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No Roads, No Problem
A unique drone (the WingtraOne) helps a team meet the environmental challenges of planning a wind farm in the Alps. At a lofty altitude of 2500m above sea level, 20 wind turbines 100m tall need to be built. These wind turbines will produce 60 GWh per year to power 15,000 households. The engineering challenge is...
Calculating Geometry outside ArcGIS Pro
Let’s be clear: this isn’t a stab at the all-new, singing and dancing Esri software. This post is meant to help those who are using the software on a regular basis but finding issues with using the fields with multipatch data. Recently I’ve been working with calculating volumes of buildings that are multipatch data. For...
Mark Edwin A. Tupas
Instructor in the Department of Geodetic Engineering, the University of the Philippines, Philippines Noted for his dedication to improving the accessibility and utility of geographic information in the Philippines, Mark Edwin A. Tupas was nominated because he’s an inspiration to other geospatial professionals in the region. Mark teaches remote sensing, spatial databases, and object-oriented programming. He...
Data for Slums – A geospatial analysis of living conditions of the Pakistani poor helps to improve them.
The tendency for cities is to grow: spatially, by population, or both, and in Pakistan’s capital of Lahore, it’s been both. Urban growth leads to uncontrolled population and unplanned areas, usually along the edges of cities. Rapid urban population growth has outpaced the ability of city authorities to provide housing, environmental protections, and health infrastructure....
Lei Wang
Postdoctoral Researcher, Wuhan University China Behind every feature of your GNSS rover are years of R&D by talented researchers in the private sector and academia. The work of GNSS R&D has become more complex, with additional satellite constellations, new signals, and new approaches to processing, augmentation, and integration with other sensors. One of the global...
Savanna Nagorski
Assistant Planner/GIS Analyst, ESM Consulting Engineers Washington, USA Although Savanna Nagorski has only recently begun her work with a prominent consulting engineering firm in the Pacific Northwest, many people have recognized her potential and predict a bright future. Savannah distinguished herself in stints as the GIS coordinator for the Tacoma campus of the University of...
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