October 13, 2008 -- Norcross, GA – ERDAS announces ERDAS ER Mapper 7.2, the next release of the solution for visualizing, enhancing and combining images. ERDAS ER Mapper provides advanced image processing and compression capabilities widely used in a variety of industries including oil, gas and mineral exploration.

ERDAS ER Mapper 7.2 includes joint licensing with ERDAS IMAGINE Professional 9.3, providing both products when either is purchased. This change in licensing allows the ERDAS ER Mapper community to use both solutions simultaneously, easily integrating geospatial information into any organization’s business processes. In addition, ERDAS ER Mapper now also includes license borrowing, providing a substantial cost savings through the flexible use of purchased seats of software.

Additionally, ERDAS ER Mapper 7.2 offers 64-bit compression, allowing huge sets of imagery (over 5TB of data) to be mosaicked and compressed. This release also provides a new projection engine with over 3200 predefined coordinate systems, over 1100 datum shifts, 50+ mathematical projections, local and global vertical datums and industry-standard EPSG support for seamless data sharing (including better GeoTIFF and JPEG 2000 projection system handling). New file formats are also directly readable for data sharing, including MrSID, IMAGINE IMG, RPF (CIB and CADRG).

“By providing joint licensing with ERDAS IMAGINE Professional, as well as license borrowing, ERDAS ER Mapper 7.2 ensures versatility, vastly increases its offering,” said Mladen Stojic, Senior Vice President, Product Management and Marketing, ERDAS. “ERDAS ER Mapper 7.2 also has increased performance, with more efficient handling of very large datasets for mosaicking and compressing.”

For more information about ERDAS ER Mapper 7.2 or other ERDAS solutions, please call +1 770 776 3400, toll free +1 877 GO ERDAS, or visit www.erdas.com.

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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.

Welcome to ERDAS: a trusted name, with a new energy, and a new vision. Earth to business starts here.

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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