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Google Earth Enterprise - Overview
Explore geographic information with the power of Google Earth Enterprise, a 3D visualisation of the earth that integrates, organises and publishes your enterprise's location data. Google Earth Enterprise allows you to put the power of Google Earth inside your organisation. Combine enterprise data with Google Earth data delivered by ASP. Or, host your own complete dataset. Now with support for 2D browser-based access using the Google Maps API, your valuable geospatial data can be integrated into web-based applications or viewed by any user, regardless of their client software.
Components
The Google Earth Enterprise Solution is comprised of three elements:
- Google Earth Fusion to store, style and organise data into a seamless viewable globe or 2D browsable map
- Google Earth Server to host and stream data to end user software
- Google Earth Enterprise Client or Browser-based 2D Maps view for viewing, printing, searching and data authoring
New Features
- Browser-based 2D Maps view of Google Earth Enterprise implementations using the AJAX architecture of the Google Maps API
- Enhanced search framework that enables the integration of multiple search services through Java plug-ins, including the Google Search Appliance
- Handling of streaming KML- including region-based imagery, Google SketchUp 3D buildings, dynamic data layers
- Build, host and serve multiple worlds to your users
Enterprise challenge
- Massive investment in geospatial data acquisition and storage that only a few technical people can use
- Making the large datasets available to end users in a simple, fast solution.
- Organise and distribute corporate geographic data
The solution
Google Earth's technology adds value to your organisation's current geospatial, GIS and LBS investments with rich styling, attribute search, multiple hosting options and the easy-to-use Google Earth Client and Google Maps interface. The Google Earth Enterprise solution integrates and operates with your geospatial, GIS and LBS environments, and completes the life cycle of your operations by distributing this data to your users in a fast, easy-to-use system. We offer Google Earth Enterprise Pro, a full enterprise solution for authoring and serving stand-alone earth databases that includes imagery, terrain, vector and KML data. We also offer Google Earth Enterprise LT, a vector and KML-based solution that enables rich styling and serving of data on top of Google Earth's public database.
User benefits
- Fast - Google Earth uses sophisticated streaming technology to get rich geo-data to your users with amazing speed and full context
- Complete - the Google Earth Enterprise system can host massive databases containing various geographic data. Create a 3D globe or 2D map for all of your geospatial data. Create custom search tabs to explore geographic attributes or databases.
- Flexible - Google Earth Enterprise works with a variety of traditional GIS system and data. Google Earth can be used to publish data stored in these systems throughout your organisation or to the public. Google Earth Enterprise also allows you to serve multiple globes and 2D maps to end users allowing you to group your data on various interests.
Technology benefits
- Massively scalable - hundreds of daily users can be supported from a single server, thousands from a small cluster
- Unparalleled speed - patent-pending 3D technology provides fluid game-like access to remotely hosted multi-terabyte databases
- Compatible with legacy GIS - incorporate data in dozens of industry standard raster and vector GIS file formats
Key features
- Massively scalable architecture publishes terabytes of geo-data to many users from a server cluster
- 3D view provides a complete picture of the area of interest by fusing imagery, elevation data, points, lines polygons, 3D models and dynamic KML
- Browser-based 2D Maps view gives your users a Google Maps-like view of your imagery and vector data, inside your network
- Fluid and responsive interaction streaming technology enables easy exploration of massive datasets via the Google Earth Client or browsable 2D maps
- Search functions allow users to search geographic data attributes and databases
- Collaboration and sharing are enabled through built-in tools to email views, placemarks and annotations using KML, a flexible XML format
Success stories
Google Earth Enterprise has benefited various industries by leveraging Google geospatial technology in-house and adding value to existing data. But don't take our word for it - read about the implementations carried out by some of our current customers.
Uses
The Google Earth Enterprise Solution is used by: