At the SPAR International conference Avideh Zakhor from the University of California Berkeley gave an enthralling presentation about her research on capturing optical and thermal point clouds of the insides of buildings using a portable […]
I’ve blogged many times about the aging workforce challenge facing many industries. At the SPAR International conference Wayne Rodieck of Anadarko Petroleum outlined what this means to the oil and gas industry and how he […]
According to Wired UK, Jane Goodall has launched a massive open online course (MOOC) based around digital mapping for communities. The course is being offered through Roots and Shoots, a community action and learning program […]
At the SPAR International Conference today Kirk Knorr from Burns & McDonnell and Gregory Lawes of point3D gave a presentation about their experience using a handheld scanner from DotProduct LLC. This is a professional device […]
At the SPAR International Conference in Colorado Springs this morning Magnus Rönnäng, Technical Expert in Virtual Manufacturing at Volvo Car Group gave a fascinating presentation on how Volvo has transformed the modeling of their automobile […]
Building Information Modeling (BIM) has achieved incredible penetration in the vertical construction market in North America and in several Northern European and Asian countries. A recent McGraw Hill Construction report released in early 2014 analyzes […]
Energy and water are valuable resources that strongly correlate with economic development. Water and energy are also highly interdependent. In the United States about half of water withdrawals are used for power generation. Water is […]
The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) has reported that public transportation use in the United States in 2013 reached 10.7 billion trips/year which is the highest number in 57 years. Ridership data has been collected […]