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Autodesk University kicked off today in Las Vegas, with a media day briefing that spoke frankly about technology disruptions facing their customers. Customers are being pushed to do more with less in an uncertain economy, with a greater focus on sustainability. Even in the face of these challenges, this year’s event has drawn more than [...]
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Greg Bentley discusses the next wave of digital city modeling as the “Semantic City,” where connections and interactions between systems accomplishes better continuity and better performance. With greater interoperability, there is also the opportunity to better model and simulate the holistic performance of the city, particularly in response to events. The key to achieve this [...]
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The world is rapidly becoming more urbanized, having achieved a milestone of 50% of the population living in cities just a few years ago, this is projected to explode to 70% by 2070. The frenzy of construction that is needed to house millions more in an urban setting comes with a chance to rethink and [...]
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Today at the GeoInt Seminar in San Antonio the focus was placed on integration of intelligence, and the efficiencies that can be gained with greater IT alignment. With planned budget cuts in the double-digit billions of dollars in the next ten years within the intelligence community, half of those savings are expected to come from [...]
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Later this month, the Open Geospatial Consortium is holding a technical committee meeting in Boulder, Colo., and as part of the meeting there is a one-day 3D Summit on Sept. 20 to discuss 3D Information Management (3DIM). The ongoing work on 3D geospatial standards enable innovation with city modeling, augmented reality, AEC, operations and maintenance [...]
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The ambitious work to develop a Geospatial Data management System (GDMS) to Ordnance Survey is now at a close with Intergraph successfully delivering a solution that is now in production mode alongside partners 1Spatial and Snowflake Software. The ongoing work that began in 2007 includes the management of more than 440 million individual features, and [...]
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In a short blog post, Chris Andrews the product manager of Autodesk’s Infrastruture Modeler software, outlines a new cloud-based version of this product that is now available via Autodesk Labs. The product is dubbed Project Galileo Online, and it adds the ability to take the merged data from Infrastructure Modeler to the Autodesk Cloud for [...]
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Building America’s Future Educational Fund, a bipartisan and national infrastructure coalition, just released a report that examines the economic challenges posed by the United States’ ailing transportation infrastructure. The report, “Falling Apart and Falling Behind,” reviews investments being made by international competitors and recommends new transportation policies to spur U.S. economic growth. Among the report [...]
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The National Science Foundation has partnered with four universities on a five-year $18.5 million grant to develop sustainable ways to manage urban water. The Urban Water Engineering Research Centers (ERC) will be led by Stanford with additional labs at the University of California-Berkeley, Colorado School of Mines, and New Mexico State University. The Urban Water [...]
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With increasing global change comes a need to return ecosystems to their strongest natural health, and to ensure that our built environment can adapt rather than crumble from natural forces. Stepped-up ecological change is forcing new levels of land and infrastructure management, and geospatial technology is well-poised to analyze impacts, improve designs, and monitor outcomes. [...]
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