Geospatial Breakout Sessions

With the Earth operating in the red, our long run of sustainable growth is at risk. As leaders, we wouldn’t operate our companies, cities or nations this way for long. When confronted with a deficit, we quickly find the inefficiencies and waste and remedy the situation. At this year’s HxGN LIVE opening keynote, Ola Rollén, Hexagon President and CEO, will show how we’re leaving big efficiency gains on the table. He’ll lay out Hexagon’s far-reaching vision for putting data to work in our organisations to reverse the trend of resource depletion and waste overwhelming Earth’s systems – and how higher productivity and quality outcomes will drive sustainability and growth for our businesses as well as the planet.

Want to learn how GeoMedia WebMap, Geospatial Portal, and Hexagon Geospatial mobile applications are used to meet real-life municipality needs? Now, you can build a Smart City solution with Hexagon Geospatial WebGIS products. A high-performance administration component is critical to efficiently delivering public services, managing government agencies, and engaging citizens. Here's your chance to learn how GeoMedia WebMap enables you to create your own unique data-driven, urban planning applications on top of a solid foundation of powerful geospatial functionality. In this session, we will show you how with a simple click of a mouse, you can build custom web, mobile, and other smart enterprise solutions that introduce eParticipation and improve decision-making in Smart Cities based on demography, education, and budget analysis.

Having access to recent, high-resolution imagery can sometimes make the all the difference for a successful mission. Join AJ Clark: CEO of Thermopylae Sciences & Technology, a Hexagon US Federal company, in a thorough examination of the Aerial Reconnaissance Terrestrial Edge Mapping Imagery System (ARTEMIS). He will discuss in detail its impact on content collection through its ability to put collection and operationalization into the hands of the warfighter. Highlighted technologies will include Google Earth Enterprise Platform, LuciadRIA and LuciadFusion, eBee drones, and more. He will also offer insight on the road to building and integrating these technologies into a system that has made a major impact on the Special Operations Forces community.

Join us in our Building and Infrastructure kick-off session to discover the future of the AEC discipline from Hexagon. We’ll introduce you to BricsCAD BIM, our alternative, full 3D Building Information Modeling platform, and deliver an overview of our HxGN SMART Build family for construction management

With the upcoming release of Power Portfolio 2019, the Producer Suite -- GeoMedia, ImageStation, ERDAS IMAGINE, and IMAGINE Photogrammetry -- adds compelling features to your arsenal of geospatial tools. We will show you how the power of machine learning can help you tackle big data problems faster than ever before, using GPU acceleration. New tools for processing radar data open up new avenues for gathering information from the rapidly increasing multitude of radar sources. New spatial operators for feature, vector, raster,and image data bring together the power of spatial and GIS analysis to gather new dynamic insights from your data. Advances in data access and interoperability improve data sharing throughout the enterprise. Enhancements in photogrammetry accelerate the production and enhance the quality of products derivedfrom satellite, aerial, and UAV data.

The Mapping and Charting Establishment (MCE) in Canada deploys field teams annually to conduct field checks in support of its National Mapping programs. The field checks primarily validate information about mapping data that cannot be verified using imagery or other auxiliary data. The information gathered is used to update MCE's Corporate Production Databases. The entire process is currently manual, whereby Excel spreadsheets are used to list, track, and record the information required for field inspections. Each inspection can take up to several days to complete. MCE is investigating the use of mobile technologies to streamline this process, but the lack of connectivity in the field or garrison creates challenges with setting up web services for data synchronization. A prototype was set up and demonstrated to MCE by Hexagon Geospatial in March 2018. The prototype made use of Hexagon's Mobile MapWorks (MMW) application. It demonstrated enough potential to warrant testing during the 2018 field inspections. As a result of the field tests, several recommendations were made to optimize the use of MMW for field checks. The presentation will include a demonstration of the entire offline workflow, including: creation of the raster tiles using spatial models, export/import of data from a desktop to the mobile device, simulation of field edits, export/import of data back to the desktop from the mobile device, and synchronization of the field results with the master database.

Japan is well known for the way it handles its frequent encounters with natural disasters. In 2018 alone, Japan saw torrential rains, severe flooding, earthquakes, typhoons and heat waves. PASCO's technologies are aimed at the acquisition and processing of geospatial information and play a vital role in helping us understand the situation in times of disaster. PASCO mitigation approaches consist of observing wide areas and creating 3D data, rapidly analyzing data acquired from various sensors, visualizing the data, transmitting information, and immediately processing functions during and after the disasters. The results are provided efficiently to the relevant offices and aiding organizations, including the disaster-affected municipalities, private corporations, media, etc. This session describes PASCO's contributions to post-disaster monitoring by utilizing EO satellites for rapid information delivery. The presentation also demonstrates the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Interferometry (InSAR) that enables the measurement of small-scale surface deformation of our services for the Surface Movement Monitoring (SMM). The SMM has a great potential for measuring the rate of ground deformation and thus monitoring natural hazards. Additionally, we will discuss our current focus on Machine Learning and Deep Learning and applying ERDAS IMAGINE Professional. PASCO is making satisfactory progress with the cooperation of Hexagon Geospatial in mitigating global issues by utilizing advanced geospatial information technology.

A common challenge that government organizations face today is the need to accomplish more with ever-shrinking resources and funds. This challenge also troubles the Waterschap Drents Overijssel Delta, one of the 22 water boards in the Netherlands. Their goals are simple: manage infrastructure such as dams and dykes, decontaminate water supplies, and balance flooding and drought situations. But now, with growing populations and global warming threatening the natural balance, they must develop new sustainable ways to meet their goals. Technology and automation used to decipher satellite data helped WDO Delta recognize approximately 40% of anomalies in their field assets. This result was simply not enough, as it still meant that field crews must work around the clock to achieve accurate results. In 2018, WDO Delta and IMAGEM began working on an ambitious pilot to test the possibilities of using machine learning within ERDAS IMAGINE. In this session WDO Delta and IMAGEM will share the overwhelmingly positive results from the pilot and discuss their plans to create a self-regulating water system - the first of its kind in the Netherlands.

In Power Portfolio 2019, the Platform Suite continues to serve as the solid foundation of powerful geospatial functionality that enables you to create your own unique applications. The Platform Suite includes the following products: GeoMedia Smart Client, GeoMedia WebMap, Geospatial SDI, Geospatial Portal and Mobile MapWorks. In this session, we will show you how the repacking of Mobile MapWorks into WebGIS will help you create stunning mobile applications for field inspection. You will find out how new features in GMSC can make your daily work easier and more meaningful. Finally, you will see first hand how easy it is to build custom web, mobile, and other smart enterprise solutions that suit your unique business needs.

ERDAS APOLLO provides analysts with unified, homogeneous catalog access to geo-intelligence, a significant improvement on the more fragmented procedures of the past. To accomplish this goal, the ERDAS APOLLO catalog structure was built on a myriad of queryable elements. This enhanced technology is the key to probing an enormous variety of materials (e.g. satellite imagery, height models, weather data) all from various suppliers. The analysts no longer need to know the origin of the data they are working with; instead, they are free to concentrate on more important aspects such as time, coordinates, and other conditions found within the metadata. One outstanding detail about this ERDAS APOLLO installation is its ability to ingest data continuously. Data is ingested 24/7, to provide analysts only with the most up-to-date information, underscoring the system's performance and reliability. In terms of usage, the ERDAS APOLLO catalog enables the efficient support of intelligence workflow in a scalable scenario. The next developments will include the configuration of a dynamic Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) to display large portions of the catalog using the ERDAS APOLLO Core Console functionality. This feature will allow users to efficiently browse layered data in the catalog without the need for a direct file, optimizing the overall intelligence process.

Decision Support Systems (DSS) are playing an increasingly important role in the characterization of suspicious activities within an area of interest, given their proven ability to turn massive amounts of raw data into actionable intelligence. This intelligence is often easy to understand by human operators, and thus it enables fast, informed action. In this talk, we present unique learning algorithms involving Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) that allow us to process huge amounts of critical information and knowledge acquired from specific domains. This unique architecture features a Total::Insight back end by Larus Technologies and a LuciadRIA front end by Hexagon Geospatial. The system continually delivers the most accurate information possible in order to optimize the decision-maker's domain awareness. The goal is to help users make sense of the overwhelming data through edge processing, which minimizes bandwidth costs and latency while reducing the influx of data by detecting events of interest. We will also discuss innovative concepts such as track correlation/fusion and anomaly detection as well as response generation, which provide focused surveillance and account for behavioral intents. This ensures that no event of interest is missed due to human fatigue or data overload while only relevant alarms are being investigated.

With Power Portfolio 2019, the Provider Suite allows you to easily store, discover, manage, and deliver your data across desktop, web, and mobile platforms. The Provider Suite includes ERDAS APOLLO, GeoCompressor, and ECW technologies. Each one is a unique, powerful solution designed to help you optimize and organize all the geospatial and business data across your enterprise. In this session, you will discover how our team continues to optimize common data management workflows. The agenda will include: demonstrations of the new notification service that alerts you when new data meets your specifications, a sneak peek of the new ERDAS APOLLO web client with vastly improved user experience, and a progress update on cloud-enabling our image compression technology. Learn about these topics and much more in our exciting Provider Suite presentation!

The development of smart cities requires extremely steady and frequent interaction between municipalities, companies, researchers and scientists.
Smart, vibrant, and sustainable cities require:
• Positive changes based on interactions with the inhabitants through communication and cooperation
• No limitations by organizational silos and responsibilities
• Access to detailed thematic maps, base maps, land use, and zoning plans
This presentation will describe a GeoMedia solution that supports one vital prerequisite for the implementation of smart cities. Norconsult, a consulting firm with the Norwegian mapping infrastructure, has developed an application that enables municipalities to update base maps and land use data in a common, centralized GIS database.
We will also present a new open digital solution for handling building permit applications. This solution runs a digital process for the collection of base data, distribution of registered letters to all neighbors, and delivery of the application schemas to the municipalities. This solution has made the process dramatically more efficient, produced better quality results, and improved accuracy. The applicant saves both time and money that would be spent on filing the schemas. The municipality benefits from consistently receiving complete applications that require less handling and fewer corrections, which reduces the overall time spent on processing.

Why do sites, cities or nations need to be smart? It’s because they are complex interconnected ecosystems, dependent on many inputs. Making decisions in these environments demands more than simple communication between data, systems, and people. It requires connections. In his keynote, Hexagon’s Geospatial division President Mladen Stojic will demonstrate how the power of connections and integrating the geospatial and operational worlds can trigger life-changing chain reactions – from improving the lives of citizens to increasing national security to laying the foundation for an autonomous future.

Created to meet the growing demand for high-quality, regularly updated airborne imagery, the HxGN Content Program is a valuable resource that can help public safety agencies and utilities power intelligent decision-making and improve operations. In this session, Hexagon product experts will share how one Midwest utility uses a 30-centimeter resolution base map within Intergraph G/Technology and other software applications through the HxGN Content Program. Learn how this data provides an up-to-date, survey-grade land base, delivering greater detail of features not typically maintained in vector land bases. This session will also cover the use of high-resolution aerial imagery within public safety workflows, including both vertical and oblique imagery for disaster planning and emergency response.

Imagine bringing together the best of Google Maps, Google Cloud, and Hexagon technologies to create unparalleled data analytics. Join Harris Eisenberg: Executive Vice President of Thermopylae Sciences & Technology, a Hexagon US Federal company, to explore how this vision is becoming reality. The fusion of Google and Hexagon content along with 3D content and cloud-based machine learning are opening exciting new doors for organizations in industries such as energy, insurance, among other data-driven businesses. Combined with custom collection, advanced visualization, and some real-world use cases, we will explore the exciting possibilities that will help solve challenging geospatial business problem sets.

Discover the benefits of the HxGN Content Program, highly accurate, geospatial datasets of the United States, Canada, and Europe.  Get cloud-access to petabytes of ortho-rectified, aerial imagery ready for use within ERDAS IMAGINE, M.App Enterprise, and other Hexagon Geospatial applications. This session will showcase practical examples on how to download, or stream HxGN Content via WMS/WMTS, for various applications, including: extracting ground control points from HxGN Content to increase the positional accuracy of less precise imagery; using HxGN aerials as base maps for feature extraction; and apply deep learning algorithms for object detection.  Get a sneak preview of robust 3D urban and country-wide datasets due to launch later this year.

Most large enterprises and government entities comprise multiple siloed systems that do not communicate with one another because their location data, schemas, and data values are not compatible. Moreover, traditional data integration methods are labor intensive, risky, and do not scale. Semantic rules can be defined using knowledge graphs to build intelligent integrated solutions for different industry verticals. These rules, when implemented in a spatial ontology, can help automate data integration at scale across disparate systems and perform human-like reasoning on spatial data beyond what traditional spatial databases support. This talk will demonstrate how a semantic spatial metamodel can be used to build knowledge graphs with open source technologies and how they can be integrated into LuciadRIA.

Fires often have devastating personal and socioeconomic effects on people and assets. Various individual models based on observed weather recordings and vegetation conditions have been developed to help provide fire danger ratings. GEO Data Design leveraged their expertise and experience in Remote Sensing to develop the comprehensive PROMETEO algorithm, which incorporates meteorological data, multispectral satellite images, topography, slope, aspect, and human population factors. The result is a quantitative probability forecast of fire risk over an area of interest. Using ERDAS IMAGINE Spatial Modeler and advanced Python scripting, PROMETEO produces outputs that are integrated into a Hexagon Geospatial M.App Enterprise solution that enables cloud-based pre-fire planning and post-fire assessment phases of fire management programs. The application includes web-based & mobile interfaces that integrate information layers, analytics and workforce management capabilities to streamline vegetation clearing for office-bound and remotely deployed personnel. PROMETEO assists in quantifying the risk of fire to both people and assets, facilitating informed decisions that proactively protect them. This paper will discuss the deployment of PROMETEO in power line asset management.

Get ready to break down data silos on any platform. The 2019 release of the Luciad Portfolio continues to bring our customers the best platforms for situational awareness and real-time location intelligence. Our Java-based LuciadLightspeed platform takes advantage of the latest Java features. JavaFX enables you to create dynamic user interfaces, while still leveraging the full performance of the GPU. LuciadLightspeed and LuciadFusion support OpenJDK and the latest Oracle Java virtual machines for a freedom of choice. You can develop automated data services with the flexible RESTful API in the LuciadFusion server platform or roll out your custom branded LuciadFusion Studio for easy interactive data management. We are also updating our products to support the latest standards in defense and aviation, from the dismounted soldier to the cloud-based airspace planner (MS2525, MGCP, AIXM, etc.). Finally, we're proud to present the newest member of the Luciad product family: LuciadCPillar. This product will be especially exciting to C++ and .NET developers, who will appreciate us bringing the best situational awareness SDK to their favorite platform.

Botswana will conduct their next Population and Housing Census in 2021. Pre-enumeration activities commenced in 2018. Enumeration will take place in August 2021 A workforce of around 10,000 will be deployed for a period of 2-3 weeks to collect basic socio-demographic and housing information of every individual and housing unit within the boundaries of the two countries.  In preparation for the census the dwelling unit frame for the entire country needs to be updated. The updated dwelling frame is used for the delineation of census enumeration areas – the small census tract that is used for the door-to-door counting of the population.

Botswana is currently using the Pre-Enumeration module of HxGN Smart Census for the creation of a Dwelling Unit (DU) frame – a first for Botswana.

The paper describes how Statistics Botswana using Smart Census; how Smart Census is addressing challenges faced in the past; key benefits of Smart Census; as well as recommendations for further development of the Smart Census platform.

Join us as we share all of the new innovations in our Cloud and Smart M.App releases with you. M.App Enterprise is our on-premise solution that lets you create and disseminate geospatial apps to your organization. You will see how the integration of Luciad technology can help you visualize 3D content and create stunning analyzes. You will learn how you can easily build apps for citizen participation with Mobile Alert via online configuration. We will also tell you about our new pricing plan. You will discover how our new online store will help you reach new customers and provide them with stunning and easy-to-use applications. Finally, we will show you how templates like Feature Analyzer can make it easy for non-technical users to quickly create a wide range of first-class geospatial reports that illustrateand explore your point, polygon, and linear location data.

Many of today's defense and security organizations are challenged by the need to meet constantly evolving mission requirements while working with shrinking budgets and limited resources. They are also tasked with incorporating the latest advances in technology, such as artificial intelligence (AI), drones, autonomous vehicles, and mobile devices. Effective and integrated applications of these technologies in an Autonomous Connected Ecosystem (ACE) can optimize the use of valuable resources, improve decision-making, and increase the probability of mission success. Attend this session to learn how Hexagon is deploying a range of solutions as part of an ACE, including: digital reality capture, incident response, mission planning & mission control, command&control, geospatial visualization and analysis, enterprise integration, and cybersecurity. We will also share solutions, industry trends, case studies from NATO, NGA, Ministries of Defense around the world, and best practices for creating your own ACE. These concepts will be clearly illustrated via real-world scenarios, such as military patrol planning, regional disaster response, and active shooter training exercises.

Asset-management and utilities companies routinely collect vast amounts of data on their assets, operations, and customers. Smart M.Apps enable them to generate actionable knowledge from this data. Once merged with artificial intelligence and machine learning patterns this information elevates asset management to enable predictive maintenance. Planetek Italia created a satellite-based reporting service using M.App Enterprise and its cloud platform Rheticus®: Network Alert. Network Alert provides geoanalytics and alerts for monitoring water and sewer networks. It optimizes maintenance activities, allowing customers to detect ground displacement, prevent potential failures, and better organise network inspections. Thanks to AI and machine learning algorithms implemented in the pipeline's status inspections, various field data, and several open data sources such as pluviometers, bus routes, and GPS tracks, Rheticus creates inputs to support the predictive maintenance of the network. Gruppo Hera has received significant positive feedback over the last 12 months for using Rheticus® Network Alert. They have improved their capacity of pipeline problem detection by 40% and plan to introduce data modelling to highlight potential problem areas before they manifest. Rheticus guarantees an unprecedented cost-benefit radio on the cloud, on a partner's M.App Enterprise installation, and/or on customers' premises anytime there is a need for network data confidentiality.

Technologies developed by Hexagon's Geospatial division can provide answers to many of the top concerns in the aviation industry, including weather hazards, noise and air pollution, air traffic congestion, and airport safety. In this session, you will learn more about how air traffic management, simulation, planning, and execution systems built with our software can help manage an increasingly diverse airspace. We will share use cases from Lufthansa, Pegasus, Turkish Airlines, FAA, Eurocontrol and demonstrate how our software connects to aviation-specific data (ASDI, digital NOTAMs, AIXM 5.1, ARINC, OGC NetCDF, GRIB, WXXM, etc.), models and visualizes data in different dimensions, and executes complex calculations to optimize air traffic and provide better information management support for aviation experts.

Understanding the situation on the ground in real-time is vital to the success of any mission. Clear communication and quick response in times of crisis, emergencies, natural disaster, or combat can often be the only factors that stand between safety and injury. ONKAN, a product developed by Decsef, offers a Situational Awareness System (SAS) for these mission-critical circumstances. This product not only covers the basics of locating friendly forces, but it also handles voice exchange, transmission of text messages and predefined orders, and real-time image and video feeds. In this session, you will learn more about how Decsef uses the power of the LuciadLightspeed development platform to handle the most vital features of ONKAN. Join us to see how these products all work together to facilitate situational awareness and provide multi-agency coordination, all on a single screen for quick decision-making in critical scenarios and emergency situations.

Combating seafaring criminal activities, including irregular migration, human smuggling, terrorism at sea, arms and drug trafficking, illegal fishing, and piracy, has become a high priority on the security agenda. Securing the sea requires a day-to-day collaboration activity between several actors in maritime surveillance. Learn more about how both commercial and military agencies are using Hexagon Geospatial technology to provide real-time analytics and domain awareness for maritime surveillance, vessel tracking systems and port authorities. In this session, we will show you how various types and sources of data, including weather, satellite, real-time, and underwater, are integrated, served, and consumed. Ultimately, we aim to create a smart digital reality that keeps people, infrastructure, and cargo safe, both at seaports and at sea.

As autonomous building technologies powered by artificial intelligence become popularized, the question of how smart buildings will fit into smart city ecosystems becomes more urgent. Combining individual building AI engines with intelligent city infrastructures will allow for the creation of a city-wide AI ecosystem that generates value for citizens, optimizes energy flow, and delivers innovative energy grid management tools. Integrating a variety of data such as weather, human movement, energy demand/generation, and air quality would provide all the information necessary to regulate thousands of settings in building and grid operations across cities. Access to this information in real time would also support more informed decision-making. The collaboration and integration of multiple technologies will be necessary to the success of such a wide-spread project. Combining Hexagon GIS solutions, BrainBox AI engines, and smart city tools such as MyTown will be critical to building an optimized city ecosystem. The capturing of data flow to fuel AI engines will influence a paradigm shift among grid operators; this shift could optimize energy consumption in buildings and city infrastructure and be a key driver in our fight against climate change. The ability to see our world as a complex network of data points is Hexagon's expertise; combining that expertise with powerful AI and deep learning models that guide self-learning functions would lead to an unimaginable number of opportunities for cities around the world.

How can a city take strides toward becoming a smart city? For the US state of Louisiana's capital city of Baton Rouge, a key goal was to increase transparency and accountability in government operations for the city's 227,000 residents, as well as keeping their city safe. Their various departments needed access to all relevant geospatial as well as business data, historical as well as current, without requiring their users to be GIS experts to view and analyze data in a map. In this session you will learn how M.App Enterprise is enabling the city of Baton Rouge to drive decisions based on data with compelling location-based visualization and analysis tools.

Contest Winner: Christopher Hanni, USF: Grant-Funded Research Aids Fatal Palm Tree Disease with ERDAS IMAGINE

Native palms, such as the Sabal palmetto, play an important role in maintaining the ecological balance in Florida. As a side-effect of globalization, new phytopathogens have been introduced and threaten native palm forests. This decline presents new challenges for forestry managers and geographers but advances in remote sensing have assisted by providing spatial metrics about the type, quantity, location, and the state of heath for trees for many years. Spatial details regarding the general palm decline in Florida were elucidated with tools found in ERDAS IMAGINE in conjunction with R classification programming packages. A novel approach using TensorFlow deep learning classification, multiband spatial statistics and indices, data reduction, and stepwise refinement masking yielded a significant improvement over Random Forest classification in a comparison analysis. The data sets generated from the model can aid lawmakers, government agencies, forestry managers, and environmental advocacy groups with managing the decline.

Honorable Mention: Tara McKinnon, Georgia Institute of Technology: Extending Land Cover Classification Dates to Show How Land Cover in the State of Georgia Has Shifted from the 1970s to the Present

The National Land Cover Database (NLCD) currently provides land cover classification data for the coterminous United States for the years 1992, 2001, 2006, and 2011. The NLCD dataset is based on classifications performed on LandSat imagery, and is useful in determining land cover change, which in turn helps us understand urbanization trends, changes in amount of forested land and land devoted to crops, and more. However, there is currently no standard product available for years other than those listed, though LandSat imagery has been continuously available since 1972. In this project, we seek to extend the land cover classification dates for the state of Georgia and illuminate how land cover has changed from the 1970s to present by conducting a land cover classification for the early 1970s, one for the early 1980s, and one for 2017/2018. After preprocessing and mosaicing LandSat imagery for each of the dates of interest to cover the state, land cover classifications for each set of dates will be conducted in ERDAS IMAGINE using the NLCD tool. This tool, built on the IMAGINE Spatial Modeler, uses a classification and regression tree (CART) machine learning algorithm to classify an image based on both independent and dependent variables. Once land cover classifications are complete for all 3 sets of dates, a series of change detection analyses will be conducted in ERDAS IMAGINE to assess how land cover has shifted from the 1970s to present.

A turnaround is a planned, periodic shutdown of one or more processing units (up to the entire plant) for scheduled maintenance, inspection, and repair of equipment and to replace process materials and equipment that have worn out or broken. Turnarounds ensure safe, reliable and efficient operations. Spatial & time-based visual analysis can play a significant role in maintenance planning, inspection, and safety. Unlike building an actual prototype, it allows us to not only predict what will happen but also why it will happen. Scenarios can be readily projected and tested with multiple complex and interdependent factors. Enter AiSpanner, the next-gen easy-to-use Turnaround, Shutdown Maintenance, and Safety Planning application. AiSpanner is an interactive, multidimensional solution using LuciadLightspeed for advanced visualisation, analytics, and spatial and augmented intelligence. Attend this session to learn how AiSpanner illuminates visual data relationships and offers spatial intelligence that help with planning tasks, preserving safety, deploying cranes, performing inspections, and assembling scaffolding. The aim is to manage and optimise physical space, mitigate conflicts, and reduce the risk of damaging malfunctions. Finally, you will discover how AiSpanner improves efficiency, quality, and accuracy while lowering risk of health, safety, and environmental incidents by increasing performance in maintenance, refurbishment, and decommissioning.

This presentation will show how ERDAS IMAGINE facilitates fundamental research, teaching, and learning opportunities at the University of Botswana. The software supports the Environmental Science Department in the Faculty of Science in leading pivotal studies in the geospatial sciences, including ones on remote sensing and geographical information systems (GIS). A number of research examples will be discussed, from the investigation of land cover change and trends through the reconstruction of historical landscapes to the application of GIS and remote sensing in the mapping of the human-elephant conflict. Other examples will discuss the use of improved data for hydrological modelling and its implications for water resource management.