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Singapore’s standard for location of underground utilities

30 August 2019 Geoff Zeiss

Straits Times In August 2017 the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) released a standard and specifications for the procedure and practice of utility surveying in Singapore. The standard specifies the data that should be captured for […]

Severely restricted access to critical infrastructure information in the U.S.

27 August 2019 Geoff Zeiss

The Critical Infrastructure Information Act of 2002 of the U.S. Congress provides a mechanism for severely restricting access to proprietary critical infrastructure information voluntarily shared by network operators with the federal government. It prevents consumers […]

Toward automating scan-to-BIM for brownfield substations

20 August 2019 Geoff Zeiss

With about 55,000 transmission substations in the U.S. and the average age of the transformers in these substations over 40 years old, many substations are going to be refurbished, retrofitted, extended or upgraded. Utilities are […]

U.S. commercial underground utility locate market estimated at over $1.2 billion

13 August 2019 Geoff Zeiss

Utility locating involves remote-sensing and safe excavation technologies for identifying, detecting, and labeling the underground utility infrastructure including telecommunication, storm and sanitary sewers, water, electricity distribution, natural gas, cable television, fiber optics, heating and others. […]

Global underground utility mapping market estimated at US$ 842 million

8 August 2019 Geoff Zeiss

Markets and Markets has just released a report Underground Utility Mapping Market Global Forecast To 2024 in which it is estimated that the 2019 market size for underground utility mapping, which refers to a complete detection, […]

Novel radar technology enables ground penetrating radar scanning at roadway speeds

31 July 2019 Geoff Zeiss

Underground utility damage during construction is a major safety problem and drag on economies in many countries. The technologies that are currently considered best practices for detecting underground utilities have been used for decades and […]

Assessment of BIM adoption by government in Québec

30 July 2019 Geoff Zeiss

Beginning in 2006/2007 a number of national governments including Finland, Norway, U.S., U.K., France, Singapore, Russia and others began mandating building information modeling (BIM) for public construction projects. Although the private sector in Canada has […]

Is legacy GIS failing network infrastructure operating companies ?

24 July 2019 Geoff Zeiss

I thought it would be worthwhile to include here an expanded version of my contribution to a webinar that IQGeo presented last week with a provocative title that I think goes right to the nub […]

Webinar – Is legacy GIS failing network infrastructure companies?

17 July 2019 Geoff Zeiss

Scanning underground infrastructure with ground penetrating radar at up to 130 km/hour

16 July 2019 Geoff Zeiss

Developing high precision highway maps for autonomous vehicles

11 July 2019 Geoff Zeiss

Currently autonomous vehicles with some exceptions rely on on-board sensors for the detailed aspects of navigation. But many believe that high precision maps, which contain significantly more detailed information and true-ground-absolute accuracy than current road […]

GeoIgnite: Evidence of the benefits of an integrated BIM+geospatial approach to construction

8 July 2019 Geoff Zeiss

I thought it would be worth while to include here the plenary talk I gave at GeoIgnite 2019 in Ottawa about the growing evidence of the benefits of an integrated BIM + geospatial approach to […]

New Radarsat Constellation imagery will be available to public at no cost

2 July 2019 Geoff Zeiss

Canada’s first synthetic aperture radar satellite was launched in 1995. Since then Radarsat-2 was launched in 2007 and continues to operate. In June of this year the Radarsat Constellation (RCM) was launched. At the GeoIgnite […]

Applying machine learning to identifying housing starts from satellite imagery

25 June 2019 Geoff Zeiss

Deep learning is increasingly finding practical applications using geospatial data, specifically, satellite imagery. At the GeoIgnite conference in Ottawa, Nicolas Martinez of Statistics Canada described a project scheduled to kick-off in July to use machine […]

A killer application for satellite imagery collected daily for the entire earth

21 June 2019 Geoff Zeiss

At the GeoIgnite conference in Ottawa, Wade Larsen of Urthecast described what may be a killer application for satellite imagery captured daily. Farmers in the US over-irrigate by 25% per year. A recent study has […]

Chattanooga quantifies major benefits from smart grid investment

17 June 2019 Geoff Zeiss

Chattanooga’s power company Electric Power Board (EPB) is one of the most advanced with respect to adopting smart grid technology in North America. At HXGNLive in Las Vegas, Ken Jones reported quantified benefits that EPB […]

Technology breakthrough: lowering the bar to underground GPR surveys for land surveyors

12 June 2019 Geoff Zeiss

Traditional output from a GPR scanner showing hyperbolas reflected from underground utilities The most exciting technology announcement at HXGNLive is a new ground penetrating radar (GPR) solution that dramatically lowers the bar for GPR scanning, […]

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