ERDAS Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Earth Resource Data Analysis System (now known as ERDAS) was established in 1978. Now a part of the Hexagon Group, Sweden, ERDAS provides solutions that meet the full spectrum of an organization's requirements, transforming geospatial data into information useful for decision-making processes.

Building on the company's rich history and expertise, ERDAS is a leader in the geospatial information market. ERDAS provides the most comprehensive solutions for geospatial data exploitation, geo-processing, photogrammetry, data production, remote sensing, enterprise data management, geo-collaboration and data delivery. With Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) interoperability, ERDAS develops standards-based solutions with the most advanced Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) available.

With solutions for authoring, managing, connecting and delivering geospatial information, ERDAS ensures that data is seamlessly integrated for enterprise, web-based, mobile and desktop clients. As the Earth to Business Company, ERDAS meets everyday business needs.

                    Products from ERDAS :

Geospatial authoring solutions enable users to utilize raw data captured from a variety of sources to produce data sets. Users may prepare this data to be used in numerous applications, increasing its versatility and the ability to derive additional information. With authoring solutions, users may perform a number of processes and analytics. For example, users may reference raw data to location, classify land cover, or develop a spatial model to compute change in an area. Authoring solutions transform source data into products, including orthos, terrain, features, maps, 3D data, land cover data and processing models. Some of ERDAS’ authoring solutions include:

ERDAS IMAGINE® is the world’s foremost remote sensing solution, providing tools to create, manage and analyze imagery to increase the value of your geospatial information. ERDAS IMAGINE combines remotes sensing and GIS capabilities, enabling you to create geospatial data, extract the most information and update your existing GIS data. ERDAS IMAGINE simplifies classification, orthorectification, mosaicking, reprojection and image interpretation, while maintaining the integrity of the geospatial data for updating your GIS in multiple formats, including ESRI Geodatabase and Oracle 10g.

LPS is an integrated suite of photogrammetry software tools for generating terrain models, producing orthophotos and extracting 3D features. Automating precision measurement, maintaining accuracy and including flexible operations such as terrain editing and feature extraction, LPS increases productivity while ensuring high accuracy. Offering a variety of functional add-on modules, LPS adapts to your specific business needs, enabling a seamless, process-driven workflow.

ERDAS ER Mapper provides advanced image processing and compression capabilities widely used in a variety of industries including oil, gas and mineral exploration. ERDAS ER Mapper allows you to visualize, enhance and combine images for a broad array of applications. Extracting the quantitative information you need, ERDAS ER Mapper makes your data more meaningful to solve business problems.

ERDAS Extensions for ArcGIS provide image processing and feature collection for users on the ArcGIS platform. Products include:

Stereo Analyst for ArcGIS: Create and revise a comprehensive database of feature data. Stereo visualization improves the interpretation of images and allows for more precise collection leading to greater accuracy in your resulting layers.

• ERDAS Terrain Editor for ArcGIS: An optional extension to Stereo Analyst for ArcGIS, ERDAS Terrain Editor for ArcGIS enables you to update a Geodatabase Terrain file.
• FeatureAssist for ArcGIS: An add-on to Stereo Analyst for ArcGIS for the collection of roof structures in the ESRI Multipatch format.

Feature Analyst for ArcGIS: Provides geospatial professionals with an automated feature extraction toolset for collecting 2D and 3D features from imagery and scanned maps. Image Analysis for ArcGIS: Solution for preparing, referencing, measuring and analyzing imagery from airborne and satellite sensors. Fully integrated with ArcGIS, it enables you to extract up-todate information from imagery directly into a geodatabase, dramatically increasing accuracy and productivity.

LIDAR Analyst for ArcGIS: Automates the extraction of 3D terrain surfaces, buildings, trees and forest areas, with outstanding accuracy for both leaf-off and leaf-on conditions.


Manage
Thorough and complete data management enables organizations to get the appropriate information to the right people. By centrally managing authored or purchased data, the data is organized for quick and efficient discovery. With ERDAS’ solutions, users can easily manage their information, including finding, describing, cataloging and serving data and web services. Implementing the utmost security measures throughout the managing process, ERDAS adequately protects data, maintaining fidelity on the geospatial investments. ERDAS’ solutions for managing information include:

ERDAS APOLLO eliminates the walls between GIS, photogrammetry and remote sensing, extending geospatial data to business applications. Providing a unified enterprise platform, ERDAS APOLLO manages and serves large volumes of geospatial data located and distributed across an organization. ERDAS APOLLO implements an out-of-the box Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), fully equipped with publishing and consuming capabilities. With a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), ERDAS APOLLO provides an interactively connected framework of spatial data, metadata, users and tools. ERDAS APOLLO seamlessly integrates with existing GIS environments. In addition, ERDAS APOLLO leverages existing business systems, such as the Oracle database for persisting intelligent metadata and application specific information.

ERDAS ADE enables all organizations to deploy spatial information to the people who need it, when they need it. Whether it is an intelligence analyst who requires spatial data to be integrated with an operational intelligence system, a field-deployed technician whose responsibilities include real-time spatial asset tracking, or a developer tasked with the job of creating a new spatial management application, the ERDAS ADE provides a feature set to meet every organizational and spatial need. The ERDAS ADE suite includes ERDAS ADE Enterprise, ERDAS ADE Remote and ERDAS ADE Mobile.

Connect
Organizations need to connect their users to share data. Additionally, organizations often want to securely connect to other businesses (B2B) to exchange and share data efficiently. Increasingly, these organizations are utilizing geospatial data, web services and location-based content, which needs to be shared internally and externally, and to a variety of client applications. ERDAS provides geospatial solutions, securely connecting users and promoting the rapid sharing of content throughout an organization or business-to-business:

ERDAS TITAN is a powerful geospatial data sharing infrastructure that enables users to publish their “top drawer” data to anyone across the network, without shipping gigabytes of data in a bandwidth intensive manner. ERDAS TITAN is a secure solution for rapid permission-based data publishing from the desktop. ERDAS TITAN provides access to unlimited data resources across the organization and enables consumption in a variety of desktop, Internet and 3D virtual globe applications. Empowered by a 3D virtual globe, users create data and content mashups that can be quickly published and viewed by others.

Deliver
After data has been provisioned, users need to be able to deliver the data customers need, the way they want it and when they need it. With ERDAS’ solutions, subscription, mobile and web services containing valueadded content may be delivered to domainspecific and business applications. ERDAS enables users to quickly and efficiently deliver information to wide variety clients, including desktop, web, mobile, OGC web clients and ECWP clients. In addition, ERDAS’ solutions provide the ability to build geoportals as a vehicle for delivery and selling data and information products. With a geoportal, an individual can find the data they need, prepare it, and send it directly to the end-user.

ERDAS Image Web Server is a high-speed, specialized application that efficiently distributes massive amounts of geospatial imagery to thousands of users, all on a single server. Solving the infrastructure congestion problems traditionally associated with deploying large amounts of image data, users quickly access the information they need. With ERDAS Image Web Server, individuals may access imagery using CAD, GIS, mobile, web and desktop applications.

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