News From ERDAS

ERDAS is great Business Company...
Since 13 Oct till 21 Oct News from ERDAS is very exciting to GIS and Remote Sensing Communities..

The Earth to Business Company At ERDAS, we help organizations harness the information of the changing earth for greater advantage, by creating Geospatial Business Systems that transform our earth's data into business information. We are The Earth to Business Company.

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21 October, 2008 ERDAS Releases Map2PDF for IMAGINE Norcross, GA – ERDAS Inc. announces the release of Map2PDF for IMAGINE, a new product combining TerraGo Technologies’ Map2PDF (now called Publisher) with the power of ERDAS IMAGINE®, the industry’s leading and most complete collection of software tools designed to manipulate, process and understand imagery and vector data. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16 October, 2008 ERDAS Announces Automated Feature Extraction Solution: IMAGINE Objective Norcross, GA — ERDAS announces the release of IMAGINE Objective, a new tool providing object-based multi-scale image classification and feature extraction capabilities for building and maintaining accurate geospatial content. Since the open Beta earlier this year, the IMAGINE Objective workflow has been streamlined, based on customer feedback and interaction. IMAGINE Objective includes a set of tools for feature extraction, update and change detection, enabling geospatial data layers to be created and maintained using remotely sensed imagery. With IMAGINE Objective, imagery and geospatial data of all kinds can be analyzed to produce GIS-ready maps. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 October, 2008 ERDAS Announces a Free Webinar — Bigger, Stronger, Faster (ERDAS Image Web Server 2009) Norcross, GA – ERDAS is offering Bigger, Stronger, Faster, a free webinar on Thursday, October 23, 2008, highlighting ERDAS Image Web Server 2009. ERDAS Image Web Server 2009 distributes large volumes of geospatial image data to thousands of concurrent users. Now supporting additional file formats (including GeoTIFF, MrSID and IMG), as well as JPIP and WMS-C, ERDAS Image Web Server implements true interoperability, simplifying the process of delivering and consuming data. In addition, ERDAS Image Web Server also increases user flexibility with automatic client-side reprojection. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 14 October, 2008 ERDAS APOLLO 2009 Selected by China’s National Environmental Protection Ministry Norcross (Georgia, USA) – China’s National Environmental Protection Ministry is implementing ERDAS APOLLO 2009, a unified enterprise platform for managing and serving large volumes of geospatial data located and distributed across an organization. ERDAS APOLLO Image Manager is being implemented to store and share the Ministry’s gridded data throughout the enterprise. Setting-up Open Geospatial Consortium and International Organization for Standardization (OGC/ISO) compliant web services, ERDAS APOLLO Server will catalog and deliver all the geospatial data of the Ministry’s enterprise over the web. Beijing Digital LandView Technology Company (Beijing LandView), ERDAS’ authorized distributor in China is providing ERDAS APOLLO, as well as ERDAS IMAGINE®, IMAGINE VirtualGIS®, IMAGINE Vector™, IMAGINE Easytrace™, IMAGINE Autosync™ and IMAGINE Deltacue™ and other IMAGINE add on modules to the National Environmental Protection Ministry. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 13 October, 2008 Best of Both Worlds: ERDAS ER Mapper 7.2 Includes ERDAS IMAGINE® 9.3 Norcross, GA – ERDAS announces ERDAS ER Mapper 7.2, the next release of the solution for visualizing, enhancing and combining images. ERDAS ER Mapper provides advanced image processing and compression capabilities widely used in a variety of industries including oil, gas and mineral exploration. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Additionally, ERDAS ER Mapper 7.2 offers 64-bit compression, allowing huge sets of imagery (over 5TB of data) to be mosaicked and compressed. This release also provides a new projection engine with over 3200 predefined coordinate systems, over 1100 datum shifts, 50+ mathematical projections, local and global vertical datums and industry-standard EPSG support for seamless data sharing (including better GeoTIFF and JPEG 2000 projection system handling). New file formats are also directly readable for data sharing, including MrSID, IMAGINE IMG, RPF (CIB and CADRG). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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KPJ2001

GIS from ESRI, What is GIS?

What is GIS?

A geographic information system (GIS) integrates hardware, software, and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information.

GIS allows us to view, understand, question, interpret, and visualize data in many ways that reveal relationships, patterns, and trends in the form of maps, globes, reports, and charts.

A GIS helps you answer questions and solve problems by looking at your data in a way that is quickly understood and easily shared.

GIS technology can be integrated into any enterprise information system framework.

• Essays on Geography and GIS [PDF]

Three Views of a GIS

A GIS is most often associated with a map. A map, however, is only one way you can work with geographic data in a GIS, and only one type of product generated by a GIS. A GIS can provide a great deal more problem-solving capabilities than using a simple mapping program or adding data to an online mapping tool (creating a "mash-up").

A GIS can be viewed in three ways:

1. The Database View: A GIS is a unique kind of database of the world—a geographic database (geodatabase). It is an "Information System for Geography." Fundamentally, a GIS is based on a structured database that describes the world in geographic terms. Learn more.
   
   
2. The Map View: A GIS is a set of intelligent maps and other views that show features and feature relationships on the earth's surface. Maps of the underlying geographic information can be constructed and used as "windows into the database" to support queries, analysis, and editing of the information. Learn more.
   
   
3. The Model View: A GIS is a set of information transformation tools that derive new geographic datasets from existing datasets. These geoprocessing functions take information from existing datasets, apply analytic functions, and write results into new derived datasets. Learn more.
   
   

By combining data and applying some analytic rules, you can create a model that helps answer the question you have posed. In the example below, GPS and GIS were used to accurately model the expected location and distribution of debris for the Space Shuttle Columbia, which broke up upon re-entry over eastern Texas on February 1, 2003. Learn more about this project.

Together, these three views are critical parts of an intelligent GIS and are used at varying levels in all GIS applications. Learn more about the technology.

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GIS in Every Walk of Life

"The application of GIS is limited only by the imagination of those who use it."
—Jack Dangermond, President of ESRI
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KPJ2001

OSGeo Journal

The OSGeo Journal is a digital publication containing case studies, news, tutorials, project updates and more. With a general aim at promoting, highlighting and educating readers about open source geo spatial applications in general, but also provides updates on OSGeo projects.
As we know that one of the famous project under OSGeo is GRASS , a powerful and open source GIS software.
You can see that besides all highly price GIS software that we use, there are many open and free software out there that have the same capability like commercial software.
in this journal there are many report about the improvement of many software project plus case studies related to the software itself. and you can find some tutorial for many free and famous GIS software, don,t miss it, find it at OSGeo sites

until now, the journal are until 4th release, and you can monitor all release at these link

or you can grab it all release at this link :

journal vol 1

journal vol 2

journal vol 3

journal vol 4

regards,
Banata

GeoEye Releases First Image

Press Releases

GeoEye Releases First Image Collected by Its New GeoEye-1 Earth-Imaging Satellite

World's Highest-Resolution, Color Satellite Image of Kutztown University in Penn. Showcases GeoEye-1's Exceptional Quality

PRNewswire-FirstCall
DULLES, Va.
(NASDAQ:GEOY)

DULLES, Va., Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY), a premier provider of satellite, aerial and geospatial information, released today the first, color half-meter ground resolution image taken from its GeoEye-1 satellite. The satellite has been undergoing calibration and check-out since it was launched on Sept. 6 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Calif. The Company will begin selling GeoEye-1 imagery products later this fall.

..................................................... more complete information http://geoeye.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=308

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Google's Super Satellite Captures First Image

This bird's-eye view of Kutztown University in Pennsylvania was the first image ever seen by the GeoEye-1, the world's highest-resolution commercial satellite sponsored by Google, when it opened its camera door earlier this week.

The 4,300-pound satellite collected the image at noon EDT on Oct. 7 while moving from the north pole to the south pole in a 423-mile-high orbit at 17,000 miles per hour, or 4.5 miles per second. The spacecraft can take photos at a resolution of up to 41 cm -- close enough to zoom in on the home plate of a baseball diamond, according to Mark Brender, GeoEye's vice president of communications and marketing.

........................................more complete information http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/10/geoeye-1-super.html

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Citra satelit GeoEye mempunyai resolusi spasial 41cm, lebih tajam dari quickbird 61cm dan ikonos 1 meter. Coba bayangkan kalau kita terlantang di jalan dan kemudian terekam oleh satelit GeoEye, apabila tinggi badan kita sekitar 164 cm, maka kita akan menempati 4 piksel..hehe :)
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