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How mapping experts built the biggest 3D dataset of Alcatraz Island

The rugged 22.5-acre site of the notorious US island prison Alcatraz has been digitally captured in a world-leading project involving multiple mapping technologies. With the team camped in the jail’s infamous cells for three weeks during the cold San Francisco winter, this historically, biologically and architecturally important location was recorded in unprecedented 3D detail. We discussed the project with project head Pete Kelsey and team member Dr Jeremy Sofonia. The rugged 22.5-acre site of the notorious US island prison Alcatraz has been digitally captured in a world-leading project involving multiple mapping technologies. With the team camped in the jail’s infamous cells...

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3D geospatial visualization

3D visualization is at the heart of many geospatial data applications. Progress in 3D visualization has drastically reduced barriers to entry for new products based on large datasets, thanks to...

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Earth Observation Data

Without information we live blindly. Without information there is no planning, no understanding, no action taking, no communication…. Information is what makes the world go round. Although Earth Observation (EO)...

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Earth Observation Business

Imaging Earth from space has become normal business and the acquired data a commodity like any other. Earth-observation satellites are constructed and launched at conveyor-belt speed. On 27th October 2005...

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Roland Pail

Roland Pail is a professor of Astronomical and Physical Geodesy at the Technical University of Munich. His research activities focus on global and regional modelling of the Earth’s gravity field,...

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