#NSGICMidyear: Corporate Leadership Council Session
The Corporate Leadership Council Session (aka sponsor talks) allows major sponsors to talk about their latest can greatest tech or projects. They each had eight minutes.
AECOM: There are public and private clouds and many providers. Clouds have many benefits (low resource requirements) and challenges (security, availability). AECOM takes a guarded approach (private clouds, mostly)
ESRI: A discussion of societal GIS and crowdsourcing. Examples: MD StateStat, Arkansas iPhone App, Haiti/Chile Earthquakes and Crisis Camps. We are moving from presentation to interaction (that is citizens can provide input). Tech for gathering this will be in ArcGIS 10.
Fugro EarthData: Most significant change in photogrammetry was from film to digital. A review of advances in digital of late: solid state storage, quicker CCD response, radiometric sensitivity. Latest change is the move to panoramic mapping systems - which increases field of view from 45 degrees to about 105 degrees. You can use multiple digital cameras at once or a sweeping lens (Fugro uses the latter.) With these you can capture orthos, but also obliques. Advantages: both vertical and oblique at once, 3” to 1’ GSD imagery, multiple oblique angles, true 3D building modeling. Advances in data exploitation: stereo compilation tools for non-experts.
Michael Baker: A discussion of mobile LiDAR, which is basically LiDAR on a van. It can capture data at 60 mph that can be used to model cityscapes.
NAVTEQ: NAVTEQ True(TM) a new data capture technology which uses mobile Lidar among things. The system can detail where the lane is and what the hours are of a store are.
Northrop Grumman: The latest in LiDAR developments.
North West Geomatics: Semi-automated digital surface model extraction techniques.
Sanborn: Applications of mobile and airborne LiDAR used together.
Surdex: Products that can be made from airborne LiDAR.
