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From the USA to Malaysia: GeoSAR’s Global Presence Continues to Grow

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

GeoSAR is back on the tradeshow trail! The past few weeks GeoSAR had a strong presence at the ESRI International User Conference in San Diego, California and Map Asia 2010 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. At the ESRI International User Conference, Fugro EarthData’s Megan Blaskovich participated in the poster contest presenting a striking “GeoSAR in 3D” poster highlighting GeoSAR data collected over mountainous terrain in South America converted into stereo-colorized anaglyphs. The 3D anaglyphs were generated using ESRI’s PurVIEW extension for ArcGIS along with a GeoSAR digital elevation model (DEM) and orthorectified radar imagery. To say the least, the GeoSAR poster was quite the attention grabber.

Travelling half way around the world, we joined forces with colleagues from Fugro’s South East Asia offices in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for Map Asia 2010. Our presence was strongly felt and we were awarded Best Exhibitor at Map Asia 2010. During the conference’s technical sessions, Fugro EarthData’s Roy Hill delivered two compelling presentations on GeoSAR solutions, one on land-use and land-cover mapping, and the other on base mapping using PurVIEW in support of NSDI initiatives. The presentations highlighted GeoSAR’s advantages in equatorial regions where persistent cloud cover, triple canopy foliage, and rugged terrain, make traditional mapping solutions impossible.

In addition to the tradeshows, GeoSAR also participated in a “ground breaking” ceremony in Anchorage AK to mark the beginning of the 5-year Alaska Statewide Digital Mapping Initiative (SDMI). GeoSAR is currently wrapping up acquisition in Alaska for the first phase of the project awarded earlier this year to Dewberry through the US Geological Survey. The event was attended by over 200 representatives of the federal, state, local and tribal governments, as well as numerous members of the press. Fugro staff also took the opportunity to educate people about IFSAR and the benefits that the resulting maps offer to the state.

After wrapping up a very successful month our conference trail continues with planned stops in Africa, Europe and South America. Please feel free to request further information or continue the conversation at info@geosar.com or leave a comment!

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Beyond Points and Pixels

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

As summer winds down and fall ramps up (at least in the Northern Hemisphere), so too does the GeoSAR event calendar. Participating in conferences and workshops across the globe, our client program managers (CPMs) have been globetrotting more than normal lately. But any stress felt by long lines and limited leg space is well tempered by a love for travel. As Roy Hill, a veteran CPM explains it, “It’s only after you’ve actually been to a place—seen its topography and experienced its culture—that you can begin to envision all the potential ways geospatial data can be employed.” Indeed, mapping isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution anymore.

This notion played out last month at the Map Asia conference held in Singapore. There, Roy presented a paper entitled, “Advanced Feature Extraction and Classification Using GeoSAR P-band and X-band DBInSAR”. It’s a new technique with a long list of potential applications, including, resource mapping, intelligence mapping, and biomass estimation. For a government considering new country-level topographic mapping, this capability far out-values the off-the-shelf, points-and-pixels approach to geo-knowledge development.

In fact, it was the biomass potential that made a big impact in the room that day. A gentleman, whose company consults on REDD-based programs, was intrigued to learn of a remote sensing approach to carbon accounting that could overcome the barriers of weather and dense foliage. But it’s not just the single solution that is exciting; it’s the ability to exploit a foundational dataset to develop new revenue streams and answer critical emerging issues. The science has come so far…why not make the most of it?

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