3D City Models and their Role in the GeoWeb
Mike Springer, Google |
| Geographic information is quickly becoming a more valuable, and more expected, means of communication for a variety of existing and innovative functions. A key–and often overlooked–element of this information is a 3D representation of the building models. Through the use of common tools–including SketchUp, Google Earth and ArcGIS–many striking and accurate building representations are easily created and shared, thus increasing the usability, appeal and user experience across the emerging GeoWeb. |
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3D Geospatial Solutions: Data Management Challenges & Opportunities
Xavier Lopez , Oracle Corporation |
| The use of three-dimensional geospatial applications is emerging across various user communities like: public sector, utilities, oil exploration, and urban planning. Three key advances are driving this adoption of these solutions: ubiquitous deployment of sensor technologies; availability of commercial off the shelf 3D content; and the growing maturity software tools. This talk highlights recent advances in data management, standards, and software tools that are driving the uptake in a new class of enterprise-class 3D solutions. |
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Bridging the Gap: from Legacy to the Future
Eddie Curtis, Snowflake Software
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| As the audience for geographical data grows, providers of the data are increasingly required to re-purpose their data holding to suit the new data consumers. To achieve this successfully, the information often has to be moved to a new data model. Standards and COTS tools are currently being used to share geographical data from one organisation to another. These tools and standards now find a second home: being used to bridge from an organisation’s legacy system to its future implementation. |
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Cost Effective and Expedient Direct 3D Cityscape Imaging
Philip Arsenault, Active Imaging Systems |
| GIS, AEC and CAD 3D applications usually represent features with low-geometric resolution and high-texture drapes. New tools are available that capture the world with both high-geometry and high-texture. These mobile imaging systems fuse lidar and camera data, creating cm precise, high-density information at modest cost. This describes a pilot study in Washington DC, which 25 miles of urban canyons were captured and processed in 6 hours. The results were fused with other image assets to produce a virtual city centre. |
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"Digital Cities" The Convergence of CAD, BIM, Geospatial, Analysis, Visualization, Collaboration and Web Services in the Future
Doug Eberhard, Autodesk |
| How will these digital tools, processes and data sources converge and compliment in the future? How will people, policies, projects and technology come together to better plan, design, construct and operate a more sustainable world in the future? This presentation will look at the emerging business of Digital Cities and examine the industry as it moves to better capitalize on this exciting time of convergence and opportunity. |
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Environmental Applications in a 3D SDI
Clemens Portele, Interactive Instruments GmbH |
| In Europe, the Environmental Noise Directive requires the provision of information about noise emission, which poses a significant challenge as a large amount of 3D information is necessary to compute noise emission. To meet the challenge, North Rhine-Westphalia, a state of Germany, decided to follow a visionary, SDI-based implementation for noise mapping. The 3D data sets provided by these new web services are not only useful for noise mapping, but offer information for a wide range of other environmental applications. |
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Integrating Information Worlds through CityGML
Carsten Roensdorf, Ordnance Survey |
| CityGML is a data modeling framework and exchange standard for 3D City Models, expected to become an international standard of the Open Geospatial Consortium by the end of 2008. The main concepts of CityGML are explained to show how digital cities can be created by integrating data from different disciplines. The paper introduces different approaches to create a spatial data infrastructure for digital cities in 3D to enable integration across different information worlds-from local to global. |
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Integrating 3D, BIM, Vector, and Raster Data with Spatial ETL
Don Murray, Safe Software Inc. |
| This session explores how spatial ET tools can be used to address a variety of data translation, transformation, integration, and distribution challenges - regardless of the types of data you need to work with. Using demonstration, we’ll illustrate several common "data fusion" scenarios, such as how to combine vector, raster, 3D and BIM data into a single data flow for loading into Oracle Spatial. This session will help you learn how to perform a whole new set of spatial ETL operations through data fusion. |
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Proving the Business Benefits of GeoWeb Initatives: An ROI-Driven Approach
Marcus Ford-Bey
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In order to sustain and expand investment, GeoWeb technology projects are increasingly required to provide quantitative benefits in the form of robust ROI. In competitive budget environments - which are now the norm at most organizations - the ability to prove and successfully deliver on expected business benefits is critical. This presentation will provide an overview of a methodology for enabling you to build a robust ROI-based GeoWeb Strategy and establish the confidence that you can deliver.
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The Convergence of CAD, CAE, BIM, and GIS
Alain Lapierre, Bentley Systems, Inc. |
| This paper will explore how the lines between CAD, CAE, BIM and GIS are rapidly disappearing. We will take a look at the advantages and disadvantages of software vendors providing what have traditionally been separate, specialized applications for infrastructure and will also take a look at the strategic role being played by spatial database vendors, web services standards and web search engine providers like Google. The authors will analyze the converging technology trends and suggest what it may mean for the short and long-term future. |
