Military Geospatial Technology – 2007 – Speeding Image Sharing

For years, users who were sharing geospatial imagery would have to wait and whittle: Wait to download a huge geospatial image file, then whittle it down to the average 1 percent or 2 percent of the image they were after. The mammoth size of geospatial imagery strained communications architectures, while the lack of interoperability across storage and service networks made it difficult to manage imagery and data.