System Requirements

EarthWhere runs on standard 64 bit server hardware and 64 bit versions of Windows Server.

Component
Suggested Requirement
Minimum Requirement
Operating System
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise (64-bit)
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise (64-bit)
CPU
16 CPU cores or better, 64-bit
8 CPU cores, 64-bit
RAM
32GB
16GB
Disk Space for EW*
20GB
20GB
Comments
Install Disk RAID 10
Install Disk NOT RAID 5

* We suggest having the OS installed on one drive, and EW on another (so, OS on C: and EW on D:), being sure that D: is NOT RAID 5 as this impacts database performance.


Supported Formats

EarthWhere supports a wide variety of raster and vector data formats.

Format Read Write Notes
ADRG X    
AutoCAD DXF   X  
CADRG X    
CIB X    
DPPDB X    
DTED X   DTED0, DTED1, DTED2
ENVI X   .hdr Labelled Raster
ERDAS Imagine Format (IMG) X X  
ERDAS Virtual Mosaic (VMC)   X  
ESRI ArcGrid — ASCII X X  
ESRI ArcGrid — Binary X X  
ESRI File Geodatabase X    
ESRI MXD and LYR   X ESRI Map Documents and Layer Files
ESRI Shape Files (SHP) X X  
GeoJP2 X X  
GeoJSON   X  
GeoPDF X    
GeoRSS   X  
GeoTIFF X X Indexed, Strip, Tiled, N-Band Support
GIF   X  
GTOPO X    
JPEG X X With jgw
JPEG2000 X X  
KML X X Google KML Documents
KMZ   X Google Super Overlays
Landsat X   ETM, NLAPS, FastL7
LIDAR (LAS) X    
MapInfo   X  
MrSID X   Supports both MG2 and MG3 compression.
NITF X X Reads NITF 1.1, 2.0, 2.1. Outputs NITF 2.1 with JP2 encoding
PNG   X With ESRI World File
Raw Binary Data X X BIL, BSQ
SHP X X ESRI Shape Files
SRTM X   SRTM30, SRTM90
TFRD X   TFRD 4.3 and 1.3. Requires Classified Module.
TIFF X X With TFW file
USGS DEM X   USGS Elevation Data
USGS DOQ X   First Generation and New Labeled
VPF X   NGA Vector Product Format

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