dutch 3d pilot with mapinfo discover 3d
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Every connection is a new opportunityTM
Pitney Bowes Business InsightBenelux
Discover 3D and the Dutch 3D Pilot
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Contents
Discover 3DDutch 3D Pilot Findings
3D Pilot NL
Collective initiative of Geonovum
Kadaster
Netherlands Geodetic Commission
Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment
Goals Define 3D standards for NL
– CityGML
Work on 3D practices
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MapInfo Professional and Discover 3D
Our goals for 3D Pilot Open raw and standardised 3D data
Explore possibilities to process, analyse and present 3D data
File types 2D Vector
3D Vector
Images
Surface
Voxel
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Digital Elevation Map of the Netherlands
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Dutch DEM (called AHN) Detailed and exact height measuring
50 cm grid size
Excellent grid support in MapInfo / Discover File -> Open -> ‘Grid Images’
Gridding in Surfaces module
SDM - LIDAR
LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging)
Large and Multi-file Gridding tool Containing 40 million points
Gridding took ca. 12 minutes
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Subsurface - Voxel
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GeoTOP 3D modelling of the upper 30 meters of the Dutch subsurface
Geological, physical and chemical parameters
Voxel Cell size of 100 x 100 x 0.5 meter
Various create, import, and display options in Discover 3D
City Models – 3D vectors
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Open .3ds files directly in Discover 3D Accurate city features
Google SketchUp models
VRML, U3D, OBJ (wavefront), SketchUp
Once the data is in Discover 3D, you can…
Visualize Combine Analyse Export as:
Fly-through animation
3D PDF
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Findings/Conclusion
Plus points: Unified 3D environment
MIPro + D3D can open almost everything
Good performance with large datasets
Surface gridding and contouring
Extrude 2D shapes into 3D solids
Wireframing and voxel models
Great visualizations
Combining different data sets/types in one session
Nice fly-through animations
Export as 3D PDF possibility
Meet the needs of geologists, environmental scientists, cartographers, exploration managers, and petroleum engineers
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Every connection is a new opportunityTM
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