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Issue Date: April 2001

Free ECW support for ESRI's Arcview, ArcInfo and ArcGIS products

1 April 2001

Earth Resource Mapping has announced a range of free plug-ins for ESRI's product lines to support the patented enhanced compressed wavelet (ECW) technology. The software will shortly be available for download from www.ermapper.com
The free software applications allow support in these important GIS products that are utilised by a significant number of users around the world in the spatial industry. Using the ECW plug-in a user can significantly improve the task of data management and storage space. A user can mosaic numerous amounts of files into one ECW dataset resulting in less complicated file management needs.
Earth Resource Mapping developed the ECW plug-in due to the high demand from clients worldwide requesting integration capabilities. The company looks forward to the development of new plug-ins for different GIS software packages.
The patented ECW compression technology is fast becoming a spatial industry standard for wavelet-based imagery compression. ECW allegedly provides up to 100:1 multiband compression at speeds up to 50% faster than its closest competitor. The ECW format also provides viewing that is 300% faster than any other wavelet-based compression format, thus adding the ability to efficiently deal with gigabyte-sized image files.
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