Archive for the ‘lidar’ Category
Thursday, December 4th, 2014
The notion of gaming and geospatial coming together has been explored for some time. Gaming simulation and GIS software provider GameSim Inc. announced a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. (NGA). This agreement will give credence to GameSim’s 3D environment with standards and data created and validated by the NGA.
In 2013, GameSim, ranked by Inc. Magazine as one of the 500 fastest growing companies in the U.S., introduced an innovative software product, Conform (gamesim.com/conform), which generates a 3D representation of an environment from GIS data (vectors, elevation, and imagery) in near real-time. The integrated scene can be viewed in both 2D and 3D, or exported, into other run-time formats.
GameSim was interested in furthering their process of fusing together a single 3D environment by supporting additional data products (e.g., LiDAR, OTW video, and thermal video), to create a more accurate and rich 3D environment, while still maintaining near real-time performance. GameSim had previous experience working with these formats. The agreement with NGA through CRADA will provide the company with proper standards and data validated by NGA. In addition, GameSim and NGA will research the creation of a low bandwidth, browser-based visualization of that fused environment, according to GameSim company materials.
“We are creating a product that can fuse a variety of formats that adheres to established standards,” said Andrew Tosh, GameSim founder and president. “By collaborating with NGA it helps assure that GameSim produces a product that can meet the demands of the intelligence community, in terms of accessing their content and producing valuable visualizations.”
Tags: cloud, crowdsourcing, data, GameSim, imagery, Infrastructure, LiDAR, mapping, maps, mobile, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, satellite imagery, social media
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Friday, November 21st, 2014
Cities worldwide are charged with the same challenge: that of creating or retrofitting sustainable, intelligent infrastructure. Cities need the best in design, geospatial, visualization and analytical tools to realize a viable and intelligent city design. 3D City design is architectural design times thousands, plus it must have the ability to be interwoven with other surrounding infrastructure and foster an urban conversation.
 CyberCity 3D (more…)
Tags: Acute 3D, Autodesk, Bentley, Bentley Systems, Citysourced, climate change, cloud, crowdsourcing, CyberCity 3D, drones, ESRI, FlexMetro, geospatial, GIS, Google, Google Maps, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, LiDAR, location, mapping, maps, mobile, OGC, Pictometry, point clouds, reality modeling, satellite imagery
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2014
[First Published in AECCafe Voice]
Mike Detwiler, Bentley vice president and Rachel Rogers, Bentley director Civil, Geospatial, and Hydraulics & Hydrology, spoke with AECCafe Voice this week about the Bentley acquisition of North Carolina-based BLUERIDGE Analytics, provider of SITEOPS civil engineering cloud software, in August 2014.
 Mike Detwiler was CEO and co-founder of SITEOPS prior to the acquisition. He is now vice president SITEOPS Product Development at Bentley. The office will remain in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the SITEOPS staff will be retained.
SITEOPS comes to Bentley with an impressive list of engineers, developers and land planners working in the retail, real estate and AEC industries. Says Rogers, “We’ll continue to support our users and work with them to help take SITEOPS to the next level. Bentley and SITEOPS have highly complementary products, so we’re excited to add SITEOPS to our civil design product offerings.”
Says Detwiler, “Bentley has a global reach, which is going to benefit us tremendously.”
Rogers explained that Bentley didn’t have a site optimization technology that SITEOPS brings, which is breakthrough technology in the cloud. The addition of SITEOPS empowers site development professionals to move beyond engineering to optioneering, which enables the exploration of engineering alternatives and their costs.
Detwiler added that SITEOPS engineering and optioneering can offer site design options, costs management and 3D modeling.
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Tags: Bentley, Bentley Systems, climate change, cloud, data, imagery, Infrastructure, LiDAR, location, mapping, maps, mobile, SITEOPS
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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
Tags: 3D, 4D, ArcGIS, ASPRS, Autodesk, climate change, crowdsourcing, data, ESRI, geospatial, Google, mapping, Reno, satellite imagery, satellite imaging, UAS, UAV
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2014
Unmanned Aerial Systems is one of the disruptive technologies of this century. Whomever would have thought that small flying planes, that look very much like the hobbyist planes that people fly remotely, would someday take the role of carrier pigeons in delivering packages and also providing aerial surveillance, both on a government and citizen level.
 Trimble UX5 (more…)
Tags: 3DR, Aeryon Labs, Altavian, ArcGIS, DigitalGlobe, ESRI, geospatial, Google, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, LiDAR, location, Mapbox, Nixon Peabody, Phoenix LiDAR Systems, Pix4D, QCoherent Software, RIEGL, satellite imagery, senseFly, SkyIMD, sUAS, SUREFIRE LLC, Trimble, UAS, UAV, Unmanned Aerial Systems, Unmanned Systems Canada
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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
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Friday, October 10th, 2014
In a Research and Markets study report, the analysts forecast the global GIS market in the Banking, Financial Services and Institutions (BFSI) sector to grow at a CAGR of 8.43 percent over the period from 2013 – 2018.
As GIS is used for so many different industries these days, the opportunities for growth in the BFSI sector are not surprising. GIS is used across sectors such as Natural Resources, Utilities, Federal Government, Communication and Telecom, Military/Law Enforcement, and Others. GIS is used for various purposes such as disaster management, finding location details, viewing maps, marketing, designing facilities and others.
In terms of GIS product, the market can be segmented into three: Software, Data, and Services.
The report, the “Global GIS Market in the BFSI Sector 2014-2018,” has been prepared based on an in-depth market analysis with inputs from industry experts. The report covers the Americas, and the APAC and EMEA regions. It also covers the landscape of the Global GIS market in the BFSI sector and its growth prospects in the coming years. The report includes a discussion of the key vendors operating in this market. (From company materials)
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Tags: ESRI, GeoEye, geospatial, GIS, Google, location, mapping, satellite imagery, social media
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Friday, October 3rd, 2014
Recently I spoke with Mosaik Solutions’ John Gilmer, VP, Data Integrity, Brian McNamara, product manager, Todd Cotts, director, Product Management and Matt Oak, manager GIS department regarding their business and recent announcements.
 Mosaik Solutions Coverage (more…)
Tags: ArcGIS, cloud, crowdsourcing, data, ESRI, geospatial, Google, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, location, mapping, maps, satellite imagery
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Monday, September 15th, 2014
Satellite imagery has undergone a paradigm shift in the past couple of years.
 Airbus MOJ Tracker (more…)
Tags: cloud, data, DigitalGlobe, ESRI, imagery, intelligence, LiDAR, location, mapping, maps, Microsoft, mobile, NASA, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, NOAA, remote sensing, satellite imagery
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Thursday, September 11th, 2014
GISCafe Voice is running a Special Feature Blog on the topic of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) the week of October 20th. If you wish to have your company included, please let me know, Susan Smith at susan.smith@ibsystems.com The GISCafe UAS Questionnaire will be sent to all companies who offer UAV and UAS products and services, so that we may thoroughly cover all opportunities available. Or, you can print it yourself from this blog and email it to me.
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Tags: UAS, UAVs, Unmanned Aerial Systems, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
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