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PO SI T I O NING A ND M E A S U R E M E N T, EL EVATED JUNE 2020
SURVEYING
BIM
SCANNING
GNSS
SURVEYING
& SHIPBUILDING
Timeless arts
and timely
technologies
may help change
ocean shipping
INSIDE
17 GeoDude Looks at Early 3D Scanning
21 The Dazzling Art of BIM
26 What is ETL?
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GEODUDE formats without too much
The early days of 3D hindrance. Here’s how it can
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Shipping and
Surveying
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MAPS AS ART In the jungle near Punta Morales, Costa 28
A burst of color Rica, a shipbuilding team and a surveyor Scanning
on the Red Planet. are changing ocean shipping. New scanning equipment is
making it easier to survey and
map historic sites where access
with traditional equipment would
BIM it Up and
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build the Mactan-Cebu International Air-
port in the Philippines turned out to be an
New Zealand-based surveyor Damian Macrae
traveled to the Costa Rican jungle to scan a
award-winning decision.
schooner under construction and survey its
launch route for a company called Sailcargo.
The company is building the ship to provide a
green alternative to ocean shipping.
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By Gavin Schrock, PLS
t was a chance meeting that changed ered cargo ship in the Caribbean, she met SAILCARGO AND THE JUNGLE SHIPYARD
two lives. It may also change the Lynx Guimond, a world-renowned mari-
way the world thinks about mari- time wood carver who shared her passion With Doggett as director and Guimond as tech-
time shipping. for sailing and eco-friendly shipping. With- nical director, Sailcargo wrote a business plan,
An accomplished sailor, Dan- in a few years they formed Sailcargo to build developed a budget, and pursued potential back-
ielle Doggett loves tall ships—the wind-powered cargo ships and established a ers. “We thought we could do things better, espe-
large wind-powered sailing vessels shipyard in Costa Rica. Fast forward to to- cially financially, than what we saw while sailing
that carry passengers and cargo. Her fas- day when they are building Ceiba, a wind- in the Caribbean,” Doggett said. “We believed
cination with the big ships started in her powered cargo ship. Ceiba is the largest we could turn these ideas into a viable business.”
teens, sailing on the Canadian side of the vessel built in Costa Rica and the largest She was right. In just over a year, they had a sol-
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rence II, a 72-foot two-mast brigantine built in the world. than 150 investors from more than 20 nations.
in the 1950s for youth sail training. “I have To build Ceiba, Sailcargo is using tradi- Costa Rica seemed like the optimal location
been taken by great sailing ships ever since,” tional arts and skills, locally sourced materials for their business on many levels. “I had worked
Doggett says. “The idea of shipping cargo, and meeting zero-emission goals. The endeav-
emissions free, as a viable business really in- or is a unique blend of centuries-old building
spired me.” techniques combined with modern business Above: The schooner Ceiba is being built in the
Doggett’s inspiration became a reality in savvy and cutting-edge technologies–includ- Costa Rican jungle. The inset shows surveyor
2010. While working aboard a wind-pow- ing high-precision surveying. Damian Macrae’s survey scan of the site.
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By Marc M. Delgado, PhD
verything about the design of the newly built Terminal 2 at the Mactan- “I think that one of the winning features
of the airport project was its level of BIM ad-
Cebu International Airport is near perfect, from the extensive use of ex- vancement, even though we were still at the
posed wooden beams that give a natural tropical feel to the built-up space, design development stage,” shares Cruz, the
lead structural modeler and BIM manager
to the construction of arched ceilings with skylights that allow sunlight to
for the project. “We developed efficient BIM
enter its vast interior. Even the undulating metal roof has been intricately workflows and tools at that time when there
rendered, calling to mind the rolling waves that surround Cebu Island. were not many available references yet.”
For Pawlowski, it was their design phi-
losophy that made them win. “Personally, I
So it should come as no surprise that this their hearts. The two BIM experts and civ- think it was about the ethos of our approach
creatively designed airport in the Philippines il engineers at Arup, the international engi- to reduce time wastage, focus on established
has been winning international awards, in- neering and architecture services company, design principles and collaboration, and not
cluding last year’s most coveted prize: the steered a diverse team in creating the air- treating the BIM model as the be-all and
International Architecture Award in the Air- port’s building information model (BIM). end-all.”
ports and Transportation Centers category. Their team’s innovative BIM efforts were rec- With BIM as the main tool for the air-
Yet for Jessica Pawlowski and Demetrio ognized by the judges at the 2015 Autodesk port’s design transformation, Pawlowski, who
Cruz, one award might just be the closest to BIM Awards. was Arup’s lead designer as well as a structural
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and quality design is possible if you work to-
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bility so that they can be proud of their work,”
she says.
What
is ETL…
…and how can it turn you
into a geospatial rock star?
By Nicholas Duggan times, it can be integrated same capacity as in the last mat to another. It is propri-
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into the software, though 10 years. Therefore, the sys- etary but a business case
magine a world where this is normally done through tem designers had to cre- can easily be written for the
there was only one leveraging a third-party li- ate data formats to ensure amount of time that is saved
data type for 3D, 2D brary. Before we get stuck the system could do every- in automating work. The
and point clouds. into the jargon, let’s delve thing required, and do it ef- other tool, GDAL (Geospatial
Wouldn’t it be bliss? I have into why we need it. ficiently; hence some of the Data Abstraction Library) is
to confess that about 30 When creating software, formats we have now, like a command-line tool which
percent of my time, when I the focus primarily is on shapefile, KML and DWG. is open source but converts
work in GIS, is spent work- the business need and then It wasn’t until the year data extremely efficiently.
ing between different data the deliverable. In the early 2000 that we had some ways These two tools are so
formats…a DWG from the stages you are more focused of working between some good that they have been
architect, an RCP from the on getting the application of these different data for- consumed into the two main
engineer, an SHP from the out to the consumers so that mats (in a stable, reliable GIS, Esri and QGIS. Arc-
council, and then the cli- they can use it and play with and supported fashion). One GIS Pro, by Esri, uses FME
ent wants a realistic 3D it. When we look at many of was FME by Safe Software for its “Data Interoperabil-
representation of their new the big players in geospatial, and the other was GDAL. ity” geoprocessing tool. If
building. most of their systems were FME, which stands for Fea- you have an FME license or
ETL stands for Extract designed over 20 years ago, ture Manipulation Engine, are licensed to use the tool
Translate and Load (or also when the word “geopack- is a whole software pack- through Esri, you can ac-
GTL for Geospatial Trans- age” and “geoJSON” were age which has a great in- cess conversion of all the
form and Load). Commonly not even thought of. In fact, terface that allows you to geospatial formats available
it is a tool or library which is there wasn’t a geospatial put together building blocks, within FME through the Esri
used to work between these standard consortium and like flowcharts to automate software. Although it is frus-
many data formats without OGC (Open Geospatial Con- some of the work but to also trating to have to pay for two
too much hindrance. Some- sortium) didn’t exist in the translate data from one for- software to do a job, it is ex-
Giving Preservation
a Hand(held)
Handheld SLAM mapping technology helps
preserve historical sites for future generations.
A
By David Fowkes must be taken into considera- these assessments of histori- Preserving a
tion when inspecting and sur- cal sites quickly and safely. Paris Landmark
cross the world, veying buildings which could Whether regions are adhering
France boasts over 40,000
places of histori- be centuries old. to lockdown, social distancing
historical monuments, all
cal significance are A handheld mobile map- or simply experiencing uncer-
of which have great signifi-
regularly monitored to ensure ping device using SLAM (Si- tainty in both the construc-
cance to the country’s rich
they are cared for properly and multaneous Localization and tion industry and the heritage
past. One of its most famous
preserved for future genera- Mapping) technology, there- sector–geospatial technology
is located at the tip of the
tions. This care and attention fore, comes into its own in could be one solution in as-
Champs-Elysees in cen-
can help us learn more about these situations, as it can sessing and maintaining these
tral Paris–the iconic Arc de
our past and inform design and easily, quickly and safely be valuable sites.
Triomphe.
building projects of the future. used in complex environ- Here are a few case stud-
Constructed in the early
When surveying and map- ments, even without GPS. ies of how SLAM technology
19th century, it honors those
ping historic sites, accessibil- In today’s world, it’s even has contributed to the ongo-
who fought and died for the
ity is often a key factor, and in more important to carry out ing surveillance and mainte-
country in the French Revolu-
confined areas such as laby- nance of historical sites.
tion and Napoleonic Wars. It
rinths, tunnels and
measures 50 meters tall,
stairwells the job
45 meters wide and 22
can literally require
meters deep, and stands
The Arc de working in the dark.
Triomphe in proud in the center of a
Paris and its Aging walls, masonry
busy roundabout, making
digital scan. defects and timber decay
access with traditional sur-
veying tools tricky.
The Arc de Triomphe is
one of the busiest and most
visited tourist attractions
in Paris, with approximate-
ly 600,000 visitors per year.
Navigating the crowds and
chaotic traffic with traditional
static scanning devices is not
a viable option. So a survey-
ing team from Geotopo
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T he Jezero Crater on Mars will be the
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Orbiter (MRO), which regularly takes images
Jezero Crater delta, sediments contain clays
and carbonates.
The image combines information from
two instruments on MRO: the Compact Re-
connaissance Imaging Spectrometer for
Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego
built and operates CTX.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a di-
vision of Caltech in Pasadena, California,
manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
of potential landing sites for future missions. Mars (CRISM) and the Context Camera Project for NASA’s Science Mission Direc-
On ancient Mars, water carved chan- (CTX). The Johns Hopkins University Applied torate, Washington. Lockheed Martin Space
nels and transported sediments to form fans Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, led Systems, Denver, built the orbiter and col-
and deltas within lake basins. Examination of the work to build the CRISM instrument and laborates with JPL to operate it.
spectral data acquired from orbit show that operates CRISM in coordination with an in-
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