Photogrammetry

La época estival es la más crítica del año en lo que a incendios se refiere, por ello contar con un sistema que permita identificar los focos de manera temprana y que geolocalice con precisión la ubicación de las llamas puede inclinar la balanza hacia el éxito en la lucha contra el fuego. Una red ...

Municipalities in Quebec’s capital region have recently begun using artificial intelligence to track everything from tree cover to cars — and even backyard pools. The Communauté métropolitaine de Québec, which groups Quebec City and its suburbs, says the groundbreaking project will help member municipalities achieve their environmental targets, assess parking availability and monitor urban development. ...

Researchers at the University of Bonn have developed software that can simulate the growth of field crops. To do this, they fed thousands of photos from field experiments into a learning algorithm. This enabled the algorithm to learn how to visualize the future development of cultivated plants based on a single initial image. Using the ...

A growing number of heritage buildings primed for demolition in London will live on virtually with the help of high-end 3D technology. The city has amassed a small but growing number of virtual building replicas as part of its regular process to document and photograph heritage properties, or properties with heritage components, before their date ...

With weather, limited flights and long distances, gravel runways at remote airports—particularly in northern Canada—are difficult to get to, let alone to inspect for safety. So Northeastern University researcher Michal Aibin and his team have developed a more thorough, safer and faster way to inspect such runways using drones, computer vision and artificial intelligence. The ...

Imagine driving through a tunnel in an autonomous vehicle, but unbeknownst to you, a crash has stopped traffic up ahead. Normally, you’d need to rely on the car in front of you to know you should start braking. But what if your vehicle could see around the car ahead and apply the brakes even sooner? ...

Pythagoras has released Pointorama, a groundbreaking cloud-based platform designed to simplify point cloud management. The official launch took place at GeoBusiness 2024, which was held on 5-6 June in London. Pythagoras is a provider of innovative software solutions for land surveyors and contractors. In today’s rapidly evolving field of land surveying, the quest for efficiency ...

A comprehensive geospatial mapping project has commenced at the Australian Wildlife Conservancy’s (AWC) Mornington Wildlife Sanctuary (Bunuba and Kija country) in the central Kimberley, to assist in the site’s post-flooding restoration. The newly launched J2 Geospatial Intelligence Service (J2 GIS), a social enterprise of the veteran-led non-for-profit Disaster Relief Australia (DRA), has signed on to ...

Enquanto viajava, quantas vezes você já se deparou com placas de avisos sobre o perigo de animais na estrada? A partir de uma pesquisa que utiliza da Inteligência Artificial (I.A.), esses alertas podem chegar na palma da sua mão, via smartphone, por exemplo. Isso porque, pesquisadores desenvolveram um sistema, baseado na arquitetura Yolo (You Only ...

Google DeepMind introduced a new AI assistant model named Astra at their Google I/O developer conference. Astra is designed to be a highly functional AI assistant capable of understanding and responding to complex and dynamic environments. It aims to be proactive, teachable, and personal, allowing for natural and lag-free interactions. This groundbreaking technology is expected ...

Investigadores de la Universidad de Jaén pertenecientes al Grupo Tecnologías Avanzadas en Ingeniería Civil: Construcción y Transporte Terrestre (TEP-980), en colaboración con el grupo Informática Gráfica y Geomática (TIC-144), han realizado una serie de campañas en el Castillo de Puertas Arenas (Campillo de Arenas, Jaén) con el objetivo de evaluar su estado de conservación para ...

Pix4D has launched PIX4Dcatch 2.0: a new and improved version of Pix4D’s terrestrial scanning iOS mobile app that adds professional-grade augmented reality (AR) and compatibility with a multitude of RTK devices. Pix4D is one of the leading providers of drone and terrestrial mapping and photogrammetry solutions. PIX4Dcatch is a mobile 3D scanning and AR visualization ...

A new app featuring more than 10,000 aerial photos from London and surrounding counties shows what the region looked like from the air in the last 100 years. Developed by Eunice Chu, a fourth-year geographic information systems (GIS) student who works as a student library assistant at the Map and Data Centre at Western University’s ...

London Gatwick has created a new geospatial platform using Esri’s ArcGIS to support multiple operational areas at the airport, including engineering and environmental services. The system is already making engineering and construction works safer by reducing accidental strikes on buried utilities and enabling better management of the airports biodiversity. London Gatwick is one of the ...

Fujitsu Limited and Carnegie Mellon University today announced the development of a new technology to visualize traffic situations, including people and vehicles, as part of joint research on Social Digital Twin that began in 2022. The technology transforms a 2D scene image captured by a monocular RGB camera (1) into a digitalized 3D format using ...

Scientific Systems has released upgrades for ImageNav, an image-based navigation software designed for GPS-denied or compromised environments. With more than a decade of development, ImageNav offers a robust alternative to traditional GPS navigation for military operations, particularly in contested environments where jamming poses a threat to GPS reliability. The demand for such technology has become ...

According to the Chinese media outlet Sina Tech, Ant Group has launched a 2 billion parameter multimodal remote sensing base model called SkySense. This is the latest research achievement of Ant’s Bailing large model in the multimodal field, and its paper has been accepted by the top computer vision conference CVPR 2024. SkySense can be ...

Do Państwowego Zasobu Geodezyjnego i Kartograficznego przyjęto kolejne wysokorozdzielcze dane fotogrametryczne dla miasta Malbork, opracowane na zlecenie Głównego Geodety Kraju. Dane obejmują: Zdjęcia lotnicze pionowe i ukośne o GSD = 5cm; Ortofotomapę klasyczną i ukośną o terenowym rozmiarze piksela 5 cm; Chmurę punktów o gęstości co najmniej 12 pkt/m2 (PL-EVRF2007-NH); Numeryczny model terenu (NMT) o ...

Thousands of people using the London Underground had their movements, behavior, and body language watched by AI surveillance software designed to see if they were committing crimes or were in unsafe situations, new documents obtained by WIRED reveal. The machine learning software was combined with live CCTV footage to detect aggressive behavior, guns or knives ...

Visitor registration is now open for GEO Business, the UK’s largest geospatial event. The free-to-attend expo designed for geospatial professionals who want to unlock the power of location intelligence, returns to ExCeL London on 5-6 June 2024. The highly anticipated 2024 instalment is set to be the best yet, as it returns for its landmark ...

Si aún lo ha probado, no tarde en hacerlo: la experiencia es fascinante. No es de extrañar, pues, que se esté poco a poco convirtiendo en uno de los grandes atractivos de la Catedral, que ya es decir tratándose de la gran joya del gótico español. Acertó de pleno el Cabildo metropolitano cuando, ante los ...

وحید مهدویان، معاون شهرسازی و معماری شهرداری اصفهان گفت: تهیه تصاویر و به‌روزرسانی نقشه‌های هوایی این کلانشهر پس از یک دهه به‌وسیله هواپیمای تخصصی پایش و نظارت بر اراضی انجام خواهد شد. برنامه ریزی لازم به‌منظور تصویربرداری هوایی و پوششی از کل شهر با استفاده از هواپیمای تخصصی مستقر در فرودگاه شهید بهشتی در سال ...

In 3D scene generation, a captivating challenge is the seamless integration of new objects into pre-existing 3D scenes. The ability to modify these complex digital environments is crucial, especially when aiming to enhance them with human-like creativity and intention. While adept at altering scene styles and appearances, earlier methods falter in inserting new objects consistently ...

When combatting complex problems like illegal poaching and human trafficking, efficient yet broad geospatial search tools can provide critical assistance in finding and stopping the activity. A visual active search (VAS) framework for geospatial exploration developed by researchers in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis uses a novel visual reasoning ...

Drei Jahre nach den letzten Aufnahmen hat die Stadt Bern neue Luftbilder der gesamten Gemeinde erstellt. Sie setzt damit eine Zeitreihe mit Aufnahmen von 1999, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016 sowie 2020 fort. Die Luftaufnahmen wurden am 30. Mai 2023 gemacht und anschliessend zu einem Orthofotomosaik verarbeitet. Künftig dienen sie als Hintergrund- und Referenzdaten für Arbeiten ...

Mecklenburg County Geospatial Information Services (GIS) is starting off 2024 by reflecting on our growth and tree canopy. The Mecklenburg County GIS Time Machine is a Historical Aerial Photo Viewer that allows the user to zoom into a location of interest and view land use changes over time through the display of historical aerial photography ...

Endesa aplica la inteligencia artificial para crear “gemelos digitales” de sus centrales hidroeléctricas, lo que permite realizar visitas virtuales en 3D y elaborar diagnósticos preventivos sobre el funcionamiento de estas instalaciones fundamentales en el sistema energético. El primer piloto de gemelo digital para realizar visitas virtuales se lanzó en 2023 en la central hidroeléctrica de ...

A research team from Skoltech and Saint-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation have presented a paper in which they pioneered an alternative method for detecting decayed and moldy apples at the post-harvest stage, when fruits are stored and then delivered to the customer. A computer vision system will determine different defects at the early stage, ...

Two years ago, Ecopia received almost $1 million from the Ontario Vehicle Innovation Network (OVIN) to fund this map’s development. The work was done using artificial intelligence technology to plot crucial information about Toronto’s land cover and transportation features. The data is essential to supporting safe and effective AV transportation and navigation. Ecopia also invested ...

Geovation, Ordnance Survey’s (OS) award-winning open innovation hub, has opened nominations for round two of its Geospatial Innovation Awards to showcase the best in geospatial innovation and the impact it has on people, places and planet. The 2024 awards, which are open to international entries, build on the success of the inaugural awards earlier this ...