Tuesday, June 22, 2010

International LIDAR Mapping Forum 2011

Great event in New Orleans!

"ILMF 2011 will showcase more than 50 leading companies in this rapidly growing global market. Exhibitors include the LIDAR and complementary sensor manufacturers, survey service companies, data processing, GIS and management specialists and the latest mobile mapping vehicles."

info and source: http://www.lidarmap.org/ILMF.aspx

Friday, June 18, 2010

GIS Applications - Biodiversity Geographic Information System

I want to present a great research about a Biodiversity Geographic Information System. 2010 is the year of biodeversity. I think, this application represents also an importat part of the protectection of bidiversity.

"Goals: To achieve the aim of creating a network of natural resources and ecological data, this project belongs to Natural Resources and Ecology GIS Database of the "10-year Plan for Building and Promoting National Geographic Information System" and promotes to build up the basis of data and databases. The system of data standardization assists the data interoperability and sharing. Also, the internet technologies enable developers to build up a web platform for front-end query, display, and back-end management. Thus, users can browse, query, add, and manage the species data through a browser to achieve the goal of central management, distributed applications, and data sharing and to improve the data use efficiency."

source: http://www.supergeotek.com

Friday, June 11, 2010

Topographic Laser Ranging and Scanning: Principles and Processing - Book Review

Reviewed by
Jason A. Tullis, Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences, University of
Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas

"Topographic Laser Ranging and Scanning: Principles and Processing targets a multidisciplinary environmental research audience with a detailed discussion of topographic lidar, including its history, technology, calibration, quality, and management as well as a variety of techniques for lidar-assisted information extraction. This book is organized into 19 chapters, with 29 contributors from academic, commercial, and governmental organizations in the United States, Finland, Canada, Germany, Australia, Austria, China, France, and the United Kingdom. A signifi cant number of grayscale fi gures, tables, and equations are complemented by chapter-level references, 12 color fi gures, an index, and a key to abbreviations. The 19 chapters are logically organized into four parts...."

more information and source: http://www.asprs.org/publications/pers/2009journal/october/review.pdf

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Global Mapper v11 free trial

You can download Global Mapper v11 free trial version.
Great software!

Link:

http://www.globalmapper.com/

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

MeshLab tutorials

hallo everybody,

here is a great blog about the opensource MeshLab software:

http://meshlabstuff.blogspot.com/