Preserving the Past Using Geomatics
ICT advancements have driven progress in many aspects of geomatics, such as 3D documentation and modelling. This article explores how contemporary digital technologies contribute to the conservation o...
Cartography
Cartography is about describing the world in the form of maps and diagrams. Classic cartography produces paper maps but nowadays this field also encompasses Geographical Information Systems and the products produced by these systems. Cartography is heavily dependent on data from Remote sensing and Land surveying and topography for the dry part of our world and marine surveying and bathymetry for the wet parts of our world.
Cartography / GIS can be found in almost any industry vertical where it transforms the various data sources into products readily useable in for example land and water management, climate and farming and conservation.
Archaeology and GIS in Jordan
Geo-information technology, in particular photogrammetry, digital elevation models, ground-penetrating radar, GIS and 3D modelling, was used to document the recently discovered Baptism area in Jordan ...
Interacting with Big Geospatial Data
Advances in capturing techniques such as laser scanning and photogrammetry have significantly increased the volume of geospatial datasets. Big geodata has become an important asset for analysis and de...
Characterizing activities in 3D city modelling
As 3D models are becoming common geospatial data assets for cities around the world, a recent study reviewed major 3D city modelling activities in Finland. 3D city models can be utilized for tasks inc...
Geospatial Intelligence - The Term that’s Changing the World
Around 2003, the U.S. intelligence and defense communities forced together remote sensing and imagery analysis with mapping and charting to create the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA). Thoug...
Visualizing point clouds in game engines
How can the dense point clouds that originate from 3D mapping be turned into useful game engine scenes? This article considers issues including point classification and segmentation, geometric accurac...
Geospatial Data in Support of 3D Cadastre
The urbanization trend is leading to an increasing number of people living in cities, thus also placing new demands on cadastral registration. To be able to register the complex infrastructures and bu...
Mobile GIS Proven to Transform Land Administration
It is well understood that secure land tenure is a fundamental precondition for progress in developing economies. Typically, this is expressed with a map, but the hurdles to successful mapping and mob...
FIG Domain Model with ISO
In January 2008 the Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) was submitted as a new working item proposal to the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO). The proposal includes a draft ver...
Re-linking Survey Documents with the Cadastral Map
Since its foundation in 1832 the Netherlands' Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency (‘Kadaster’) has been registering land rights complete with a survey of parcels and their relation with lan...
On-the-fly decision support in flood management
This integrated flood simulation and visualization system provides answers on the fly and presents 3D visualizations that even non-experts can understand. In flood and storm water management, simulati...
Autonomously Detecting Fast Movements
Diverse environmental effects, climatic changes and human alterations of the ecosystems are deeply changing Earth’s surface processes and creating environmental challenges that researchers are strug...
Full automation in mobile Lidar data classification
A deep learning architecture called MMCN opens up the possibility for the fully automated classification of highly dense 3D point cloud data acquired from a mobile Lidar system. This offers interestin...
How Rapid Scanning Provides Support During a Global Health Crisis
Geospatial technology can play an important role in the expansion of hospital capacity in response to the coronavirus pandemic. In this feature, David Fowkes, sales director at 3D mapping and monitori...
Fundamentals to clustering 3D point cloud data
Why is unsupervised segmentation the key to sustainable automation? Automation in point cloud data processing is central for building efficient decision-making systems and to cut labour costs. The ide...