White Papers

ERDAS Solutions for Distributed Common Ground Station (DCGS)
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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Image Delivery Options - ERDAS APOLLO 2011
With the addition of Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) in 2011, ERDAS APOLLO now has six different web service interfaces for serving imagery. This white paper describes the interfaces and the utility of each, and highlights the WMTS interface.
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Image Exploitation for the Enterprise
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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Revolutionize Your Geospatial Workflow with ERDAS 2011 Software
For over 32 years, ERDAS has rapidly progressed as one of the geospatial industry leaders, cultivating a rich and powerful feature set along the way. In this modern age of convenience and instant gratification, it’s not enough to simply provide information; it must be easily accessible and available almost instantaneously.
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The APOLLO Change Detection Engine (ACE)
The Apollo Change Detection Engine (ACE) is a semi-autonomous production
system capable of detecting changes found between imagery of different dates, then automatically cueing geospatial analysts to those changes for both verification and feature database update. The ACE is built using the ERDAS APOLLO enterprise application software.
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The New Paradigm: Leveraging the "Information Cloud" with the Dynamic GIS
The Dynamic GIS, which completely connects sensors to software and software
to solutions through specific vertical market services, ultimately provides a means
to protect lives, infrastructure, and society. An integrated geospatial system, the
Dynamic GIS is able to translate change, on the fly, into actionable information. The
earth is constantly changing, and snapshots of geography can be captured from
airborne, orbital, terrestrial, or hand sensors and saved as a permanent record of
events happening on the earth’s surface.
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