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 Emergency Management
Places2protect™ is the first comprehensive, national database on critical facilities and captive populations—sites with gatherings of people to protect or evacuate. Based on the leading commercial database of U.S. institutions, places2protect™ is the continuous, cost-effective and sustainable GIS resource for Homeland Security and emergency management. 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

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

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