The document discusses the importance of effective geospatial data management for engineering and geospatial professionals, highlighting the need for access to accurate information efficiently and cost-effectively. It outlines the challenges posed by diverse data types, quality issues, and the integration of various systems, while also presenting opportunities in governance and innovative technologies such as IoT. The content emphasizes the role of geospatial data as a crucial component in modern urban development, especially in Africa's evolving infrastructure landscape.

1. Geospatial Data Management for
Engineering and Geospatial
Professionals
by Kendall James, Hexagon Geospatial

2. Geospatial Data Management
The opportunities and challenges
26 July 2017
Kendall James, Business Development Africa

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The aim is to provide access
to the right information, at the
right time, in the right format
and at the right cost taking
into account the opportunity
cost as well as project cost.

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Challenges
• Vast array of data types
• Inconsistent data quality
• Lack of good metadata
• Data volume
• Multiple systems and disparate
formats
• It’s simple more than 3D
• Ability to catalogue, store, analyse
and access
• Also about non-geospatial data
Analytics
Point Clouds
Vector
3D
Raster

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Opportunities
Focus on 3 key areas:
• Good governance
• Geospatial data acquisition
• Geospatial data storage, access, retrieval and
dissemination
• Sensors (IoT)
• Mapping technology
• Flexible
• Innovative
• Operational demands
• It is the key driver
• Measurable ROI
• Quickest ROI
Geospatial is the glue that holds everything
together.

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Key areas:
• Data acquisition
• Standards
• Policies
• Methodologies
• Processing
• Quality assurance
• Metadata
• Data storage
• Access and retrieval
• Dissemination
• Sensors
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• Monitoring
• Reporting
• Prediction & patterns
Good governance
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Key areas:
• Flexible
• Multiple and various data stores
• Catalogue of all geospatial and asset
data
• 3D, 4D etc
• Easily and quickly deployable
• Innovative
• Work on any platform
• Cloud or on premise
• Geoprocessing on-the-fly
• Easy to maintain
• Value lives with the data
• All about the output
• Speak to its audience
Mapping technologies

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Operational demands

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It’s all about your “Bounding Box”
A user should be able to draw a bounding box on a map, declare a slice of
time, and discover and access all the available, relevant & authorized
information within that area.
Geospatial Data
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.

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Africa’s time is now. As technology
drives mobility and connectivity in
urbanized societies, African cities
continuously seek to establish new
infrastructure and city systems that
will enable transition, and position
them as global leaders and next
generation cities.
- Dr. Hamadoun Touré, Executive Director, Smart Africa

11. Thank you

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Stay in touch
Kendall James
Business Development - Africa
+27 (0)79 649 1270
kendall.james@hexagongeospatial.com
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