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 Emergency Response Data Sharing Solution
Last Updated: 2010-03-02
ERDAS TITAN Client
When a disaster occurs, it is followed by accelerated data acquisition, with vendors quickly producing and compiling geospatial information at high rates. By implementing an ERDAS TITAN, organizations have a tool in place for sharing vast quantities of data in real-time, making data acquired before, during and after the disaster available immediately.
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Accessing the Apollo Mission Images
Last Updated: 2009-11-06
DSW700
In March 2004, scientists began discussing the possibility of digitally scanning the original Apollo mission flight negatives to increase research efforts and public access. Since then, Arizona State University partnered with NASA and utilizing the DSW700 to scan the irreplaceable images.
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Anchorage Reducing Wildfire Risk with ERDAS IMAGINE®
Last Updated: 2009-11-06
ERDAS IMAGINE
The spread of spruce bark beetles around Anchorage has killed trees in over 3.2 million acres. This has drastically increased the threat of wildfires in Alaska. The USDA Forest Service determined the area was a community at risk, requiring the Municipality to take action. ERDAS IMAGINE® was the solution selected, providing an unsupervised classification, with classified imagery used to create a spatial model to determine fire hazard.
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Capturing & Delivering Digital Imagery of the Netherlands
Last Updated: 2009-10-30
ERDAS APOLLO
Based in the Netherlands, CycloMedia Technology B.V. visualizes complete cities, states and countries from public roads, providing geospatial information to central and local governments, homeland security, financial institutions and construction companies.
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Citizens Mobilize GIS for the Space Shuttle Columbia First Response
Last Updated: 2009-11-06
ERDAS IMAGINE
In 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia went down in disaster over eastern Texas. Realizing that satellite image mapping and local assistance would be required, the Humanities Urban Environmental Sciences GIS lab at Stephen F. Austin University immediately began to mobilize units. Utilizing ERDAS IMAGINE® software, this large scale event encompassed a process of data mining, data processing, spatial analysis and map composition, which aided in search and
recovery efforts.
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Combating West Nile Virus with Remote Sensing
Last Updated: 2009-11-06
ERDAS IMAGINE
In the late 1990’s, NASA conducted research utilizing remote sensing and satellite
imaging to track the spread of public health threats. Leveraging these capabilities, the
Monterey County, California Health Department took pro-active steps to help address the
threat of the West Nile virus in their community.
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Conservationists Collaborate to Save Giant Pandas
Last Updated: 2009-11-06
ERDAS IMAGINE
There are an estimated 1,600 pandas remaining in the wild according to results of China’s national panda survey published in 2004. For the past five years, National Zoo staff have traveled to China instruct students and professionals in geospatial technologies, including using ERDAS IMAGINE to rectify, view and mosaic imagery of the panda’s habitat.
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Cultivating Imagery for Better Crops
Last Updated: 2010-03-02
MapShots provides crop management solutions for growers, crop consultants, crop insurance agents, independent fertilizer and chemical retailers and farm supply cooperatives throughout the United States. By implementing ERDAS APOLLO Essentials - Image Web Server, MapShots offers customers the added means to access and serve their imagery over the Internet, without abandoning desktop.
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Empire Challenge
Last Updated: 2009-11-06
LPS
For several weeks in July of 2007, a significant number of Australian, British and Canadian military personnel joined the U.S. military in calling the China Lake area their temporary home.
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ERDAS Software Used to Reconstruct Ruins
Last Updated: 2009-11-09
Stereo Analyst for ERDAS IMAGINE
For several years, New Mexico's McKinley County GIS Center has been working with the Navajo Nation Historic Preservation Department and Chaco Culture National Historic Park to document and create virtual reconstructions of Anasazi ruins and their surrounding landscapes.
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Executing Forestry Applications
Last Updated: 2009-12-02
ERDAS IMAGINE
When processing imagery in compliance with photogrammetric standards, clients require high resolution, precise positioning and fast turn around time. This is critical for spatial data managers who need to continuously improve the accuracy of their GIS systems. When processing digital imagery for the forestry and natural resources industries, ERDAS IMAGINE® and LPS deliver quick productivity and accuracy.
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Géoportail: Public access to 10 terabytes of imagery
Last Updated: 2010-03-02
The Institut Géographique National (National Geographic Institute) or IGN is a French public state administrative establishment that developed a Géoportail site, offering 1000’s of concurrent image data requests per second. To ensure maximum compatibility with the broad-based user audience, ERDAS APOLLO Essentials - Image Web Server’s Web 2.0 Map Control was deployed.
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Hurricane Katrina: Assisting the US Army Corps of Engineers
Last Updated: 2009-11-06
ERDAS ER Mapper
Hurricane Katrina was the costliest and one of the deadliest hurricanes in the history of the United States. Emergency response crews needed up to date imagery to assist rescue and relief efforts. These teams were able to use imagery in their operations on the ground by using compressed ECW image mosaics.
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Imagery Provides Compelling Evidence of Human Rights Violations
Last Updated: 2009-11-06
ERDAS IMAGINE
Recently, Amnesty International launched Eyes on Darfur (www.eyesondarfur.org), an innovative and powerful website utilizing photographs and high-resolution satellite imagery to communicate the crisis in the Darfur region of the Sudan. The satellite images, processed and classified by ERDAS IMAGINE, track human rights violations before and after reported attacks, highlighting changes in houses and vegetation in villages throughout the region.
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Magnasoft
Last Updated: 2009-11-09
LPS
When planning urban and rural development, Magnasoft provides specific services to urban planning consultants in the areas of land use planning, transportation and wastewater recycling. To execute complex projects such as highway and flood mapping, LPS plays an important role in Magnasoft’s workflow along with PRO600.
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Managing Irrigation Needs in Colorado Springs
Last Updated: 2009-11-06
ERDAS IMAGINE
Every ten years, Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) is required by the State Water Resources Board to report the amount of irrigated land within its water service area. Faced with the rapidly approaching deadline, CSU found an accurate and effective solution using ERDAS IMAGINE®.
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 Oregon Implements an Imagery Portal
Last Updated: 2009-11-06
Oregon realized the need for a more efficient distribution mechanism where users acquire digital datasets via a Web-based library/portal system. The primary goal of this portal is to provide datasets to federal, state, and local agencies and institutions of higher education, by allowing users to select an area of interest and then extract/download the data in the appropriate format and projection to the client's site.
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Planning Land Use in Wisconsin with ERDAS IMAGINE®
Last Updated: 2009-11-06
ERDAS IMAGINE
Concerns about the urbanization of the countryside, the loss of rural character and its impact on the farm economy and recreational opportunities have become common. A key part of the regional comprehensive planning process is an update of the regional land use inventory. Because East Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission (Menasha, Wisconsin) regularly employs aerial photography as input material for other planning processes, such as recreation and open space planning, it decided to digitize the project with geographic imaging software, using orthophotographs as references.
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Providing Consistency and Efficiency for the NRCS
Last Updated: 2010-02-25
LPS
An agency of the United States Department of Agriculture,the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), has adopted and implemented a customized geospatial solution to handle large quantities of site-specific, one-of-a-kind aerial photography. This customized solution is called the NRCS Image Registration Wizard, a business user interface for the LPS.
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Quickly Delivering High-Resolution Imagery to Lee County
Last Updated: 2010-03-02
Government agencies, realtors and other groups want complete land information access to make their processes and business activities more efficient. For Lee County, there was an overwhelming demand for high-quality information on land assets. Maintaining its existing GIS infrastructure, Lee County implemented ERDAS APOLLO Essentials - Image Web Server to serve its 500 GB of image data.
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Tracking the Changing Land
Last Updated: 2009-11-06
LPS
Recently, NETR Online, a division of Nationwide Environmental Title Research, LLC launched www.Historicaerials.com, making aerial photographs illustrating the changing landscape readily available.
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U.S. Border Patrol Enters New Era of Mapping Intelligence
Last Updated: 2009-11-06
ERDAS IMAGINE
The modernization of the U.S. Border Patrol combines geographic imaging, GIS, GPS, infrared aerial photography and sophisticated sensors for recording activity along the border. With imagery, the agency can better track and prevent border crossings by illegal immigrants and drug smugglers.
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URL in the Sky
Last Updated: 2009-11-06
IMAGINE NITF 2.1
The evolution of the UAS within the DoD in both the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters has been just short of astounding. As these platforms prove their capability, their use throughout the military will continue to significantly change the way geospatial data is collected and exploited. The need for a tactical airborne mapping system, which can create and exploit geospatial accurate imagery and resultant products in near real-time (NRT) has also dramatically increased.
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US Border Patrol
Last Updated: 2009-11-06
ERDAS ER Mapper
The US Border Patrol needs to log incidents accurately and prepare responses quickly. Implementing ERDAS ER Mapper and ERDAS Image Web Server, high resolution imagery provides real-world context to their decision making processes.
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USDA Forest Service’s Online Data Sharing Solution
Last Updated: 2009-11-06
ERDAS TITAN Client
The USDA Forest Service is a large, multi-departmental organization, with geospatial data created and stored locally across 16 regions and stations, and also at the main office. This case study illustrates the proposed ERDAS TITAN solution for supporting data sharing at the USDA Forest Service FSGeodata Clearinghouse and its associated regions and stations.
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Visualizing the Seafloor
Last Updated: 2009-11-06
ERDAS IMAGINE
Putting out to sea is anything but restful for the marine scientists who study the seafloor to understand past earth movements and help predict future ones. Undersea movements can lead to very strong ground shaking and tsunami waves capable of great destruction. ERDAS IMAGINE® is used to lay out the route for the sonar survey, measurement and analysis.
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Volcanic Hazard Maps Improve Disaster Preparedness in Colombia
Last Updated: 2009-11-06
ERDAS IMAGINE
On January 14, 1993, the Galeras Volcano unexpectedly erupted, killing six scientists and three tourists on an expedition to its summit. Since then, the volcano has errupted again in 2005 and 2008. Volcanic hazard maps used with remote sensing data and digital elevation models are effective in helping people responsible for the public welfare of communities exposed to volcanic risk explain volcanic hazardous situations.
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