International Geospatial Digest for September 16, 2024
- Bentley’s Acquisition of Cesium
- Digital Twins Becoming Part of Everyday Life
- The Secret To Making Government Faster, Better, More Effective: Maps
- Airbus Built Sentinel-2C Satellite Successfully Launched
- 2024 Fall Foliage Predictions Map
Bentley’s Acquisition of Cesium: A Game-Changer for the 3D Infrastructure Landscape
Bentley has acquired Cesium, a leading real-time 3D geospatial data platform. This acquisition represents a major step in combining infrastructure software and geospatial technology and seeks to alter how infrastructure is designed, maintained, and interacted with. This partnership could significantly change the architecture, construction, engineering, and urban planning industries.
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Digital twins are fast becoming part of everyday life
The Economist recently published an article discussing how digital twins are becoming a part of everyday life. The article discusses the potential impact of digital twins, including the concept of creating a digital twin of the human body for improved medical diagnosis. Digital twins are currently helping monitor jet engine health, keeping track of the vehicles in Uber’s network, replicating Amazon’s supply chain, assisting local authorities in responding to floods, simulating test drives and crashes, and managing companies, factories and cities. The article also mentions the role that artificial intelligence (AI) has played in making predictions about the digital twin’s physical counterparts and the digital twin itself with the introduction of new data.
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The Secret To Making Government Faster, Better, More Effective: Maps
The state of Minnesota aims to utilize maps to eliminate child poverty, remove lead service lines from drinking water, establish accessible affordable childcare, preserve peat lands, and deploy high-speed internet across the state. Minnesota has used mapping not only as an analytical tool but also as a problem-solving tool. Minnesota was also the first state to establish an office specifically dedicated to providing the state government with quick, accurate, and easily accessible geographic data. The governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, is a geographer. He recognizes the value of GIS technology and mapping and its potential to positively impact people’s lives. The Minnesota Executive Map Portfolio shows map collections relating to climate, children, youth and families and jobs, workforce and economy.
Maps from the government of Minnesota. Source: Minnesota IT Services, Esri
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Airbus built Sentinel-2C satellite successfully launched
The Sentinel-2C satellite, built by Airbus, was successfully launched from Kourou, French Guiana. After it undergoes testing and commissioning, it will enter low earth orbit. The head of Earth Observation, Science and Exploration at Airbus, Marc Steckling, mentions that this satellite will provide another important sensor capable of monitoring the changes on our planet. The satellite has a high-resolution multispectral imager, enabling it to gather essential imagery for various applications such as agriculture and water quality monitoring.
Sentinel-2C. Source: Airbus
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2024 fall foliage predictions: These maps show when to see peak fall colors in New England
A 2024 foliage prediction map created by Smoky Mountains shows when the peak fall colours will appear across the United States. This interactive map features a slider that spans from early September to mid-November, allowing you to visualize the peak of fall colours across different states.
Map showing 2024 fall foliage predictions across the United States. Source: Smoky Mountain.
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