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Leveraging the Information Cloud in Dynamic GIS
Intergraph Corporation, Security, Government & Infrastructure Division (SG&I)
Steve du Plessis
12 October, 2011
Agenda


  Hexagon, Intergraph and ERDAS. Who are we now?

  The Dynamic GIS

  The four engines: Capture, Process, Share, Deliver

  Hardware and software solutions

  Case studies

  Closing remarks
Who is Hexagon?


    12,000 employees in more than 43 countries.
    High-technology focus with 2,000 employees in R&D and 2,100 active
    patents in the patent portfolio.
    Hexagon’s strategic acquisitions, innovative market approach, and new
    market expansion have resulted in exponential growth.
    The Hexagon share is listed at NASDAQ OMX Stockholm and SIX Swiss
    Exchange. The company’s share value has increased 1200% since 1992.




12% 12,000 16% 70
   Of net sales         Employees in more          Of employees    Companies acquired
 invested in R&D        than 40 countries         engaged in R&D      since 2000




                                                               3
Hexagon’s Structural Development
Hexagon Family




                 http://www.hexagon.com
Who is Intergraph?


   Leading global provider of engineering and geospatial software that enables
   our customers to build and operate more efficient plants and ships, create
   intelligent maps, and protect critical infrastructure.
   Technology innovator since 1969; more than 4,000 employees worldwide.
   Businesses and governments in 80 percent of the world’s largest countries
   rely on our industry-specific software.


     Process, Power & Marine (PP&M)          Security, Government & Infrastructure (SG&I)
      Enterprise Engineering Software           Geospatially Powered Software Solutions




                                                                  6
Security, Government & Infrastructure (SG&I)


    Intergraph’s SG&I division delivers geospatial and incident software solutions that help you
    manage, enhance, and protect life, infrastructure, and property.
    ERDAS is now part of Intergraph’s SG&I geospatial business unit. Intergraph Government
    Solutions (IGS) is an independent subsidiary for SG&I’s U.S. federal and classified business.
    SG&I takes geospatial and incident management information, and the context it provides,
    and creates:
     – A firm foundation for cooperation and interoperability.
     – Modern, comprehensive, well-integrated set of geospatial capabilities.
     – Analytics that help you see the information hidden within your data.
                 SG&I’s solutions benefit the following industry sectors:


  Geospatial &         National          Civil Security          Public                Private
    Incident           Security                              Infrastructure        Infrastructure
                                           Public Safety
  Management
                         Defense           Major Events       Transportation            Utilities
     Analytics         Intelligence                           Public Works         Communications
     Incident            Borders                                  Land              Industrial Sites
   Management         Military Bases
    Geospatial
    Foundation
                                                                               7
Who is using ERDAS software?


Over 21,000 organizations worldwide rely on ERDAS products everyday,
including:
Customer: City of Hamburg (Germany)
Customer: British Transport Police
Customer: City of Houston
Customer: Naval Air Weapons Station
Customer: L’Aquila, Italy




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Customer: City of Atlanta – Department of Water
Customer: India Geoportal - NSDI
Customer: Mexican Navy
Customer: US Army Corps of Engineers
Customer: Port of Rotterdam (Netherlands)
1800s - 1980


                         1920 – Wild
                         founded in
                         Heerbrugg,
                         Switzerland                                      1978 – ERDAS, Inc.
                                                                          founded
                                                   1969 –M&S
                                                   Computing founded
1819 – Kern founded in
Aarua, Switzerland




 Analog technologies            Measurement technologies               Birth of GIS; Digital
  were used to make             from companies like Leica              mapping generation
     hardcopy maps                   were perfected
1980 – 1990

                                                     Commercialization of remote
1980 – M&S                                                    sensing satellites
Consulting changes
name to Intergraph



                        Digital photogrammetry




                                                 The 2-D mapping generation




     The ‘2D mapping’
        generation
1991 - 2000                                  Relational
                                         databases to                  2000 – Intergraph exits
                                     share information                 the hardware business
1999 – Z/I Imaging GmbH                       within an                and restructures around
begins as joint venture                   organization                 vertically-focused
between Carl Zeiss and                                                 divisions for software,
the Intergraph                                                         systems integration and
photogrammetry division                                                professional services




              The Internet Age;                    Broadening of market from
              Beginning of the 3-D             professional users to prosumer
              generation                         and consumers of geospatial
                                                                   information
2001 - 2010

2001 – Leica                2005 – Hexagon
Geosystems                  purchases Leica
acquires ERDAS &            Geosystems; maintains
LH Systems;                 Leica identity
rebrands entity as
Leica Geosystems                                        2007 – LGGI
GIS & Mapping                                           acquires
(later LGGI)                                            Acquis, ER
                                                        Mapper, &
                                 2006 – Intergraph                                                 2010 –
                                                        IONIC
                                 is purchased by        Software                                   Hexagon
       2002 – Carl Zeiss’        private investors                         2008 – LGGI             purchases
       shares of Z/I                                                       rebrands                Intergraph
       Imaging are sold                                                    itself as
       to Intergraph                                                       ERDAS




         Mobile, ‘on-demand’                  Instant        Synthesis of IT, internet, business
              generation                    messenger &                systems and geospatial
           “I want it now!”                 online social            technology to create true
                                               media                decision support systems
2011 - present

Emerging capabilities & technologies

Full Motion Video Analysis

Enhanced Radar

Hyperspectral Exploitation

Point Clouds

5D Analysis

Crowd-sourced GIS


GPU Processing

Distributed Processing

Cloud Processing
What is Dynamic GIS?




                                   Constant flow     Present model of
             Measure real world      of updated         real world
                                     information
                                   to gain quality
                                   and efficiency




                              Change real world


Creating event-specific, time-specific, and location-specific information about our
changing world.
What is the information cloud?




The fusion of sensor technology with software produces the “Information Cloud,” where imagery is
combined with 3D point cloud data and connected with real-time, location-based intelligence. The
Information Cloud encapsulates and preserves the source content from the various sensor inputs
while feeding the Dynamic GIS. With integrated software solutions, you can transform this data to
produce reliable and actionable information.
The Geospatial Information Lifecycle
Capture
Process - Photogrammetry
Process - GIS and Remote Sensing Integration
Process - Change Detection
Process - Solution Builder
Improved Workflows



  Local Government Tax and Fee Assessment

  Natural Resource Management & Monitoring

  Disaster Response

  Corridor Maintenance

  Crop Management & Monitoring

  Border Patrol

  IED Identification

  Site Monitoring
Process – UAV Video
Process - Video Change Detection

Video Mosaic, 2004




                                   34
Process - Video Change Detection

Video Mosaic, 2007




                                   35
Process - Video Change Detection

New Building Activity




                                   36
Process – Point Cloud Exploitation
Share




        Up to 7/8s of the information
          cannot be directly seen
A Solution for Managing a “World” of Data




                  Spectral          Aerial        LIDAR
                Terabytes of Geospatial Data
                Imagery of a
                  Country
                                 Imagery of a
                                    State
                                                Imagery of a
                                                  County
Deliver: From the Sensor to the Internet


                                  ERDAS IMAGINE & LPS                 GeoMedia                         Web Client
                       Use
                   Geographic
Value Increases




                   Information




                                                                  Web Services
                  Deliver Data
                  & Information
                                      WMS       WCS     WFS       WPS        CS-W        ECWP JPIP Image X

                                                                ERDAS APOLLO
                                                      Geospatial Data Management & Delivery Platform

                    Manage
                     Data                Find    Describe      Catalog        Process          Share       Serve


                                     Imagery                  Elevation                 GIS & CAD Files

                   Capture &
                   Store Data
ERDAS APOLLO Application – Defense & Intelligence

                       Support for special sources
                       and formats of information




                                                                Fusion of
Provides rapid                                                   different
   access to                                                   intelligence
large volumes                                                  provides for
  of imagery                                                  the common
                                                               operational
                                                                  picture
                                                  Ensures
                                                   secure
                                               networks and
                                                secure data
Natanz, Iran – Uranium Enrichment Facility
ERDAS APOLLO Application – Natural Disaster Response


                     Multi-organizational data sharing


                                                            Through
                                                            change
                                                         detection the
                                                             overall
                                                           impact is
                                                          perceived




                          Rapid response
                          from nothing is
                             the norm
Morganza Waterway, Louisiana – Flood Control
A Solution Built Completely von Open Standards



                                                                    WMS
                                                                 Web Mapping
1    Client accesses Bing Maps as a geospatial reference.          Service




     Client searches for a particular geospatial layer using a      CS/W
                                                                  Web Catalog
2    keyword search. Layer is on a DIFFERENT server.               Service




     Polygon feature layer is displayed as a WFS-T on top           WFS
3    of the web map. User can blend and fade layer.               Web Feature
                                                                   Service



     User requests that a “process” be run on the selected          WPS
4    area of interest. Process requires additional files.        Web Processing
                                                                    Service



     Resulting geospatial layer is displayed with proper            WMS
5    styles on the Google Maps Layer.                            Web Mapping
                                                                   Service
ERDAS APOLLO Application – Environmental Protection


Land cover and hydrological analysis for planning, enforcement, site visualization,
                    and emergency response coordination
Mahoning County, Ohio – Land Reclamation
ERDAS APOLLO Application – Managing Energy
Resources


                      Exploration    Resource       Impact
                         and           and            and
                      Discovery     Operational   Remediation
                                    Management
Antelope Mine Wyoming – Open Pit Coal Mining
A Geospatial Solution for Success


             ERDAS APOLLO is built on Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Standards

      • Provides a high degree of interoperability across both applications and data
      • Makes you and your organization significantly more productive



        ERDAS APOLLO can discover and manage enormous amounts of geospatial data

      • Eliminates the time and expense wasted by everyone maintaining their own data silo
      • Less overall hassle for those engaged with production work



           Proven to be the fastest image serving capability available

       • Reduce the expense of dedicated hardware to achieve similar performance
       • Responsiveness results in satisfied users and customers



            On Demand Spatial Analysis via Web Processing Services (WPS)

       • Adapting APOLLO to a wide variety of applications significantly improves ROI
A New Era
The Dynamic GIS



  – An integrated geospatial system, the Dynamic GIS is able to translate change, on
    the fly, into actionable information

         Combining the strengths of Intergraph, ERDAS, and Leica Geosystems technologies,
         Hexagon now offers the industry’s most comprehensive set of geospatial solutions,
         aligning all the vehicles necessary to make the Dynamic GIS a reality

  – Completely connecting sensors to software and software to solutions (through
    specific vertical market services) ultimately provides a means to protect lives,
    infrastructure (property), and society

  – Brought together, we are starting from a position of strength

         Technology from Leica Geosystems and Z/I Imaging captures terabytes of imagery that
         can be used to create and extract valuable geographic information

         ERDAS has a legacy of pioneering image processing and raster handling, maximizing the
         pixel

         Intergraph built a vector-based strategy to build land bases and databases of geospatial
         intelligence and provides differentiated and vertically-focused software solutions to core
         industries that use geospatial data

  – The Dynamic GIS supports the complete geospatial information lifecycle
Technology Enables Productivity
by Reducing the Costs of Transactions


                                            1300’s
                                                                1800’s
                                         Creation of
Interaction                              Money
                                                       Industrialization,
Costs                                                  Transportation &
              Barter                                   Communication         2000’s
              Economy

                                                                                        2010---
                                                                      Internet &
                        Specialization                                InfoTech
                                     Integrated,
                                     Hierarchical                            Dynamic Systems
                                     Firm
                                                 “Virtually
                                                 Integrated”                       “Connected”



                                                                     Time
Translating Change into Real-time, Actionable Information




          Image indicates nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan. One-meter resolution image provided by GeoEye
          IKONOS, collected on March 12, 2011.
Change Drives the Geospatial Information Lifecycle
Lifecycle of Geo-Information
                                                                       Sensors
The Changing Earth:                                          Satellite, Airborne, Terrestrial

• Drives demand for information
• Drives demand for data
• Drives demand for sensors
                                    Produce or
• Drives demand for software                                      Desktop Software
                                   Buy New Data
                                                     Data
                                                  Producers



             Search Performed;                                                     Server Software
              Data Not Available                   Data/IT
                                                  Managers


        Request is Made                                                                         The Web
                                             Users & Consumers


                                   The Earth Changes – Information Required
The Dynamic GIS


  Internet

  Interoperability

  Mobile

  Cloud computing



  Require data that is…..

   –   Timely

   –   Accurate

   –   Authoritative
Transforming Your Data into Information
Leaders and Partners in Geospatial Innovation
QUESTIONS
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Dynamic GIS: On Demand Web Based Geo-Processing

  • 1. Leveraging the Information Cloud in Dynamic GIS Intergraph Corporation, Security, Government & Infrastructure Division (SG&I) Steve du Plessis 12 October, 2011
  • 2. Agenda Hexagon, Intergraph and ERDAS. Who are we now? The Dynamic GIS The four engines: Capture, Process, Share, Deliver Hardware and software solutions Case studies Closing remarks
  • 3. Who is Hexagon? 12,000 employees in more than 43 countries. High-technology focus with 2,000 employees in R&D and 2,100 active patents in the patent portfolio. Hexagon’s strategic acquisitions, innovative market approach, and new market expansion have resulted in exponential growth. The Hexagon share is listed at NASDAQ OMX Stockholm and SIX Swiss Exchange. The company’s share value has increased 1200% since 1992. 12% 12,000 16% 70 Of net sales Employees in more Of employees Companies acquired invested in R&D than 40 countries engaged in R&D since 2000 3
  • 5. Hexagon Family http://www.hexagon.com
  • 6. Who is Intergraph? Leading global provider of engineering and geospatial software that enables our customers to build and operate more efficient plants and ships, create intelligent maps, and protect critical infrastructure. Technology innovator since 1969; more than 4,000 employees worldwide. Businesses and governments in 80 percent of the world’s largest countries rely on our industry-specific software. Process, Power & Marine (PP&M) Security, Government & Infrastructure (SG&I) Enterprise Engineering Software Geospatially Powered Software Solutions 6
  • 7. Security, Government & Infrastructure (SG&I) Intergraph’s SG&I division delivers geospatial and incident software solutions that help you manage, enhance, and protect life, infrastructure, and property. ERDAS is now part of Intergraph’s SG&I geospatial business unit. Intergraph Government Solutions (IGS) is an independent subsidiary for SG&I’s U.S. federal and classified business. SG&I takes geospatial and incident management information, and the context it provides, and creates: – A firm foundation for cooperation and interoperability. – Modern, comprehensive, well-integrated set of geospatial capabilities. – Analytics that help you see the information hidden within your data. SG&I’s solutions benefit the following industry sectors: Geospatial & National Civil Security Public Private Incident Security Infrastructure Infrastructure Public Safety Management Defense Major Events Transportation Utilities Analytics Intelligence Public Works Communications Incident Borders Land Industrial Sites Management Military Bases Geospatial Foundation 7
  • 8. Who is using ERDAS software? Over 21,000 organizations worldwide rely on ERDAS products everyday, including:
  • 9. Customer: City of Hamburg (Germany)
  • 11. Customer: City of Houston
  • 12. Customer: Naval Air Weapons Station
  • 14. Customer: City of Atlanta – Department of Water
  • 17. Customer: US Army Corps of Engineers
  • 18. Customer: Port of Rotterdam (Netherlands)
  • 19. 1800s - 1980 1920 – Wild founded in Heerbrugg, Switzerland 1978 – ERDAS, Inc. founded 1969 –M&S Computing founded 1819 – Kern founded in Aarua, Switzerland Analog technologies Measurement technologies Birth of GIS; Digital were used to make from companies like Leica mapping generation hardcopy maps were perfected
  • 20. 1980 – 1990 Commercialization of remote 1980 – M&S sensing satellites Consulting changes name to Intergraph Digital photogrammetry The 2-D mapping generation The ‘2D mapping’ generation
  • 21. 1991 - 2000 Relational databases to 2000 – Intergraph exits share information the hardware business 1999 – Z/I Imaging GmbH within an and restructures around begins as joint venture organization vertically-focused between Carl Zeiss and divisions for software, the Intergraph systems integration and photogrammetry division professional services The Internet Age; Broadening of market from Beginning of the 3-D professional users to prosumer generation and consumers of geospatial information
  • 22. 2001 - 2010 2001 – Leica 2005 – Hexagon Geosystems purchases Leica acquires ERDAS & Geosystems; maintains LH Systems; Leica identity rebrands entity as Leica Geosystems 2007 – LGGI GIS & Mapping acquires (later LGGI) Acquis, ER Mapper, & 2006 – Intergraph 2010 – IONIC is purchased by Software Hexagon 2002 – Carl Zeiss’ private investors 2008 – LGGI purchases shares of Z/I rebrands Intergraph Imaging are sold itself as to Intergraph ERDAS Mobile, ‘on-demand’ Instant Synthesis of IT, internet, business generation messenger & systems and geospatial “I want it now!” online social technology to create true media decision support systems
  • 23. 2011 - present Emerging capabilities & technologies Full Motion Video Analysis Enhanced Radar Hyperspectral Exploitation Point Clouds 5D Analysis Crowd-sourced GIS GPU Processing Distributed Processing Cloud Processing
  • 24. What is Dynamic GIS? Constant flow Present model of Measure real world of updated real world information to gain quality and efficiency Change real world Creating event-specific, time-specific, and location-specific information about our changing world.
  • 25. What is the information cloud? The fusion of sensor technology with software produces the “Information Cloud,” where imagery is combined with 3D point cloud data and connected with real-time, location-based intelligence. The Information Cloud encapsulates and preserves the source content from the various sensor inputs while feeding the Dynamic GIS. With integrated software solutions, you can transform this data to produce reliable and actionable information.
  • 29. Process - GIS and Remote Sensing Integration
  • 30. Process - Change Detection
  • 32. Improved Workflows Local Government Tax and Fee Assessment Natural Resource Management & Monitoring Disaster Response Corridor Maintenance Crop Management & Monitoring Border Patrol IED Identification Site Monitoring
  • 34. Process - Video Change Detection Video Mosaic, 2004 34
  • 35. Process - Video Change Detection Video Mosaic, 2007 35
  • 36. Process - Video Change Detection New Building Activity 36
  • 37. Process – Point Cloud Exploitation
  • 38. Share Up to 7/8s of the information cannot be directly seen
  • 39. A Solution for Managing a “World” of Data Spectral Aerial LIDAR Terabytes of Geospatial Data Imagery of a Country Imagery of a State Imagery of a County
  • 40. Deliver: From the Sensor to the Internet ERDAS IMAGINE & LPS GeoMedia Web Client Use Geographic Value Increases Information Web Services Deliver Data & Information WMS WCS WFS WPS CS-W ECWP JPIP Image X ERDAS APOLLO Geospatial Data Management & Delivery Platform Manage Data Find Describe Catalog Process Share Serve Imagery Elevation GIS & CAD Files Capture & Store Data
  • 41. ERDAS APOLLO Application – Defense & Intelligence Support for special sources and formats of information Fusion of Provides rapid different access to intelligence large volumes provides for of imagery the common operational picture Ensures secure networks and secure data
  • 42. Natanz, Iran – Uranium Enrichment Facility
  • 43. ERDAS APOLLO Application – Natural Disaster Response Multi-organizational data sharing Through change detection the overall impact is perceived Rapid response from nothing is the norm
  • 44. Morganza Waterway, Louisiana – Flood Control
  • 45. A Solution Built Completely von Open Standards WMS Web Mapping 1 Client accesses Bing Maps as a geospatial reference. Service Client searches for a particular geospatial layer using a CS/W Web Catalog 2 keyword search. Layer is on a DIFFERENT server. Service Polygon feature layer is displayed as a WFS-T on top WFS 3 of the web map. User can blend and fade layer. Web Feature Service User requests that a “process” be run on the selected WPS 4 area of interest. Process requires additional files. Web Processing Service Resulting geospatial layer is displayed with proper WMS 5 styles on the Google Maps Layer. Web Mapping Service
  • 46. ERDAS APOLLO Application – Environmental Protection Land cover and hydrological analysis for planning, enforcement, site visualization, and emergency response coordination
  • 47. Mahoning County, Ohio – Land Reclamation
  • 48. ERDAS APOLLO Application – Managing Energy Resources Exploration Resource Impact and and and Discovery Operational Remediation Management
  • 49. Antelope Mine Wyoming – Open Pit Coal Mining
  • 50. A Geospatial Solution for Success ERDAS APOLLO is built on Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Standards • Provides a high degree of interoperability across both applications and data • Makes you and your organization significantly more productive ERDAS APOLLO can discover and manage enormous amounts of geospatial data • Eliminates the time and expense wasted by everyone maintaining their own data silo • Less overall hassle for those engaged with production work Proven to be the fastest image serving capability available • Reduce the expense of dedicated hardware to achieve similar performance • Responsiveness results in satisfied users and customers On Demand Spatial Analysis via Web Processing Services (WPS) • Adapting APOLLO to a wide variety of applications significantly improves ROI
  • 52. The Dynamic GIS – An integrated geospatial system, the Dynamic GIS is able to translate change, on the fly, into actionable information Combining the strengths of Intergraph, ERDAS, and Leica Geosystems technologies, Hexagon now offers the industry’s most comprehensive set of geospatial solutions, aligning all the vehicles necessary to make the Dynamic GIS a reality – Completely connecting sensors to software and software to solutions (through specific vertical market services) ultimately provides a means to protect lives, infrastructure (property), and society – Brought together, we are starting from a position of strength Technology from Leica Geosystems and Z/I Imaging captures terabytes of imagery that can be used to create and extract valuable geographic information ERDAS has a legacy of pioneering image processing and raster handling, maximizing the pixel Intergraph built a vector-based strategy to build land bases and databases of geospatial intelligence and provides differentiated and vertically-focused software solutions to core industries that use geospatial data – The Dynamic GIS supports the complete geospatial information lifecycle
  • 53. Technology Enables Productivity by Reducing the Costs of Transactions 1300’s 1800’s Creation of Interaction Money Industrialization, Costs Transportation & Barter Communication 2000’s Economy 2010--- Internet & Specialization InfoTech Integrated, Hierarchical Dynamic Systems Firm “Virtually Integrated” “Connected” Time
  • 54. Translating Change into Real-time, Actionable Information Image indicates nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan. One-meter resolution image provided by GeoEye IKONOS, collected on March 12, 2011.
  • 55. Change Drives the Geospatial Information Lifecycle
  • 56. Lifecycle of Geo-Information Sensors The Changing Earth: Satellite, Airborne, Terrestrial • Drives demand for information • Drives demand for data • Drives demand for sensors Produce or • Drives demand for software Desktop Software Buy New Data Data Producers Search Performed; Server Software Data Not Available Data/IT Managers Request is Made The Web Users & Consumers The Earth Changes – Information Required
  • 57. The Dynamic GIS Internet Interoperability Mobile Cloud computing Require data that is….. – Timely – Accurate – Authoritative
  • 58. Transforming Your Data into Information
  • 59. Leaders and Partners in Geospatial Innovation
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