Creating a Imagery GDB

[ArthurVrechi]

Hi all,

I have several images (different years, sources, types and tiles that are part of a moisaic), and I need to build a Geodatabase (ArcSDE - multiuser) basically to store and view this images (I intend to publish in the future, maybe using Flex or even through ArcReader). I'll not need to perform any process with this images, such as georreferencing, classification, filtering, etc.

Well, as a begginer in GDB with images, I have some questions:

- I'm using the ArcGIS Server Basic Enterprise, do I need the Standard version for my purposes?
- Will I need the Image Extension? What are the benefits of using this extension?
- Will I need to use ArcGIS Image Server?

By what I searched on internet, it looks like I have different options to do this, but I can't see clearly the ways and which one to follow...

Thanks!

[JeffreySwain]

To create the mosaic dataset, you will need the Standard or better license from an ArcMap perspective, but in terms of Server, to publish the mosaic dataset you have to have the image server extension.  This document describes some of the licensing and publishing options for image services.