Outlook 2015 Archives

Hypervoice

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This entry is part 7 of 11 in the series Outlook 2015

Rendering 4D Sensed Environments In the world of personal communications, the white-hot winds of change shimmer, blurring the present and obscuring our view into tomorrow. We are in the midst of a massive revolution, blasting away much that went before it. It can best be summed up like this: the future is all about ubiquitous […]

Surveying

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This entry is part 8 of 11 in the series Outlook 2015

Above: This bridge in Baltimore took 1 hour and 45 minutes to scan: 550 feet of roadway or 1.5 acres, including all the beams for the underside of the bridge for clearance and engineering design. Reality Capture, Targetless Registration, the End of Dedicated Field Crews As I stood in a courtyard of the Walter Reed National […]

Geographic Education

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This entry is part 9 of 11 in the series Outlook 2015

A Holistic Approach, MOOCs, Formalized Teacher Training Geographic education is the pedagogical domain focusing on geographic literacy (“geolit”). Spatial literacy is related, and it tends to focus on forms of spatial information and technology, which in turn are related to the rubric of cognition and sometimes even areas like Human Computer Interaction (HCI) when one […]

Internet of Things

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This entry is part 10 of 11 in the series Outlook 2015

Above: IoT has gone open-source: the Spark Core is an affordable ($39) device that lets anyone connect nearly any device via WiFi to the internet. All components and developer software are open-source. Innovative Power for Sensors, Richer Data It has been a great year for the tech industry and especially for the Internet of Things (IoT), […]

Aerial Mapping

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This entry is part 11 of 11 in the series Outlook 2015

Above: Fusion of data from multiple sensors is becoming a common request from geospatial users.  Here, a 10cm RGB image was fused with a classified lidar point cloud that was collected at 25 ppsm. The resultant data provides users with an enhanced ability to support a wider array of applications than each dataset used discretely.  New […]