Norcross, GA —September 17, 2009 — ERDAS announces its participation at Map Africa, September 16-18, 2009 in Johannesburg , South Africa .

Exhibiting in booth 11, ERDAS is previewing the upcoming release of ERDAS Software 2010, including ERDAS IMAGINE and ERDAS APOLLO.

ERDAS IMAGINE 2010 is many solutions in one, incorporating image analysis, remote sensing, geospatial analysis, Web Processing Service (WPS) publishing, Web Coverage Service (WCS) access, Web Mapping Service (WMS) access, Web Coverage Service (CS-W) catalog access and more. ERDAS APOLLO 2010 is customizable, equipped to fully understand, competently manage and rapidly serve an organization’s large volumes of geospatial data. ERDAS APOLLO implements an out-of-the box Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), that provides a publish, find and bind workflow for any data type. With a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), ERDAS APOLLO provides an interactively connected framework to support the management and serving of spatial data, metadata and maps.

“We look forward to Map Africa as one of the most important geospatial events in the African market and a platform for ERDAS to introduce the international market to our exciting new software releases— ERDAS 2010”, said Dr. Thomas Bayer , Vice President, Europe, Middle East and Africa , ERDAS.

ERDAS will be co-sharing this booth space with our Southern Africa Distributor-Data Design. Data Design is ERDAS sole authorized distributor for the entire ERDAS product portfolio.

Map Africa aims at facilitating interaction, discussion, and collaboration amongst the participants. It will provide a platform to share the latest development in the Geoinformation field and also promote the products and services among a large gathering consisting of top decision makers from government and private sector to prospective users, academicians, vendors, policy makes and representatives of various national and international organizations.



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