1. 3D GIS time travel
Andrew Zolnai’s story
@azolnai
2. First 3D formulation
• 1990 Geobyte manuscript
• Inspired by Operation Database
• State-of-the-3D
• Quad-treeing, parallel processing
3. First 3D iteration
• GIS World 1992
• State-of-GIS again
• Preview of real-time 3D
• Vehicle navigation tracking etc.
4. Big time
• Esri ArcUser 2002
• Multipatches in Gulf of Mexico
• Data conflation in Colorado
• Looking to the internet
5. Student mentorship
• ESRI professional paper 2003
• Petroleum and mining apps
• Operation Database AML in ArcMap
• Geostatistical & 3D Analyst
6. Geological data models
• ESRI professional paper 2004
• Accuracy, breadth, commonality & depth
• Scalable, stable & shared
• Cordilleran geology demo using public data
7. Teapot Dome / RMOTC
• NPR-3 oil field testing centre
(closed in 2015)
• Complete suite of well and seismic
• Subsurface reservoir flow model
• ArcGIS Pro & Geocap extension
8. Global dynamic grids
• 2017 AGI, Royal Geographical Society
• Tesselation grids as dynamic datum
• In response to earth plate movements
• OGC Discrete Global Grid System DWG
9. Gulf of Mexico revisited
• ArcGIS Pro subsurface 3D
• Salt dome multi-patch
• Bore-hole sleeves
• Production structure
10. Geohipster calendar
• ArcGIS Pro and Geocap extension
• Seismic data “bricked”
• Web Scene presentation
• 3rd calendar in 4 years since its start
