Erdas announces the official release of Erdas Imagine 2011, now available for download on the Erdas website.
Erdas Imagine incorporates geospatialimage processing and analysis, remote sensing and GIS into a single powerful, convenient package. Erdas Imagine enables users to easily create value-added products such as 2D and 3D images, 3D flythrough movies, and cartographic-quality map compositions from geospatial data. The system also provides advanced tools for parallel batch processing, spatial modeling, map production, mosaicking and change detection. In addition, 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 the system 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 defense 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 Color Space (HCS) pan sharpening, developed specifically for WorldView-2 data from DigitalGlobe. WorldView-2provides 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.