Query Apollo from TITAN

Just last month ERDAS announced ERDAS APOLLO 2009, a new generation Geospatial Business System that provides a robust SOA environment. Apollo finds, describes, manages and provides rapid delivery of unprecedented volumes of geospatial information to domain specific desktop and web client applications. Compliant with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO), ERDAS APOLLO implements WMS, WCS, WFS, WFS-T and CS-W standards and the ECWP and JPIP wavelet streaming protocols.

And....with the upcoming release of TITAN 2009....TITAN users will now be enabled to query the ERDAS Apollo Image Manager (EAIM) and discover datasets published through OGC web service interfaces, directly from TITAN Clients. Support includes:

Query an EAIM catalog to retrieve layers exposed through a web service
Query metadata using keywords, spatial extent, and date and time
Support for authentication
Support for scale dependent security for WMS layers

For TITAN 2009 August release we have built support for authenticated WMS via custom code, where previously we were using GDAL for WMS support (we still use GDAL for support of many data formats). Support for authenticated WCS is planned as well as other varieties of web services through which Apollo exposes data.


This also means that, along with all the other sources of data they manage in their TITAN Client, TITAN users can now discover and expose data from various EAIM servers in one simple, easy to use interface, and visualize that data in multitudes of applications.

EAIM Server URLs may be provided by GeoHubs or any TITAN user can paste in an EAIM URL, authenticate, query, discover and access data!