Bradley Skelton, Chief Technology Strategist for Geospatial Portfolio at Hexagon Geospatial, looks at the increasing amount and variety of data available that can be turned into actionable information.
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REAL
World
Events
DIGITAL
World
Models
A constant flow
of information
fuses the Real World
(as is/as built)
with the Digital World
(as planned/
as designed)
SENSOR
Fusing the Real and Digital World
SOFTWARE
Geospatial Technology Models the World
32. Radar Exploitation
• Goes beyond traditional
optical systems.
• Penetrates clouds and is
active at night.
• Interferometry can detect
and measure small change
• Commercial sources in
include : RadarSat 1 & 2,
TeraSarX, Cosmo-Skymed
• Indian Radar Sensor: RISAT
1 & 2
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41. UAS From Defense to Commercial
Surveillance platforms – manned,
unmanned (UAS), optionally manned
Classification of UAS types
• Size – micro, small, medium,
large
• Endurance – short, medium, long
• Type – fixed wing, helicopter
(single or multirotor), gyrocopter,
aerostats
Wikipedia – List of unmanned
systems – 100s of systems around
the world
Video from commercial space-based
platforms – Skybox, UrTheCast
42. UAS SENSORS
UAS sensors – photo,
multispectral, video, LiDAR
• Photo, multispectral, LiDAR -
suited for mapping, exploitation
by photogrammetric software.
• Video - suited for applications
which require capturing
continuous live action for
immediate action or forensic
review
43. UAS Application
UAV driven power line
monitoring is safer and can
cost far less than having a
person climb and inspect each
pole.
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56. Dynamic Interactive Analytics
Spatial Modeling is the
process of extracting
information from
geospatial data
• A deep toolbox of
operations is required.
• Fusing many different
data types extracts
more information.
• Graphical and
Interactive make it
intuitive and easy to
use.
71. Solving the “Bounding Box” problem
Given a bounding box in space, and a given time period, discover and access
all available, relevant & authorized information within that area.
Geospatial Data Types
Maps, Imagery, Features, Terrain, Place
Names, Buildings, Infrastructure, Roads,
Political Boundaries, Hydrographic,
Geodetic, etc.Location References in Structured
Data
Relational Databases, Travel Itineraries,
Financial Transactions, Corporate Data,
Personnel Records, Statistical Data, etc.
Sensor Data
EO, Spectral, Radar, LiDAR,
Infrared, FMV, in situ, GPS,
etc.
Access from Any Device
Desktop, Laptop, PDA, Wireless,
Smartphone
Location References in Unstructured
Data
News Reports, Publications, Manifests,
Internet, World Wide Web, Audio, Video, etc.
72. Describe and publish your data
Powerful catalog
• Catalog anything digital
• Centralize metadata
• Automatic data ingest
73. Discover your data
• Dynamic discovery of
dispersed information
• Fine-grained searches
77. Tiling is Complicated and Disk Intensive
Efficient processing and
simple data structure:
• Easier to manage
• Cost effective
• Single source of truth
• One format to serve all
software clients
Raw Imagery
+ 1 ECW mosaic file
Raw Imagery
+ Image Tiles
+ Tile Pyramids
+ Mosaic Overviews
+ Tile Cache
ECW
Approach
Conventional
Approach
78. $ cost per month
$ 4,700
ECW
$ 82
$ 6,200
$ 4,600
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Real Cost Savings on the Cloud
Amazon S3 cloud storage
cost comparison
98% lower costs using ECW
>$4.6k monthly saving
Up to $73k annual saving
* Data generated using the Amazon S3 Cloud Calculator
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Our Vision
Our vision is to provide the tools that
enable people to collect, organize and
analyse the growing deluge of data to
effectively make sense of the ever
changing world.