Delivered Ideas

There have been many requests to have a new web client delivered with ERDAS APOLLO that is more lightweight, built on newer technologies, and provides a more modern look.  The idea here is to provide a client that is more intuitive and easier to use than the current solution.

Adding a note from another related idea (https://community.hexagongeospatial.com/t5/Product-Ideas/New-APOLLO-Web-Client/idi-p/16138):

As a user of the Apollo Portal client to search for and discover image files for analysis, I often have search results with several hundred datasets. The current detailed and thumbnail views are adequate for a small number of datasets, but is cumbersome when the number of datasets is large.  The attribute columns in the gridded display should be configurable at an enterprise level. The ability to sort by any column in ascending or descending mode is required.  The user should be able to “select” a dataset by selecting a row in the gridded display or by selecting a footprint in the map panel.   There should be a mode that scrolls the gridded display to selected dataset’s row when it’s footprint is selected and windows the map panel on the dataset’s footprint when it’s row is selected. The Data Window/ Map Window functionality in GeoMedia is a good example of the functionality desired. When image footprints are displayed in the map window and a data window is opened with the footprint attributes and the Map Window properties are set to Fit and Zoom out, the map window will  fit to the image footprint when selected in the data window, and the data window  scrolls to the row of a footprint selected in the map view.

In Apollo we are able to crawl and harvest all the data that is coming in, in order to build a catalogue. If new data comes is, the data is picked-up by crawlers, harvester or the dropbox and the catalogue is extended. The issue that remain, is that the data-manager must manual (email) notify users when new data is added to the catalogue. Or users have to search the catalog every hour to see whether new data is added in their responsible area. This will allow a user to register to the notification service with a self-defined area and metadata criteria and receive a notification email when new data arrives or existing data is updated.

The current APOLLO WCS services are somewhat embarrassing as we only support very old versions of this standard.  We need to not only update the supported version, but also update the technology on which it is built to improve the efficiency of the service performance.  We have also had some requests to support the DGIWG and INSPIRE WCS profiles which are built on the 2.0 version of WCS.

Large enterprise customers frequently have data distributed across multiple locations, managed by different parts of the organization. Federated Search will allow for the use of a thin layer search capability that can translate requests and query a number of other identified catalogs. This effort will initially concentrate on performing a federated search across multiple APOLLO catalogs, but should also begin to consider federating the search across other types of catalogs.

With the proliferation of data, many customers are relying on cloud infrastructures to store their data. Therefore, we have been requested to provide a capability to catalog and manage that data from within APOLLO.

Currently the Apollo security model of user / group dows not apply to data download capabilities.

That is either the dataset is downloadable or not.

our customers need tighter control over data download capability for users/group access.

a user or a group can have view capabilities but may not have download capabilities.

Security needs to be updated to control services access to user/group

This has been a very old long running demand, even in previous ideation and much before.

Regards,

Nouman

When setting custom queryables in APOLLO, you can set defaults to fill in the catalog.  It would be nice to have the ability to set defaults in the search criteria in the Geospatial Portal.  For example, the customer we're working with wants to use APOLLO to be a full catalog of all their data and we have a custom queryable to set if this item is either Pending, Active, Deprecated or Superceded by another dataset.  We'd like the portal to have this custom queryable be set to Active by default, rather than having the users always set this before searching.  Defaults that would be useful would be for numbers, text, enumerations, current date/time and current date/time plus or minus a set number of days.

These defaults should be different than the APOLLO crawling defaults.  Crawling in APOLLO things are set to Pending, but searching in the portal it should be Active.

When Apollo admin try to create their own default workspace, often time they didn't add workspace ID to portal instance (via admin console), so their catalog connection will be lost for the new session. Apollo users don't know where to find this information, since Geospatial portal document doesn't cover Apollo catalog.

Basically user need to do the following steps in order to have Apollo catalog connection in their workspace.

https://community.hexagongeospatial.com/t5/ERDAS-APOLLO-Q-A/How-to-add-Apollo-catalog-to-new-Portal-...

As an administrator of ERDAS Apollo services I have to report usage statistics. I would like to be able to collect and report on usage of the different Apollo Catalog related services such as CSW, Web Interface, API requests and similar.

I believe ApolloCatalogWMSPublic and ApolloCatalogWMSPublic usage statistics can be collected using WebGIS Basic Log Service (SDIProBasicLogService)  https://hexagongeospatial.fluidtopics.net/reader/QoUZZ5ezo7phElrrqHjqow/sX_fRvfOf43Lkab3kbwgrg (I have not verified / tested). If that is not the case they will also need collecting.

I observe Apollo Core already makes usage statistics available.

Several customers are asking for official/tested support of PCI's Pix format.  Currently the Pix format is listed as untested through GDAL.

As an administrator that uses the Apollo Data Manager  “Crawl File System” wizard frequently, I would benefit from the ability Drag and Drop files  into the “Crawl File System” wizard rather than having to always browse to the desired folders.

As an administrator that uses the Apollo Data Manager  “Add Resources” wizard frequently, I would benefit from the ability Drag and Drop files  into the “Add Resources” wizard rather than having to always browse to the desired files.