Solution White Papers
The following documents outline a broad range of benefits provided in ERDAS’ underlying technology and portfolio of solutions. Offering these educational tools free of charge, ERDAS is pleased to share its thought leadership and expertise in our industry.

Cross-Domain Spatial Data Infrastructure
For years, spatial data has been replicated and hosted on multiple security domains for users with different clearances. The emergence of label secure database technology, sophisticated high assurance security appliances and changes in security make it possible to avoid such costly implementations, drastically reducing mission latency. Read More

Data Sharing
Consumers of geospatial data need the ability to swiftly retrieve exactly what they require, from any dataset on demand. By streaming data via geospatial web services, actual datasets remain in one place while specific bits of information varying in complexity are streamed directly to requesting individuals across vast networks. Read More

Enterprise Wikimapia
Many enterprises suffer from the lack of a central repository for staff members and partners to quickly discover each other’s knowledge of a given locale. The Enterprise Wikimapia solution leverages the concepts pioneered by www.wikimapia.org, along with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) concepts of transactional web feature service (WFS-T) and gazetteer (WFS-G). Read More

Feature Collection
In photogrammetry, the term “feature collection” generally refers to the extraction of 3D information from an oriented stereo pair. Also known simply as “mapping,” this process involves measuring objects (natural or man-made) on the surface of the earth. Read More

Feature Extraction & Classification
Any remote sensing image can be decomposed into several features containing similar characteristics. Feature extraction can encompass a broad range of techniques, including simple ordinal or interval measurements derived from individual bands into generation, update and maintenance of discrete feature objects. Read More

Geospatial Business System
Increasingly, geospatial information is being used to drive decisions in large organizations. Integrating geospatial and location-based information into an organization’s existing business system provides greater understanding and management capabilities. Read More

Implementing OGC Compliance
Photogrammetry, spatial modeling, remote sensing, 3D/4D simulation, geospatial collaboration, feature extraction, imagery analysis and exploitation. For many, it is unclear how these disciplines and domains relate to Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) web services - let alone how they might benefit from OGC interoperability. Read More

Internet Geospatial Light Table (iGLT)
The use of desktop Electronic Light Tables (ELT) throughout the GeoINT community has created an ad hoc processing architecture overly dependent upon massively complex networks. The ERDAS iGLT solution overcomes these obstacles, transforming any common web browser into a powerful web-based ELT. Read More

Internet Spatial Modeling Service (iSMS)
Typically, web-based solutions display and visualize geospatial data but do not provide serious analysis or production-oriented processes. The ERDAS iSMS® is a powerful spatial modeling application that is capable of authoring and publishing complex spatial models as services within a SOA environment. Read More

Case Studies
The following documents highlight individual customer implementations of ERDAS’ solutions. Appealing to a broad range of organizations across a number of industries, these case studies illustrate the types of everyday business problems regularly solved by ERDAS.

Emergency Response Data Sharing Solution
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, demanding immediate emergency response from county, state and federal relief agencies. Government and non-government organizations (NGOs) worked frantically to aggregate the best available geospatial data as a baseline to track the devastation and reconstruction efforts. After the storm, NVision Solutions and many other organizations realized the necessity of one single, secure network for sharing data. Read More

Enhancing Florida Turnpike’s Mobile Asset Management Solution
Recently developing one of the transportation industry’s first WiFi-enabled mobile asset management systems, Florida Turnpike is now able to dynamically collect and readily access asset and geospatial information with ERDAS ADE. Initially an unforeseen benefit, the technology has become vital to ensure the safety of all Florida motorists. Read More

Imagery Provides Compelling Evidence of Human Rights Violations
Recently, Amnesty International launched Eyes on Darfur (http://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. Read More

Creating Geospatial Content with LPS: A Process Driven Workflow
Over the last decade, the unprecedented population growth rates throughout much of the world and the subsequent need for information to support and manage that growth has put more pressure than ever before on GIS and production mapping professionals. For many in this industry, the solution to transforming imagery into reliable geospatial content more efficiently without compromising accuracy lies in a process-driven workflow. Read More

Quickly Delivering High-Resolution Imagery to Lee County
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 Image Web Server (IWS) to serve its 500 GB of image data. Read More