OGh NCG  


Management of massive point cloud data:
wet and dry


Thursday, November 26, 2009
Oracle, De Meern, The Netherlands


Seminar, jointly organized by the subcommissions 'Marine Geodesy' and 'Core Spatial Data' of the Netherlands Geodetic Commission (part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences)
and the
SIM (Spatial Information Management) commission of the OGh (Oracle gebruikersclub Holland)


Registration is possible via the NCG website.
This seminar is the second of the two 'Oracle Spatial Days', the first day, 'Beyond Spatial Boundaries',
takes place on Friday November 20 at Oracle in De Meern (see OGh website).

Collected abstracts of presentations (PDF document).

Venue:
   Oracle building in De Meern (route description - in Dutch, map, Google maps)
   Rijnzathe 6
   3454 PV De Meern
   The Netherlands
   Tel: +31 (0)30-6699000

The theme of the seminar day will be about the challenges caused by the ever increasing amount of data that is generated by modern sensor systems, both in the wet and dry sectors. To reach a broader audience, we will focus on both marine (multi-beam echo) and land (LiDAR) data. The expected audience will be mainly from the Netherlands government/authorities (Dutch Hydrographic Service, Rijkswaterstaat, Kadaster), research organizations (institutes, universities), and industry (wet and dry data acquisition, Geo-ICT).
It was decided to combine both the wet and dry perspective, with the focus on data management of large point clouds, in order to discover the common challenges to be included in the research agenda. Current solutions may not be sufficient for future needs and therefore new software (data structures, algorithms) and hardware (parallel computing, clusters, grids) need to be investigated.

Programme (click on the title of a presentation for slides):

 09:00  Registration and welcome  
 09:30  Opening  George Vosselman (chair)
 ITC, Department of Earth Observation Science
 09:35  Needle in a haystack  Jan Schaap
 Dienst der Hydrografie
 09:55  Pointillism - The art of capturing the earth in points and the
 challenge of exhibiting them
 Martin Kodde
 Fugro-Inpark
 10:15  How to handle the Up-to-date Height Model of the
 Netherlands: detailed, precise, but so huge!
 Rens Swart
 Swartvast - Het Waterschapshuis
 10:35  Exploiting the full potential of the multi-beam echo-sounder
 for on-line surveying
 Dick Simons
 TU Delft, Acoustic Remote Sensing
 10:55  Break  
 11:15  Storage and analysis of massive TINs in a DBMS  Hugo Ledoux
 TU Delft, GIS Technology
 11:35  Marine high density data management and visualization  Mark Masry, Peter Schwarzberg
 CARIS
 11:55  Visualization and analysis of massive point clouds; tackling
 the issues, now and in the future
 Dirk Voets
 Imagen
 12:15  Scalable visualization of massive point clouds  Gerwin de Haan
 TU Delft, Computer Graphics and CAD/CAM
 12:35  Lunch  
 13:35  Data management requirements of large terrestrial point
 clouds, supporting feature extraction, quality information
 and data maintenance
 Sven Coppens
 Tele Atlas / TomTom
 13:55  Serious gaming and the need for geodata  Rens van den Bergh
 Deltares
 14:15  Handling large amounts of multi-beam data in real time  Stian Broen
 Kongsberg
 14:35  The INFOMAR project: mapping a seabed area 10 times the
 size of Ireland
 Koen Verbruggen1, Archie Donovan1,
 Thomas Furey2
 Geological Survey of Ireland1
 Marine Institute, Ireland2
 14:55  Break  
 15:15  Virtualizing large digital terrain models  George Spoelstra
 Atlis
 15:35  Using Oracle's new point cloud data type and the Oracle
 cluster functionality to manage massive point clouds
 Albert Godfrind
 Oracle
 15:55  Exploiting parallel hardware (computer clusters / grids)
 and the link to massive data management software
 Martien Ouwens, Aad Koppenhol
 Sun Microsystems
 16:15  Closing panel discussion:
 research agenda for handling massive point clouds
 Panel, chaired by George Vosselman
 16:45  Drinks