Archive for the ‘smartphones’ Category
Wednesday, February 28th, 2018
Aerial mapping company Bluesky of Leicestershire, UK has completed a research project backed by the UK government’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, to develop the use of mobile phones for capturing accurate 3D spatial information.
The nine-month research project focused on the use of standard smart phone technology to capture and calibrate video footage, and then convert it to 3D information. Designed for electricity Distribution Network Operators (DNO) and other organizations with a distributed asset base, the low-cost measurement tool can provide an accurate record of the feature’s location and its environment. Accurate measurements of essential infrastructure, such as overhead power lines and other utility facilities, could then be extracted using specially developed algorithms and workflows.
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Tags: cloud, crowdsourcing, data, geospatial, GIS, Google, Google Maps, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, location, mapping, maps, mobile, satellite imagery, smartphones
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Thursday, January 4th, 2018
Happy New Year!
As mentioned in our year-end wrap-up, a great number of events that shaped technology in 2017 were natural disasters. Scientists and experts predict that we will see more of these natural events and will continue R&D efforts to prepare for them.
Smart city technology will become more important as geospatial professionals seek to find better ways to predict, analyze and prepare communities for the onslaught of weather events. Actual Smart Cities are being built in some parts of the world. And to make those smart cities and countries, in some cases, viable, we will grow greater confidence in artificial intelligence, vehicle technology, Cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), drones, high resolution satellites and small satellites, augmented, virtual and mixed realities and data and sensors.
These technologies have become or will become a part of the fabric of geospatial interaction as the demand for them increases.
 The Global Mountain Explorer provides information from global scales down to specific mountains, such as Borah Peak, Idaho pictured above. (Public domain.)
Tags: climate change, data, geospatial, GIS, hurricanes, imagery, indoor mapping, Infrastructure, intelligence, mapping, maps, mobile, NASA, navigation, reality modeling, remote sensing, satellite imagery, situational intelligence, small sats
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Thursday, November 30th, 2017
GISCafe Editorial Calendar 2018*
January:
01/23-01/25 Esri Geodesign Summit Redlands, CA
Editorial topics:
- Top Geospatial Predictions for 2018
- 3D Cities and Geospatial
February:
Editorial topics:
- Small Sats Update
- Current Events
March:
23/20-3/21 Esri Federal GIS Conference 2018, Washington D.C.
Editorial topics:
- Esri Federal Conference Coverage
- Current Events
 Robert Cardillo, the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, speaks to the GEOINT 2017 symposium June 5. Credit: USGIF (more…)
Tags: ArcGIS, Autodesk, Bentley Systems, climate change, cloud, GIS Day, Google Maps, hurricanes, imagery, indoor mapping, Infrastructure, intelligence, LiDAR, location, maps, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, reality modeling, satellite imagery, situational intelligence, small sats, social media
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Thursday, July 13th, 2017
We look forward to the Esri UC Plenary session each year, as it always profers an important vision, but also new insights, thoughts and surprising technologies.
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Tags: ArcGIS, artificial intelligence, cloud, crowdsourcing, data, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, imagery, indoor mapping, intelligence, mapping
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Thursday, June 1st, 2017
Mark Reid, Vice President of Product Management at GeoSLAM Ltd talked about their recent announcement of the real-time upgrade option for the ZEB-REVO, their handheld mobile mapping system. Demonstrated for the first time at SPAR 3D 2017 in Houston, the optional upgrade includes a revised datalogger capable of undertaking SLAM registration in real-time. It has its own integrated Wi-Fi, with results that can be displayed live, as they are captured, on any web browser enabled device including tablets and smartphones.
 Thornton Abbey Scan GISCafe Voice: What are some indoor map applications for ZEB-REVO?
The ZEB-REVO handheld mobile mapping device employs a highly robust 3D Simultaneous Localisation And Mapping (SLAM) algorithm, which enables the rapid creation of a 3-dimensional model of any space.
Since it does not require a GPS signal, the ZEB-REVO is at its best in complex, enclosed, multi-level environments, without compromising on the accuracy of data collection.
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Tags: ArcGIS, cloud, data, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, Google, GPS, indoor mapping, Infrastructure, mapping, real estate, smartphones
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Thursday, May 11th, 2017
Erek Dyskant, co-founder of BlueLabs, an analytics and technology company dedicated to harnessing the power of data to produce meaningful two-way engagement between people and organizations, aims to empower individuals to take steps that “make their political voice heard, improve their health, and strengthen their financial security.”
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Tags: ArcGIS, geospatial, GIS, Google, GPS, indoor mapping, intelligence, location, mapping, maps, self-driving cars, sensors
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Thursday, January 19th, 2017
Chris Sheldrick, CEO and Co-Founder of what3words, spoke with GISCafe Voice recently about the multi-award winning addressing system’s recent adoption as an addressing standard for La Poste, the Côte d’Ivoire’s national postal system. Côte d’Ivoire is the first African nation – and second country in the world (Mongolia is the first) – to adopt 3 word addresses to improve its national infrastructure.
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Tags: climate change, cloud, crowdsourcing, data, geospatial, GIS, Google Maps, GPS, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, iPhone, location, social media, what3words
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2017
Happy New Year!
The recent presidential election in the U.S. has created so much uncertainty that it is hard to know what the future of any industry will be. For the first time, I feel there is no point in making predictions for the New Year for the geospatial industry, unless one is an insider with special knowledge of the winds of change.
 Sevenhugs SmartRemote (more…)
Tags: ArcGIS, climate change, cloud, crowdsourcing, data, ESRI, geospatial, Google, GPS, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, LiDAR, location, maps, NASA, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, NOAA, satellite imagery, small sats
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2016
GISCafe Editorial Calendar 2017*
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Tags: Autodesk, Bentley, climate change, cloud, crowdsourcing, data, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, location, mapping, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, satellite imagery, small sats
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Saturday, July 2nd, 2016
The question: what do we do with all this data? Is one that really runs parallel with the theme of this year’s Esri User Conference held in San Diego, entitled, “GIS Enabling a Smarter World.”
 Jack Dangermond, CEO and President of Esri (more…)
Tags: ESRI, geospatial, GIS, intelligence, location, mapping, maps, mobile, NASA, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, navigation, NOAA, remote sensing, satellite imagery, small sats, smartphones, USGS
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