Posts Tagged ‘Autodesk University’
Thursday, December 5th, 2013
Robots for the future jobsite, flying drones for delivering packages and reality capture were all part of the show at Tuesday morning’s Mainstage presentation at Autodesk University 2013. Clearly, these technology directions are dependent upon location and geospatial technology.
Iris the robot
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Tags: AEC, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Autodesk University, cloud, crowdsourcing, data, geospatial, GIS, GPS, location, mapping, maps, mobile, NASA, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, Quadrocopter, social media, UAVs No Comments »
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
At Autodesk University 2011, GISCafe’s Sanjay Gangal interviewed Kevin Reilly, president of Pictometry Business Solutions, Pictometry, about the company’s focus and what new products they were introducing at the event.
Sanjay: How long has Pictometry been around?
Kevin: Pictometry has been around for a little over ten years. It is a disruptive technology company. We have a dataset that’s unique, we fly aerial imagery, we collect oblique images as well as ortho images, which is a rich dataset, and then we have an analytics platform that allows you to mine information from the imagery. What’s unique is every pixel has three dimensional elements to it, so you can measure anything you see on the image from height, distance, measurement, area. Every pixel has a lat long, so you can also measure elevation, and we can also bring GIS layers onto the imagery so you can displayed things like hazard layers, parcels, any other GIS layers can be displayed on the Pictometry platform.
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Tags: Autodesk Map 3D, Autodesk University, dataset, disruptive technology, GIS, imagery, oblique imagery, Pictometry 1 Comment »
Thursday, December 8th, 2011
James Staten of Forrester Research spoke about the cloud at the recent Autodesk University in Las Vegas. He made a case for the cloud by saying that “clouds are more secure than you are.”
His recommendations:
- Focus – clouds can concentrate their whole security team on securing the one app.
- Exposure – when cloud outages happens every customer gets upset and they end up in New York Times. When your email system goes down it doesn’t show up in the papers. Because of that risk those creating the cloud invest heavily in the best security minds out there. Every one of those was given a job offer by Amazon, Microsoft, etc. at very high salaries. “If anyone breaks into my account I want to know about it. The cloud is concerned with extreme audits, a security expert, who they hire, who gets into the data center, whether they are making sure malware is up to date,” said Staten.
- Validation
- Multitenancy – there is far more encryption in the cloud model and it is far more difficult to see that another customer is there to alleviate concerns of privacy such as Pepsi and Coke using the same cloud service, for example.
Tags: Amazon, Autodesk University, cloud, Forrester Research, geospatial, GIS, Microsoft, security No Comments »
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