Last Few ERDAS Desktop 2012 Development Weeks Deliver Solid Results

During the last few weeks the ERDAS Desktop software development teams have delivered solid results.

1. We have seen Point Cloud (LiDAR) display performance speed up significantly.
2. User feedback from the Hexagon 2012 Conference prompted refinement in the LiDAR Ribbon controls.
3. ERDAS IMAGINE’s Spatial Modeler providing real-time results from over 30 indices as well as pan sharpening.
4. Python is now running Spatial Modeler without launching ERDAS IMAGINE UI.
5. Asynchronous multi-threaded raster data delivery engine plugged into Spatial Modeler and into the 2D Viewer.
6. Began work placing the latest ERDAS ECW/JP2 SDK into ERDAS IMAGINE, LPS, and ERDAS ER Mapper.
7. MosaicPro improvements improves how customers can handle mosaicking images with clouds. 

There are more, but I can’t talk about all of them. There are a lot of great things happening in Atlanta, Perth, Singapore and Hyderabad as we march towards the 2012 ERDAS Desktop Products release.

Oh yes, and did I tell you that ERDAS IMAGINE functions are being placed into GeoMedia? Yes... Vector coming into ERDAS IMAGINE and raster id going into GeoMedia. 

Finally, I had wanted to do some webinars on the LiDAR tools, but have decided to wait until we complete the changes gathered from user feedback at Hexagon 2012. I expect to do the webinars before too late in July.

ERDAS Desktop 2011 Version 11.0.3 is Available

ERDAS has released ERDAS Desktop 2011 Version 11.0.3. This version is available to customers with current desktop software maintenance (SWM) and contains all issues from 11.0.1 and 11.0.2. There are quite a few customer requested enhancements as well as customer reported bugs addressed in this version.

A very brief list of what ERDAS IMAGINE customers can now expect:
Use Spectral Angle Mapper and Spectral Correlation Mapper classifiers in Supervised Classification
Distribute MosaicPro image tile creation to internal Cores or to external CPUs on their network
Rescale data from 16-bit down to 8-bit in MosaicPro and in LPS ortho processes
Expect higher performance from the Mosaicpro Preview
Improved performance on MosaicPro histogram matching
And more…

There are LPS and ERDAS ER Mapper issues addressed in Version 11.0.3 as well.

This version does not include any server enhancements and fixes. (Hence the use of the word Desktop).

See for yourself at http://www.erdas.com/service/support/fixes_enhancements/ERDASIMAGINE2011.aspx

After looking at what is in Version 11.0.3, if you want the version, you must log-in with your current SWM account to download the version. If you have current SWM, go here and log-in:

http://www.erdas.com/service/support/fixes_enhancements/details/ERDAS_Desktop_2011_Version_11_0_3.aspx

ERDAS Desktop 2011 Version 11.0.2

From the ERDAS desktop product download pages.... Released March 2, 2011. ERDAS Desktop 2011 Version 11.0.2 provides fixes and enhancements to the ERDAS Desktop 2011 products (ERDAS IMAGINE 2011, LPS 2011, and ERDAS ER Mapper 2011) and requires at least one of the ERDAS Desktop 2011 products to be installed before this version can be installed. This version installs the fixes found in ERDAS Desktop 2011 Version 11.0.1, which is superseded and no longer available.

See: http://www.erdas.com/service/support/fixes_enhancements/ERDASIMAGINE2011.aspx