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Articles
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.
New Technology Helps Archive and Access the Apollo Mission Images (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. More
Interactively Managing the US Census Bureau's Data (ERDAS ADE)
In 2003, the U.S. Census Bureau selected Oracle’s technology to redesign the MAF/TIGER database. ERDAS ADE was also selected, as it is the only native Oracle (MapViewer) solution that supports direct editing of Oracle’s Topology Data Model. ERDAS ADE also satisfied the Census Bureau’s customization requirement, providing a fine-grained Java API to implement new features or override existing features. More | ERDAS PDF
Enhancing Florida Turnpike's Mobile Asset Management Solution (ERDAS ADE)
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 Leica ADE. Initially an unforeseen benefit, the technology has become vital to ensure the safety of all Florida motorists. More | ERDAS PDF
Cultivating Imagery for Better Crops (ERDAS Image Web Server)
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 IWS, MapShots offers customers the added means to access and serve their imagery over the Internet, without abandoning desktop. More | ERDAS PDF
Oregon Implements an Imagery Portal (ERDAS IWS)
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. More
Quickly Delivering High-Resolution Imagery to Lee County (ERDAS IWS)
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. ERDAS PDF
Anchorage Reducing Wildfire Risk with 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. ERDAS PDF
Conservationists Collaborate to Save Giant Pandas (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. More | ERDAS PDF
Imagery Provides Compelling Evidence of Human Rights Violations (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. More | ERDAS PDF
Managing Irrigation Needs in Colorado Springs (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®. ERDAS PDF
Planning Land Use in Wisconsin with 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. ERDAS PDF
U.S. Border Patrol Enters New Era of Mapping Intelligence (ERDAS IMAGINE®, IMAGINE VirtualGIS)
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. ERDAS PDF
Visualizing the Seafloor (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. More | ERDAS PDF
Volcanic Hazard Maps Improve Disaster Preparedness in Columbia (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. ERDAS PDF
Emergency Response Data Sharing Solution (ERDAS TITAN)
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. ERDAS PDF
Help the Land: Federal Agency Uses Image Analysis to Improve Efficiency (LPS)
The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has adopted and implemented a customized geospatial solution to handle large quantities of site-specific aerial photography. As a result, NRCS is experiencing immediate cost savings by producing and maintaining only the most accurate images. More | ERDAS PDF
Tracking the Changing Land (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. Their primary focus has been to provide historical research information on the environment and make data accessible via the Internet. More | ERDAS PDF
Photogrammetric Workflows: Present & Future (LPS)
The photogrammetric workflow has been relatively static since the advent of digital photogrammetry. The growing proliferation of “new” technologies such as LIDAR, pushbroom and satellite sensors has caused many commercial vendors to re-examine the application tools they offer. More | ERDAS PDF
Empire Challenge (LPS, ERDAS IMAGINE®, ERDAS MosaicPro)
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. At the Naval Special Weapons Center, the international allies in the war against terror combined their resources and expertise with that of Geospatial Systems, Inc. (GSI), ERDAS and Leica Geosystems in simulation exercises. More | ERDAS PDF
ERDAS Software Used to Reconstruct Ruins (LPS, Stereo Analyst®, ERDAS IMAGINE®, IMAGINE VirtualGIS)
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. Integrating data from disparate sources via GIS technology is the closest historians and archaeologists can come to creating an approximate model of this icon of Southwestern history. ERDAS PDF
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