Mladen Stojic, Vice President, Geospatial at Intergraph SG&I
Dynamic Panoramic is a column by Mladen Stojic, Vice President, Geospatial at Intergraph SG&I. Mr. Stojic is a renowned geospatial industry expert who shares his insights into how geospatial information is increasingly being used to drive critical decisions in organizations of all sizes.
May 20th, 2013 by Mladen Stojic, Vice President, Geospatial at Intergraph SG&I
Following is a guest post from Rob Mott, Vice President, Geospatial Solutions for Intergraph Government Solutions.
Each year, the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) hosts its GEOINT Community Week, which brings together members of the defense, intelligence, homeland security, and geospatial communities for a week of briefings, educational sessions, workshops, and much more.
This year, Intergraph will be playing an instrumental role by hosting a unique training workshop that focuses on the effective use of geospatial intelligence workflows for disaster relief efforts.
On May 23rd at 8:30 a.m., Andrew Pursch, Technical Staff Consultant for Intergraph Government Solutions, will be highlighting how key geospatial solutions can help government agencies better respond to and mitigate natural disasters, which globally affects thousands of people and destroy billions of dollars in property every year.
This hands-on training will address these issues and introduce the users to a set of techniques and tools via ERDAS Imagine 2013 for processing data, performing analysis and improving decision making.
The workshop will show how this unique geospatial data authoring system aids analysts in easily developing powerful geospatial products, such as 3D models, maps, and reports that support a number of critical activities. These include visualizing damaged areas, understanding changes that have taken place over time, and planning delivery of relief supplies, safe evacuations, and reconstruction efforts.
Mr. Pursch will also be leading the students through a series of exercises to effectively work with complex geospatial data types, such as creating high-density point clouds from high-resolution stereo pair imagery, which will allow the user to model and visualize an area of interest.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to learn more about how key geospatial solutions can help the federal government better prepare for and respond to the challenges disasters create.
Tags: GEOINT Community Week, GEOINT Community Week Training, Intergraph, Intergraph Geospatial, United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, USGIF, USGIF Tech Days
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May 13th, 2013 by Mladen Stojic, Vice President, Geospatial at Intergraph SG&I
While many of the sessions at HxGN Live 2013 will focus on training to help better maximize Intergraph Geospatial’s solutions, there will also be tremendous opportunities to learn about today’s most dynamic geospatial solutions and noteworthy customer implementations.
Since launching Intergraph Geospatial 2013, users have experienced how geospatial solutions can truly drive smarter decisions and support their configurable workflows. We have held world tour events worldwide to communicate and showcase this story locally since January 2013.
On Tuesday, June 4th, 2013, we will be hosting our Geospatial Vision & Strategy session at HxGN Live, inspiring our users to think creatively about how they can use our solutions to solve the most challenging situations, as well as enhance business decisions and processes.
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Tags: Geospatial Solutions and Intergraph, Geospatial Vision & Strategy session at HxGN Live, GIS, Hexagon, Hexagon 2013, Hexagon Live 2013, HxGN Live, Intergraph, Intergraph Geospatial, Intergraph Geospatial 2013, Intergraph Geospatial Portfolio 2013
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May 7th, 2013 by Mladen Stojic, Vice President, Geospatial at Intergraph SG&I
The annual Hexagon conference provides the unique opportunity to showcase our latest innovations to nearly 4,000 users. While many of our sessions focus on product training, we also provide key insights into new innovations and unlock key secrets that allow our users to fully leverage geospatial data.
While there is increasing adoption of point cloud data, many users struggle to fully integrate this new content in their workflows. An important realization is that point clouds are much more than simple surface models – and should be treated as such. The difficulty lies in fully exploiting the depth of information that can be derived from point cloud content.
On Monday, June 3rd during HxGN LIVE 2013, we will be providing a unique training session that will offer more clarity around how to best leverage point clouds:
Demystifying the Point Cloud: So Much More Than a Surface Model (4 hrs)
For years, the adoption of point cloud data has grown tremendously. This course is designed to take you beyond the basics of point cloud data and teach you how to get the most out of this incredibly rich data source. Learn about the various types of point cloud data created and exploited by Hexagon products – from traditional airborne LiDAR, to the growing power of terrestrial laser scanners from Leica Geosystems, to the photogrammetric true ortho point clouds created by Semi-Global Matching in ImageStation®. We will demonstrate 3D and profile visualization and measurement of all these point cloud data types, as well as perform editing, classification, and exploitation of point cloud data in GIS and remote sensing software like GeoMedia® and ERDAS IMAGINE.
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Tags: Demystifying the Point Cloud, ERDAS IMAGINE, GeoMedia, Hexagon, Hexagon 2013, Hexagon 2013 Training Sessions, HxGN LIVE 2013, ImageStation, Intergraph and GeoMedia, Intergraph and Hexagon 2013, Mladen Stojic and Intergraph, Point Clouds
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April 30th, 2013 by Mladen Stojic, Vice President, Geospatial at Intergraph SG&I
From June 3rd through 6th, Hexagon is hosting its HxGN LIVE 2013 — Hexagon International Conference, which will provide outstanding training, networking, visionary keynote addresses and much more.
Once again, nearly 4,000 Hexagon customers and partners will convene in Las Vegas. For Intergraph, many of these customers will be interested in learning more about the Intergraph Geospatial 2013 portfolio while also connecting with users and partners across various industry segments.
Attendees will learn how to best leverage their tools across various solution areas, with topics covering:
- Actionable Intelligence for Multi-INT Fusion
- Delivering Safer and More Efficient Rail Networks
- Providing Understanding for Sustainable Natural Resource Management
- Information Management Solutions for Roads
- Mobility: Deploying Your Enterprise GIS in the Field
- The Cloud Evolution and Revolution
- Advanced Spatial Modeling & Scripting
- Managing & Editing Point Clouds, including LiDAR Data
In addition, to give you a sense of how in-depth the hands-on trainings will be, here’s a brief descriptor of one of the sessions:
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Tags: Advanced Spatial Modeling & Scripting, ERDAS, ERDAS IMAGINE 2013, Hexagon, Hexagon 2013, Hexagon Conference, Hexagon in Vegas, IMAGINE Spatial Modeler, Intergraph Geospatial, Intergraph Geospatial and Hexagon 2013, Intergraph Geospatial Portfolio 2013
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April 22nd, 2013 by Mladen Stojic, Vice President, Geospatial at Intergraph SG&I
During major mining efforts, knowing how much earth has been removed from a quarry or mine can significantly enhance overall project management. Organizations need to be able to provide accurate measurements and reporting to ensure that the project is aligning with overall goals, as well as complies with current mining regulations.
In addition, organizations that store landscape or construction materials, such as gravel, sand or dirt, need to measure and analyze how much their surplus is being used at all times.
On April 30th, Intergraph is hosting a webinar called “Easy Volumetric Measurements Using Geospatial Technology,” which will guide users through a workflow for determining overall earth removal.
During this webinar, we will guide you through a workflow that enables you to determine how much earth has been removed from a quarry or mine. Likewise, this workflow could also be used by anyone who stores landscaping or constructions materials (such as gravel, sand, or dirt).
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Tags: Easy Volumetric Measurements Using Geospatial Technology, ERDAS, Intergraph, Intergraph Geospatial, Intergraph Geospatial 2013, Intergraph Geospatial 2013 Launch, Mladen Stojic, Volumetric Measuring, Volumetric Measuring and Geospatial Solutions, Volumetric Measuring Capabilities
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April 15th, 2013 by Mladen Stojic, Vice President, Geospatial at Intergraph SG&I
Leveraging geospatial data for various purposes across large, disparate organizations that span an entire country is a tremendous challenge especially when geospatial data ownership is decentralized across states. Along with understanding how to share the data effectively, different departments within different agencies need to access and process data in a variety of ways. Organizing and keeping data up-to-date across jurisdictions, while delivering that data in a common way and timely manner are all crucial factors in enabling national agencies and departments to make smarter decisions.
Intergraph was recently awarded a project to help one of Europe’s leading electricity and gas companies to organize and manage geospatial data for the entire country of Germany. Data covering more than 365,000 km² of land area is managed by this program and project specifications required keeping all mapping data up-to-date along with rapid delivery of the data to a variety of regional organizations.
Other important project requirements included:
- Usage of geospatial data services in low-bandwidth and offline networks to meet local and third party needs
- Reliability of the services to meet 24×7 demand
- Ability to serve a heterogeneous GIS environment with multiple end-user systems
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Tags: ERDAS Apollo, ERDAS IMAGINE, Geospatial, GIS, GIS Solutions, Intergraph, Intergraph Geospatial, Mapping Germany, Mladen Stojic, OGC
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April 8th, 2013 by Mladen Stojic, Vice President, Geospatial at Intergraph SG&I
Last month, Intergraph held its annual Transportation Summit, which was a key stop on our 2013 Geospatial World Tour. The event highlighted how Intergraph is advancing new geospatial solutions for this unique sector by enabling transportation agencies to better track and monitor the location, condition, and other important information about roadway assets.
At the event, we shared insights into how eight transportation agencies have recently signed on as customers to use the new GeoMedia Smart Client solution, which enables users to seamlessly integrate geographic changes into configurable workflows — along with providing field/mobile users with an intuitive GIS environment with both on- and off-line editing capabilities.
Intergraph also announced the growing number of DOT’s using its GeoMedia Transportation Manager software for managing their roadway networks. More DOT’s and transportation agencies use Intergraph’s GeoMedia Transportation Manager to manage their road networks than any other software in the world. Along with many U.S. DOT’s, the Ministry of Transportation in Ontario, who has the busiest highway in North America, uses GeoMedia Transportation Manager.
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Tags: 2013 Geospatial World Tour, DOT and Intergraph, ERDAS, GeoMedia, GeoMedia Smart Client, GIS Solutions for Transportation, Informed Infrastructure, Intergraph, Intergraph Geospatial, Intergraph Transportation Solutions, Intergraph Transportation Summit, Matt Ball, Transportation and Geospatial
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March 19th, 2013 by Mladen Stojic, Vice President, Geospatial at Intergraph SG&I
Throughout the remote sensing industry, there is a growing awareness and interest for radar imagery.
From military intelligence and homeland security organizations to emergency responders, fisheries and offshore oil production providers, a wide range of organizations are rapidly expanding their use of radar imagery in new and innovative ways.
When we launched the Intergraph Geospatial 2013 earlier this year, we developed new enhancements that will allow these kinds of organizations to fully leverage radar capabilities.
For example, as a part of ERDAS IMAGINE 2013, the Radar Analyst Workstation is a fully interactive workstation specifically tailored to the day-to-day operational requirements of a radar analyst.
IMAGINE Radar Analyst Workstation provides capabilities that enable easier, more thorough use of radar data resources. The workstation is presented in the ribbon interface and includes tools to complete a variety of workflows, accurately and completely, with relatively little radar expertise. The interactive dynamic tools complete tasks such as flood mapping and oil spill detection with one button creation of vector output and reports. Users can also easily access the marine traffic website, correlating live ship tracking data with your analysis results.
We recently hosted a webinar that showcased the power of radar, demonstrating the new features in IMAGINE Radar Analyst Workstation, and illustrating the competitive advantages that Intergraph offers. To learn more, please view the on-demand webinar or explore the IMAGINE Radar Mapping Suite product page.
Tags: ERDAS, ERDAS IMAGINE, ERDAS IMAGINE 2013, IMAGINE Radar Analyst Workstation, Intergraph, Intergraph Geospatial
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March 13th, 2013 by Mladen Stojic, Vice President, Geospatial at Intergraph SG&I
For any police department, the ability to access, share and act upon the right data is critical for saving lives. Much of this data is geospatially enabled to allow police forces to see precisely where activity is occurring and what type of response is taking place.
The New Zealand Police are deploying smartphones and tablets featuring Intergraph’s new Mobile Responder app to more than 6,000 frontline officers.
Linked to Intergraph’s industry-leading computer-aided dispatch software (I/CAD), the Mobile Responder app will help New Zealand field officers use smartphones to access critical information required for more informed decision-making.
In announcing this effort, the Prime Minister of New Zealand said that the mobile technologies would help police “access vital information that will help them prevent crime, catch criminals and protect New Zealanders.”
And this effort will have other significant benefits. For example, the New Zealand Police estimate that officers will now spend more time in the field, reducing significant amounts of paperwork and increasing productivity by 30 minutes per shift. This amounts to 520,000 hours each year or $304.8 million (NZD ) in productivity savings over 12 years.
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Tags: ERDAS, GeoMedia, Intergraph and GeoMedia, Intergraph and Police Department Solutions, Intergraph Geospatial, Intergraph Geospatial 2013, Intergraph Mobile Responder App, New Zealand Police, New Zealand Police and Intergraph
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March 6th, 2013 by Mladen Stojic, Vice President, Geospatial at Intergraph SG&I
The environmental impacts of wind farm development are always a major consideration when countries are exploring these alternative energy sources. Wind farms tend to be ideally suited for expansive regions and coastlines where wildlife is abundant. While a good alternative source of energy, they are not without their impacts to the animal populations in those areas.
The United Kingdom is currently the world leader in offshore wind power generation. Many UK organizations are already using geospatial solutions and imagery analysis for ecosystem monitoring. Understanding environmental impacts on any change is a vital step in moving forward with energy solutions. For one such project, a leading environmental consultancy in the UK is monitoring bird populations living in areas developed for wind power generation. This organization specializes in freshwater and marine ecology assessment.
Using a proprietary algorithm for identifying and enumerating birds from aerial photographs, the organization has already collected tens of thousands of images in a single project survey. Thus far, they have amassed over 87 terabytes of aerial photography.
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Tags: Ecosystem Monitoring and GIS, ERDAS Apollo, ERDAS IMAGINE, Intergraph, Intergraph Geospatial, SDI, Wind Farms and GIS
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