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3D and Agriculture: And How Genetics Is The Starting Point

Posted on 06. Jun, 2013 by 3DVW.

Food production is shooting way under it’s potential. Way under. While many people speak about the need for more food, they wrongly assume that the potential is not there from the starting point. Many agronomists have spoken to the fact that, genetically, the wheat, oats, barley, canola and other crops we grow today only reach [...]

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3D Infrastructure and 3D Modeling: Company’s Aggregate and Re-think 3D Geo

Posted on 06. Jun, 2013 by 3DVW.

Slowly over the last year or so there has been an evolution taking place in the infrastructure, measurement and image analysis space. 3D has been a key driver, although not the only one. It would appear that many company’s are now adapting to new innovations in cloud capability and developing more integrated solutions. In some [...]

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Deutsches Eck – Confluence of the Moselle and Rhine Rivers

Posted on 18. May, 2013 by 3DVW.

The Deutsches Eck is the location of the confluence of the Moselle and Rhine Rivers in Germany. Here is an image I took last week while travelling throughout the region.

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Are Surveyors and GIS People Missing The 3D Boat When It Comes To Architectural Design?

Posted on 23. Apr, 2013 by 3DVW.

Are surveyors and geographic information systems (GIS) professionals missing the boat when it comes to architectural design? As architects expand their use of computational and measurement tools for building design purposes, it appears that their focus is on the generation of design alternatives – lesser on the practice of measurement. Although building and infrastructure analysis [...]

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Berlin Underground (U5) Tunnel Boring Installation

Posted on 22. Apr, 2013 by 3DVW.

Berlin is extending it’s U-bahn (U5) along the Unter den Linden down under the Spree River toward the Alexander Platz. I went for a walk recently and took a few pictures of the tunnel boring machine being installed. To accomplish this, the boring machine sections would arrive by boat on the Spree, then get lifted [...]

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smartgeometry 2013 London Opens: Constructing for Uncertainty

Posted on 18. Apr, 2013 by 3DVW.

The smartgeometry 2013,  a Bentley System sponsored event opened today with a press event workshop that featured opening addresses and a tour of facilities for smartgeometry 2013 at University College London (UCL) today.  Students working in theme clusters on real-world projects explained and demonstrated their design projects. These were not ordinary design projects. They are [...]

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Intergraph GeoMedia: Are You Ready to Transcend the GIS Status Quo?

Posted on 09. Apr, 2013 by 3DVW.

I listened in to a webinar today offered by the folks at Intergraph. They were presenting on the new GeoMedia 2013  and the title ‘Are You Ready to Transcend the GIS Status Quo?‘ piqued my interest. As they promoted the webinar in an email that crossed my desk, I thought I better touch base to [...]

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SMEs – Top 10 Most Burdensome EU Laws

Posted on 26. Mar, 2013 by 3DVW.

Are you operating a small business in Europe? Are the laws getting you down? The EU has published information on the Top 10 laws that pose the most problems for SMEs. “In a broad consultation initiated by the Commission, around 1000 SMEs and business organisations have now identified the top 10 most burdensome EU laws. [...]

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Schiphol – Amsterdam: GeoDesign For Airports in Action

Posted on 21. Mar, 2013 by 3DVW.

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3rd Aviation GIS Summit 2013: Esri Reveals GIS-Based 3D Aviation for Europe

Posted on 19. Mar, 2013 by 3DVW.

At the 3rd Aviation GIS Summit 2013 in Amsterdam last week, Esri Deutschland revealed some of the details relating to a new GIS-based 3D aviation system for Europe. Dr. Joerg Schaller, Scientific Director at Esri Deutschland and Dr. Oezguer Ertac, Senior GIS Specialist described the new 3D-based aviation system that would see airplanes approaching aerodromes using [...]

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