Norcross, GA – July 16, 2008 - As part of its commitment
to helping organizations
better prepare and respond to natural disasters and emergency situations, ERDAS
is offering ERDAS TITAN to emergency management agencies at no cost.
TITAN is a tool for publishing,
indexing, searching, and retrieving geospatial information across entities and
end-users. TITAN GeoHubs enable organizations to rapidly share imagery
and vector data to develop a real-time common operating picture by allowing
emergency management planners and responders to dynamically publish and consume
geospatial data in a permission-based, collaborative online network. Deployed
ahead of an emergency, state agencies, Fusion Centers,
emergency operations centers, and other groups can leverage TITAN to better
disseminate information required for collaborating and preparing complex plans.
During an actual event, TITAN provides ready access to data essential to
situational awareness and management of emergency response efforts.
“When disaster strikes, homeland security and
emergency management agencies need a means of developing a common operational
picture that can be shared among responders,” said Eddie
Pickle, Director of Content Development at ERDAS. “By making
it easy to distribute the most recent imagery and vector data in a wide range
of formats, TITAN enables stakeholders with data such as imagery, flood data,
fire perimeters, parcel data, or other geospatial data associated with medical
services, shelters or evacuation routes to publish and share data from
headquarters, field offices, or directly from laptops on site.”
ERDAS is making TITAN GeoHubs and Places2protect data
available at no charge to qualified U.S. federal, state, and local
government entitles throughout the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, which
concludes November 30. To further enhance the capabilities available to
emergency management teams, ERDAS has partnered with MCH GeoPoints to offer
data on medical facilities and other key institutions such as schools and
nursing homes at no charge. This data is currently supplied to the federal
homeland security community as part of the HSIP program, and ERDAS and MCH
offer it to state and local officials as Places2protect and People2notify.
Agencies wishing to take advantage of this offer can order a
free ERDAS TITAN GeoHub with online access to Places2protect data by calling 1-
877-GO ERDAS (then choose option 4).
To learn more about
ERDAS’ solutions, please visitwww.erdas.com.
Details about
Places2protect are atwww.places2protect.com.
More information on MCH is available atwww.mchgeopoints.com.
ERDAS Offers Geospatial Tools to Facilitate Response During 2008 Atlantic Hurricane Season
July 16, 2008
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