Archive for the ‘Leica Geosystems’ Category
Friday, June 26th, 2015
The message of this week’s GEOINT Symposium 2015 – with the theme, “Opening the Aperture, Charting New Paths,” was really about how to utilize the commercial sector for technologies and the move toward offering services to customers. The topics, “less is more,” “moving toward services” and “innovation” all spoke to the need for change in a federal government limited in recent years by budget cuts . This has not diminished the need for geointelligence excellence, however, in fact, in today’s complicated world, the need is even greater.
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Tags: cloud, crowdsourcing, data, DigitalGlobe, ESRI, General Stan McChrystal, GEOINT 2015, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, location, mapping, NGA, Robert Cardillo, Robert O. Work, satellite imagery, smartphones, social media, Theresa Whalen, USGS 1 Comment »
Monday, June 15th, 2015
Next week GISCafe will be flying to GEOINT 2015 Symposium held June 22-25 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.
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Tags: ArcGIS, Autodesk, cloud, crowdsourcing, data, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, Google, GPS, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, Intergraph, iPhone, LiDAR, location, mapping, maps, Microsoft, NASA, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, NOAA, remote sensing, Safe Software, satellite imagery, social media, USGS No Comments »
Monday, November 3rd, 2014
The inaugural ASPRS UAS Conference was held October 20-22 in Reno, Nevada, bringing together a diverse group of technologists, pilots, surveyors, vendors and consultants to talk about this emerging technology. 500 attendees and 50 exhibitors were in attendance.
Master of Ceremonies, Lewis Graham of GeoCue, opened with his comments on the importance of miniaturization, connectivity and sensors in the UAS market.
“Miniaturization and connectivity and sensors. Sensors will communicate in intelligent ways, software in background to make that happen,” said Graham. In addition, “Sense and avoid” type of technology/ software makes decisions based on proximity of the aerial system.”
The confluence of miniaturization, guidance and control systems, motors, sensors, on the photogrammetry side, new technologies out of robotic vision, taking point clouds of photos and taking information from this all conspire to bring UAS to the forefront and make it a force to be reckoned with.
Pix4D City Construction
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Tags: 3D, 4D, ArcGIS, ASPRS, Autodesk, climate change, crowdsourcing, data, ESRI, geospatial, Google, mapping, Reno, satellite imagery, satellite imaging, UAS, UAV 3 Comments »
Monday, October 20th, 2014
During the week of November 17th, GISCafe Voice will run a special feature blog on the topic, “3D Cities: Envisioning Communities of the Future.”
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Tags: 3D cities, ABI Research, AEC, ArcGIS, Autodesk, Bentley, Bentley Systems, Citysourced, climate change, cloud, crowdsourcing, data, DigitalGlobe, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, Google, Google Maps, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, Intergraph, LiDAR, location, maps, Microsoft, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, remote sensing, Safe Software, satellite imagery, social media, TomTom, USGS No Comments »
Monday, September 15th, 2014
Satellite imagery has undergone a paradigm shift in the past couple of years.
Airbus MOJ Tracker
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Tags: cloud, data, DigitalGlobe, ESRI, imagery, intelligence, LiDAR, location, mapping, maps, Microsoft, mobile, NASA, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, NOAA, remote sensing, satellite imagery 1 Comment »
Tuesday, August 26th, 2014
A recent CNN report announced thatNASA is asking for the help of citizens in viewing hundreds of thousands of images taken from space over the years, from the 1960s Mercury missions to the present images snapped from the International Space Station.
North Korea is barely lit when juxtaposed with neighboring South Korea and China.
Via The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth, NASA is making these images available for citizens to examine.
NASA says the hope is that the images “could help save energy, contribute to better human health and safety and improve our understanding of atmospheric chemistry. But scientists need your help to make that happen.”
The catalog contains more than 1.8 million photos, about 1.3 million of them from the space station and roughly 30% of them taken at night.
Photos: International Space Station
NASA gets rare view of black hole
NASA tests supersonic parachute for Mars
Tyson on deep space exploration
The CNN report said that before 2003, night images from the space station could be blurry, even with high-speed film and manual tracking, because the station moves at about 17,500 mph. In that same year, astronaut Don Pettit used a drill and assorted parts he found on the station to cobble together a “barn-door tracker,” a lower-tech predecessor to the European Space Agency’s NightPod, which was installed at the space station nine years later.
According to the report, NightPod’s motorized tripod compensates for the space station’s speed, providing what NASA scientist William Stefanov says are the highest-resolution night images from orbit. Satellites collect data more regularly, but the photos tend to be lower resolution. “Now the pictures are clear, but their location may not be, which limits their usefulness,” the NASA news release says.
Citizen science has a better handle on location than the night images from the space station and satellite imagery. The Complutense University of Madrid is spearheading efforts to get citizen input and organize the photos. They have broken down the the images into three components requiring different levels of participation:
1. Dark skies. This is the easiest project, as it requires no scientific expertise. “Anyone can help” by sorting the images into the categories: cities, stars or other objects, said Alejandro Sanchez, doctoral student at Complutense.
“Without the help of citizens, it is almost impossible to use these images scientifically. Algorithms cannot distinguish between stars, cities and other objects, such as the moon. Humans are much more efficient for complex image analysis,” he said.
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Tags: citizen science, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, Google, Google Maps, iPhone, LiDAR, location, mobile, NASA, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, NOAA, satellite imagery, social media, USGS No Comments »
Friday, June 20th, 2014
Since last year, traditional GIS positioning companies such as TopCon, are getting into the act of providing integration of Building Information Modeling workflows and field layout with their recent collaboration with Autodesk. This collaboration involves an Autodesk BIM 360 app for iPad to make it easier to locate BIM coordinates precisely on a construction site. Designed for general contractors and MEP professionals, the app controls a robotic total station and the LN-100 3D positioning system from Topcon. As-built data can be fed back into the design model via BIM 360 for quality assurance. Topcon was traditionally considered a geospatial company but they have extended their reach into many other industry segments now, including the area of BIM.
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Tags: Building Information Modeling, ESRI, field GIS, geospatial, GIS, Hexagon, Leica Geosystems, location, mapping, Topcon No Comments »
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