ERDAS Rocks World Tour

In collaboration with TecnoGeo, the first ERDAS Rocks event will be held in Madrid, Spain on October 30 at the Conference Centre Hotel Meliá Avenida de América. Other cities on the world tour in 2009 include Johannesburg, South Africa; Moscow, Russia; Rome, Italy; Atlanta, Georgia, USA and Alexandria, Virginia, USA, with more events planned globally in 2010.

With a new look and feel, ERDAS 2010 makes it easier to quickly access tools. Focusing on customer benefits, these events provide a platform to introduce the new desktop and enterprise product releases. ERDAS Rocks events will feature a comprehensive set of interoperable workflows, introduce participants to useful features and provide tips and tricks applicable to geospatial information users of all skill levels.

ERDAS Imagine 2010 is many solutions in one, incorporating image analysis, remote sensing and GIS. Featuring a new ribbon interface, ERDAS Imagine makes it easier for users to navigate and customise their workspace. It also provides enhanced tools for parallel batch processing, spatial modelling, map production, mosaicking and change detection.

LPS 2010 is a powerful photogrammetry system for a variety of workflows, including defence, remote-area mapping, transportation planning, orthophoto production (for basemap generation), 3D stereo feature collection and close-range applications.

ERDAS Apollo 2010 is customisable and equipped to competently manage and rapidly serve an organisation's large volume of geospatial data. ERDAS Apollo implements an out-of-the box Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) which provides a publish, find and bind workflow for any data type. With a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), ERDAS Apollo provides an interactively connected framework to support the management and serving of spatial data, metadata and maps. ERDAS Apollo contains the most interoperable geoprocessing services in the industry.

"We are excited to launch the ERDAS Rocks World Tour, bringing together customers and partners around the world to showcase how this new release meets their needs," said Mladen Stojic, Senior Vice-President, Product Management and Marketing, ERDAS. "ERDAS Software 2010 is a comprehensive portfolio of interoperable geospatial solutions, providing greater value, productivity, usability and performance."

To find out more about ERDAS 2010 Rocks, please visit www.erdas.com or register for an event at http://signup.erdas.com/erdasrocks2010.aspx.