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Google Earth Enterprise: Technical Details

The solution

Google Earth's technology integrates with your organization's current geospatial, GIS and LBS solutions, providing additional value with rich styling, attribute search, multiple hosting options and familiar end user tools. The Google Earth Enterprise solution completes the life cycle of your geospatial operations by distributing GIS data to your users via the fast, easy to use Google Earth Client and Google Maps. Google Earth Enterprise is an enterprise-class solution for authoring and serving stand-alone earth databases that includes imagery, terrain, vector and KML data.

Technology benefits

• Massively scalable - hundreds of daily users can be supported from a single server, thousands from a small cluster
• Unparalleled speed - patented 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

Software components

The Google Earth Enterprise Solution is comprised of three software elements:

• Google Earth Enterprise Fusion to store, style, and organize data into a seamless viewable globe or 2D browser based map
• Google Earth Enterprise 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

Key features

• Publish terabytes of geo-data to many users with Google Earth's massively scalable architecture
• Provide a complete 3D view to help users visualize the area of interest by fusing imagery, elevation data, points, lines polygons, 3D SketchUp models, and dynamic KML
• Give users a browser-based 2D Maps view using the Google Maps API's AJAX architecture, so employees have a secure Google Mapslike view of your imagery and vector data
• Enable easy exploration of massive datasets via 3D or 2D views with Google Earth's fluid and responsive interaction streaming technology
• Search geographic data with an enhanced framework that uses Java plug-ins to integrate multiple search services, including the Google Search Appliance
• Collaborate and share with built in tools to email views, placemarks and annotations using KML, a flexible XML format
• Build, host and serve multiple worlds to your users