Management

Handling big and complex image data

Take control of massive archives and make them accessible.

Enable quick access to your data

Many organizations have massive libraries of imagery and other raster data that continue to grow exponentially. Image management makes that data accessible to those within and/or outside your organization. ArcGIS provides the management tools to better organize, structure, and appropriately compress your data, reducing redundancy to maximize infrastructure or move data to cloud environments. 

Making imagery data accessible

Accessing the right data at the right time is critical to facilitate on-target analysis and enable decision support. Understanding what data you have and ensuring it is cataloged appropriately are critical to enable access. ArcGIS image management organizes your overlapping, time-variant, and multiresolution imagery from multiple sources and makes them available for visualization, analysis, and sharing. 

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Create a wide range of products

ArcGIS is the application for creating all types of image products like land-cover classifications, orthophotos, and mosaics. Traditionally, creating these required compute-intensive processing, storage, and complicated workflows. Now, ArcGIS provides image superpowers for on-the-fly processing that prevent data duplication and helps create output products in less time.

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Scale to enable infinite elasticity

ArcGIS image management tools scale on desktop, enterprise, and cloud infrastructures such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. Make your imagery accessible to those in your organization or the general public by publishing it as authoritative content in Portal for ArcGIS and ArcGIS Online. 

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