming, scenes resolve instantly with MrSID, JPEG 2000 and NITF images served by Express Server. That's because only the pixels the user needs are extracted and delivered as users navigate an image.

  Ensure Scalability and Performance

Express Server software includes built-in tools for synchronizing catalog information between Express Servers, so you can easily add another Express Server to your server farm for load balancing or as a hot spare.

  Distribute More Complete Data

Support for geography markup language (GML) in Express Server 7 means you can add geospatial metadata to your JPEG 2000 imagery and Express Server will deliver it intact to GIS applications and other viewing and programming applications. More than just geocoordinates, geospatial metadata enables you to create JPEG 2000 imagery that is “spatially aware.”

  Publish Directly from GeoExpress

Using the Express Server management tools included with versions 7 and later of the GeoExpress^® application, you can rapidly export images in MrSID and JPEG 2000 formats to Express Server catalogs without having to re-encode them.