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Norcross, GA — ERDAS announces the opening of an expanded training center in Liège, Belgium. Supporting ERDAS’ growth in Europe, the new center contains state-of-the art training and meeting facilities, in a convenient and central location for customers and business partners.

The training center offers classes that address the needs of both the novice and expert ERDAS user. This facility offers regular and complete training in ERDAS’ desktop authoring products, as well as introductory courses in ERDAS’ growing portfolio of enterprise solutions. Some upcoming courses include Fundamentals of ERDAS IMAGINE® I & II, Introduction to ERDAS Enterprise, Introduction to LPS, IMAGINE Defense Analysis, Multispectral Classification and Spatial Modeling & Expert Systems. For more information on these courses, please visit http://gi.leica-geosystems.com/LGISub5x294x0.aspx.

“We are excited to offer a broad range of training options at our expanded corporate facilities in Belgium,” said Thomas Bayer, Vice President, EMEA, ERDAS. “Conveniently located near Brussels, this facility meets the training needs of users, distributors and business partners throughout Europe.”

ERDAS’ expanded training center is located within the company’s Liège office at Quai Timmermans 14/01, 4000 Liège, Belgium. The phone number for this office is +32 4 364 03 64.

For more information about ERDAS, please call +1 770 776 3400, toll free +1 866 534 2286, or visit www.erdas.com.

Whether you are dealing with new imagery that does not line up with your existing or you need to rapidly orthorectify your data, this webinar illustrates how to solve these problems, saving you time and making your workflow more efficient. IMAGINE AutoSync™, an add-on to ERDAS IMAGINE®, takes two (or more) images of potentially dissimilar types, such as IKONOS and SPOT5 or air photos and QuickBird, and automatically generates thousands of points to tie them together with high accuracy.

Each month, ERDAS is offering at least two different webinar topics. In addition to a live presentation and demonstration, each webinar also includes the opportunity for customers to interact directly with the presenters. Scheduled to last forty-five minutes, each webinar will include approximately thirty minutes of presented material and fifteen minutes for Q&A.

To register for Automate Your Imagery Registration, or find out more about other upcoming webinars, please visit: www.erdas.com.

Norcross (Georgia, USA) – Looking towards the 2012 Olympic Games in London, British Transport Police is implementing ERDAS APOLLO 2009, a unified enterprise platform for managing and serving large volumes of geospatial data located and distributed across an organization.

British Transport Police is the national police force for the railways, providing a policing service to rail operators, their staff and passengers throughout England, Wales and Scotland. The Force is also responsible for policing the London Underground system, Docklands Light Railway, the Glasgow Subway, the Midland Metro tram system and Croydon Tramlink. The mission of British Transport Police is to provide a policing service which delivers a safe railway environment free from disruption and the fear of crime.

ERDAS APOLLO Image Manager is being implemented to store and share British Transport Police’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 securely catalog and deliver all the geospatial data of British Transport Police’s enterprise over the web. Infoterra, ERDAS’ authorized distributor in the UK and Ireland is providing ERDAS APOLLO, as well as ERDAS TITAN to British Transport Police.

“Previously, only 50% of British Transport Police’s imagery could be stored on a server. Additionally, retrieving these images was often problematic,” said Richard Smith, Force Information Manager, British Transport Police. "As a National Police Force, we needed a solution to store and distribute imagery securely and timely—ERDAS APOLLO provides such a solution, backed with ERDAS’ legacy of offering the most comprehensive OGC compliant, raster-based geospatial products.”

Utilizing ERDAS APOLLO, British Transport Police will build a transportation security monitoring system. ERDAS APOLLO has increased British Transport Police’s efficiency on their network and will enable interoperability to other national agencies, including multiple government organizations. This system will disseminate gridded data to remote locations quickly, regardless of bandwidth. ERDAS APOLLO will be used to integrate imagery in British Transport Police’s mapping solution. This imagery is delivered via Web Mapping Service (WMS) and Web Feature Service (WFS) through their Intranet. ERDAS APOLLO provides access to imagery for Operational and Strategic Planning, Crime Analysis and Civil Contingency Planning.

Allowing cataloguing and serving geospatial data, ERDAS APOLLO Server implements the basic functionalities of a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). ERDAS APOLLO implements comprehensive WMS, WFS, Web Coverage Service (WCS), Catalogue Service (CS-W), Web Map Context (WMC), ISO 19115/19139 standards and the ECW-P, JPEG 2000 and JPIP protocol. With a geographic security scale based model, ERDAS APOLLO Image Manager provides tools to specify globally masked security areas, authorized and unauthorized polygon access areas and map scale access, per user, per role. ERDAS APOLLO Image Manager supports any desktop or web-based OGC compliant client.

“ERDAS APOLLO allows British Transport Police to adequately prepare for the 2012 Olympic games, providing tools to efficiently store and quickly share massive amounts of gridded data throughout the enterprise, using various domain specific applications,” said Thomas Bayer, Vice President, Europe, Middle East and Africa, ERDAS. “This unique solution enables British Transport Police to centralize geospatial information metadata, with search, retrieve and disseminate capabilities.”

“The experience of the Infoterra team in managing and developing solutions to access large geospatial datasets has enabled the implementation of a secure and robust system based on ERDAS products, and within British Transport Police’s existing infrastructure” commented Phil Cooper, Software Business Manager for Infoterra Ltd. “Both the Infoterra and ERDAS teams look forward to supporting the information team at BTP over the next few years.”

For more information about ERDAS or its products and services, please call +1 770 776 3400, toll free +1 877 GO ERDAS, or visit www.erdas.com.

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ERDAS APOLLO is a suite of enterprise products that includes ERDAS APOLLO Server, ERDAS APOLLO Image Manager and ERDAS APOLLO Solution Toolkit. Supporting numerous geospatial data formats, ERDAS APOLLO seamlessly integrates with existing GIS environments and business applications. ERDAS APOLLO is flexible, while ensuring a high level of security through administrator defined privileges. This dynamic solution comprehensively addresses problems universal to governments, businesses and other organizations that often work with large amounts of geospatial data distributed across departments, offices and regions.

ERDAS APOLLO Server is an enterprise platform for cataloging and serving vector, raster, terrain and map data over the web, via a user-friendly interface. Compliant with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO), ERDAS APOLLO Server implements WMS, WCS, WFS, WFS-T and CS-W standards and the ECW-P and JPIP wavelet streaming protocols. ERDAS APOLLO Server utilizes a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI).

ERDAS APOLLO Image Manager efficiently stores and quickly shares gridded data throughout the enterprise. Users can develop a complex data model of massive volumes of gridded data and deliver this data through a single, interoperable web service URL. This unique and powerful solution meets the dissemination and exploitation needs of all end users, catering to a wide degree of geospatial skill sets and access privileges.

With ERDAS APOLLO Solution Toolkit, users can extend ERDAS APOLLO web clients or create new ones. Users can develop vertical market applications using an extensible web and rich client application framework. Supporting numerous vector and raster data formats, users can also customize support for new or classified formats.

“Providing a robust Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) environment, ERDAS APOLLO finds, describes, manages and serves geospatial information to users inside and outside an organization,” said Mladen Stojic, Senior Vice President, Product Management and Marketing, ERDAS. “Extremely scalable, ERDAS APOLLO provides rapid delivery of unprecedented volumes of geospatial information to domain specific desktop and web client applications.”

ERDAS APOLLO leverages existing business systems, such as the Oracle database for persisting intelligent metadata and application specific information. Proven IT standards such as JavaEE, SOAP/WSDL, and REST integrate ERDAS APOLLO into business environments, also meeting organizations’ security requirements.

To learn more about ERDAS APOLLO 2009, register for one of the free, upcoming webinars highlighted on www.erdas.com, or please call +1 770 776 3400, toll free +1 877 GO ERDAS.