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In many organizations, traditional geospatial users are most familiar with the authoring portion of the geospatial value chain. Individuals within the GEOINT community need to not only author, but also manage, connect and deliver their geospatial information. An authoring tool must offer strong imagery and vector support, and integration with the net-centric architecture provided by OGC web services, as well as tight integration with ESRI, Oracle and Google Earth. ERDAS IMAGINE provides this, also offering comprehensive NITF format support, and can be extended with the IMAGINE Defense Productivity Module to provide support for U.S. national sensor models and TFRD data.

Time dominant GEOINT and C4ISR rely upon a distributed set of spatial data resources, spread across multiple agencies, services, commands and theaters. These resources often are multi-INT, multi-source, and multi-sensor in nature. Discovering and accessing these widely distributed resources can be an insurmountable challenge, leading commanders and decision makers to operate with less than total operational knowledge. Through the use of OGC standards, ERDAS APOLLO Server makes it possible to dynamically discover and “reach-back” into enterprise spatial data stores, without replicating data sources and forward-deploying them, unless so chosen.

The modern C4ISR enterprise has come to appreciate the importance of the individual and the GEOINT tradecraft developed over time. This “know-how” is often just as important as the data an individual creates. ERDAS TITAN is a powerful geospatial social-networking infrastructure that enables users to share their “top drawer” data to anyone else across the network, without shipping gigabytes of data in a bandwidth intensive manner. The ability to quickly discover and visualize what mission partners and collaborators within a community of interest are doing is critical if a C4ISR enterprise is to be nimble and address mission critical issues in a time dominant manner.

Regardless of the quality of the analysis of your GEOINT/C4ISR enterprise, it is meaningless if it is not delivered to the operator or decision maker in a timely manner. ERDAS’ commitment to autonomous and disconnected operations means that delivery includes the ability to rapidly download data to users who will often be on their own at the tactical edge, while also allowing them to rapidly deliver the intelligence they gather in the field, back to the enterprise. With a delivery strategy that encompasses thick client technologies generating geospatial products in industry standard formats, web clients consuming, data delivered by ERDAS Image Web Server in ultra fast ECWP and JPIP formats, and mobile handheld clients that can both consume and edit data in the master database – all users are able to consume the same data regardless of the “task appropriate” client application that they choose to use.

Geospatial intelligence and C4ISR inherently require spatial data infrastructures that are interoperable, distributed, secure and enterprise-class. ERDAS continues to be committed to this community, providing the most advanced technology to meet their geospatial needs.

Tags: ERDAS, GEOINT, USGIF