Intergraph Announces Sterling as Geospatial Distributor for Great Britain

Appointed distributor of Intergraph’s ERDAS and GeoMedia product families in Great Britain, Sterling combines geospatial expertise with leading geospatial technology

Huntsville, Ala., – February 20, 2012 - Sterling, the software division of Sterling Power Group, has been appointed as distributor for Intergraph’s leading geospatial product families, ERDAS and GeoMedia in Great Britain.

Following Intergraph’s acquisition by Hexagon AB, the business and products of ERDAS have been merged into Intergraph, extending its product offerings and its routes to market including an expanded distributor channel. Sterling will supplement Intergraph’s direct business in Great Britain, providing increases in coverage and the ability to exploit the combined imaging and GIS capabilities of Intergraph’s ERDAS and GeoMedia product families.

“A key trend in the geospatial applications market is the demand for fused remote sensing and GIS technologies. By combining ERDAS and GeoMedia products with industry insight and geospatial expertise, Sterling is perfectly placed to fulfil this need, delivering solutions that rapidly transform raw data into actionable intelligence, and to deliver that information anywhere” said Mladen Stojic, Vice President – Geospatial, Intergraph. 

The Sterling team features key staff from the former ERDAS UK distributor, and comprises recognised experts experienced in applying geospatial technologies to industries that include: defence; homeland security; natural resources; government; and education. Key personnel include Phil Cooper, former Head of Software at Astrium Geoinformation Services, Dr. Andy Wells, previous Sales Director and John Shannon, former Technical Manager.

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Intergraph Announces New Spatial Data Infrastructure Solution

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., November 21, 2011 -Intergraph has unveiled a best-of-breed spatial data infrastructure (SDI) utilising ERDAS’ data management technologies. This includes uniting its proven GeoMedia® SDI suite with the superior data management capabilities of ERDAS APOLLO. Addressing the demand for geospatial information and services among GIS and non-GIS users, the combined package delivers a geospatial management platform that enables direct collaboration among government, business, and the public.

Recently, Intergraph demonstrated this SDI solution, showcasing the integration of ERDAS APOLLO with Intergraph’s GeoMedia® SDI suite.  ERDAS APOLLO manages and delivers virtually any digital object in an organization, and  provides superior data server capabilities such as image streaming (through ECWP and JPIP), image processing and analysis (WPS), coverage access (WCS), active notification of updates using geo-RSS, feature layer editing (WFS-T), and an extremely high level of performance under heavy user demand. Within the context of the demonstrated solution, Intergraph’s GeoMedia SDI suite provides highly-scalable, OGC®-compliant enterprise geo-services, extended SDI services that secure and manage their deployment (such as enhanced security, user event logging, performance measurement, and web portal content logging), and a powerful, yet simple-to-use browser application that enables users to find, access, visualize, and analyze geospatial data published via SDI web services and to integrate data from multiple sources on-the-fly into a single, easily navigated map interface.

This comprehensive solution will maximize the value of geospatial data by providing consistent and simple access to up-to-date enterprise information resources, and facilitating data sharing and collaboration with customers and partners.

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Intergraph® Promotes LiDAR Data Management and Exploitation for State & Local Government

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., November 16, 2011– At this year’s Rocket City Geospatial Conference, Hexagon companies Intergraph and Leica Geosystems conducted a comprehensive LiDAR workshop that illustrated the power and utility of this burgeoning technology, and showcased combined tools that unlock the value of its data. The series of presentations are now available on-demand.

Disaster response was a key theme of the conference, reflecting the tornado outbreak throughout Alabama this past spring. The theme was echoed in workshop presentations that explored the advantages of using point clouds for disaster planning, response, impact assessment, and recovery efforts. Other highlighted applications benefiting from the use of LiDAR included transportation management and the remote detection of taxable construction by local governments.

Leica Geosystems introduced the inner workings of LiDAR and the resultant point clouds, outlining the benefits offered over other remote sensing technologies. Intergraph presented software products (ERDAS and GeoMedia^®) that enable organisations to leverage LiDAR and point clouds and which, by working together, form an integrated system capable of managing an organisation’s entire LiDAR workflow.

These workflows are enabled by extensions to GeoMedia^®, a GIS management package that provides access to geospatial data in almost any form and unites them in a single view for efficient editing and analysis. GeoMedia^® Grid provides seamless integration of vector and grid (raster) data formats for viewing and analysis. The product features LiDAR Workbench, a rich set of tools for manipulating LiDAR data to create high-resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) and full vector contours. These LiDAR-based DEMs can then be displayed using GeoMedia^® 3D, which enables three-dimensional visualisation and analysis within the GeoMedia^® environment. With GeoMedia^® 3D, you can dynamically integrate surfaces, imagery, feature data, and vector data and LiDAR-based DEMs to provide a 3D view of all data sources in a single map window. GeoMedia^® 3D also enables the creation of a flight path that facilitates viewing objects of interest from multiple angles, for more thorough inspection.

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Intergraph® Helps the Czech Republic Become One of the First Countries to Fulfil its INSPIRE SDI Obligations

Intergraph’s GeoMedia SDI suite helps the Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre become a fully-fledged access point of the INfrastructure for SPatial InfoRmation in Europe (INSPIRE).

Huntsville/al. USA, November 1, 2011 – the Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre (COSMC) launched a new version of its Geoportal system http://geoportal.cuzk.cz using Intergraph’s GeoMedia SDI suite. By doing so, the Office becomes one of the first national mapping agencies to fulfil its obligations arising from the INSPIRE Directive of European Parliament.

Through Geoportal, COSMC now publishes 165,000 metadata records describing its spatial datasets and services and returns search results in under one second. Most of the Geoportal website text content is generated from information held in the metadata records. The Metadata records are updated daily via an Electronic Transformation and Loading (ETL) tool, which ensures the portal reflects updates made across 10 contributing production systems within COSMC. For example, daily updates to digital cadastral map coverage reflect changes in the Czech Republic’s real estate cadastre information system.

In addition, Geoportal provides INSPIRE-compliant search and view web services, including the EuroGeonames service. Geoportal tools also enable the purchase and licensing of geodata and services; this e-commerce facility is the exclusive interface by which the general public and public administration authorities can order such products.

Ing. Danuše Svobodová, Deputy Director of Land Surveying Office: “During its six years of operation, COSMC’s Geoportal has evolved through many changes; from its origins as the Land Surveying Office’s primary e-commerce solution for map production, it has developed into a complex solution providing data and services from across the whole department of Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre (COSMC). The solution team, consisting of representatives from Intergraph, the Land Surveying Office and the Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre, was able to satisfy the requirements of the department, its users, and the INSPIRE directive as well. Many applications of the Geoportal have been truly innovative and implemented as first-of-their-kind in the Czech Republic. The COSMC Geoportal became an inspiration for other geoportals in the Czech Republic and foreign countries alike. Maintenance of the COSMC Geoportal represents a significant focus for the Land Surveying Office“.

“Intergraph is delighted to have helped COSMC establish its leading position within Europe’s SDI community” said Robert Widz, Intergraph EMEA Director for Government.  “The insight gained through our work with European research programmes, INSPIRE Working Groups and successful implementations of regional, national and international SDI enabled us to develop our GeoMedia SDI product suite whose comprehensive capabilities reduce implementation risk and schedule.  Customers will see these best-in-class offerings continue to advance, for example through integration of GeoMedia SDI capabilities with those of ERDAS APOLLO”.

Just some of the capabilities the Czech Geoportal delivers today are:  a public Web portal to search and view metadata and map data; a fully populated catalogue of 165,000 validated metadata records; INSPIRE-compliant search and view services; a data download service for EuroGeonames; a special register for quick metadata search and a freely accessible metadata editor; and, an e-commerce including an interface to select and download exported data.  

About Intergraph

Intergraph is the leading global provider of engineering and geospatial software that enables customers to visualise complex data. Businesses and governments in more than 60 countries rely on Intergraph’s industry-specific software to organise vast amounts of data to make processes and infrastructure better, safer and smarter. The company’s software and services empower customers to build and operate more efficient plants and ships, create intelligent maps, and protect critical infrastructure and millions of people around the world.

Intergraph operates through two divisions: Process, Power & Marine (PP&M) and Security, Government & Infrastructure (SG&I).  Intergraph PP&M provides enterprise engineering software for the design, construction, operation and data management of plants, ships and offshore facilities. Intergraph SG&I provides geospatially powered solutions to the public safety and security, defence and intelligence, government, transportation, photogrammetry, and utilities and communications industries. Intergraph Government Solutions (IGS) is an independent subsidiary for SG&I’s U.S. federal and classified business.

Intergraph is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hexagon AB, (Nordic exchange: HEXA B) and (Swiss exchange: HEXN).For more information, visit www.intergraph.co.uk and www.hexagon.se.

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Intergraph® Fulfils Technical Requirements of UK Government Strategic Data Sharing Initiative

Intergraph is the first supplier to publish compliant responses to UK Location’s prequalification questions for INSPIRE View Services Solutions.

SWINDON/UNITED KINGDOM, 25^th August, 2011 – Intergraph, a global leader in geospatial solutions, has established its GeoMedia^® SDI Pro product as a key supporter of  interoperability standards that are essential prerequisites of the UK Location Strategy and the wider European INSPIRE Directive.

UK Location, the pan-government initiative to improve the sharing and re-use of public sector location information, recently issued “INSPIRE View Service Resources”, a set of pre-qualification questions to suppliers. This document asked suppliers to confirm their support of key interoperability standards critical to the ”UK Location Programme.” The central deliverable of the programme is the implementation of a national Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), a task which all European Union member states are obliged to complete under the European Commission’s INSPIRE Directive 2007/2/EC. The View Service capabilities enable users to make use of spatial data served by the SDI.

Intergraph is the first company to publish responses to the View Service pre-qualification questions.

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