CycloMedia Implements ERDAS Image Manager

Norcross, GA — CycloMedia Technology B.V., the leader in large-scale, systematic visualizations of the environment has selected ERDAS Image Manager to manage, edit and deliver their 60Tb of 10cm aerial photography data of the Netherlands, being collected this year.

CycloMedia provides geospatial information to central and local governments, homeland security, financial institutions and construction companies. The 360° panoramic images from CycloMedia (cycloramas) provide a supplementary view of everything in the environment at street level. ERDAS Image Manager will handle all CycloMedia’s aerial data collected by Blom ASA, who currently has five aircrafts collecting data throughout the Netherlands.

“ERDAS Image Manager enables us to efficiently store and manage around 350,000 images in different formats and resolution and to complete the geospatial value chain, with the ability to grow into new web applications and geospatial solutions,” says Pieter Franken, Program Manager Aerial Photography, CycloMedia. “Efficiently managing and rapidly delivering imagery maximizes the commercial potential of our geospatial data investments.”

Modelling soil erosion in
Himalayan watershed
Here is a study that integrates geospatial tools like remote sensing and GIS with Morgan-Morgan-Finney (MMF) mathematical model for soil erosion estimation. The study reports the outputs from the NRDMS sponsored research project on the estimation of temporal and spatial distributions of soil erosion in the watershed of Khulgad in middle Shiwaliks (Himalayas) of Kumaon region and suggest suitable measures to stop the soil erosion.

The Himalayas, with mountainous landscape and depleting forest cover, has become a fragile ecosystem afflicted with the serious problem of soil erosion. As a result, rivers emerging out of the Himalayan region transport the sediment at a high rate. Garde and Kothyari (1987) reported that the rate of soil erosion in the Northern Himalayan region is high and can be of the order of 2000 to 2500 t km-2 yr-1. The middle mountains of the Northern Himalayas in Uttarakhand state are the most densely populated mountain areas in the world and population here is still increasing. This has resulted in large-scale depletion of resources and degradation of the environment. Natural disasters such as floods, drought, landslides, earthquakes and forest fires further degrade and deplete the natural resources base of this area.