the future of oblique and 3 d mapping for city planning and management trends and applications

The Future of Oblique and 3D Mapping for City Planning and Management

Trends and Applications

Dr. Armando GuevaraPresident and CEO

www.visualintell.com

Houston-Texas

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Visual Intelligence

iOne 3D Sensor Systems Solutions� Founded in 2007.

� Based in Houston-Texas.

� With world-wide partner network.

� Leading US Company with innovative

geoimaging sensor patents.

� Aerial, ground, mobile / handheld.

� Leading the way to 3D geoimaging and

actionable information applications

(sensors and software).

Geoimaging the 3D World Online!

Collect More. Do More. For Less.

� 1st US Corp to receive the Geospatial

Forum International Technology

Innovation Award in Sensors 2013


Where are we? Where are we going?

Far behind in time we have left the

days when cartographers drew map

reports of travelers and for areas not

known the phrase “Terra Incógnita”

was written.


Vision and Creation

In a map we can see the past, the

present and the future… .


Visionary

Having or showing clear ideas about

what should happen or be done in

the future. Having or showing a

powerful imagination. A person that

by knowledge, experience and

practice establishes the foundation

to create, or creates, the future.


Some “Recent” Visionaries• Galileo Galilei

• Leonardo Da Vinci

• Jules Verne

• Charles Babbage

• Alexander G. Bell

• Thomas Edison

• Albert Einstein

Leonardo

Galileo

Charles

Alexander

Thomas

Albert


Recent IT VisionariesEnterprises and Entrepreneurs

William (Bill) Gates III

• Intel

• IBM

• Hewlett Packard

• SUN / DELL

• APPLE

• NetScape

• AOL

• ORACLE

• Xerox Menlo Park

• CDC / Cray Research

• Others…


Some Geospatial Visionaries

(NA-Centric)

� Roger Tomlinson

� Duanne Marble

� Tom Peucker

� Michael Goodchild

� Scott Morehouse

� Nicholas Chrisman

� Geoffrey Dutton

� Others…

Jack Dangermond


IT Evolution – 10 year

Paradigm Shifts1. Microelectronics.2. Opto electronics3. Storage4. Data Bandwidth and Compression5. Wireless communication6. Parallel / multi CPU/GPU processing7. Object oriented programming8. Knowledge base / expert systems9. Feature extraction, pattern recognition, computer vision10. Integrated multimedia / data fusion

Source: Guevara 1994 On the Spatial Enabling of Information

http://www.slideshare.net/armando_guevara/on-the-spatial-enabling-of-information-paradigm-

rev-06?from_search=17


Three Converging Key Paradigm Shifts

� Miniaturization – electronics smaller and smaller

� Digitization – all data is digital

� Integration / Interoperability


Digital Integration• Telephone

• Email/Internet www

• Games

• TV

• Radio/CD

• GPS

• Command/Control

•Navigators

• Planning

• Holograms

• And much more…


Emerging Paradigm Shifts

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

� Digital integration – multi scale/n-dimensional / temporal

� Interoperable virtual 3D “worlds”/domains

� Robotics/UVS and voice/brain-wave driven devices

GEOSPATIAL TECHNOLOGY

� The map of the future is an intelligent virtual n-dimensional

world of the world.


General IT Trends

1. Smaller

2. Faster

3. More for less (storage, processing, devices)

4. Rapid obsolescence

5. Higher resolution

6. Higher accuracy (metric)

7. Sensing intelligence, e.g. Visual Intelligence

8. Smarter assisting and autonomous devices

9. eConsumables

10. Device-content eCosystems (device-web “cloud”) verticals

Source: Guevara 1994 On the Spatial Enabling of Information

http://www.slideshare.net/armando_guevara/on-the-spatial-enabling-of-information-paradigm-

rev-06?from_search=17


Gartner: Top 10 Strategic

Technology Trends For 20141. Mobile Device Diversity and Management

2. Mobile Apps and Applications

3. The Internet of Everything

4. Hybrid Cloud and IT as Service Broker

5. Cloud/Client Architecture

6. The Era of Personal Cloud

7. Software Defined Anything

8. Web-Scale IT

9. Smart machines

10. 3-D Printing and manufacturing

Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterhigh/2013/10/14/gartner-top-10-

strategic-technology-trends-for-2014/


The Spatial Enabling of Information

A Geographic Paradigm Shift


The evolution of GIS - Geography

Gis1970-1980

GIS1980-1990 gIS

1990-2000

…from a geocentric paradigm to an information-centric one…

Idea…

Implementation…

Acceptance…

Disruptive

change…


Once upon a time… and still some times…

my-city-information-system.com


I

Ingenious (engineering)

Innovation

Integration

Interoperability

Interactivity

Interdisciplinary

IIIInference

Information

Inalámbrico (wireless)

The evolution of GIS - Information

2000-2010


Then… Now


IIIIImagery

IIIInformation

Intelligence

The evolution of GIS - Intelligence

IIIIntelligent IIIInternet (IIIIncreasingly)

2010+

(googols - 1 followed by 100 zeros)


From the image to information to knowledgeInformation

Decisions / Actions

Users(Social Sensors)

Rule-Based Virtual Data Bases

Virtual n-D Worlds

KnowledgeIntelligence

Images/Data

n-Dimensional

Multimedia

Data

Sources

Fusion and “intelligent”

integration• Processing as a Service

• Data as a Service

• Software as a Service

• Information as a Service

• Applications as a Service

“The Cloud”


Integrated Information Management

2D

3D


The Spatial Enabling of Information

Foundation for the Science of Where

The process of designing, developing, and

implementing solutions that integrate geospatial,

information and communication technologies that

seek to optimize workflows and reduce operating

costs by leveraging “where knowledge” in an

innovative way is called “the spatial enabling of

information”.


Shifting Gears into 3D

3D City Management• GIS

• Emergency Response

• Home Land Security

• AEC

• Real State

• Insurance

• Defense

• Situational Awareness

• Simulation

• Virtual Reality

• Augmented Reality

• Gaming

• Imagination is the limit


Urban Planning

Midtown Manhattan Growth Animation


Property Valuation and Changes


Building Owners / Operators

Real State - Insurance

Commercial Real State Search


I for Imagination


I for Interior Modeling

Click


Conclusions?

The Future?

Technology Society

“Digital Social Networks”

…connecting the dots…


From “data” to knowledge to intelligence

Human knowledge stored

in rule-based data bases

Automated

knowledge-based

decisions and

actions


UVS - Robotics

“Smart Machines”

This era will be the most disruptive in the history of

IT by the proliferation of:

� contextually aware, intelligent personal

assistants (voice/brain-wave driven)

� smart advisors (e.g., IBM Watson)

� advanced global industrial systems

� autonomous vehicles


Augmented Reality

What is reality?

The Real World as an Operating System The future of computing

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein


GIS – Geography

“The Science of Where”• It all happens somewhere.

• The n-dimensional spatial domain is a topologically and geometrically integrating and convergent domain. The “ultimate

container”.

• Where you are affects where you are… and where you will be: law of gravity.

Say what!?


Visual Intelligence over Houston


GIS - I for Imagination

“If you want your children to

be intelligent, read them fairy

tales. If you want them to be

more intelligent, read them

more fairy tales.”

“Logic will get you from A to Z;

imagination will get you everywhere.”

www.visualintell.com

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Creating 3D “Visual Intelligence”2013 Technology Innovation Award in Sensors

Thank you!

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