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Enabling Detailed Mapping of the Environment
Next generation mobile laser mapping technology
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Mapping the environment – meeting the 3D data challenge
Infoterra has flown airborne lidar sensors for over ten years and is now introducing new higher resolution height datasets for cities at 4 points per metre, extending to 8 points per metre for the central business areas.
Also the company is ready to take mobile lidar to the next level.
Visit Geoconnexion online to read this piece.
A Real Asset
Given that the activities of most utility operators are spread over a broad geographical area, it's always been a major challenge to manage assets and ensure that they are fully optimised. Infoterra is currently working with a number of leading utility organisations to help manage their assets using geospatial data.
Visit Modern Utility Management online to read this piece.
Rapid Surveyor—Mapping the Built Environment and Beyond
Today, we live in a world where the trend is to have the latest or the best currently available gadget, be that a humble MP3 player, a digital camera or a cell phone. While this trend is most likely quite obvious to users of consumer level electronics, it should be noted that it is also a trend that is reflected in many professional areas, including the supply of geo-information. The demand for increased resolution, detail, and accuracy has resulted in many technological developments for geo-information sensors, ranging from new digital survey cameras to very high repetition rate airborne lasers.
With recently launched new technology, in the form of the Optech Lynx Mobile Mapper, it is now possible to capture amazing street level detail rapidly and consistently from a moving vehicle. Today, mobile lidar really refers to lidar sensors that can make measurements from moving vehicles.
Visit The American Surveyor online to read this piece.
GIS: Assurance for Insurance
In the light of the significance of this summer’s floods and the prospect of much more to come, there is a great incentive both for insurers and GIS vendors to accelerate development of systems and models for better risk assessment and claims management amongst other things.
Visit GeoConnexion UK magazine online to read this piece.
Slick New Tools Used to Reduce Risk - Deep Seeps Tip Off Oil Hunters
In offshore areas such as the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, it’s not uncommon for oil emanating from source rocks to bypass natural trapping mechanisms and leak upward to the seafloor.
Given that natural seals sometimes are flawed, entrapped oil also may rise to the surface via such conduits as fractures and faults. Identifying these natural seeps can prove invaluable to explorers looking for indications of a hydrocarbon source in their areas of interest.
Visit AAPG Explorer magazine online to read this piece.
GeoPerspectives is launching the next generation of airborne acquired geospatial data for professional users.
Visit GeoConnexion UK magazine online to read this piece.
Remote Sensing - The Rise of the Virtual Geologist
Over the years remote sensing has developed from an obscure and expensive experiment to an essential and cost effective tool in the search for hydrocarbons, particularly in remote and inaccessible parts of the world. We talk to Infoterra, one of the leading exponents of this complex and fascinating discipline.
Visit GeoExPro magazine online to read this article.
Using satellite imagery aids seismic surveys in planning, acquisition and processing.
Visit World Oil Magazine online to read this article.
Offshore Oman 'giant field' potential
2003 Concession round blocks 18A, 18B and 41
"The presence of an active petroleum system in the Sohar basin is substantiated by numerous direct hydrocarbon indicators and live oil seeps detected by Infoterra from satellite images."
Visit AL HAJAR Third Edition July 2004 to read this article.
The northern Arafura Basin — a shallow water frontier
AusGeo News March 2006 Issue No. 81
"Evidence that hydrocarbon generation and expulsion have occurred in the northern Arafura Basin is provided by Infoterra's 2003 Global Seeps study of the region, which suggests the possible presence of oil seeps. Additionally, bright amplitudes imaged by seismic data at various stratigraphic levels may indicate hydrocarbons in the section."
Visit AusGeo News Issue No. 81 to read this article.