ERDAS Rocks World Tour…Coming to a City near You!

ERDAS announces the ERDAS Rocks world tour promoting its 2010 Software Release, providing an opportunity for attendees to experience the power and excitement of this significant release locally. With more than 30 years of experience pioneering geospatial solutions, attendees will see the fusion and culmination of innovation in the ERDAS 2010 Software Release.

In collaboration with TecnoGeo, the first ERDAS Rocks event will be held in Madrid, Spain on October 30 at the Conference Center Hotel Meliá Avenida de América. Other cities on the world tour in 2009 include Johannesburg, South Africa; Moscow, Russia; Rome, Italy; Atlanta, Georgia, USA and Alexandria, Virginia, USA, with more events planned globally in 2010.

ERDAS Announces New 2010 Software Release at GEOINT

ERDAS just announced the release of ERDAS 2010 software products from a big ERDAS booth at GEOINT 2009 in San Antonio. ERDAS 2010 product release is a major event for both desktop and enterprise products.

Key announcements include

• A total makeover for ERDAS IMAGINE organizing features and functionality into tabs and toolsets in a ribbon interface.
  
• Debut of the ERDAS Geoprocessing Service, an implementation of the OGC Web Processing Service (WPS) specification (v1.0) with the capability to publish, discover and execute processing algorithms on spatially referenced data using the IMAGINE Spatial Modeling Engine on the internet.

Server-side geoprocessing is provided as an end-to-end workflow across ERDAS desktop and enterprise products. Image analysts use ERDAS IMAGINE to create robust, custom models and publish them to the APOLLO catalog. From APOLLO catalog, the models are made accessible and executable by consumer users, on demand, from 2D and 3D clients like the ERDAS APOLLO Web Client (2D), and the ERDAS TITAN Viewer 3D virtual globe.

Here's a screenshot showing input parameters and results of an executed geoprocess, an NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index), in the 3D TITAN Viewer:

ERDAS TITAN Beta has Begun!

ERDAS TITAN 2010 BETA has begun! Products are officially beta-released and available at http://beta.erdas.com, and are supported by detailed installation and admin guide, powerpoints, what’s new, FAQs, product description, system specs and more.

One of our hottest new features of the upcoming release is Geoprocessing (WPS) directly from the ERDAS TITAN Viewer. Users may now connect to ERDAS APOLLO Catalogs via the TITAN Viewer to discover and execute geoprocesses and visualize results in a 3D virtual globe.

Contact your ERDAS Sales Rep or call +1 (877) GO ERDAS now to participate!!

OSM (actual) Mapping Party Event, Sept 11-13

The Open Street Map registration page for the Atlanta Mapping Party (Sept. 11-13, 2009) is now open. City o'ATL residents are gearing up to have the biggest, baddest, most feature-mapping mapping party ever! Register now!

The most digitally mapped city on Earth

You're never too old to go to a Mapping Party, and be a part of something special...

In a landmark initiative that YOU can participate in, OSM seeks to make Atlanta “most digitally mapped city on Earth." OSM points out that you do not have to be GIS or GPS enthusiast to participate, you just need a healthy desire to help put Georgia “on the map”!

The flyer has info on the next planning meeting, July 15 at Gordon Biersch brewery in Midtown ATL, including more complimentary food and libations.

See you there!

TITAN Disaster Response Tool on GEOSS

The Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) is a 'system of systems' providing environmental data and decision-support tools to end users. The goal of GEOSS is to link together worldwide observation systems, and ultimately become a global public infrastructure that delivers comprehensive, near-real-time environmental data and analysis.

ERDAS contribution to the 2nd GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot is the ERDAS TITAN “geosspilot2” instance, geospatial collaboration and information sharing infrastructure deployed for GEOSS user communities. ERDAS TITAN enables the rapid establishment of ad hoc, spatially-enabled data sharing networks between corporate servers and users desktops. Learn more and connect to the geossPilot2 network here.

See a short movie demonstrating how TITAN fits into the architecture of the GEOSS Societal Benefit Area of Disaster Management, here. On the left menu, under "SBA Scenarios" select "Disaster Management." The movie shows the TITAN Viewer displaying SPOT 5 WCS coverages from a geoprocessing workflow, then integrating ALOS data from a separate server.

"The ERDAS TITAN Client mash ups support pre and post analysis by collaborative sharing of the acquired imagery among map producers, decision makers and emergency responders."

You know you use desktop data..

Thanks Randy at NRGS GIS Blog for posting about this reality: In the ideal world, all data in your organization would be centrally organized, discoverable and served. But in the real world, so much data still lives on the desktop, for a variety of reasons. For Randy's customers:

"My biggest issue with server components is that all of my customers currently don’t deal with a server since they are all too small. For them life is about getting accurate data and sharing that data with customers and clients. they aren’t big enough to be able to afford a typical server solution."

Randy describes how TITAN solves this problem, noting that 'Titan is a component that ties things together - or ties data and people together."

"If I’m working on a project and someone two buildings over wants to use my data I can load it into Titan and they can see it. Say they are working in Arcmap and need to see it - I can publish it out as a WMS. I Instant message them and let them know what I’ve done and discuss the data with them."

Download and try TITAN and see why Randy knows it's so great.