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Automating Feature Extraction with IMAGINE Objective
Last Updated: 2008-11-21
IMAGINE Objective
IMAGINE Objective provides tools for feature extraction, update and change detection, enabling geospatial data layers to be created and maintained using remotely sensed imagery. IMAGINE Objective combines inferential learning with expert knowledge in a true object-oriented feature extraction environment.
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Batch Converting MrSID to JPEG 2000 using IMAGINE Essentials
Last Updated: 2008-11-21
ERDAS IMAGINE
Converting a large number of image tiles in Lizardtech’s MrSID format (or any other raster format) to another format such as JPEG 2000 is an easy task using the Batch tool available in IMAGINE Essentials.
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Building a Geoportal
Last Updated: 2008-11-21
ERDAS APOLLO Server
Many countries have organizations responsible for collecting, surveying, processing, analyzing and publishing geospatial information for specified areas. These organizations have an official mandate or simply a crucial need to make their data available to private or public users, individuals or organizations.
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Change Detection
Last Updated: 2008-11-21
IMAGINE Objective
Change detection is used to highlight or identify significant differences in imagery acquired at different times; playing an important role in the lifecycle of GIS features and providing the capability to update feature data based on new imagery.
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Create Historical Aerials with IMAGINE VirtualGIS
Last Updated: 2008-11-21
IMAGINE VirtualGIS
The landscape of the village of Nohfelden in the southwestern state Saarland in Germany is dominated by the tower of an old castle complex. With photogrammetry and three-dimensional, computer based visualization available inIMAGINE VirtualGIS®, this castle can be virtually rebuilt.
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Cross-Domain Spatial Data Infrastructure
Last Updated: 2008-11-21
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.
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Data Model for Gridded Data
Last Updated: 2008-11-21
ERDAS APOLLO Image Manager
ERDAS APOLLO Image Manager possesses the market differentiating capability to develop a complex data model of massive volumes of gridded data and deliver the data through a single, interoperable web service URL. This piece describes the data modeling and security features of ERDAS APOLLO Image Manager, and provides working examples of data modeling techniques.
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Enterprise Wikimapia
Last Updated: 2008-11-21
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).
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ERDAS ADE Suite
Last Updated: 2008-11-21
ERDAS ADE
Advances in Oracle’s relational database management system (i.e. Oracle Spatial and Locator ) have enabled organizations to store, manage and analyze location data in an integrated fashion with business attributes and scalar data. This technology has created the opportunity for consolidated, business-driven data models and open, business application-friendly analysis using simple, understandable APIs (such as SQL).
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ERDAS IMAGINE Vector Integration
Last Updated: 2008-11-21
IMAGINE Vector
The use of ESRI’s ArcObjects environment in ERDAS IMAGINE® facilitates integration with ArcGIS® software and data formats. This means that ERDAS IMAGINE is better
able to act as an “extension” to ArcGIS, providing advanced image processing and remote sensing capabilities, while transparently interacting with ESRI data formats,
such as the Geodatabase.
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ERDAS Solutions for Distributed Common Ground Station (DCGS)
Last Updated: 2008-11-21
ERDAS IMAGINE
Since Desert Storm, ERDAS has provided the tactical community with advanced imagery intelligence and GEOINT processing solutions that have made American, Commonwealth, and Coalition warfighters more effective in battle and in peace. Now, with a complete, geospatially-enabled, service oriented architecture, ERDAS brings the tactical community, through the Distribute Common Ground Station (DCGS) program a host of next generation solutions that promise to increase situational awareness, ensure accuracy, and reduce mission latency.
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ERDAS TITAN + Data as an Emergency Management Solution
Last Updated: 2008-11-21
ERDAS TITAN
ERDAS is helping to establish networks of decision-quality data by offering a combined ERDAS TITAN+Data solution to support state and local emergency response. This solution provides end-users with direct access to source data while providing data authors or owners the ability to share their data securely.
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Feature Collection
Last Updated: 2008-11-21
PRO600
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.
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Feature Extraction and Classification
Last Updated: 2008-11-21
IMAGINE Objective
The term “Feature Extraction” encompasses a very broad range of techniques and processes, ranging from simple ordinal / interval measurements derived from individual bands (such as thermal temperature) to the generation, update and maintenance of discrete feature objects (such as buildings or roads). This piece includes a discussion of the range and applicability of feature extraction techniques available within ERDAS' suite of remote sensing software applications.
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Foundations of the New Enterprise: Managing Corridor Asset Data Using Enterprise Business Systems and SOA
Last Updated: 2009-06-23
For organizations that manage critical infrastructure, the management, maintenance and reporting of physical assets and asset records is arguably one of their most important duties and quite often mandated by law. The oil and gas industry is, at its core, characterized by such critical infrastructure.
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Geospatial Business System
Last Updated: 2008-11-21
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.
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How OGC Strategic Membership Benefits ERDAS Customers
Last Updated: 2008-11-21
ERDAS APOLLO Server
For a decade, ERDAS has been significantly contributing to the OGC Specification and Interoperability Programs, with test beds and pilot projects. Bringing expertise, collaborating in technical projects and occupying key positions in the Consortium, ERDAS has helped the OGC promote its vision.
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Image Delivery Protocols
Last Updated: 2008-11-21
ERDAS Image Web Server
Three major imagery delivery protocols include ECWP, high-performance, streaming imagery delivered by ERDAS Image Web Server; WMS, JPEG / GIF / PNG representations of geospatial data (imagery or attribute data); and WCS, delivers ‘actual’ geospatial data such as GeoTiff’s, shape files, etc.
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Image Exploitation for the Enterprise
Last Updated: 2009-06-19
ERDAS APOLLO
Growing standards, increased bandwidth, service oriented architecture and affordable multiprocessing are changing the way that we work. Isolated desktop systems will be augmented with federated clusters of systems which can be located in the same building or distributed across the world. Collaborative capabilities will enable users to consume and share geospatial data and services with the producers of GIS data improving the decision making process.
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IMAGINE Subpixel Classifier™
Last Updated: 2008-11-21
ERDAS IMAGINE
IMAGINE Subpixel Classifier is a state-of-the-art, non-parametric, supervised spectral classifier that performs subpixel spectral analysis by detecting and reporting whole and subpixel occurrences of a specific Material of Interest (MOI) in multispectral imagery.
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IMAGINE Subpixel Classifier™ vs. Linear Spectral Unmixing
Last Updated: 2008-11-21
ERDAS IMAGINE
This Technical White Paper describes key performance differences between IMAGINE Subpixel Classifier and commercial alternatives based upon linear spectral unmixing (aka Linear Mixing Model or LMM) and typically sold as subpixel analysis modules. IMAGINE Subpixel Classifier is part of IMAGINE Professional suite of classification tools.
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Imaging Radar in Archaeological Investigations; An Image Processing Perspective
Last Updated: 2009-06-15
IMAGINE Radar Mapping Suite
Imaging Radar in Archaeological Investigations; An Image Processing Perspective.
By Derrold Holcomb- Advanced Senior Software Engineer
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Implementing OGC Compliance
Last Updated: 2008-11-21
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.
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Incident Management Using ERDAS TITAN
Last Updated: 2009-06-15
ERDAS TITAN
ERDAS TITAN provides a groundbreaking tool for establishing and maintaining secure, collaborative networks, and then enabling users on those networks to create on-the-fly mash-ups to inform plans, exercises and responses. This paper illustrates how TITAN supports the incident management function by providing data sharing functionalities for accessing, manipulating, and sharing information quickly, a key necessity of incident response.
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Internet Geospatial Light Table (iGLT)
Last Updated: 2008-11-21
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.
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Internet Spatial Modeling Service (iSMS)
Last Updated: 2008-11-21
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.
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Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Interoperability: A Requirement for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security
Last Updated: 2008-11-21
Critical infrastructure protection inherently requires a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) that is interoperable, distributed, secure and enterprise-class. Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) interoperability specifications play a central role in the future of homeland security, since they fundamentally enable dynamic, secure access to real-time geospatial data from state and local governments, critical infrastructure partners and a range of federal authorities.
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Optimizing the High-Pass Filter Addition Technique for Image Fusion
Last Updated: 2009-06-19
IMAGINE Radar Mapping Suite
This paper highlights ERDAS' ongoing algorithm research. This paper was published in the September 2008 issue of PE&RS. You must have an active ERDAS log-in and password to access this piece.
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Oracle Application Server 10g
Last Updated: 2008-11-21
ERDAS ADE
Oracle Application Server MapViewer (or simply, MapViewer) provides powerful geospatial data visualization and reporting services. Written purely in Java and run in a J2EE environment, MapViewer provides web application developers a versatile means to integrate and visualize business data with maps.
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Orbit Refinement: Using Precision State Vectors with the IMAGINE Radar Mapping Suite
Last Updated: 2009-06-15
IMAGINE Radar Mapping Suite
The ephemeris information delivered in the header files that come with the SAR images (on CD/DVD) is frequently based on a predicted orbit. It is often possible to refine these estimates with later processing that includes improved orbit modeling and parameters related to the atmosphere at the time of image acquisition.
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Sensor to GIS: An Example Workflow
Last Updated: 2008-11-21
LPS
This white paper discusses photogrammetry as the link between sensors and GIS, allowing prepping up sensor data, creating data products and then using them in a GIS.
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Sharing Data via Geospatial Web Services
Last Updated: 2008-11-21
ERDAS TITAN
Consumers of geospatial data want to swiftly retrieve exactly what they need from any dataset, when they need it. They must also consume this data into the various desktop, Internet and 3D virtual globe applications without being hindered by file format conflicts. Additionally, organizations must enable rapid distribution of this geospatial data to the consuming network of users.
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The Significance of the National Imagery Transmission Format (NITF)
Last Updated: 2008-11-21
IMAGINE NITF 2.1
There are many different digital image formats for storing, retrieving and manipulating image files. NITF was created for interoperability, enabling software and hardware on multiple machines from multiple vendors to communicate together.
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Web Based Data Sharing for Incident Management
Last Updated: 2008-11-21
ERDAS TITAN
Effective incident management – whether for day-to-day incidents such as traffic management or more broadly for disaster response – requires the sharing and communication of information across agencies and technology platforms by both people at the scene of an incident and those managing a response from a remote location.
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