ISPRS WG IV/5

We have a new scientific secretary for our working group – Dr Arzu Coltekin. The working group executive comprises Dr Chris Pettit (Chair), Dr Andy-Hudson Smith (Co-Chair), Dr Bo Wu Co-Chair and Dr Arzu Coltekin (Scientific Secretary). A brief  bio of Dr Coltekin is as follows: Dr. Arzu Coltekin is a senior researcher and lecturer at University of Zurich, Switzerland. She holds a BSc and an MSc in GIS from YildizTechnical University in Istanbul, and a PhD from Helsinki University…

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We have an additional co-chair for our working group – Dr Bo Wu. The working group executive now comprises Dr Chris Pettit (Chair), Dr Andy-Hudson Smith (Co-Chair), Dr Bo Wu Co-Chair and Dr Arzu Coltekin (Scientific Secretary). A brief  bio of Dr Wu is as follows: Dr. Bo Wu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His main research topics include machine vision/photogrammetry, adaptive-vision system, 3D modeling and visualization, and…

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A paper published in Nature this month titled “Holographic three-dimensional telepresence using large-area photorefractive polymer” discusses significant advances in holographic technology similar to that used in Star Wars for projecting  images of Princess Leia.  As stated in the paper further improvements could bring applications in updatable 3D mapping, which would be pretty exciting.

The following link shows all the quakes in and around Christchurch since the major quake on September 4. There have been over 1800 quakes since and the web site shows them all. http://www.christchurchquakemap.co.nz/ Paul Nicholls from the the University of Canterbury’s Digital Media Group has put together a nice temporal animation Google Map mashup with show as the 1800+ quakes in and around Christchurch since the major earth quake on the 4th September 2010. Check it out at http://www.christchurchquakemap.co.nz/

Betaville is an open-source multiplayer environment for real cities, in which ideas for new works of public art, architecture, urban design, and development can be shared. This is a semi-immersive web 2.0 environment where participants can create and share their own additions to the built environment. The potential for such an environment to support participatory planning and explore decision spaces is exciting.

A new web-base geospatial toolkit has been developed to support climate change scientists and organisation to respond to natural disasters . The Servir platform is currently in Beta form and provides visualisation tools as applied to Central America, East Africa and the Himalayas to assist in monitoring and mapping the impacts of floods and other natural disasters .

Outputs from the Victorian Climate Change Adaptation Program (VCCAP) include a number of maps a based on (i) land suitability, (ii) adaptive capacity and (iii) climate change data for all of Victoria. These map are available through the Victoria Resources Online Geographical Visualisation Portal and can be interactively viewed through the Google Earth API.

Dr Arzu Coltekin from our working group and Professor Keith Clarke, University of California, are organising a ASPRS/AutoCarto 2010 Workshop, November 16th, 2010, Orlando, Florida, USA: http://www.geo.uzh.ch/~arzu/geovirtual This workshop brings together experts from different yet related areas of geographic sciences, visual analytics and information visualization with the aim of producing a research agenda for level-of-detail (LOD) and information display-related issues for geovirtual environments (GeoVEs) and virtual globes. Many aspects from production to visualization and semantics will be covered. Topics: (but not limited to): . Theories and…

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The Victoria Resources Online (VRO) 3D object library now provides a greater range of landscape objects for download. These objects are categories as either (i) vegetation, (ii) animals, (iii) built structures, (iv) rural landscapes. The models are free for use and available in a range of file formats including *.obj, *.dae, *.3ds, *.SKP and *.png. Recently the team (Falak Sheth, Matthew Cox and Wayne Harvey, members of our working group) have added and additional 145 objects, comprising a mixture of…

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