enabling workflows

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The progressively complex and accelerating pace
of change in the geospatial industry offers exciting
possibilities for meeting sophisticated demands
from businesses, as geospatial information and
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May 2014 • Vol 4 • Issue 10
Inside
THEME: Geospatial Workflows 46 Location Analytics Changing the Country Focus: Nigeria
Game for Retailers 56 Highway to Development
Esri, Galigeo Vaibhav Arora
48 Vale Mines Geoinformation to
Gaze into Future
Patrícia Moreira Procópio Calazans, Vale,
& Luiz Henrique Guimarães Castiglione,
University of State of Rio de Janeiro
52 Powering Geospatial Data Management
Cover Story
Brad Skelton, Hexagon Geospatial
22 Geospatial Technology Enabling
Corner Office
Workflows
Prof. Arup Dasgupta 18 Jay W. Freeland, CEO, FARO Technologies
Articles
29 Transportation: On a Rapid Transit 07 Editorial
Chris Gibson, Trimble
08 News
N3e7w HInotreigzorant efodr TOeicl h&n oGloagsi eInsd Oupsterny a 16 Product Watch
Jess Kozman, Mubadala Petroleum 62 ICA ANGLE
40 Insuring the Future
Chris Ewing, Aon Benfield
43 Geospatial Arsenal for
Homeland Security
David J. Alexander, US Department of Homeland Security
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From the Editor’s Desk
The ‘G’ must become
a part of every
hybrid workflow
Prof Arup Dasgupta
Managing Editor
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ny data has a location context, perhaps gence to illustrate how important workflows have
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explicit but more often implicit. For become in different application areas. These work-
example, an address is a group of words flows are not only geospatial but involve IT and
but it is associated with a person living in management workflows and decision making. In
a flat of a building in a group of build- sum, for geospatial to be effective it must become a
ings on a road in a postal district of a town in a part of every hybrid workflow.
country. The postman does not need a GPS to get Industry has recognised this truth in two ways.
the coordinates of this address. The famous London One way is the spate of buy-outs and mergers by
cabby can get you to any place in the city because companies to bring all the elements of the work-
the geography of London’s streets, lanes and by- flows under a single banner, perhaps even under
lanes are imprinted in his memory as much as it a single GUI. The other is the recognition of the
would be in a GIS. Equally famous is the Mumbai importance of standards and interoperability and the
dabbawalla who navigates the roads of Mumbai positioning of products highlighting their adherence
to collect packed lunchboxes from homes, and to these standards and their interoperability with
through a system of arcane notations and the use a wide variety of geospatial and IT products and
of local transport services, delivers each of them to systems.
the intended recipient in their offices at lunch time Among the application groups there is a reali-
with six sigma reliability. In each of these exam- sation that SDIs will play a big role in workflows.
ples the geographic content is implicit and, what is SDIs have concentrated on data standards but a grey
more important, the latent geographical knowledge area is standards for processes. Geospatial Web Ser-
is used in a complex process or set of processes to vices do provide some standardisation for the data
achieve the desired result — the delivery of a letter, transfer processes but as workflows become mobile
arrival at a desired destination or the delivery of a and personal, other processes will become server
lunchbox. based and attention will have to be paid to them.
Today, geospatial data is more formal and As we enter the age of the Internet of Things
explicit, but still it requires different processes to (some also refer to it as the Web of Things), we will
be able to turn the data into actionable information. begin to see automated workflows which will be
Actionable information is used in other management automatic, heterogeneous, fast and ubiquitous. This
processes to achieve the desired action and result. seems to be the next frontier.
Welcome to the world of workflows. As geospatial
technology spreads into different areas of human
endeavour it is the workflows that are critical in
achieving results. In this issue we have examples
from exploration and mining to business intelli-
Geospatial World / May 2014 / 7
Americas
News
Business
HoneyComb gets funding 12 ground control stations, as
for UAS research well as $270.1 million in MQ-1
Google outbids Facebook, New funding of $150,000 from Predator spending for FY 2015.
buys Titan Aerospace Oregon BEST and the Portland DoD also wants to spend $403
Google has acquired Mexico-based Development Commission (PDC) to a million on the Unmanned Carrier-
drone maker Titan Aerospace for an startup company, HoneyComb, could Launched Airborne Surveillance
undisclosed amount. The technology help Oregon become a national and Strike, a US Navy programme
could be used to collect images and leader in the development and use to launch a UAV from carrier that
offer online access to remote areas. of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) has a scheduled draft request for
Google said Titan would work closely in precision agriculture and forestry proposal release.
with its Project Loon, which is building applications. The HoneyComb system
large, high-altitude balloons that send measures reflectance in the visible Altus Group acquires
Internet signals to areas of the world and near-infrared spectrum, which Maltais Geomatics
that are currently offline. Facebook can be used to Altus Group has acquired business
$150,000
had been in talks to buy Titan earlier calculate the assets of Maltais Geomatics (MGI).
this year, but according to reports, normalised The acquisition increases market
funding
Google offered to top any Facebook difference share and broadens the service of-
secured
offer. Facebook later agreed to pay vegetation in- ferings of the Altus Geomatics’ busi-
$20 million for Ascenta, a UK-based dex (NDVI), an ness unit. MGI is a privately owned,
aerospace company that has been indicator of crop stress. The funding Alberta-based geomatics company
working on solar-powered unmanned will also enable HoneyComb to add with a 35-year track record in land
aerial vehicles. thermal imaging technology to the surveying, survey engineering,
system, which will indicate moisture remote sensing, aerial and satellite
USSCOM seeks geospatial levels in plants and show where imagery, GNSS technologies, geo-
data on 12 countries irrigation needs adjustment. matics engineering, 3D laser scan-
US Special Operations Command ning, etc. Altus provides customised
(USSCOM) is seeking geospatial data Pentagon may spend services such as mapping, construc-
on countries of interest for which $2.45-bn on UAVs tion surveys, legal/municipal land
there is a critical need but non- The US Department of Defense surveys, land development, Light
existent data. The announcement (DoD) is seeking $2.45 billion in Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), 3D
names 12 critical countries of fiscal year 2015 to fund acquisition laser scanning, Geographic Informa-
interest — Jordan, Djibouti, Burma, and research in the field of un- tion Systems (GIS), and Environmen-
Honduras, Iran, Morocco, Nigeria, manned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This tal & Forestry, etc. The acquisition
Trinidad & Tobago, Burkina Faso, is 15.8% greater than the fiscal of MGI intensifies Altus’ market
South Sudan, North Korea, and 2014 UAV budget. The US military position in geomatics services in
China (Guangdong). The contractor plans to procure both the Northrop Western Canada, and will result in
would be required to provide geo- Grumman-built RQ-4 Global Hawk revenue growth from the broad-
spatially referenced and rectified aircraft for imagery and signals ened service offering and increased
socio-cultural data. In addition, the intelligence gathering and the market share.
contractor would be required to MQ-4 Triton maritime surveil-
furnish geotagged infrastructure lance vehicle for a combined sum Lockheed wins $245-mn
and points of interest data, socio- of $855.79million. The Pentagon GPS III satellite contract
demographic statistics, refugee and has also proposed $607.1 million The US Air Force has awarded Lock-
polling data, and data on foreign funds to purchase 12 General heed Martin more than $245 million
investment projects. Atomics MQ-9 Reaper aircraft and in contract options to complete
8 / Geospatial World / May 2014
Americas
News
which can be obtained from freely global precipitation observations
available satellite imagery. The roughly every three hours. GPM has
discovery was highlighted in the the first satellite sensors specifically
online edition of Proceedings of designed to measure falling snow
the National Academy of Sciences and light rainfall.
(PNAS). Since submitting the article
for publication, Colin Gleason and USGS makes NLCD 2011
Laurence C Smith, co-authors of the land cover map data public
paper, have tested the method on USGS has made the latest edition of
an additional 19 rivers worldwide. the National Land Cover Database
GPS III satellites will deliver signals three times more (NLCD 2011) public. The database
accurate than current GPS spacecraft NASA, JAXA release first provides information about land
production of its seventh and eighth images from EO mission conditions at regional to nationwide
next-generation GPS III satellites. NASA and Japan Aerospace scales. With this, NLCD has updated
The first two contracted GPS III Exploration Agency (JAXA) have to- its previous database version, NLCD
satellites are already progressing gether released the first images from 2006. Based on Landsat satellite im-
through sequential integration their earth-observing satellite, the ages, the programme is designed to
and test work stations at Lockheed Global Precipitation Measurement provide five-year cyclical updating of
Martin’s GPS III Processing Facility in (GPM) Core Observatory. Launched the nation’s land cover. Additionally,
Littleton, Colorado. GPS III satellites in February, the mission studies rain NLCD editions from 2001 to 2011
will deliver three times better and snow from the tropics to the have been integrated to provide a
accuracy; provide up to eight times southern edge of the Polar Regions. 10-year land cover change compari-
improved anti-jamming capabilities; GPM also anchors an international son. NLCD 2011 products will be also
and include enhancements which network of satellites that make released for Alaska later this year.
extend spacecraft life 25% further
than the prior GPS block. It will
be the first GPS satellite with a UrtheCast releases first earth imagery from ISS
new L1C civil signal designed to UrtheCast has released two images of earth, captured by its
make it interoperable with other medium-resolution camera (MRC) onboard the International Space Station
international global navigation (ISS). The image is
satellite systems. focused around the
city of Moneague in
Miscellaneous
Jamaica, and has a
6-metre ground sampling
Landsat imagery to monitor distance). The original
Greenland ice sheets imagery is approximately
A UCLA (University of California at 3,200x8,000 pixels, and
Los Angeles) graduate student has covers approximately
used Landsat imagery to quantify 300 sqkm. The com-
the amount of water draining from pany is now geared up to
Greenland’s melting ice sheet after unveil up to 150 videos
other approaches failed to provide of 60 seconds each (at
conclusive result. The new approach 30 frames per second
relies exclusively on the measure- speed) of earth in 4,000-resolution.
ments of a river’s width over time,
Geospatial World / May 2014 / 9
Europe
News
UK
Jaune S.A.R.L and IRD (Institut the engineering and construction
de recherche pour le développe- markets.
Dr Vanessa Lawrence maps ment) to complete the first canopy
Sweden
a new career direction height model of a rainforest using
Dr Vanessa Lawrence CB, who data from the first true UAV-ready
has led Britain’s national mapping LiDAR system (called YellowScan). Revenues from LBS to
authority for almost 14 years as its IRD is a French research organisa- touch €2.3bn by 2018
Director General and Chief Execu- tion that addresses development Revenues from mobile location-
tive, has taken over as the Secretary issues in Africa, Mediterranean, based services (LBS) in Europe are
General of Ordnance Survey Inter- Latin America, Asia and the French forecasted to grow from €735-mn ($
national. Dr Lawrence will formally tropical overseas territories. L’Avion 1015.7mn) in 2013 at a compound
exit Ordnance Survey at the end of Jaune is a development and service annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25.8%
2014. The UK government has asked company based on UAV technology. to reach €2.3bn ($3.18bn) by 2018.
her to continue to be part of the The project has a range of different The report was published by Berg
United Nations Committee of Ex- objectives linked to many aspects of Insight, an analyst firm which pro-
perts on Global Geospatial Informa- forest mapping, and Carbomap was vides business intelligence services
tion Management (UN-GGIM) for as involved in the generation of the to the telecom industry. The North
long as the Member States wish her canopy height model using a very American LBS market is forecasted
to be their elected Co-chair. high-density point cloud. Data for to grow at a CAGR of 16.1% from
the canopy height model was col- $1.8 billion in 2013 to reach $3.8
Leeds secures £5-million- lected by mounting the YellowScan billion in 2018.
fund for EO research system on a manned helicopter.
Germany
The UK Natural Environment
Hungary
Research Council has awarded the
University of Leeds £5 million ($6.91 Innovative stereo approach
million) to host and lead two national Trimble acquires assets of to bathymetry surveying
centres for studying the earth from GeoDesy and GeoDesy FSO An innovative approach has been
space. The two centres are Centre The assets of privately held GeoDesy developed for deriving bathymetry
for the Observation and Modelling of and GeoDesy Free Space Optics (FSO)
Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tecton- of Budapest, Hungary, have been
ics (COMET), and Centre for Polar acquired by Trimble. GeoDesy is a
Observation & Modelling (CPOM). European engineering and develop-
Scientists in CPOM are gearing up ment company focused on delivering
to analyse the first images to be accessories for the geomatics, sur-
acquired by the European Space veying, mapping, and construction
Agency’s EO satellite Sentinel-1A, industries. GeoDesy FSO designs,
which was launched in April. The manufactures and distributes laser-
images will give scientists the first based free space optical communica-
glimpse of how the polar ice sheets tion devices. GeoDesy complements
have changed. Trimble’s current portfolio of prod-
ucts acquired from SECO and Crain GAF’s ‘bathymetry from space’ approach
LiDAR maps rainforest Enterprises in 2008. The purchase of was used to map the Caspian Sea
height for the first time GeoDesy allows Trimble to provide from space by simultaneously using
Carbomap, a forest mapping com- products and support services as differential spectral attenuation and
pany has collaborated with l’Avion part of its positioning solutions in stereo-information from satellite
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