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1. E gt set LT ARCGIS LOGFILE C irlRaster log E gt E Program Files ArcGIS Bin ArcMap exe 10 Adding Images to an AIS Image Service Adding Images to an AIS Image Service All ArcGIS Images Server AIS image services are created in ArcMap using the Image Service Def inition Editor NOTE The Image Service Definition Editor is part of ESRI s Image Service Extension which is part of ArcGIS Image Server not ArcMap but which must be installed on an existing ArcMap instal lation See ESRI s documentation for more information To create a new image service 1 Inthe Image Service Definition Editor cnoose New Image Service from the Image Serv ice menu as shown below Image Service Definition Editor Image Service Layer New Image Service Advanced gt Image Server Help The New Image Service Wizard starts This wizard will guide you through the service creation process In order to base your service on the Express Server images pick the IRL file s corresponding to those images You must specify a Raster Type of IRL as shown below For information about the other fields in this wizard see the topic About the New Image Service Wizard 11 ExpressView Browser Plug in User Manual parameters in the Help for ESRI s ArcGIS Image Server New Image Service Wizard HEI Input data for the image service Raster type Georeferenced Imagery IRL LizardT
2. The LizardTech Plugin for ArcGIS allows easy and efficient interoperability between ArcGIS products and LizardTech Express Server and Spatial Express It enables ArcGIS users to e Add MrSID JPEG 2000 and NITF images from Express Server into your ArcMap documents e Add MrSID and JPEG 2000 images from Oracle Spatial into your ArcMap documents e Serve MrSID JPEG 2000 and NITF images from Express Server via ArcGIS Image Server AIS System Requirements The LizardTech Plug in for ArcGIS requires the following system components e One of the following operating systems o Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 o Microsoft Windows XP SP2 o Microsoft Windows 2003 SP1 o Microsoft Windows Vista e 1 5 GHz Intel Pentium 4 Processor 2 6 GHz recommended e 256 MBRAM e ArcGIS 8 x or 9 x for adding images from Express Server to ArcMap documents Note For adding images from Oracle Spatial on Vista ArcGIS 9 3 is required The following additional components are required for adding images from Oracle Spatial to ArcMap documents e Oracle 10gR2 Enterprise Edition with the Spatial Option local or remote e Spatial Express NOTE The LizardTech Plug in for ArcGIS supports U S English only ExpressView Browser Plug in User Manual Importing Images from Express Server into ArcMap or ArcGIS Image Server Before you add images catalogued in an Express Server to either ArcGIS Image Server AIS or Arc map you must import those images Importin
3. The source code necessary to build the gnutim or ergx libraries is available under the GNU Library General Public License For more information regarding this license please refer to www opensource org This application uses Kakadu software licensed from Unisearch Software Ltd This application uses GML powered by Galdos Galdos and GALDOS are trademarks of Galdos Sys tems Inc used under license GML and GMLJP2 are OGC standards copyright O 2008 Open Geos patial Consortium Inc All rights reserved To obtain additional rights of use visit http www opengeos patial org legal This software uses the LIBTIFF Software Library copyright O 1988 1997 Sam Leffler and copyright O 1991 1997 Silicon Graphics Inc This program utilizes the Independent JPEG Group s LIBJPEG library copyright O 1991 1998 Thomas G Lane MODIS image dataset provided by Reto Stockli NASA Earth Observatory rstock li climate gsfc nasa gov This code relies on a number of Open Source software packages including but not limited to cppunit crypto expat GDAL zlib perl gcc cvs OpenSSL gSOAP doxygen and Linux LizardTech thanks the Open Source community for its efforts This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation http www apache org 19 ExpressView Browser Plug in User Manual Index About IRL files 15 Add Data dialog 8 Add Spatial Express Data extension 14 Adding images to ArcGIS Image Server 11
4. Adding the Add Spatial Express Data button to ArcMap toolbar 14 AIS 11 ArcMap document adding imagesto 8 Background color 16 Creating a new image service 11 Image Service Definition Editor 11 Importing images from Express Server 6 Importing images from Oracle Spatial 13 IRL files 16 for Express Server imagery 6 for Oracle Spatial 15 IRLFetch 6 9 LizardTech 17 other products 17 LT ARCGIS LOGFILE 9 New Image Service Wizard 11 20 Oracle Spatial 13 Spatial Express 13 System requirements 5 Troubleshooting 9 Index 21
5. to add to your map an IRL file is written locally to a pre configured directory If you select more than one GeoRaster image an IRL file is created for each one The IRL file contains the connection information and the identifying Raster Data Table Raster ID key for the selected GeoRaster in the Oracle database To avoid filename collision each file is also named using a combination of the database connect identifier the Raster ID and the Raster Data Table IRL files are written to a folder in the current user s Application Data directory This folder is not configurable Once the IRL file is created it is added to your map The image is then rendered by the Raster Data Object component which is called upon by the ArcObjects framework to position and provide pixels for Spatial Express images referenced in IRL files If the password for a GeoRaster image is stored locally users can later open the map without enter ing the password By default the password is stored reversibly hashed so that it is not readable in plain text If the password is not stored users must supply the password each time they restart Arc Map and open the corresponding map You may choose not to store the password locally by selecting the Prompt for Password Before Opening Images checkbox on the Browse GeoRasters dialog box see Importing Images from Oracle Spatial into ArcMap above For more information see Changing an Image s Background Color Via an IRL File on p
6. 558 302 This license does not authorize or permit you to use any other product or perform any other method or activity involving the use of LZW Any other use of LZW may require that you obtain a separate LZW license in writing from Unisys This product includes GDAL libraries for coordinate referencing support Copyright 2000 Frank Warmerdam Permission is hereby granted free of charge to any person obtaining a copy of this soft ware and associated documentation files the Software to deal in the Software without restriction including without limitation the rights to use copy modify merge publish distribute sublicense and or sell copies of the Software and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so subject to the following conditions The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software ERDAS IMAGINE IMG file format access utilities are copyright 1991 2003 Erdas Inc All rights reserved Unauthorized use or duplication prohibited IMG file support is provided under license from 18 Appendix Erdas Inc As part of this file support the following applies Time conversion support is implemented using the time library copyright O 1985 89 Free Software Foundation Inc Regular expression pars ing and support is implemented using the extended regular expression matching and search library copyright O 1985 89 Free Software Foundation Inc
7. DES BEX o x ag Layers E Seattle jp2 irl RGB red Band_1 Mi Green Band 2 M Blue Band 3 sl i v Source Selection Bolena gt van y ROS Oy A lo Aral lho gt Br uj Avr amp 551103 955 5273740 646 Meters W Troubleshooting 1 If ArcGIS reports Invalid Raster Format when viewing an Express Server image it is most likely due to one of the following A There has been a communication error with the Express Server Verify that the Express Server is running and accessible from your computer http lt server ip gt lt por t gt lizardtech iserv browse style none B The image has been removed or renamed on the Express Server In this case you should delete the directory containing the IRL files for that server and run IRLFetch again see Importing Images from Express Server into ArcMap or ArcGIS Image Server on page 6 ExpressView Browser Plug in User Manual C Some other software was installed that unregistered the DLLs required to run the Lizard Tech Plug in for ArcGIS In this case the best thing to do is to uninstall and reinstall the plug in 2 If you define an environment variable LT ARCGIS LOGFILE to be a path to a file then the plug in will generate diagnostic information in the file which will be helpful for troubleshooting For example executing the following commands in the Windows command shell would record log information in the file C NirlRaster log
8. LizardTech Plug in for ArcGIS User Guide Copyrights Copyright 2008 2010 LizardTech All rights reserved Information in this document is subject to change without notice The software described in this document is furnished under a license agree ment or nondisclosure agreement The software may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of those agreements No part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval sys tem or transmitted in any form or any means electronic or mechanical including photocopying and recording for any purpose other than the purchaser s personal use without the written permission of LizardTech LizardTech 1008 Western Avenue Suite 200 Seattle Washington U S A 98104 206 652 5211 www lizardtech com Table of Contents 2 Introduction PECEDNDR ER NERBERDER A A 4 System Requirements een 5 Importing Images from Express Server into ArcMap or ArcGIS Image Sei ns is pee tegen a le he 6 Adding Images to an ArcMap Document o oo eee 8 Adding Images to an AIS Image Service cece 11 Importing Images from Oracle Spatial into ArcMap 13 Changing an Image s Background Color Via an IRL File 16 A o A sees eters ee oy ha hos E ha dda E 17 e AAA A IE bt patna aaa dant tt a ANDO co ITS net de 20 Introduction Thank you for using LizardTech software and welcome to the documentation for the LizardTech Plug in for ArcGIS
9. Trademarks and Credits Copyright 2008 LizardTech Inc 1008 Western Avenue Suite 200 Seattle WA 98104 Unauthor ized use or distribution prohibited Access to and use of this code is permitted only under license from LizardTech Inc Portions of the code are protected by US and foreign patents and other filings All Rights Reserved LizardTech and the LizardTech logo are property of LizardTech Inc DjVu and MrSID are registered trademarks of LizardTech Inc Unauthorized use is prohibited Microsoft Windows and NT are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the U S and or other countries Intel and Pentium are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation Bentley is a registered trademark of Bentley Software Inc ESRI is a registered trademark and Arclnfo is a service mark of Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc ERDAS and ERDAS IMAGINE are registered trademarks of Erdas Inc Intergraph is a registered trademark of Intergraph Corporation MapInfo is a registered trademark of MapInfo Corporation Oracle is a registered trade mark of Oracle Corporation and or its affiliates Sun and Solaris are registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems Autodesk is a registered trademark of Autodesk Inc All other trademarks are the prop erty of their respective owners Support for TIFF LZW in this product is under license from Unisys Corporation The LZW capability is protected under foreign counterparts of U S Patent No 4
10. age 16 15 ExpressView Browser Plug in User Manual Changing an Image s Background Color Via an IRL File You may change the background color of an image viewed in ArcGIS by opening the IRL file in a text editor and manually adding a background flag bg along with the hexadecimal RGB code for the desired color For example the following text from an IRL file specifies an Express Server a catalog and an image but uses no background flag so the image will be rendered with the default black background http dem o l izardtech com 80 lizardtech iserv getimage cat Seattle amp item iserv catalog index A blue background is specified by appending the background flag with the code for blue as follows http dem o l izardtech com 80 lizardtech iserv getimage cat Seattle item iserv catalog indexsbg 0000ff NOTE Changing the IRL for an image does not change the original image data stored on an Express Server or Oracle Spatial database 16 Appendix Appendix About LizardTech and LizardTech Products Since 1992 LizardTech has delivered state of the art software products for managing and distributing massive high resolution digital content such as geospatial image data LizardTech pioneered MrSID Multiresolution Seamless Image Database a powerful wavelet based image encoder viewer and file format and sits on the Technical Committee of the Open Geos patial Consortium OGC for the purpose of e
11. ech Express Server v 3 Input File Folder IV Recursively search subdir fe iUImagesiSeattle part MG3410tet279302 sid irl al Use this spatial reference For all input data Band combination 1 2 3 Apply pansharpe lt Back Next gt Cancel The output of the wizard is a compiled service definition in an ISCDEF file that you can add to AIS using ESRI s Image Server Manager application ESRI s AIS s Help topic Publishing image services with the Image Server Manager contains more information about this application 12 Importing Images from Oracle Spatial into ArcMap Importing Images from Oracle Spatial into Arc Map The LizardTech Plug in for ArcGIS enables users to import image data from an Oracle database into their ArcView application With the plug in ArcMap users can click a button on the ArcMap toolbar to browse Oracle Spatial tables and choose one or more MrSID SID or JPEG 2000 JP2 GeoRaster images to add to their maps Importing imagery from a database for use in ArcMap involves connecting to a server and specifying the GeoRaster table and column from which you wish to import an image and the image s raster ID To connect to an Oracle database and select an image 1 Click the Add Spatial Express Data button on the ArcMap toolbar If you have not yet added this button see Adding the Add Spatial Express Data Button to the ArcMap Toolbar on page 14 The Login dialog box appears a
12. erver into ArcMap or ArcGIS Image Server 4 Itis not necessary to generate world files or AXL files for ArcGIS However it is highly rec ommended that you select the Write AUX files checkbox as these files contain positioning and spatial reference information necessary for more consistent behavior in some ArcGIS ver sions 5 Click OK Once you ve imported all the IRL files you can add them to ArcMap documents or AIS Service def initions See your ArcGIS documentation for further information NOTE IRL files based on NITF Raw images published on Express Server may be displayed stretched on the X axis This can be corrected on the server side by using world files to position the NITF tiles ExpressView Browser Plug in User Manual Adding Images to an ArcMap Document To add images to an ArcMap document 1 Start ArcMap 2 Create anew project or open an existing one 3 Click on the button to add an image to your document The Add Data dialog appears as shown below Add Data Look in E Geo se ff Seattle jp2 irl 4 Seattle2 jp2 irl Name Seattieip2in Show of type Datasets and Layers lyr E Cancel 4 Browseto the directory where you imported your Express Server images and select the image you wish to add 5 Click Add and ArcMap will draw your image Adding Images to an ArcMap Document LizardTech mxd ArcMap ArcView TER File Edit View Insert Selection Tools Window Help
13. g an image really means creating an IRL file a local file which represents that image the image itself is very large and stays in its original location see About IRL Files on page 15 This is quickly and easily accomplished using the IRLFetch appli cation The IRLFetch utility explores an Express Server site and produces a local directory tree containing ref erences IRL files to the images published there To create and import IRL files for Express Server imagery 1 Choose Start gt Programs gt LizardTech gt Express Server Plugin for ArcGIS gt Import from Express Server The IRLFetch utility appears as shown below 9 Import from Express Server This dialog allows you to import image information from an Express Server to your local hard drive It saves the information in small files called IRL files These files can be used directly within ArcGIS and ArcIMS Express Server from which to import host ga 8 port 80 Local directory to save images fc Documents and Settings mmcinnis Browse Options Only import georeferenced images V Write AUX files recommended for ArcGIS V Write AXL files required for ArcIMS Write World files used by ArcIMS Cancel 2 Enter the host and port of the Express Server which is hosting the images that you wish to work with 3 Browse for or enter the path to the directory you wish to save the imported images in Importing Images from Express S
14. n for rapidly distributing large datasets of raster imagery With Express Server users on any device over any connection access imagery faster Express Server enables organizations to serve more users in less time using widely adopted standards and familiar tools without adding hardware or bandwidth Learn more about Express Server at http www lizardtech com products exp Spatial Express Spatial Express is a set of command line tools and a compression plug in that together enable you to load georeferenced raster imagery into your Oracle Database 10gR2 Storing imagery as compressed 17 ExpressView Browser Plug in User Manual MrSID or JPEG 2000 imagery instantly reduces database storage requirements by as much as 95 per cent and enables you to easily retrieve desired image scenes according to geospatial and other meta data Learn more about Spatial Express at http www lizardtech com products spatial ExpressView Browser Plug in ExpressView Browser Plug in formerly MrSID Browser Plug in gives standard Windows and Mac Web browsers the ability to natively view MrSID and JPEG2000 images The intuitive graphic user interface allows you to view magnify print and save images ExpressView Browser Plug in is free for individual use and is easily installed as a plug in for Netscape Internet Explorer and Safari Web browsers Download this plug in at http www lizardtech com download dl_options php page plugins Copyrights
15. s shown below User Name geouser Password A Database qa2ksenib01 pA1 1521 qageorw2 Corcel 2 Enterthe username password and database and click OK The Browse GeoRasters dialog box appears as shown below 13 ExpressView Browser Plug in User Manual Browse GeoRasters GeoRaster Tables GEORASTER TABLE v GeoRaster Columns GEORASTER iw GeoRaster Objects Raster Data Table Raster ID Name TEST RASTER DATA 18sth8 TEST_RASTER_DATA 18sth8 TEST RASTER DATA 18sth8 18sth8 18sth8 TEST RASTER DATA TEST RASTER DATA 1 2 3 4 5 6 Prompt for Password Before Opening Images write overwrite Aux file IV co 3 Select a GeoRaster table and GeoRaster column from the drop down menus The GeoRaster Objects field is populated with a list of available GeoRaster images from the specified column sorted by Raster ID Info for each listed item includes its Raster Data Table and any asso ciated descriptive name Note Only JP2 and SID GeoRaster images are listed Images in other compression formats including NONE are not shown Select one or more GeoRaster images from the GeoRaster Objects list Optionally select the Prompt for Password Before Opening Images checkbox With this option the password is not stored locally which means the user must supply it each time the map is opened see About IRL Files on page 15 By default this checkbox is not selected 6 Also note tha
16. t the Write overwrite Aux file check box is selected by default Unless you encounter specific reasons to disable this LizardTech recommends you leave this option ena bled This improves interoperability with some versions of ArcGIS 7 Click OK as Adding the Add Spatial Express Data Button to the ArcMap Toolbar The LizardTech Plug in for ArcGIS includes an extension that enables you to import images from Spa tial Express Before being able to use the Add Spatial Express Data extension to ArcMap you must add a button for the plug in functionality to your ArcMap toolbar This is very easy to do once you install the plug in the Add Spatial Express Data functionality already exists as a custom command All you have to do is select it and drag it onto your toolbar to create a button 14 Importing Images from Oracle Spatial into ArcMap To add the button to your toolbar in ArcMap 1 From the Tools menu select Customize The Customize dialog box appears 2 Select the Commands tab 3 From the Categories list on the left select File A list of available commands appears on the right 4 Click on the Add Spatial Express Data command and drag it to the desired location in your toolbar 5 Click Close About IRL Files NOTE The following discussion assumes a context of Oracle Spatial images being accessed via Spatial Express but IRL files are also used by Express Server When you select a GeoRaster image
17. xtending the capabilities of JPEG 2000 to geospatial applications driving cross platform interoperability and rapid Internet distribution for geospatial imagery LizardTech has offices in Seattle London and Tokyo and is a division of Celartem Technology Inc Hercules 4330 For more information about LizardTech visit www lizardtech com Other LizardTech Products We at LizardTech are glad to have you as a customer While you re in the shop explore Lizard Tech s other great products for managing and distributing geospatial imagery For instant notification of new LizardTech product releases and patches add the following link to your favorite RSS feed reader http www lizardtech conYfiles rss updates xml GeoExpress GeoExpress is the industry standard used by geospatial professionals to manipulate and compress raster image files for use in geospatial applications GeoExpress offers the benefits of both MrSID technology and ISO standard JPEG 2000 without any compromise in image quality In addition to lossless encoding which preserves images with pixel for pixel fidelity ina compressed format easily reusable in downstream applications GeoExpress provides valuable image manipulation tools such as cropping mosaicking reprojection from one coordinate reference system to another and color bal ancing Learn more about GeoExpress at http www lizardtech com products geo Express Server Express Server is a server applicatio

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