TerraShare – Distributed Image Data Management

There are a lot of ongoing changes in today s Geo-data market. Traditional areas but especially new industries like telecommunication, car navigation as well as new technologies like location based services (LBS) are leading to a high demand of digital data. Data production shops have to be prepared for a huge amount of data throughput. Managing this data is a critical problem facing today s private and governmental imagery producers and users. Being the worlds leader for industry solutions in earth imaging Z/I Imaging expanded it s product line by introducing TerraShare – a comprehensive data management and distribution solution for geo-image data and projects. The paper describes the benefits of Terrashare and explains details about architecture, modules and functionality of this product family adressing customers needs towards high productivity and seamless workflow.