British Transport Police Preparing for 2012 Olympics with ERDAS APOLLO

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. 

Utilising 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.