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Leica Geosystems Acquires ER Mapper

posted by Satri on Monday May 21, @04:53PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the embrace-and-conquer dept.
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Stefano Costa writes " Norcross, GA — Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging today announced that it has acquired all assets of Earth Resource Mapping Ltd (ER Mapper), a geospatial software company headquartered in Australia. ER Mapper is a world-class provider of geospatial imagery processing solutions that prepare, manage, compress and deploy imagery, thus complementing Leica Geosystems’ existing product portfolio." This links to a Leica press release. More Leica related stories below.

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Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging released ERDAS Imagine 9.1. From the press release: "GIS users now have more flexibility and choices with expanded platform support such as Windows XP Professional Edition 64-bit and Sun Solaris 10. The IMAGINE NITF module has been significantly enhanced addressing many key requirements for the Defense community. Leica Geosystems is also the first commercial software company to provide support for the Indian Cartosat topographic mapping satellite demonstrating enhanced capabilities for Cartosat orthorectification."
Technology: Leica Rolling Out a Virtual Globe named TITAN [+]
Ogle Earth discuss the upcoming virtual globe TITAN from Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging. I also received the invitation and already shared my comments with Leica. First main gripe: it's Windows only. Since we're theoretically not allowed to discuss the app and the screenshots (but nothing was signed), I'll leave this task to others. From Ogle Earth: "Leica TITAN Key Features: · Load and visualize imagery, vector data and 3D models to create your own ‘MyWorld’ · Add live camera feeds, news feeds, pictures and publish to your ‘MyWorld’ · Chat with other users within the TITAN network and view their ‘local’ data on your desktop · Create flight path movies and share and publish to your ‘MyWorld’ · Publish a ‘MyWorld’ and view its content on your custom web page · Create and integrate custom scripts to build unique applications · Publish a WMS which can be consumed other OGC WMS compliant applications" Update: 12/21 20:38 GMT by S :All Points Blog details the context of this announcement.
Technology: Leica's TITAN Virtual Globe Now in Beta 1 comment [+]
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New ECW EULA from ERMapper / Leica 3 comments [+]
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Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging announces the availability of Leica TITAN 2008, a dynamic online data sharing solution. Leica TITAN 2008 includes:

• Leica TITAN Client
o Leica TITAN Viewer – enables global users to interactively visualize and share data.
o Geospatial Instant Messenger – primary communication protocol used to share, chat, discover, access and retrieve geospatial data & web services into a variety of client applications.
• Leica TITAN GeoHub
o Organizations create their own secure community with the Leica TITAN Network. The GeoHub enables both internal & external permission-based data access in a secure network.
• Leica TITAN Master Server
o Organizations create an autonomous, private and isolated network, where GeoHub communities and individuals interact outside of the Leica TITAN Network.
• Leica TITAN Web Cache Server (Coming soon!)
o Improves the performance of the GeoHub and can be set up in different geographic locations.
Leica TITAN Client new features include:

• New icons & functionality
• Create and persist lists of public web services
• Access public web services from others
• Set permissions on local data allowing public access to your data
• Search for available data across the entire Leica TITAN Network
• Set Preferences for both the Geospatial Instant Messenger and the Viewer
• See User Profile and Stats referent to the GeoHub you are currently subscribed to
• Switch between viewing modes
• Share KML and KMZ files via the Geospatial Instant Messenger
• Save MyWorld and set permissions on datasets
• Add and remove users from your buddy list (MyNetwork)
• Subscribe and connect to different GeoHubs available in the Leica TITAN Network
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Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging Rebrands As ERDAS [+]
Directions Magazine has a very extensive article detailing this move. To summarize the whole move a little, I give you a quote from an ERDAS representative : "At ERDAS, we help organizations harness the information of the changing earth for greater advantage, by creating geospatial business systems that transform our earth’s data into business information. We are The Earth to Business Company."

For more information about this historic move, please visit the Directions Magazine article.
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