With the advent of computers and digital technology, the digital mapping era arrived. Paper maps were initially digitized into databases of geographic information. This eventually gave way to digital capture directly from imagery. New fields such as remote sensing, digital photogrammetry and GIS were introduced as well. Datasets today are available in near-real-time from satellites, UAS (Unmanned Aircraft Systems), terrestrial sensors, and even smartphones and social media, offering the potential of almost immediate discoveries and predictions. Historically, this has not been true for traditional GIS technologies. To truly make sense of our changing world, we need to manage all geospatial data and make it rapidly available.

Power Portfolio
Hexagon Geospatial has introduced Power Portfolio, helping enterprises locate robust solutions for generating, managing, analyzing and transforming geospatial information. The Power Portfolio organizes its products into three suites: Producer, Provider and Platform.

The Provider Suite within the Power Portfolio contains technologies which excel in managing the volume, velocity and variety of Geospatial Big Data. These solutions provide comprehensive management of distributed data stores, and deliver them across desktop, mobile, and web applications to help you make sense of your raw data and transform it into actionable intelligence.

Organizations increasingly face the challenge of managing massive amounts of geospatial data. As the sheer volume and variety grows, the need for effective organization and distribution grows with it. Storing a high volume of data creates a secondary issue: how does onefind anything once it has been processed and stored?

ERDAS APOLLO was developed to address this challenge. It provides comprehensive data management and delivery, distributing massive amounts of data to thousands of users from a single server. “This tool is a massive time-saver. It centralizes terabytes of data into one searchable catalog”, adds Atanu Sinha, Director-India and SAARC.

Hexagon Smart M.App
Maps, as location-based representations, have a way of simplifying the complex into an easily understandable, highly visual form. Businesses recognize this, and are adopting location-based analytics as part of the KPIs (Key Performance Indicators), helping them identify emerging trends and measure the health of the business.

The Hexagon Smart M.App combines four key ingredients: geospatial content (vector, raster, point cloud data), geo-processing and spatial analysis,business-and industry-specific workflows, and a dashboard that provides a customizable and dynamic information experience for customers. The Hexagon Smart M.App takes the tools generally reserved for a remote sensing scientist or GIS analyst and packages them into an easy-to-use “app”. This can provide analytical results in a fresh, portable, dynamic and interactive visual dashboard to be utilized directly by businesses.
The solutions offered by Hexagon Geospatial combine a long history of developing geospatial technology with a passion for changing the way we think about and use maps. Instead of thinking about the map as the end game, we need to adapt the map to communicate productive business information, so we can make sense of the dynamically changing world and shape smart change.