In a conversation with vice president of product marketing Mladen Stojic, here’s what’s new in the ERDAS 2010 10.1 release:
1) new capability called LPS eATE – an enhanced automated terrain extraction tool that automatically extracts very accurate and very dense point clouds from imagery;
2) ERDAS APOLLO software application, ERDAS’ enterprise solution for managing and delivering large quantities of geospatial information, was released a couple of years ago. It works on a server and manages data whether its high volumes of image data, terrain data or vector for customers that have a lot of diverse data. What is new with this release is the Microsoft SQL support (noted below) and ERDAS APOLLO Feature Interoperability. ERDAS APOLLO Feature Interoperability is a new module that provides a DGN Connector to ERDAS APOLLO, enabling direct access to MicroStation’s DGN v7 and v8 format files via web services.
3) ERDAS has an ongoing partnership with Microsoft, which is now also reflected within the APOLLO application. Microsoft has been spending more and more money on its spatial capabilities on its SQL Server platform, so ERDAS is now working and will support the Microsoft SQL Server database in ERDAS APOLLO applications
4) Defense market, homeland security and intelligence are interested in the new “add-on” to ERDAS’ existing Stereo Analyst product. StereoAnalyst for ArcGIS Extension that ERDAS has built to serve Stereo Analyst customers who need additional Defense formats in the ArcGIS environment. This product collects native 3D data directly at a much greater accuracy rate with direct sensor model support for those classified sources on the ArcGIS platform.
5) According to Stojic,
Pixel-wise data extracted with LPS eATE. Point cloud, 3D, and cross sectional views of the surface are shown in Fugro Viewer.
ERDAS has been building high performance server systems and with this 10.1 release they have done even more to produce what they say is the fastest server in the market for serving geographic data and information.
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