Norcross, GA – ERDAS, Inc. announces its participation in the United State Forest Service (USFS) Remote Sensing Conference April 15-17, 2008 in Salt Lake City Utah at the Radisson Salt Lake Hotel.

ERDAS is highlighting a broad array of enterprise solutions implementing Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs), including the recently announced ERDAS Image Manager, a solution for efficiently storing and quickly sharing imagery throughout the enterprise. ERDAS Image Manager solves business problems associated with securely discovering, describing, cataloging and serving imagery to a variety of web and rich client applications throughout an organization. In addition, ERDAS is also featuring ERDAS IMAGINE 9.2, the industry’s leading and most complete collection of software tools designed to manipulate, process and understand imagery.

“The USFS RS Conference promotes remote sensing and geospatial applications and techniques that benefit field users,” said Christopher Tucker, Senior Vice President, Americas and National Programs, ERDAS. “With ERDAS’ solutions, users can seamlessly integrate our technology to address their authoring, managing, connecting and delivering needs within the geospatial information lifecycle.”

The USDA Forest Service biennial conference on remote sensing and related geospatial technologies has been dubbed RS-2008. The theme for this year's conference is "Supporting Resource Management with Technology," with an emphasis on practical applications of remote sensing technologies that benefit the resource management community.

About ERDAS

ERDAS – The Earth to Business Company – helps organizations harness the information of the changing earth for greater advantage.

ERDAS creates geospatial business systems that transform our earth’s data into business information, enabling individuals, businesses and public agencies to quickly access, manage, process and share that information from anywhere.

Using secure geospatial information, ERDAS solutions improve employee, customer and partner visibility to information, enabling them to respond faster and collaborate better. It also means better decision-making, increased productivity and new revenue streams.

ERDAS is a part of the Hexagon Group, Sweden. For more information about ERDAS or its products and services, please call +1 770 776 3400, toll free +1 866 534 2286, or visit www.erdas.com.

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