Products of the Leica Geosystems company

The Leica Geosystems company is a supplier of the professional equipment and the software for high-precision photogrammetric and cartographical works and is some kind of "fashion-maker" in the field of a fotogrammetriya. The range of the offered production is very wide: professional aero film-making equipment (aerial cameras, digital sensors, aviation lidarny complexes), analytical stereoplotters, photogrammetric scanners, software, digital photogrammetric stations.

Traditionally main technology in which ERDAS was involved was called "Processing of images". In fact, it took a wide range of various scopes, including medical images, metallurgy and questions of technical sight (sight of robots). However, with development of new film-making systems, such as plane digital and space sensors of high and ultrahigh resolution, remote sensing became the dominating area of development of the software by the ERDAS company.

Remote sensing is a technology which demands specific opportunities of processing, such as multispectral classification, geometrical transformation and a geographical binding of images. Till 1992 the technology was considered as research more and therefore to some extent separated from quickly growing market of GIS of technologies.

One element is the general for three areas: remote sensing, GIS and a fotogrammetriya is an obligatory requirement to have geographically attached information. Till 1994 to have all these functions meant that the software needs to be ordered from different suppliers. With implementation of the ERDAS IMAGINE® 8.1 version the first full-function GIS with use of data of remote sensing became reality.