Archive for the ‘lidar’ Category
Thursday, November 7th, 2019
Avalanches can be extremely dangerous especially for off-piste skiers as well as for small towns situated below the slopes. As ski season comes upon us, it’s a good idea to check the avalanche conditions of the ski slopes you plan on frequenting. There are over 1000 avalanches occurring every year in the Swiss Alps alone. Local communities put up steel fence barriers along the slopes to prevent avalanches from encroaching near their town. To build such snow barriers, steep rock faces and cliffs need to be surveyed with utmost precision.
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Tags: data, geospatial, GIS, GNSS, GPS, imagery, intelligence, laser scanner, LiDAR, location, mapping, maps, mobile, mobile mapping, remote sensing, satellite imagery
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Thursday, October 24th, 2019
Each year at the Bentley Year In Infrastructure thought leadership conference brings a new dimension to digital workflows. Digital Twins were definitely the order of the day this year, and mobile mapping and some other technologies taking front and center stage in the form of acquisitions.
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Tags: autonomous vehicles, Bentley, Bentley Systems, cloud, geospatial, GIS, GPS, indoor mapping, Infrastructure, LiDAR, mapping, mobile mapping, reality modeling, Topcon, underground mapping
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Friday, September 20th, 2019
Among numerous announcements made this week at Intergeo in Stuttgart, Germany, by Trimble, the new Trimble X7 3D Laser Scanning System was introduced, a scanning system that enables professionals with little or no scanning expertise to capture precise 3D scanning data to produce high-quality deliverables.
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Tags: ArcGIS, climate change, cloud, data, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, GPS, imagery, indoor mapping, intelligence, laser scanner, LiDAR, location, mapping, maps, mobile, mobile mapping
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Friday, September 6th, 2019
The FAA estimates that there will be nearly half a million registered commercial use drones in the U.S. by 2022 (FAA 2018 – 2038 Aerospace Forecast).
 Drones in construction Drones, or UAVs or UAS, are being used in the GIS industry for such purposes as military surveillance, real estate, searching for hurricane activity, search and rescue missions, public health and safety, agriculture and in construction and countless other industries. In some cases, drones can provide greater resolution than satellite imagery. Their size and affordability makes them a valuable choice for scientists, power companies, surveyors, military actions and civilians and many others. They are also environmentally friendly and provide a low-cost option for gathering valuable data that can then be fed into a GIS.
Since drones can autonomously collect a vast range of data they are appealing to many use cases. Besides, they are light-weight and high performance. Satellite imagery has provided remote sensing data for mapping, but can often display low fidelity or limited visibility from cloud cover. High precision and accuracy can be achieved with aerial imagery, with planes equipped with high tech remote sensors. Photogrammetry, which makes use of overlapping photos to identify exact measurements between objects, is a useful way of gathering accurate models.
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Tags: ArcGIS, cloud, data, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, GPS, hurricanes, imagery, intelligence, LiDAR, location, mapping, maps, mobile, mobile mapping, real estate, reality modeling, remote sensing, satellite imagery, situational intelligence
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Thursday, August 29th, 2019
Dublin Airport is a busy international airport with very restricted airspace, which makes it difficult for an aerial survey company to capture data. As a consequence, the airport has been using data collected by laser scanning aircraft from aerial mapping company Bluesky to accurately measure land surface elevation to help reduce the risk of flooding at the airport. Dublin Airport is the 11th busiest airport in Europe, serving more than 31.5 million passengers in 2018, travelling to almost 200 destinations in 43 countries.
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Tags: data, forestry, geospatial, GIS, Infrastructure, intelligence, laser scanner, LiDAR, mapping, mobile mapping, remote sensing
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Thursday, August 22nd, 2019
GeoCue President and CTO, Lewis Graham, answered some questions for GISCafe Voice about GeoCue products and their new TrueView platform. TrueView is UAV/LiDAR fusion by design, according to company materials, an integrated LIDAR/camera fusion platform designed from the ground up to generate high accuracy 3D colorized point clouds.
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Tags: 3D Laser Mapping, cloud, data, drones, GeoCue, geospatial, GIS, laser scanner, LiDAR, location, mapping, maps, mobile, navigation, remote sensing
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Friday, July 19th, 2019
This week Joe Francica, Managing Director, Intelligence Solutions, Pitney Bowes talked about Pitney Bowes announcements over the past year, the primary announcement being the PBLocator premium geocoding to ArcGIS, announced at the Esri User Conference in San Diego.
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Tags: ArcGIS, cloud, crowdsourcing, data, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, Google, GPS, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, satellite imagery, smartphones, social media
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Friday, June 21st, 2019
This week, GISCafe Voice spoke with Este Geraghty, MD, MS, MPH, GISP, Chief Medical Officer & Health Solutions Director, Esri. Formerly the Deputy Director of the Center for Health Statistics and Informatics with the California Department of Public Health, Dr. Geraghty led the state vital records and public health informatics programs. There she engaged in statewide initiatives in meaningful use, health information exchange, open data and interoperability.
 These maps show areas of low vaccination rates (and increased risks of measles outbreaks). Maps of the situation in both New York and Washington show the reality of outbreaks. (more…)
Tags: air pollution, ArcGIS, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, LiDAR, location, mapping, maps, mobile, mobile mapping, remote sensing, satellite imagery
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Friday, May 24th, 2019
Bentley Systems hosted its Spring Update Conference Call this week about the progress of the company, with a focus on Digital Twin technology. In addition were two product announcements and the acquisition of Keynetix, a UK-headquartered provider of cloud-based software for capturing, visualizing, modeling, and sharing of geotechnical data.
 With OpenSite Designer, users can create intelligent 3D models for civil site projects complete with site information, terrain data, parking lots, building pads, driveways, sidewalk, parcel layout and related site features. (more…)
Tags: air pollution, autonomous vehicles, Bentley, Bentley Systems, cloud, data, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, health, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, LiDAR, location, mapping, maps, mobile mapping, reality modeling, satellite imagery, social media
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