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Geo: International
March 2010
Volume 9 · Issue 3
Innovation Pushes Survey and Device Performance
Ashtec’s François Erceau looks at advances in surveying and GIS technology from new applications to core GNSS services, yielding improvements in accuracy, interoperability and ease-of-use for all practitioners.
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New Map Data Collection Technology
A combination of rotating LiDAR, panoramic and high-resolution cameras plus GPS and IMU positioning come together in NAVTEQ True.
Dutch Kadaster Leverages Spatial Data
Intergraph’s SDI solutions support spatial data infrastructure (SDI) developments and other key initiatives in the Netherlands, at local, regional and national levels.
GPS and GIS Aids Disaster Management
Victoria police use Trimble Juno SC handhelds to speed assessment of damage caused by bush fires on Black Saturday, February 7, 2009 in Victoria, Australia.
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Our Green and Pleasant Land
Bluesky International’s James Eddy presents ProximiTREE, a new digital map layer for modelling the location and extent of trees and their proximity to buildings, offering both 2D and 3D height measurements for use in GIS, web mapping or CAD applications.
Technology Makes a Vast Difference
Surveyors at an Alaska gold mine track material extraction safely and productively from a distance using Topcon IS robotic survey equipment, offering reflectorless long-range surveying and integrated digital imaging and 3D modelling.
The Many Faces of SDI
Our editor looks at Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) developments from a national, regional (trans-national) and global perspective, noting the similarities and some best practice.
GIS Delivers the Goods
Vilniaus Duonas shaves costs and optimizes truck usage with ESRI’s ArcLogistics, generating significant logistics efficiency gains in a matter of months for one of Lithuania’s largest bakeries.
3D City Modelling Technology
Blom, a leading European service provider for acquisition, processing and modelling of geographic information, has produced high quality 3D city models for more than 200 cities during 2009. The models are delivered either off-line or using the BlomURBEX® platform technology to stream the data over the web.
Eco Sustainability and 3D Design
Sustainability principles need to be made common practice across for all designers. Desault Systéme’s Bruno Delahaye talks to our editor about eco sustainability, with some views of the future.
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Each month we select a hot topic and a leading figure in the industry to write about it.A suggested new aspect for the New Generation of Digital Earth - Human behaviour and decision making
Based on harmonised methodology, survey on decision making mechanisms and identification of decision nodal points, monitoring and analysis of the socio-economic and environmental impact of power, the influence of human interest groups from local to global should be also part of the aspects in the new generation Digital Earth.
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