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Explore the World with ESRI ArcGIS Explorer
June 01, 2007 |
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Company: ESRI
 Press Information For Immediate Publication Matthew DeMeritt June 1, 2007 ESRI Tel: 909-793-2853, ext. 2930 E-mail: press@esri.com Explore the World with ESRI ArcGIS Explorer Application Offers Free Globes and GIS Tasks to the Public Redlands, California—ESRI announced today that ArcGIS Explorer is available to the public. This unique lightweight application lets you not only connect directly to a variety of ready-to-use globes hosted by ESRI but also provides tasks that allow you to do more than just visualize a simple map. You can use ArcGIS Explorer to leverage data, services, and applications on the Web by easily connecting to your own ArcGIS services or those published by others. This application helps you extend the power of these Web-based services by fusing them with your local data. Says Bern Szukalski, ArcGIS Explorer product manager, “You can unlock the power of GIS for others when you author your own content and tasks and deliver access to these using ArcGIS Explorer. With this free application, you can publish ArcGIS Server capabilities within your organization or to anyone on the Web.” Tasks may include advanced geoprocessing and GIS analytic capabilities such as viewshed analysis, terrain profiling, and other ArcGIS Server functions; no programming is necessary to create these tasks. In addition, tasks can be saved in specific maps for specific users, or they can be delivered independently. Both published services and tasks can be centrally managed from a server, so once an update is made to a service, it’s automatically distributed to all users connected to that service, making ArcGIS Explorer an ideal platform for providing wider access to GIS content and capabilities. Upon startup of the free download, ArcGIS Explorer opens a satellite globe. In addition to imagery, you can access other free globes including worldwide streets, terrain, boundaries and labels, political maps, and physiography. These globes are served to ArcGIS Explorer via ArcGIS Online, which is currently in beta. ArcGIS Online gives you access to high-resolution premium imagery at no cost and includes a seamless mosaic of 1 m resolution aerial imagery for the contiguous United States and satellite imagery for the world at 500 m and 15 m resolutions. The high-resolution imagery is a color mosaic of recent commercial imagery for metropolitan areas and best available government imagery for other areas. At the end of the ArcGIS Online beta program, ArcGIS users will be able to subscribe to the premium high-resolution imagery service. Other basic data will continue to be free. ArcGIS Explorer also includes a software developer kit (SDK) that can be used to extend tasks or implement completely custom tasks that are driven by other Web services. ArcGIS Explorer is both free to download and distribute and does not require any other ESRI software product. Explore your world today; download ArcGIS Explorer at www.esri.com/arcgisexplorer. ### About ESRI Since 1969, ESRI has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically. The market leader in GIS, ESRI software is used in more than 300,000 organizations worldwide including each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 7,000 colleges and universities. ESRI applications, running on more than one million desktops and thousands of Web and enterprise servers, provide the backbone for the world’s mapping and spatial analysis. ESRI is the only vendor that provides complete technical solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms. Visit us at www.esri.com. ESRI, the ESRI globe logo, GIS by ESRI, ArcGIS, www.esri.com, and @esri.com are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of ESRI in the United States, the European Community, or certain other jurisdictions. Other companies and products mentioned herein may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective trademark owners. Matthew DeMeritt (press@esri.com) |
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