ERDAS IMAGINE 2011 Available

ERDAS IMAGINE also provides advanced tools for parallel batch processing, spatial modelling, map production, mosaicking and change detection. ERDAS IMAGINE also incorporates the ERDAS ER Mapper algorithms and implements OGC standards.

With ERDAS IMAGINE 2011, users can link imagery shown in ERDAS IMAGINE viewers to Google Earth to easily see the global context of their imagery. ERDAS IMAGINE shares its annotations with Google Earth and enables users to synchronize the views in the two applications and export image footprints and annotation layers to KML files. ERDAS IMAGINE 2011 also provides access to rich, high-quality base imagery and geo-coding services provided by the Microsoft Bing Maps platform. Many of the tools in ERDAS IMAGINE are integrated with these base maps, making it easy to measure distance, perform change detection and other types of analytics.

ERDAS IMAGINE 2011 features streamlined imagery analysis workflows with new tools and an enhanced interface designed for quick and easy creation of presentation products. The most demanding image analysts, including those in the defence and intelligence community, will benefit from improved text editing for imagery annotations, inset views, new templates with elements that automatically update based on metadata from inserted imagery, and single-click exporting to Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, or JPEG.

ERDAS IMAGINE 2011 also introduces Hyperspherical Colour Space (HCS) pan sharpening, developed specifically for WorldView-2 data from DigitalGlobe. WorldView-2 provides the only high-resolution 8-band multispectral commercial imagery available. ERDAS IMAGINE multispectral image processing capabilities enable users to leverage the wealth of information inherent in WorldView-2 imagery and deliver intelligence and highly accurate terrain, feature and image products.