More Data Formats, LizardTech Support Among EarthWhere 4.3 Updates

SPADAC has launched version 4.3 of EarthWhere, its spatial data management product that provides streamlined, enterprise-wide access to geospatial data, according to the company.

Since SPADAC’s acquisition of EarthWhere in 2007 from SANZ, a former provider of data storage and data management solutions, SPADAC’s product development group has worked to enhance the product and provide technical support to its EarthWhere customers, reportedly resulting in a 79 percent growth in customer product implementations.

“We work closely with customers to identify product enhancements and new functions that will improve their organization’s ability to more quickly and effectively ingest, catalog, explore, and provision data,” said Peter Borissow, SPADAC product manager for EarthWhere. “The added benefits now available to customers through EarthWhere 4.3 are a great example of this, and we’re already planning to make several more optional modules available over the next six months.”

Updates in EarthWhere 4.3 include:

• additional data formats, including Landsat TM/ETM+ in NLAPS format, FORMOSAT-2, and WorldView-1. Version 4.3 also adds more than 200 HARN projections to support customers using aerial-based imagery, according to the company.
• ActiveIngest, a task-based ingestion engine, received a Java-based graphical user interface that provides enhanced reporting statistics, cross-platform support, and progress status.
• an administrative option that facilitates the movement and relocation of source data files and a new tool that helps users find and delete duplicate data source entries.
• a new one-click installer for free installations and upgrades through two packages that wrap all third party dependencies and the core base install.
• an optional LizardTech module that provides the capability to output data products in MrSID (MG2/MG3) or JPEG 2000 format for an additional cost. The EarthWhere base product currently supports only reading and cataloging of MrSID (MG2/MG3) or JPEG 2000 format.