EuroSDR Workshop State-of-the-art 3D Mapping at national and regional mapping agencies
This workshop has taken place. Presentations are linked in the Programme below.
NMCAs who will present their 3D mapping activities (other NMCAs interested in giving a presentation can contact Jantien.Stoter@Kadaster.nl):
- Swisstopo
- IGN France
- IGN Belgium
- Lantmateriet Sweden
- Ordnance Survey, Great Britain
- Kadaster, NL
- Danish Digital Twin-project, Denmark
- Kartverket, Norway
- Estonian Land Board
There will also be presentations on related work from research institutes and companies:
- Comparisons between data- and model-driven model methods by FBK (Fondazione Bruno Kessler), Trento
- 3D mapping solutions by Hexagon
Description
On 22 and 23 January 2025 IGN, France (Paris) will host a EuroSDR workshop on the state-of-the-art of 3D mapping at regional and national mapping agencies and other governmental institutions, as well as on the related open research issues.
Since 2013, European National and Regional Mapping Agencies have joined forces in the EuroSDR 3D Special Interest Group to exchange knowledge and developments on 3D national mapping and to collaborate on topics that are of mutual interest. For this purpose we regularly organise workshops discussing recent developments in our organisations and publish papers on the outcomes.
The group started originally to explore how 2D national mapping could be extended into 3D, addressing questions such as “Why do we need 3D?” and “How do we get it” (e.g. directly measure it or extrude 2D models with the support of a DSM). Since then, 3D national mapping has gone through major developments and in many countries the availability and use of 3D topographical data is common practice.
Nowadays, NMCAs produce and provide 3D data products to support decision making for societal and global issues. Consequently, apart from technical challenges, they face questions such as on how to define and interact with Digital Twins and how to interact with non-geodata (climate, mobility, etc.)
During the workshop NMCAs will present their approaches of producing 3D data products, examples of uses of their 3D data and plans for the future. They will also present the challenges they face both technically and operationally (e.g. how can NMCAs serve users’ needs as well as societal and global challenges with their 3D data products in a feasible, cost-effective manner?).
Location
The workshop will be hosted by IGN, France (St Mandé, Paris).
Programme (pdf)
| Day 1 | Wednesday 22 January 2025 | ||
| 3D national geodata and digital twins in Switzerland | André Streilein, Federal Office of Topography Swisstopo | ||
| Developing Estonian 3D digital twin strategy | Hanno Kuus, Estonian Land Board Department of Geoinformatics | ||
| Volume geometries in Norwegian geodatabases | Knut Jetlund, Kartverket, Norway | ||
3D data developments at IGN France | Brunot Vallet and Florent Geniet IGN | ||
| 3D data developments at Kadaster | Rijk Haaften and Richard Witmer | ||
| 3D data developments at Lantmäteriet, Sweden | Thomas Lithén, Helen Eriksson and Erik Nilsson, Lantmäteriet, Sweden | ||
| Taking 3D research into 3D production at Ordnance Survey in GB | David Holland, Ordnance Survey | ||
| Day 2 | Thursday 23 January 2025 | ||
| Digital twin of Germany and our applications of the 3D data | Patrick Knoefel, BKG | ||
| Danish Digital Twin-project | Lise Lindberg Frellesen, Agency of Climate Data, Denmark | ||
| Production of 3D data for Poland (buildings, trees), | Jarosław Somla, Director of the Department of Geodesy and Cartography, Polish Mapping Agency (GUGIK) | ||
| 3D mapping solution - the Dutch experience | Thomas Pelzer, Director of Technical Content Solutions, Hexagon | ||
| 3DBAG: open source software for automatic LoD2 reconstruction applied to all buildings of the Netherlands | Gina Stavropoulou, 3D geoinformation research group TU Delft and Ravi Peters, 3DGI | ||
| Experience with the DT of BKG, Germany | Sid Hinrichs, Pointly | ||
| 3D perspective on national/city digital twins | Roland Billen, University of Liège | ||
Participation
Participation is open for everyone who is interested in 3D developments at National Mapping Agencies and who would like to contribute to defining open research questions.
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