Articles Tagged with ''GIS''

A "smart infrastructure" approach demands that utility and IoT data inform major infrastructure programs from a database such as that in a geographical information system.

Ground Penetrating Radar Systems, based in Toledo, Ohio, provides services that include utility locating, 3D laser scanning, acoustic leak detection, video pipe inspection, underground storage tank locating, concrete scanning and drone imaging.

Esri has expanded its reality capture data management platform to a suite of services that promise to move drone, satellite, site, mesh and point-cloud data into its ArcGIS platform.

Using GIS data as one source of truth for a digital twin makes location an integral part of your project and its use beyond handover.

Chris Andrews has been working with computer-aided drafting and geographic information systems data nearly as long as they’ve been used in construction, “including mapping indoor facilities on the web, starting from work in startups in the late 90’s,” he says. 

Bringing everything from utilities information to site conditions out of a GIS map into a BIM usually requires cumbersome rework. That's now changing.

Environmental scientist invented GIS mapping and now brings his consulting firm’s data to designers and contractors