One of the challenges of disaster response for utilities is situation assessment which involves sending utility personnel to the areas affected by a storm to assess the state of utility infrastructure. Skilled staff are often […]
Throughout media day at the Year in Infrastructure 2017 (YII2017) conference I was on the edge of my chair because there were such tanatalizing hints of spatial technologies that might address major challenges of 21st […]
At the SPAR3D 2017 conference in Houston, I had the distinct feeling that we are on the cusp of an important inflection point where technology has evolved to the point that it is going to […]
There are two advances in technology that are having almost as much impact on mapping our world and tracking the location of things in it as the introduction of the GPS. The development of microelectromechanical […]
At the Spar 3D Expo and Conference in Houston The Woodlands, Texas, Avideh Zakhor from the University of California Berkeley was onsite with some remarkable products from her new startup Indoor Reality. I blogged previously […]
Reality modeling In the future, the deliverables at the end of a construction project will not only include the completed building itself, but also a digital “reality model” of the structure. The digital model will […]
I am back from two remarkable days at the Spar 3D Expo and Conference in Houston. One thing that has stuck in my mind, because it is likely going to impact all of us, is […]
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has approved the Augmented Reality Markup Language 2.0 Interface Standard (ARML 2.0). ARML 2.0 provides a free and open, non-proprietary encoding that content providers can use to specify the location […]