By conforming with INSPIRE rules for establishing an “INfrastructure for SPatial Information in Europe,” software solutions ultimately serve the European Commission (EC) environmental policies. Land topography, land use and infrastructure, flood forecasting, or environment and health information layers do not stop at national borders, and interoperability requirements then encompass data transfer protocols, data harmonization rules, and security and rights management.
ERDAS maintains a strong commitment to international OGC/ISO standard bodies, and is engaging as a part of the INSPIRE Spatial Data Interest Community (SDIC) with other SDICs and Legally Mandated Organisations (LMOs), developing INSPIRE Data Specifications. Join us for this webinar to learn more about ERDAS' involvement in the INSPIRE initiative.
Register Now – 2pm BST
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Roll up, roll up for a fabulous competition. Have a look at the attached flier and see if you can decode the hidden message contained within it.
The prize is a fabulous Nintendo Wii and Guitar Hero. If you think you’ve cracked it, go to www.erdas.com/mystery and enter.
Be quick, entries end on March 30th 2010.
]]>Slashdot reported earlier this year on the FOSS4G web server benchmarking. The big news was that ESRI were taking part, but then pulled out. The hope was to get both ESRI and MapGuide in to the frame to see how they did. With the recently announced ERDAS 2010 released, Chris Tweedie over at ERDAS took it upon himself to run some benchmarks (also reported in Slashdot). The results certainly look impressive (up to twice as fast as Mapserver) which I guess is why they were happy to put the product forward. ESRIs silence is deafening....
Looking forward to the next FOSS4G shootout…
]]>LPS eATE is an add-on module to LPS, an integrated suite of workflow-oriented photogrammetry software tools for production mapping, including the generation of digital terrain models, orthophoto production and 3D feature extraction. Automating precision measurement, maintaining accuracy and including flexible operations such as image mosaicking, LPS increases productivity while ensuring high accuracy.
Easily scalable, LPS eATE is an ideal solution for both small and large terrain generation jobs. LPS eATE utilizes the power of multi-core computer systems and supports parallel processing across a networked group of computers.
Providing an unparalleled environment for processing terrain data, LPS eATE can handle a wide range of data input, from satellite to airborne frame to digital pushbroom sensor. With modern airborne and satellite sensors achieving increasingly higher resolutions, LPS eATE maximizes this image resolution and generates high-density results. With terrain processing options, users have complete control over their results.
LPS eATE also includes tools for producing LAS point clouds. Increasing flexibility, LPS eATE supports the ability to visualize imagery in 3D by associating RGB values with terrain points in a LAS file. Additionally, the output point clouds can be classified and automatically filtered to remove undesired objects as an integrated part of the eATE process.
“Production mapping professionals are demanding experts who inherently understand what accuracy and reliability mean. With an increasing number of sensors delivering vast amounts of raw imagery every day, they need to rely on powerful tools that boost their productivity,” said Mladen Stojic, Senior Vice President, Product Management & Marketing, ERDAS. “LPS eATE provides a set of tools to produce high-resolution terrain information from stereo imagery in a shorter timeframe.”
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You can now download the latest version (released 7th December 2009) of all the ERDAS software from www.erdas.com. All the new software requires new license codes – these will be backwardly compatible with previous versions using the ERDAS-Net licensing. Contact us to get your 2010 licenses.
Here’s a document describing the latest updates to the software.
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Do you need to publish your spatial models to other users over the internet? During this webinar, we will seamlessly work through a local government’s dataset, showcasing the entire geoprocessing workflow. This webinar will illustrate how to author spatial data models in ERDAS IMAGINE, catalogue and serve these models as OGC WPS in ERDAS APOLLO and consume and use the WPS in the ERDAS TITAN client and other web applications.
ERDAS provides the most interoperable geoprocessing services in the industry. Users can run an entire model (such as change detection), completely contained within a single WPS process. The complexity of the algorithm stored under a single process is unique, enabling an end-user to create on demand line of sight, elevation change, image change detection and more.
During this webinar, you will have direct interaction with the presenter to ask questions. For more information about our upcoming webinars, please visit: www.erdas.com.
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Great to see that Infoterra is concentrating on the really important things in life.
English wine gets help from space
BBC News - UK
We are keen to ensure your receive the maximum benefit from your support contract and as a result are pleased to offer some very low cost training courses specifically for universities. The course will cover the latest developments and also give you a chance to look at specific issues that are relevant to you.
This one day ‘ERDAS Refresher Course is available at £245 per person and will be run at Infoterra’s Leicester and Farnborough Offices. Alternatively, they can also be run on site if this is more convenient for you (subject to a minimum number of attendees).
If you’re interested in attending, contact us for more details.
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The dust is just about settling from this year’s ERDAS UK conference and we can take stock. Despite attendance being a tad down on last year, we felt that again these two days went extraordinarily well.
It’s great to be able to meet up with so many of our users and get first hand feedback as to what everyone is using the software for and also getting a heads up on the niggles and difficulties encountered. We’ve had a quick look at the feedback, and it seems that pretty much all of you found the conference to be both useful and enjoyable. One of the key points in the feedback seemed to be the liking for hands-on sessions: you want more, larger and longer. Logistically, it’s tricky to set this sort of thing up, but we’ll be looking at ways to try and accomplish this.
We’d like to thank all our speakers, who gave great talks on a wide range of subjects. Special thanks: to Ian Anderson for coming over from Atlanta and being the voice of technical ERDAS; to Dr. Thomas Bayer for the keynote speech; to Phil Cooper for services to speaking above and beyond the call of duty (he’ll regain his voice in a week or so I’m sure) and again to Sharon Jordan who magnificently marshalled both us before the conference and everyone during it.
Hope to see you all next year!
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We’re looking forward to the start of GeoImaging 2009 at St. Anne’s College, Oxford. Everything is set up, and all we have to do is wait for all our delegates to turn up tomorrow.
Don’t forget if you’re coming, that there’s no parking at the college. Please use the Pear Tree Park and Ride on the ring road.
This is the first time we’ll be able to show ERDAS 2010 off with its new, ribbon interface. It’s still in beta, but I’ve had a little play already and it both looks and feels good. I’ll post more info after Ian Anderson’s talk and seminar later tomorrow.
However, now it’s time to get our throats lubricated for all the talking we’ll be doing over the next couple of days…
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