ROCHESTER, NY – October 27, 2008 – Pictometry International Corp., a leading provider of geo-referenced aerial image libraries whose patented and proprietary technology is used globally to capture oblique imagery, is hosting its third annual Pictometry FutureView user conference today in San Antonio. FutureView 2008 begins this evening at the Marriott Rivercenter and will run through October 29.
This year’s featured guest speaker is Don Cooke, Chief Scientist for Tele Atlas, a leading provider of digital maps and content for the burgeoning personal navigation industry. Cooke is addressing a FutureView audience of more than 200 attendees including international users, engineers, geospatial experts, and professionals in insurance, E9-1-1, GIS, and tax assessment.
A former member of the 1967 Census Bureau team, Cooke helped to develop the DIME method of street map encoding and later founded Geographic Data Technology, which was acquired by Tele Atlas in 2004. As chief scientist at Tele Atlas, Cooke focuses on research and development and leads the Tele Atlas school outreach program. He served on the NAS Mapping Science Committee in the late 1980s and his publications include ESRI Press' 2005 Fun with GPS. Cooke is a graduate of Yale and studied civil engineering systems at MIT. Former Pictometry FutureView guest speakers have included former U.S. Governor John Sununu (NH) and Jason Barbour, President of the National Emergency Number Association.
“This year’s FutureView conference is sure to inspire and excite,” said Pictometry’s Chief Marketing Officer Dante Pennacchia . “With such an array of attendees, FutureView has to have more than just a little to offer everyone – and it does. Our agenda brings diverse users together for an incredible networking experience infused with fresh ideas and possibilities.”
FutureView is the only user conference of its kind focused exclusively on geo-referenced oblique aerial imaging technology. The conference features innovative new technologies, exhibits from Pictometry business partners, continuing education opportunities for GIS, E9-1-1 and tax assessment; and workshops on maximizing Pictometry products to improve work efficiencies. For more on FutureView, visit www.pictometry.com.
About Pictometry
Pictometry International Corp. is a leading provider of geo-referenced, aerial image libraries and related software. Pictometry has captured over 50 million digital aerial images in over 600 counties in the United States covering over 70 percent of the United States population. Using its proprietary imaging process, Pictometry® captures geo-referenced, high-resolution oblique (at an angle, producing a 3-D like view) and orthogonal (straight down) Intelligent Images®, within which structures and land features can be measured. Pictometry customizes and markets these technologies for government and commercial applications, offering non-traditional software solutions to aerial imaging needs. Pictometry’s imagery and software enables users to “See Everywhere, Measure Anything, Plan Everything”® using a patented digital information system. Pictometry has its headquarters in Rochester , NY and an office in Europe . Pictometry is a second order visualization tool that does not produce authoritative or definitive information (surveying) from its digital, aerial images. For more information on Pictometry, visit www.pictometry.com.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
ERDAS & SGI Share Empire Challenge Collaboration at GEOINT
Norcross, GA — October 29, 2008 — ERDAS Inc. and SGI (NASDAQ: SGIC) announce that they will be showcasing the main server from Empire Challenge 2008 at the GEOINT Symposium later this month. This server hosted indexed metadata for various data stores of imagery, serving data via Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) services.
Empire Challenge 2008 was held at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake , the high-desert home of the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, near Ridgecrest , California . In the last five decades, the Navy and Marine Corps have developed or tested nearly every significant airborne weapon system at China Lake . For several weeks in July 2008, a significant number of Australian, British and Canadian military personnel joined the U.S. military for Empire Challenge 2008. The fifth annual exercises, Empire Challenge 2008 demonstrated joint and coalition interoperability among Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) platforms, sensors and systems. Empire Challenge is hosted by the Joint Operational Test Bed System (JOTBS), integrating operations, information and technical capabilities around unmanned systems as part of the Joint Functional Concept for Battlespace Awareness.
At Empire Challenge 2008, ERDAS, the Penn State Electro-Optic Center and Geospatial Industries, Inc. executed several Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) missions at Naval Air Warfare Center , supporting the OGC Pilot. To support data collection and provide dissemination capabilities, the ERDAS OGC-compliant server was set up at Michelson Labs and Reston , VA , where the team supported OGC Pilot services.
ERDAS ran ERDAS APOLLO on an Oracle 10g database, utilizing a SGI® Altix® XE 240 system and a SGI InfiniteStorage NEXIS Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution. ERDAS APOLLO is an enterprise platform for cataloging and serving vector, raster, terrain and map data over the web, via a user-friendly interface. Compliant with the OGC and International Organization for Standardization (ISO), ERDAS APOLLO Server implements WMS, WCS, WFS, WFS-T and CS-W standards and the ECW-P and JPIP wavelet streaming protocols. ERDAS APOLLO efficiently stores and quickly shares gridded data throughout the enterprise. The capture platform for the exercise was a partially Sensor Web Enabled (SWE) Tiger Shark UAS provided by the EOC. The ERDAS and SGI server was used for indexing the geospatial metadata of the Tiger Shark imagery, as well as other static data sets available, including CADRG files, Landsat, NAIP and more.
Once captured data and imagery were on the ground, ERDAS’ Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based services finalized processes and disseminated and exploited the image based products. The OGC services enabled image cataloging and supported the uploading of both imagery and products to the OGC compliant image web archives.
"SGI Altix server and storage architectures are particularly well suited for operating in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and web or internet environment, providing geospatial information." said Robert Robbins, SGI Director of Defense and Strategic Systems" The ERDAS APOLLO solution takes advantage of the SGI performance and flexibility to perform quick and efficient information indexing and sharing in support of important exercise operations and events."
“During the Empire Challenge exercise, the team utilized ERDAS and SGI technology, illustrating the importance of OGC compliant services,” said Christopher Tucker, Senior Vice President, Americas and National Programs, ERDAS. “We are excited to highlight this main server at the GEOINT Symposium later this month.”
GEOINT will be October 27-30 at the Gaylord Palms Opryland Resort in Nashville , Tennessee . ERDAS will be utilizing the server used at Empire Challenge, as well as showcasing its full portfolio of solutions at booth #942. For more information about ERDAS, please call +1 770 776 3400, toll free +1 877 GO ERDAS, or visit http://www.erdas.com/.
About ERDAS ERDAS creates geospatial business systems that transform our earth's data into business information, enabling individuals, businesses and public agencies to quickly access, manage, process, and share that information from anywhere. Using secure geospatial information, ERDAS solutions improve employee, customer and partner visibility to information, enabling them to respond faster and collaborate better. It also means better decision-making, increased productivity and new revenue streams.
ERDAS is a part of the Hexagon Group, Sweden . For more information about
ERDAS or its products and services, please call +1 770 776 3400, toll free +1 866 534 2286, or visit http://www10.giscafe.com/goto.php?http://www.erdas.com.
Empire Challenge 2008 was held at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake , the high-desert home of the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, near Ridgecrest , California . In the last five decades, the Navy and Marine Corps have developed or tested nearly every significant airborne weapon system at China Lake . For several weeks in July 2008, a significant number of Australian, British and Canadian military personnel joined the U.S. military for Empire Challenge 2008. The fifth annual exercises, Empire Challenge 2008 demonstrated joint and coalition interoperability among Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) platforms, sensors and systems. Empire Challenge is hosted by the Joint Operational Test Bed System (JOTBS), integrating operations, information and technical capabilities around unmanned systems as part of the Joint Functional Concept for Battlespace Awareness.
At Empire Challenge 2008, ERDAS, the Penn State Electro-Optic Center and Geospatial Industries, Inc. executed several Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) missions at Naval Air Warfare Center , supporting the OGC Pilot. To support data collection and provide dissemination capabilities, the ERDAS OGC-compliant server was set up at Michelson Labs and Reston , VA , where the team supported OGC Pilot services.
ERDAS ran ERDAS APOLLO on an Oracle 10g database, utilizing a SGI® Altix® XE 240 system and a SGI InfiniteStorage NEXIS Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution. ERDAS APOLLO is an enterprise platform for cataloging and serving vector, raster, terrain and map data over the web, via a user-friendly interface. Compliant with the OGC and International Organization for Standardization (ISO), ERDAS APOLLO Server implements WMS, WCS, WFS, WFS-T and CS-W standards and the ECW-P and JPIP wavelet streaming protocols. ERDAS APOLLO efficiently stores and quickly shares gridded data throughout the enterprise. The capture platform for the exercise was a partially Sensor Web Enabled (SWE) Tiger Shark UAS provided by the EOC. The ERDAS and SGI server was used for indexing the geospatial metadata of the Tiger Shark imagery, as well as other static data sets available, including CADRG files, Landsat, NAIP and more.
Once captured data and imagery were on the ground, ERDAS’ Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based services finalized processes and disseminated and exploited the image based products. The OGC services enabled image cataloging and supported the uploading of both imagery and products to the OGC compliant image web archives.
"SGI Altix server and storage architectures are particularly well suited for operating in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and web or internet environment, providing geospatial information." said Robert Robbins, SGI Director of Defense and Strategic Systems" The ERDAS APOLLO solution takes advantage of the SGI performance and flexibility to perform quick and efficient information indexing and sharing in support of important exercise operations and events."
“During the Empire Challenge exercise, the team utilized ERDAS and SGI technology, illustrating the importance of OGC compliant services,” said Christopher Tucker, Senior Vice President, Americas and National Programs, ERDAS. “We are excited to highlight this main server at the GEOINT Symposium later this month.”
GEOINT will be October 27-30 at the Gaylord Palms Opryland Resort in Nashville , Tennessee . ERDAS will be utilizing the server used at Empire Challenge, as well as showcasing its full portfolio of solutions at booth #942. For more information about ERDAS, please call +1 770 776 3400, toll free +1 877 GO ERDAS, or visit http://www.erdas.com/.
About ERDAS ERDAS creates geospatial business systems that transform our earth's data into business information, enabling individuals, businesses and public agencies to quickly access, manage, process, and share that information from anywhere. Using secure geospatial information, ERDAS solutions improve employee, customer and partner visibility to information, enabling them to respond faster and collaborate better. It also means better decision-making, increased productivity and new revenue streams.
ERDAS is a part of the Hexagon Group, Sweden . For more information about
ERDAS or its products and services, please call +1 770 776 3400, toll free +1 866 534 2286, or visit http://www10.giscafe.com/goto.php?http://www.erdas.com.
Microsoft Single View Platform showcases Microsoft's deep foray into geospatial software.
Microsoft Single View Platform showcases Microsoft's deep foray into geospatial software.
Several agencies are beginning to use Microsoft SVP to meet evolving data visualization and decision-support system requirements in areas such as communication to citizens, command center operations, emergency response, facility management, information sharing and business intelligence needs, as well as in overall program management.
"Government officials are increasingly aware of geospatial information's value to many aspects of their operations," said Gina Marie Hatheway, industry manager for the U.S. Public Sector Industry Unit at Microsoft. "With Microsoft's Single View Platform and our partners' offerings built around this solution, data can be unlocked in new ways to present visually compelling and critically important applications. Microsoft SVP brings important cost advantages and operating efficiencies to our customers."
Microsoft SVP: Diverse Missions, One Avenue of Analysis
The geospatial intelligence gleaned through Microsoft SVP solutions allows agencies with diverse missions to access imagery of critical locations and overlay existing data sets to create a holistic view of situational requirements by bringing together Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and its Virtual Earth mapping software to harness the power of geographical visualization.
The United Nations' International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has launched ITU Global View, a data visualization solution jointly developed with Microsoft and IDV Solutions, which is built on the Microsoft Single View Platform. As an online mapping application, it is being used to track and help accelerate the implementation of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) goals, and provides decision-makers and stakeholders with a comprehensive view of current telecommunications infrastructure, projects and statistics.
"As the United Nations' specialized agency for information and communication technologies, the International Telecommunication Union is at the cutting edge of innovatively applying technology to achieve our objectives," said Sami Al-Basheer Al Morshid, director of ITU's Telecommunication Development Bureau. "ITU Global View provides development stakeholders and decision-makers with online mapping and data analysis of global telecommunications infrastructure, development projects, statistics and trends. The ITU and Microsoft collaboration demonstrates how technology can be applied to help address development challenges, and we are encouraged by the progress we have made together."
Governments, such as the government of Harris County, Texas, are showing how geospatial tools such as Microsoft SVP have direct impact on resident services.
"Harris County is the third-largest county in the U.S., which requires coordination and simultaneous display of thousands of pieces of data involved in the life cycle of ongoing projects," said Bill Jackson, director of E-Business for Harris County. "Microsoft's data visualization platform allows geo-referenced data relevant to infrastructure to be viewed on a map, thereby increasing situational understanding of processes and events."
Microsoft SVP also is helping federal agencies to meet mission objectives. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is a research institution that is using Microsoft's data visualization solution to support the U.S. Department of Energy in its efforts to increase the availability of clean and abundant energy. By tracking material and asset availability across the lab campus, ORNL is able to prevent duplicate ordering and accelerate delivery of chemical supplies.
"The integration of Virtual Earth and Microsoft Office SharePoint have provided visibility and enhanced the value of information at the lab," said R. Scott Studham, chief information officer of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Microsoft's own Global Security Operations Centers worldwide are using this data visualization platform. Brian Tuskan, senior director of Microsoft Global Security Operations, said: "We use the Microsoft Single View Platform to incorporate publicly available RSS feeds within our three Global Security Operations Centers. This allows us to see how events around the world are impacting our 700-plus Microsoft locations and to display the critical information we need to assess situations much faster."
Microsoft SVP is an open, industry standards-based architecture that can be built on existing desktop and server infrastructures, providing agencies with a baseline technology that has the ability to configure unique solutions depending on specific program requirements in the area of business intelligence, information sharing, work flow and business processes, project management, and systems center. Interoperable by design, Microsoft SVP integrates multiple data sets, legacy systems and existing applications and management dashboard capabilities, helping reduce cost, complexity and development time.
Microsoft SVP's commercial off-the-shelf technology enables solutions to be built and deployed quickly. Because the architecture is flexible and security-enhanced, government agencies can create restricted access and controls, allowing end users access only to information relevant to their role.
More information about Microsoft Single View Platform is available at http://www.microsoft.com/industry/government/solutions/Single_View_Platform/de fault.aspx.
Microsoft will provide demonstrations of these solutions in booths 205 and 211 at the GEOINT 2008 Symposium.
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