ERDAS APOLLO Server User Guide

327 Pages·2014·5.52 MB·English

by  Schuettenkopf, Stefan

Contents
Overview of ERDAS APOLLO .................................................................................................................... 5
About Us ............................................................................................................................................... 13
Catalog Web Interface ............................................................................................................................... 15
Logging In ............................................................................................................................................. 15
Browsing and Searching Content ......................................................................................................... 18
Advanced Search ........................................................................................................................... 20
Managing Catalog Records ............................................................................................................ 22
ERDAS APOLLO Catalog REST Interfaces ................................................................................... 23
Publishing External Content .................................................................................................................. 33
Testing the CSW Endpoint .................................................................................................................... 34
Administration Options .......................................................................................................................... 35
Delivering Data .......................................................................................................................................... 37
Delivering Map Images with a Web Map Service (WMS) ..................................................................... 38
Web Map Service Requests ........................................................................................................... 38
GetLegendGraphic Request ........................................................................................................... 39
WMS HTTP POST Requests ......................................................................................................... 39
WSDL and WMS HTTP SOAP Requests ....................................................................................... 40
Delivering Image Data with a Web Coverage Service (WCS) .............................................................. 40
Web Coverage Service Requests .................................................................................................. 41
Requesting a Reference to a Coverage ......................................................................................... 42
Georeferenced Coverages ............................................................................................................. 43
WSDL and WCS HTTP SOAP Requests ....................................................................................... 46
Delivering Image and Point Cloud Data with Streaming Services ........................................................ 46
Delivering Vectors/Features with a Web Feature Service (WFS) ......................................................... 48
Web Feature Service Requests ..................................................................................................... 48
WSDL and WFS SOAP Requests .................................................................................................. 50
OGC Compliant HTTP Request Samples ............................................................................................. 50
Portraying and Styling Data ..................................................................................................................... 53
Style Templates .................................................................................................................................... 54
Creating Styles ...................................................................................................................................... 55
Creating Styles with Properties ...................................................................................................... 56
Creating Styles with SLD ................................................................................................................ 56
Deploying Styles ................................................................................................................................... 64
Displaying Statistics in a Map ............................................................................................................... 65
Producing KML...................................................................................................................................... 67
Limitations ............................................................................................................................................. 70
Coverage Portrayal Service (CPS) ....................................................................................................... 70
Operational Concept ....................................................................................................................... 71
Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) ........................................................................................................ 72
ERDAS APOLLO Style Editor ............................................................................................................... 85
Starting the ERDAS APOLLO Style Editor ..................................................................................... 86
Main Window .................................................................................................................................. 87

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Preferences .................................................................................................................................... 89
Managing Projects .......................................................................................................................... 90
Data Sources .................................................................................................................................. 92
Layers ........................................................................................................................................... 106
Map Navigation ............................................................................................................................. 111
Views ............................................................................................................................................ 117
Styling Data .................................................................................................................................. 120
Managing Styles ........................................................................................................................... 121
Scale Range Management ........................................................................................................... 125
Style Rules ................................................................................................................................... 126
Business Data in the Catalog ................................................................................................................. 186
Coordinate Reference Systems ............................................................................................................. 191
Coordinate Reference System Engines .............................................................................................. 191
Passing CRS Parameters in Web Requests ...................................................................................... 192
Adding a Custom CRS ........................................................................................................................ 192
Adding a Custom ERDAS APOLLO Coordinate Reference System ........................................... 193
Adding a Custom ERDAS IMAGINE Coordinate Reference System ........................................... 200
Adding a Custom Geospatial SDI Coordinate Reference System ............................................... 201
Troubleshooting ...................................................................................................................................... 211
Checking for Unsupported EPSG Code Failures during a WMS Request ......................................... 211
Checking for Unsupported EPSG Code Failures When Crawling Vector Data .................................. 212
Appendix A: Coordinate Reference Systems ....................................................................................... 215
ERDAS APOLLO CRS Definition ........................................................................................................ 215
CRS Configuration Tags............................................................................................................... 215
CRS Definition Tags ..................................................................................................................... 218
ERDAS IMAGINE Projection System ................................................................................................. 228
Appendix B: Schema and Database Mapping for WFS ....................................................................... 239
GML Application Schema and Mapping to Databases ....................................................................... 239
Key Concepts ............................................................................................................................... 241
GML Application Schema ............................................................................................................. 241
Feature and Feature Type ............................................................................................................ 242
Mapping ........................................................................................................................................ 242
Feature Schema Configuration .................................................................................................... 243
Feature Mapping .......................................................................................................................... 245
Explicit Mapping Definition Steps ................................................................................................. 249
SQL Mapping Definition Steps ..................................................................................................... 250
Automatic Mapping Definition Steps ............................................................................................ 252
Relational (Explicit) Mapping Definition Steps ............................................................................. 253
Mapping of Enumerations ............................................................................................................ 267
Control Mapping Correctness ....................................................................................................... 271
Moving to GML3 ........................................................................................................................... 271
Set Up an ERDAS APOLLO WFS Serving GML-SF (Simple Feature) ........................................ 274

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Feature Mapping Tags ................................................................................................................. 275
Map Generation Transformer .............................................................................................................. 299
Using MapGen .............................................................................................................................. 300
MapGen Tags and Attributes ....................................................................................................... 302
MapGen Tag ................................................................................................................................. 302
Feature Properties (Re)definition ................................................................................................. 302
scaleMin and scaleMax ................................................................................................................ 304
Filter - The "Where" Tag ............................................................................................................... 304
The "Last" Tag .............................................................................................................................. 306
Warning: MapGen and Portrayal Rules ........................................................................................ 307
Scale Dependent Table ................................................................................................................ 307
Protecting Data ................................................................................................................................... 308
Disabling Interfaces ...................................................................................................................... 308
Hiding Columns ............................................................................................................................ 309
Disabling Output Formats ............................................................................................................. 310
Adding a Copyright or a Watermark ............................................................................................. 310
Schema Generator .............................................................................................................................. 311
From-SQL Generator .......................................................................................................................... 313
WFS Loader ........................................................................................................................................ 315
Appendix C: Shapefile RTree Builder .................................................................................................... 321
Technical Support and Information ....................................................................................................... 323
Index ......................................................................................................................................................... 325

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S E C T I O N 1
Overview of ERDAS APOLLO
About ERDAS APOLLO
ERDAS APOLLO is an enterprise-class, comprehensive data management, analysis, and
delivery system enabling an organization to catalog, search, discover, process, and securely
disseminate massive volumes of both file-based and web-enabled data. This solution
consistently delivers virtually any digital object faster and with less hardware than competing
server-based products. An interoperable OGC/ISO-based application that implements an
out-of-the-box service-oriented architecture (SOA), ERDAS APOLLO is the solution for data
management in the overall Hexagon Geospatial server story.
Available in three product tiers, ERDAS APOLLO suits a spectrum of organizations – integrating
easily with other geospatial software and offering unparalleled performance even when handling
massive data archives and many users.
ERDAS APOLLO Essentials is the fastest geospatial image and LIDAR server in the world. A
single server with standard hardware can serve terabytes of data to thousands of concurrent
users. ERDAS APOLLO Essentials works with your GIS to provide geospatial data as quickly as
possible. Examples of ERDAS APOLLO Essentials in action can be seen at
http://demo-apollo.hexagongeospatial.com/erdas-apollo/.
ERDAS APOLLO Advantage is a comprehensive data management and delivery solution
providing remarkable business value. This OGC/ISO standards-based solution can organize,
securely manage and disseminate data within databases and also massive volumes of dynamic
and static images, point cloud data, terrain, vector data, third party web services, and any digital
resource in the enterprise. ERDAS APOLLO Advantage is scalable through clustering to meet
an organization’s specific needs, ensuring unprecedented performance even when handling the
largest data archives.

ERDAS APOLLO Professional is the most advanced product tier of ERDAS APOLLO. It offers
on-the-fly geoprocessing through a powerful implementation of the OGC Web Processing
Service (WPS) specification. Users can run an entire model, such as change detection, site
analysis, or elevation change, completely contained within a single web processing service
(WPS). ERDAS APOLLO Professional is unrivaled in the complexity of algorithms stored under
the hood.

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Documentation for ERDAS APOLLO
The following documents are installed (or are available for installation) with the product, or they
are provided on the delivery media:
Document Description
ERDAS APOLLO Installation and This document contains instructions and descriptions for
Configuration Guide installing and initially configuring ERDAS APOLLO. This
includes pre-installation, system configuration, installation
and configuration of applications via Setup Manager, and
some manual post installation configuration. Post
installation configuration content is limited to configuration
activities that only need to be done once or very rarely. All
other configuration and administration related content is
described in the ERDAS APOLLO Administrator Guide.
ERDAS APOLLO Administrator Guide This document contains instructions and descriptions for
configuring and maintaining an ERDAS APOLLO system
after the initial installation and configuration. The primary
focus of this document is administration of an ERDAS
APOLLO server/system. Content related to how to use
ERDAS APOLLO to manage data or services is described
in either the ERDAS APOLLO Server User Guide or the
ERDAS APOLLO Data Manager User Guide.
ERDAS APOLLO Server User Guide This document contains instructions and descriptions for
using ERDAS APOLLO tools, utilities and applications to
manage data and services. This document covers all
aspects of using ERDAS APOLLO except for ERDAS
APOLLO Data Manager which has its own dedicated User
Guide. The ERDAS APOLLO Server User Guide includes
documentation for foundational concepts such as web
services, OGC services, data formats and coordinate
references systems. It also as includes documentation for
using the ERDAS APOLLO Catalog Web Interface, the
ERDAS APOLLO Streaming Test Page and the ERDAS
APOLLO Style Editor.
ERDAS APOLLO Data Manager User This document contains instructions and descriptions for
Guide using ERDAS APOLLO Data Manager. ERDAS APOLLO
Data Manager is designed to be the primary day to day
user interface for managing data and services in ERDAS
APOLLO.

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ERDAS APOLLO Supported A PDF file that lists the supported software configurations
Environments (required and optional) for the product.
ERDAS APOLLO Release Notes A PDF file that lists the enhancements for the current
release.
ERDAS APOLLO Issues Resolved A PDF file that lists the product defects that have been
fixed for the current release.
The current versions of the Supported Environments, Release Notes, and Issues Resolved
documents are available on the Contact Support
https://sgisupport.intergraph.com/infocenter/index?page=contact_support page. They can also
be accessed via links on the Intergraph Setup Manager dialog.
ERDAS APOLLO Welcome Page
After installing and configuring ERDAS APOLLO open the ERDAS APOLLO Welcome Page in a
web browser. The default URL of the ERDAS APOLLO welcome page is:
http://<server_name>:<portnumber>/erdas-apollo

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See the ERDAS APOLLO Advantage/Professional Installation and
Configuration Guide for complete instructions on installing and configuring ERDAS
APOLLO.

From this web page, you can access many ERDAS APOLLO tools and documents. In addition,
links to certain tools and documents for ERDAS APOLLO Essentials and Geospatial Portal are
also included.

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See the Geospatial Portal User Guide or the Geospatial Portal Administrator Guide
for detailed information using Geospatial Portal.

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