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ERDAS APOLLO
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2015
December 2014
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Contents
About Us ................................................................................................................................. 4
About this Release .................................................................................................................. 6
Overview of ERDAS APOLLO ................................................................................................. 7
New Features for 2015 ............................................................................................................ 8
Vector Data Management for Databases ........................................................................... 8
Point Cloud Management & Delivery ................................................................................. 8
Dynamic Image Styling On-The-Fly ................................................................................... 10
Data Management for CAD Formats ................................................................................. 11
Hand-held (Geotagged) Imagery Support .......................................................................... 12
Additional Highlights for 2015 .................................................................................................. 13
OGC Certification .............................................................................................................. 13
Setup and Configuration Improvements............................................................................. 13
Miscellaneous .................................................................................................................... 14
About this Release
This document describes the enhancements for ERDAS APOLLO 2015. Although the information in this
document is current as of the product release, see the Intergraph Support website for the most current version.
This release includes both enhancements and fixes. For information on fixes that were made to ERDAS APOLLO
for this release, see the Issues Resolved report on the Intergraph Support website for a specific product.
This document is only an overview and does not provide all of the details about the product's capabilities. See the
online help and other documents provided with ERDAS APOLLO for more information.
Overview of ERDAS APOLLO
ERDAS APOLLO is an enterprise-class, comprehensive data management, analysis, and delivery system
enabling an organization to catalog, search, discover, process, and securely disseminate massive volumes of
both file-based and web-enabled data. This solution consistently delivers virtually any digital object faster and with
less hardware than competing server-based products. An interoperable OGC/ISO-based application that
implements an out-of-the-box service-oriented architecture (SOA), ERDAS APOLLO is the solution for data
management in the overall Hexagon Geospatial server story.
Available in three product tiers, ERDAS APOLLO suits a spectrum of organizations – integrating easily with other
geospatial software and offering unparalleled performance even when handling massive data archives and many
users.
ERDAS APOLLO Essentials is the fastest geospatial image and point cloud server in the world. A single server
with standard hardware can serve terabytes of data to thousands of concurrent users. ERDAS APOLLO
Essentials works with your GIS to provide geospatial data as quickly as possible.
ERDAS APOLLO Advantage is a comprehensive data management and delivery solution providing remarkable
business value. This OGC/ISO standards-based solution can organize, securely manage and disseminate data
within databases and also massive volumes of dynamic and static images, point cloud data, terrain, vector data,
third party web services, and any digital resource in the enterprise. ERDAS APOLLO Advantage is scalable
through clustering to meet an organization’s specific needs, ensuring unprecedented performance even when
handling the largest data archives.
ERDAS APOLLO Professional is the most advanced product tier of ERDAS APOLLO. It offers on-the-fly
geoprocessing through a powerful implementation of the OGC Web Processing Service (WPS) specification.
Users can run an entire model, such as change detection, site analysis, or elevation change, completely
contained within a single web processing service (WPS). ERDAS APOLLO Professional is unrivaled in the
complexity of algorithms stored under the hood.
New Features for 2015
Vector Data Management for Databases
Within ERDAS APOLLO 2014, additions were made to the product to allow for management of vector data stored
in files. ERDAS APOLLO 2015 will now extend cataloguing to include feature data stored in databases, including
Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and PostGIS. As many of our enterprise customers maintain their vector data in
databases, this capability will allow them to effectively manage that data. It makes finding the data easier as well
as the delivery of that data using standard OGC interfaces to a variety of client applications. For organizations
with large geospatial data stored in database holdings, it is easy to forget what data is available, over what areas,
and other metadata such as when it was collected. By using the ERDAS APOLLO data management capabilities,
tracking this data becomes very easy and users are able to query and discover the data through easy to use
interfaces and then have that data delivered through standard interfaces.
Data Management of Oracle Vector Data
Point Cloud Management & Delivery
Previous versions of ERDAS APOLLO have allowed for the crawling and management of point cloud data sets,
but they were treated internally as image files. ERDAS APOLLO 2015 now treats point cloud data as a first class
citizen of the catalog allowing for metadata properties specific to point cloud data. As point cloud data becomes
the more prevalent format for the basis of 3D data, users want to manage that data as true point clouds. Whether
it’s for monitoring the work in an above ground mine, used to examine encroachments on utility lines, or to
understand terrain and classification of large amounts of land, point clouds play a valuable role in many
geospatial organizations. By cataloging point clouds as its own catalog data type, users can take advantage of
the metadata captured specifically for point cloud data to discover the most appropriate data. In addition, the
compression techniques used by ERDAS APOLLO can improve the efficiency of data storage and delivery. Point
clouds can be streamed to the client application allowing for faster response during viewing.
Cataloging LIDAR Data within ERDAS APOLLO Data Manager
Streaming LIDAR Data within the ERDAS APOLLO Essentials Console
Dynamic Image Styling On-The-Fly
ERDAS APOLLO Essentials has added advanced raster styling options to portray geospatial imagery in a variety
of different ways while still maintaining our industry leading delivery performance. Operations include band
ordering, kernels, look-up/color tables, hill shading, band algebra/formulas, resampling and advanced transforms.
All operations are performed dynamically per request so data is not duplicated. For customers looking to deliver
Desktop-like image interpretation via OGC WMS or WMTS this new feature is incredibly powerful.
Various Styling operators available in the ERDAS APOLLO Essentials Console
Data Management for CAD Formats
ERDAS APOLLO 2015 helps organizations to organize their CAD (DWG, DXF, DGN) design files reducing the
need to duplicate data across the enterprise. Whether these are geospatial holdings like land parcels or
transportation networks or they are architectural drawings, ERDAS APOLLO allows users to add geographic
context to their CAD data and manage these files alongside other geospatial and business data. End users can
easily discover and retrieve CAD data using keyword-based and spatial searches within ERDAS APOLLO
catalog.
Manage CAD formatted data within the ERDAS APOLLO Catalog
Hand-held (Geotagged) Imagery Support
Based on the proliferation of GPS-enabled cameras, low-cost UAV platforms and the expected growth of
emerging UAV markets and applications, ERDAS APOLLO 2015 now has the capability to provide data
management solutions for these sources, together with associated metadata. During the crawling of this data
type, the Exchangeable Image File (Exif) metadata is retrieved and stored in the metadata properties. Along with
metadata, thumbnail images are generated allowing the user to easily search the catalog for the appropriate data
and see rendered views of the images over the given area.
Catalog Geotagged Images with the Exif Metadata
View Thumbnail Images of the Geotagged Images
Additional Highlights for 2015
OGC Certification
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Web Map Service (WMS) 1.1.1 & 1.3.0
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Web Feature Service (WFS) 1.1.0
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Web Feature Service – Transactional (WFS-T) 1.1.0
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Web Coverage Service (WCS) 1.0.0
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Catalog Service for the Web (CSW) 2.0.2
Setup and Configuration Improvements
Several enhancements and general improvements have been made to the Setup and Configuration capabilities of
ERDAS APOLLO. These include:
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Ability to configure the user credentials used to authenticate Application Pools and Windows Services to
make security reconfiguration far simpler.
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Option to run either JBoss or Tomcat as the underlying application server. Easily change between the
two by running the Configuration Wizard
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Incremental patching has been added to simplify future bug fixes for all customers.
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Configuration parameters are now stored in the catalog database rather than scattered throughout the
system in configuration files. This allows users to quickly change the underlying catalog database.
Define Credentials for Application Pools and Windows Services During Configuration
Choose JBoss or Tomcat as Your Application Server
Miscellaneous
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All APOLLO tiers now collocated to C:\Program Files\Hexagon\ERDAS APOLLO\. The directory layout
has also been modified.
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Unicode characters now supported in JPIP streams
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Major improvements to the handling of NTF Georeferencing and EPSG resolution
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Major rework of Essentials Console workflows to improve performance with thousands of files and
services configured.
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ER Viewer and ERDAS APOLLO Essentials Utilities are no longer bundled in the installer and must be
sourced separately.
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Performance improvements reading IMG HFA files
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Paletted IMG HFA and GeoTIFF files are now supported. Data will automatically be expanded to RGB
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Resolved compatibility issue installing the Essentials Linux RPM on recent versions of RHEL, OpenSuSE,
Fedora with a reported “conflict with file from package filesystem-*.x86_64” error.
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Many JPEG2000 profile improvements for multi-tile and large precinct sizes.
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Virtualmosaics can now be configured in a hierarchy. Only the parent virtualmosaic will be advertised
however datasets can be grouped into “sub-virtualmosaics” to simplify configuration by grouping datasets
together.
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All WMTS, WMS responses from Essentials now returns a HTTP Last-modified-time that represents the
last time the layer or service was changed. This will allow transparent caching at clients, offloading
duplicate server requests to improve overall scalability and also allow acceleration via the use of Content
Delivery Networks (CDN).
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All Essentials binaries and DLL’s are now signed for increased security.
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Watched folders in Essentials now reports the number of files added or removed at the end of each
execution.
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WMTS TileMatrixSet identifiers will now always represent the case stored in the configuration file.
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Fixed crash when reading TIF with Deflate compression.
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MrSID Performance of all MG versions has been improved.
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Fixed bug where the Alpha band was ignored in TIF datasets.
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Webp output now supports transparency and performance is also improved.
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Metadata and Attribution metadata fields have been added to WMS, WMTS and Eservices.
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New MyVR Example added to demonstrate ECWP, ImageX and Point Cloud streaming.
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White seams will no longer be seen when reprojecting a Virtualmosaic containing adjoining image tiles
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Virtualmosaic’s can now be created on datasets with offsets but no EPSG Code (WGS84/Local). A
default EPSG code of 0 should be used.
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GetFeatureInfo is now supported on Essentials WMS and WMTS protocols. Both RGB and the underlying
values will be returned.
Example WMS GetFeatureInfo response on classified image