The software

VueNZ uses Erdas’ Image Web Server (IWS) software.

This high-performance, specialised server application delivers imagery to desktop, web, server and mobile applications, enabling networks with relatively low bandwidths to access very large image files. It means VueNZ can deliver multi-terabyte datasets quickly and easily, straight to your computer systems.

Here’s how it works…

VueNZ responds to requests for images (or parts of images) from your organisation’s application across the internet. When VueNZ receives your request, it accesses the image in ECW or JPEG2000 format and sends it back to you using your preferred protocol.

VueNZ supports a wide range of protocols to ensure maximum compatibility with other applications. All protocols run in parallel from the server simultaneously, enabling the same image to be delivered using the interface that best suits your applications.

VueNZ includes high-performance ECWP streaming (the fastest way to access large imagery datasets), through which compressed blocks are transferred from the server to your application, enabling real-time roaming and zooming. To enable ECWP streaming access, free plug-ins are available for Internet Explorer and Netscape browsers, as well as many major imaging packages.

The security

VueNZ complies with the standards of e-Government transactions and those established by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). And you can rest assured that any imagery you supply to VueNZ will be held securely and made available only to authorised parties.

The compatibility

VueNZ imagery can be delivered in a format that suits your business, including WMS, ECWP, ArcXML and ImageX.

VueNZ supports ESRI's de facto industry standard ArcXML interface. This ArcXML service in the Image Web Server serves ECW image data as standard JPEG or PNG map files making it compatible with the ESRI ArcIMS Server.