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Open Source Geospatial Foundation OSGEO
OSGeo was created to support the collaborative development of open source geospatial software and promote its widespread use
Proven guidelines for reducing underground infrastructure damage at airports, university, industrial, and commercial campuses, and towns
There are proven measures that an administration, owner, or municipal government responsible for an airport, university, industrial or commercial campus, or town can undertake to reduce the risk of underground utility damage, the associated disruptions to operations and business and the danger for workers and the public.
Sharing information about the location of underground utilities
The U.S. devotes an estimated $10 billion annually to locating underground infrastructure. Every construction project requiring excavation involves significant efforts in locating underground utilities prior to and during construction to reduce the risk of injuries and unexpected project delays. But this information is rarely shared and the location of underground infrastructure is recaptured over and over again. There are successful examples around the world where municipal and regional governments have helped enable a shared underground utility network database.
Growing evidence of the benefits of an integrated BIM+geospatial full lifecycle approach to construction
Building information modeling (BIM) has been applied to design-build construction projects for many years. A growing number of countries are mandating BIM for public projects. While the UK government has said that "...we know that the largest prize for BIM lies in the operational stages of the project life-cycle", until recently there has not been hard data to support this conjecture. Similarly there has been only anecdotal support for an integrated BIM and geospatial approach for design, build, operate and maintain projects. Now we are beginning to see data from real world projects that offer evidence for the benefits of an integrated BIM+geospatial full lifecycle approach for construction projects.
Progress in geospatial, civil, and BIM interoperability promises efficient workflows for infrastructure
The BIM and geospatial interoperability challenge is the latest symptom of the broader problem of integrating AEC and geospatial workflows, that has contributed to low productivity in the construction sector. After the announcement about a year ago by Jack Dangermond and Andrew Anagnost of a new relationship to build a bridge between Autodesk and ESRI technologies, I thought it a good time to review progress toward interoperability between the AEC and geospatial worlds.
Geography2050: Accurate location information about underground infrastructure is essential for powering our future planet
I thought it would be worth while to include here a talk I gave at GEOGRAPHY 2050 Powering Our Future Planet at Columbia University in New York about the importance of accurate location information about underground infrastructure for the future development of the energy grid. With some notable exceptions accurately recording the location of subsurface infrastructure including oil, gas, electric power and other energy infrastructure is ignored - perhaps this is a case of out-of-sight is indeed out-of-mind. The reality is that knowing the location of underground energy infrastructure is critical for national security, for disaster planning and management, for public safety and for economic efficiency. Everyone is aware of at least one disaster resulting from or exacerbated by not knowing where our energy infrastructure is - the explosions in San Bruno in California (2010) and Belgium (2004) immediately come to mind.
Deep learning enables automated extraction of building footprints and road networks from satellite imagery
Automated feature extraction from satellite imagery has made major progress in the last year. Accurate building footprints extracted from high resolution satellite imagery are becoming available from companies such as Ecopia, which has just announced a partnership with DigitalGlobe, whose satellites are capable of 30 cm (approximately one foot) resolution. Also NVIDIA has demonstrated the ability to automate detection of many road networks using sophisticated algorithms and multi-spectral high resolution imagery.
BIM + geospatial interoperability would avoid another CAD + GIS quagmire
A specific challenge currently facing the AEC and geospatial industries is integrating building information models (BIM) and geospatial infrastructure and building models. There are parallels between what happened in the 1990s in unsuccessfully addressing CAD+GIS interoperability and the current challenge of BIM+geospatial interoperability. But there are also important differences which provide grounds for optimism that the availability of both BIM and geospatial standards, a vibrant open source geospatial community, and a new willingness on the part of major software players in the BIM and geospatial industries will make it possible to successfully address the latest interoperability challenge facing the AEC (architecture, engineering and construction) and geospatial industries.
BVLOS drones improve power line inspections amid increasing fire and storm risks for utilities | Utility Dive
Transmission line inspections for vegetation management and other purposes are essential in ensuring grid reliability and resilience. We saw the devastating effect of vegetation encroachment in the recent California fires, which in part have been blamed on failure to maintain properly cleared transmission lines. With drones that can cover great distances in a single flight and provide detailed and accurate aerial imagery of transmission lines and other infrastructure, it is now possible to almost completely automate this expensive process. Automating transmission line inspections for vegetation management using BVLOS drones not only saves money, but also could improve the resiliency and reliability of the transmission grid.

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October 12, 2008

Autodesk University 2008 - Dec 2-5 in Las Vegas

Autodesk University is coming up the first week In December in Las Vegas. This year there are some really outstanding geospatial related sessions. Here's some highlights.

Geospatial Keynote: "Digital Cities—A Model of the Future"

Doug Eberhard, Autodesk Industry Evangelist for Digital Cities

Utilites Keynote: "Design Matters—Utilities of the Future"

Brad Williams, Gartner research director in energy and utilities

FDO

Graham Stickler on how 1Spatial uses FDO to enable access to multiple native spatial data formats without translation or duplication

GS100-4 The Use of Autodesk® FDO Data Access Technology in Enabling CAD/GIS Convergence

Jason Hill on developing FDO solutions.

GS300-2 Bridging the GIS and CAD Gap by Connecting Directly with FDO Providers

Service Oriented Architecture and FDO

Haris Kurtagic on SOA using RESTful web services and FDO

GS318-3 Implementing a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Using RESTful Web Services Based on FDO

SQL Server 2008 and FDO

Orest Halustchak on SQL Server 2008 spatial

GS100-3 Using Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Spatial with AutoCAD® Map 3D and Autodesk MapGuide®

Data Modelling for Utilities

Derrick Oswald on data modeling using UML for FDO

GS314-2L Data Modeling for Autodesk® Topobase™ and FDO using UML

Smart Design for Utilities

Alan Saunders on smart design in an AutoCAD environment

GS114-2 Hands-On Utility Network Planning and Design with Autodesk® Utility Design

Richard Hammitt on how Arizona Public Service implemented intelligent design

GS404-2 Autodesk® Utility Design at APS

GIS for Utilities

Jeff Saunders on integrating GIS and CAD

GS210-3 Unlock the Value of your Design, Spatial, and Asset information

Oracle Spatial for Utilities

Xavier Lopez on using Oracle Spatial in an AutoCAD environment to manage utility infrastructure

GS318-2 Managing Utilities Infrastructure Data with Oracle® Spatial and Autodesk® Topobase™

Mobile for Utilities

Allister Lundberg on mobile solutions for utilities

GS210-2 Happy Field Workers! How Nevada Power uses Autodesk® Design Review

Web Mapping

Andy Morsell on building a web mapping site

GS204-3 Fast Track to Building Your First Autodesk MapGuide® Enterprise Site

Migrating to MapGuide Enterprise

Jonathan Mark on migrating VanMap to MapGuide Enterprise

GS300-4 Getting to Autodesk MapGuide® Enterprise from MapGuide® 6.5: The Vancouver Experience

Sustainability

Lynelle Cameron on sustainanble design

DL305-2 Sustainable Design Leadership: Best Practices and Solutions from Industry Leaders

Imagery

Gary Stephenson on using imagery in an AutoCAD environment

GS404-1 Taking Advantage of the Explosion in Online Imagery with Autodesk® Raster Design and AutoCAD® Map 3D

Geospatial Analysis

Mike Schlosser on geospatial analysis in an AutoCAD environment.

GS114-3 Analyze This! How to use AutoCAD® Map 3D for Geospatial Analysis

Digital Cities

Doug Eberhard has convened a panel of industry experts on digital cities

GS318-1 Digital Cities Modeling Experts Panel

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