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The Future of Oblique and 3D Mapping
for City Planning and Management
Trends and Applications
Dr. Armando Guevara
President and CEO
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Houston-Texas

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Visual Intelligence
iOne 3D Sensor Systems Solutions
Founded in 2007.
Based in Houston-Texas.
With world-wide partner network.
Leading US Company with innovative
geoimaging sensor patents.
Aerial, ground, mobile / handheld.
Leading the way to 3D geoimaging and
actionable information applications
(sensors and software).
Geoimaging the 3D World Online!
Collect More. Do More. For Less.
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1st US Corp to receive the Geospatial
Forum International Technology
Innovation Award in Sensors 2013
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Where are we? Where are we going?
Far behind in time we have left the
days when cartographers drew map
reports of travelers and for areas not
known the phrase “Terra Incógnita”
was written.
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Vision and Creation
In a map we can see the past, the
present and the future… .
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Visionary
Having or showing clear ideas about
what should happen or be done in
the future. Having or showing a
powerful imagination. A person that
by knowledge, experience and
practice establishes the foundation
to create, or creates, the future.
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Some “Recent” Visionaries
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Galileo Galilei
Leonardo Da Vinci
Jules Verne
Charles Babbage
Alexander G. Bell
Thomas Edison
Albert Einstein
Galileo
Leonardo
Charles
Alexander
Albert
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Thomas
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Recent IT Visionaries
Enterprises and Entrepreneurs
• Intel
• Xerox Menlo Park
• IBM
• Hewlett Packard
• CDC / Cray Research
• SUN / DELL
• Others…
• APPLE
• NetScape
• AOL
• ORACLE
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William (Bill) Gates III
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Some Geospatial Visionaries
(NA-Centric)
Roger Tomlinson
Duanne Marble
Tom Peucker
Michael Goodchild
Scott Morehouse
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Nicholas Chrisman
Geoffrey Dutton
Others…
Jack Dangermond
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IT Evolution – 10 year
Paradigm Shifts
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Microelectronics.
Opto electronics
Storage
Data Bandwidth and Compression
Wireless communication
Parallel / multi CPU/GPU processing
Object oriented programming
Knowledge base / expert systems
Feature extraction, pattern recognition, computer vision
Integrated multimedia / data fusion
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Source: Guevara 1994 On the Spatial Enabling of Information
http://www.slideshare.net/armando_guevara/on-the-spatial-enabling-of-information-paradigmrev-06?from_search=17
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Three Converging Key Paradigm Shifts
Miniaturization – electronics smaller and smaller
Digitization – all data is digital
Integration / Interoperability
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Digital Integration
• Telephone
• Email/Internet www
• Games
• TV
• Radio/CD
• GPS
• Command/Control
•Navigators
• Planning
• Holograms
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• And much more…
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Emerging Paradigm Shifts
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Digital integration – multi scale/n-dimensional / temporal
Interoperable virtual 3D “worlds”/domains
Robotics/UVS and voice/brain-wave driven devices
GEOSPATIAL TECHNOLOGY
The map of the future is an intelligent virtual n-dimensional
world of the world.
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General IT Trends
1. Smaller
2. Faster
3. More for less (storage, processing, devices)
4. Rapid obsolescence
5. Higher resolution
6. Higher accuracy (metric)
7. Sensing intelligence, e.g. Visual Intelligence
8. Smarter assisting and autonomous devices
9. eConsumables
10. Device-content eCosystems (device-web “cloud”) verticals
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Source: Guevara 1994 On the Spatial Enabling of Information
http://www.slideshare.net/armando_guevara/on-the-spatial-enabling-of-information-paradigmrev-06?from_search=17
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Gartner: Top 10 Strategic
Technology Trends For 2014
1. Mobile Device Diversity and Management
2. Mobile Apps and Applications
3. The Internet of Everything
4. Hybrid Cloud and IT as Service Broker
5. Cloud/Client Architecture
6. The Era of Personal Cloud
7. Software Defined Anything
8. Web-Scale IT
9. Smart machines
10. 3-D Printing and manufacturing
Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterhigh/2013/10/14/gartner-top-10strategic-technology-trends-for-2014/
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The Spatial Enabling of Information
A Geographic Paradigm Shift
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The evolution of GIS - Geography
Idea…
Gis
1970-1980
Implementation…
GIS
1980-1990
Acceptance…
gIS
1990-2000
Disruptive
change…
…from a geocentric paradigm to
an information-centric one…
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Once upon a time… and still some times…
my-city-information-system.com
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The evolution of GIS - Information
Ingenious (engineering)
Innovation
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2000-2010
Integration
Interoperability
Interactivity
Interdisciplinary
Inference
Information
Inalámbrico (wireless)
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Then… Now
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The evolution of GIS - Intelligence
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Imagery (googols - 1 followed by 100 zeros)
Information
Intelligence
Intelligent Internet (Increasingly)
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From the image to information to knowledge
Images/Data
Knowledge
Intelligence
Information
Fusion and “intelligent”
integration
• Processing as a Service
“The Cloud”
• Data as a Service
• Software as a Service
• Information as a Service
• Applications as a Service
Rule-Based Virtual
Data Bases
Virtual n-D Worlds
Decisions /
Actions
n-Dimensional
Multimedia
Data
Sources
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Users
(Social Sensors)
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Integrated Information Management
2D
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3D
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The Spatial Enabling of Information
Foundation for the Science of Where
The process of designing, developing, and
implementing solutions that integrate geospatial,
information and communication technologies that
seek to optimize workflows and reduce operating
costs by leveraging “where knowledge” in an
innovative way is called “the spatial enabling of
information”.
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Shifting Gears into 3D
3D City Management
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GIS
Emergency Response
Home Land Security
AEC
Real State
Insurance
Defense
Situational Awareness
Simulation
Virtual Reality
Augmented Reality
Gaming
Imagination is the limit
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Urban Planning
Midtown Manhattan Growth Animation
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Property Valuation and Changes
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Building Owners / Operators
Real State - Insurance
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Commercial Real State Search
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I for Imagination
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I for Interior Modeling
Click
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Conclusions?
…connecting the dots…
Technology
Society
The Future?
“Digital Social Networks”
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From “data” to knowledge to intelligence
Human knowledge stored
in rule-based data bases
Automated
knowledge-based
decisions and
actions
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UVS - Robotics
“Smart Machines”
This era will be the most disruptive in the history of
IT by the proliferation of:
contextually aware, intelligent personal
assistants (voice/brain-wave driven)
smart advisors (e.g., IBM Watson)
advanced global industrial systems
autonomous vehicles
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Augmented Reality
What is reality?
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein
The Real World as an Operating System
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The future of computing
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GIS – Geography
“The Science of Where”
• It all happens somewhere.
• The n-dimensional spatial domain is a
topologically and geometrically integrating
and convergent domain. The “ultimate
container”. Say what!?
• Where you are affects where you are… and
where you will be: law of gravity.
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Visual Intelligence over Houston
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GIS - I for Imagination
“If you want your children to
be intelligent, read them fairy
tales. If you want them to be
more intelligent, read them
more fairy tales.”
“Logic will get you from A to Z;
imagination will get you everywhere.”
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Creating 3D “Visual Intelligence”
2013 Technology Innovation Award in Sensors
Thank you!
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armando.guevara@visualintell.com