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10.11.2015 10:57 European GNSS AgencyThe European GNSS Agency (GSA) recently participated in the Satellite Masters Conference in Berlin, where it joined the discussions on Big Data, innovative applications, and the convergence of Earth Observation and GNSS.
The latest edition of the Satellite Masters Conference took place 
in Berlin from 20 – 22 October, including the annual Awards Ceremony for the European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC), the Copernicus Masters and a portfolio of conference sessions covering Earth Observation (EO) and Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). Major themes were Big Data, how to accelerate the development and realisation of innovative applications in the market, and the convergence of EO and GNSS.
Dorothee Bär of the German Federal Ministry for Transport and Digital Infrastructure, the host of the conference, set the tone during the Opening Session by highlighting how navigation and earth observation are key instruments of the digital age. Specifically, Bär sees a need to focus on downstream applications, which serve as the essential link between space technology and digital infrastructure on the ground – which is exactly where the GSA comes in.
EGNOS and Galileo Pave the Future
According to GSA Executive Director Carlo des Dorides, 2015 has been a busy year for Galileo, with successful launches and progress in the ground segment targeting the intermediate milestone of the launch of initial services in 2016. He also noted the excellent performance of EGNOS, which will soon enjoy enlarged coverage.
In particular, he highlighted the launch of LPV 200 capability in the aviation sector, which is already proving to be a major benefit in Europe and beyond. He also cited the concepts of smart cities, multi-modal logistics and the Internet of Things. “By 2020 it is anticipated that at least 50 billion ‘objects’ will be connected to the Internet,” he said. “Many of these will require positioning data services and applications.”
Matthias Petschke, Director of European Satellite Navigation Programmes at the European Commission, added that 6-7% of European GDP depends on the use of E-GNSS. Increasing the resiliency of these critical infrastructures would make a big difference, and Galileo will help. He also praised EGNOS, which he hailed as a true success story that was already making a huge difference in, for example, precision agriculture and civil aviation.
The European Commission’s Christoph Kautz gave an update on the two European GNSS programmes. As to Galileo, satellite launches are back on course, the ground infrastructure is expanding and the exploitation phase is now in sight with the target of 2017 and initial services in 2016. He also highlighted the decision to fund the next generation of EGNOS (V3) and extension of the service towards wide scale maritime and rail applications. He further discussed the European research and development funding for GNSS under the Horizon 2020 programme, along with the fundamental elements programme that aims to develop the chipsets and receivers Galileo needs to be in the market. In 2016, the Commission is looking to speed up market uptake through a variety of initiatives, and will also be looking to define strategic goals for the 2nd generation of satellites.
Hot Topics
Throughout the course of the conference, various panel discussions were held on an array 
of hot topics in the field of satellite navigation and earth observation. On the topic of Big Data, session moderator Jurry de la Mar of T-Systems said the world was experiencing a sensor revolution and managing all the data is proving a major challenge. “The data coming from EO operations over the next three years will be larger than the total collected by ESA in the last 30 years,” he said. “The key is to bring the user to the data, rather than data to the user, and for users to understand the semantics of the data. Handling this amount of data cannot be managed manually.”
One solution to the data overload is what Dr Manfred Krischke of CloudEO AG calls “geo-collaboration”. “Location based services are a key element of the sharing economy, enabling access to unused resources and saving costs,” he said. “Businesses should stop looking for the next killer app and start to make small apps that can be integrated with others via the geo-collaboration platform the cloud offers.”
Turning to Smart Cities, Stuart Martin of the UK’s Catapult Satellite Application declared it was the “Century of the City”. “The use of space data, along with GNSS, can have a massive impact on the development of Smarter Cities,” he said.
GNSS can also play an important role in creating Sustainable Solutions to Global Change. One example comes from the ESNC winner of Baden-Württemberg Challenge: ICARUS. ICARUS is a new global tracking service for small objects – birds and animals. Its aim is to monitor global migration, predict zoonotic diseases transmission and enhance climate modelling through a distributed animal-borne global sensor effort. Another example comes from the winner of the ESNC - The Netherlands Challenge and the University Challenge Special Prize, which uses GNSS monitoring of potential rain clouds over East Africa via low-cost receivers. The TAMHO project produces high resolution water vapour maps from GNSS signals that travel slightly slower through moist air. Low-cost receivers can measure this delay.
UAVs, or drones – always a hot topic at any GNSS event – was also discussed in Berlin. The panel highlighted two ESNC winners, including the overall Galileo Master Winner and also winner of the ESNC Valencian Community Challenge: POSEIDRON, a UAV for search and rescue and environmental defence using EGNOS and the Galileo SAR signal. Enrique JM Asensi saw applications in the current migrant crisis, as the vehicle can deploy a 70kg life raft, is 15 times cheaper than a helicopter and can be deployed in all conditions. The winning idea behind the ESNC - Switzerland Challenge and ESA Special Prize – RTKNAV – was described by Zhenzhong Su as a low cost, compact, real-time centimetre accuracy navigation solution. Its target market is high precision agriculture apps, UAVs, mobility, sport and health applications. “RTKNAV provids affordable, high precision for the mass market,” said Su.
Safety and security are two important topics to the Galileo programme, and the Disaster and Security session focused on Galileo for Security Search and Rescue opportunities. Kai Herrmann from the German Competent PRS Authority sees PRS as the EU’s strategic answer to the security challenges of our digital society. Specifically, he sees applications in secure services for emergency services and critical infrastructure as well as access control, spoof resistance and contributions to data security and data privacy, local authentication and traffic management applications.
An example of one of these applications came from Prof Mattia Giovanni Crespi from the University of Rome 'La Sapienza' and Dr Gabriele Colosimo from Leica Geosystems, who described the VADASE project that uses real-time monitoring of GNSS signals from a standalone receiver to monitor seismic events in real time. The idea won the 2010 ESNC DLR special prize, and Leica Geosystems launched the product this year with a VADASE engine able to compute seismic displacements in real time autonomously.
Another example came from Jukka Talvi, who described the HALI initiative from the northern Finnish city of Oulu, which won the ESNC - BMVI / BMWi Special Prize for its system that speeds emergency vehicles through green lights and has dramatically improved response times and safety. The system is currently being extended to the rest of Finland and perhaps the rest of Europe.
Media note: This feature can be republished without charge provided the European GNSS Agency (GSA) is acknowledged as the source at the top or the bottom of the story. You must request permission before you use any of the photographs on the site. If you republish, we would be grateful if you could link back to the GSA website (http://www.gsa.europa.eu).
Big Data, Big Ideas at the Satellite Masters Conference
10.11.2015 10:57 European GNSS AgencyThe European GNSS Agency (GSA) recently participated in the Satellite Masters Conference in Berlin, where it joined the discussions on Big Data, innovative applications, and the convergence of Earth Observation and GNSS.
The latest edition of the Satellite Masters Conference took place in Berlin from 20 – 22 October, including the annual Awards Ceremony for the European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC), the Copernicus Masters and a portfolio of conference sessions covering Earth Observation (EO) and Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). Major themes were Big Data, how to accelerate the development and realisation of innovative applications in the market, and the convergence of EO and GNSS.
Dorothee Bär of the German Federal Ministry for Transport and Digital Infrastructure, the host of the conference, set the tone during the Opening Session by highlighting how navigation and earth observation are key instruments of the digital age. Specifically, Bär sees a need to focus on downstream applications, which serve as the essential link between space technology and digital infrastructure on the ground – which is exactly where the GSA comes in.
EGNOS and Galileo Pave the Future
According to GSA Executive Director Carlo des Dorides, 2015 has been a busy year for Galileo, with successful launches and progress in the ground segment targeting the intermediate milestone of the launch of initial services in 2016. He also noted the excellent performance of EGNOS, which will soon enjoy enlarged coverage.
In particular, he highlighted the launch of LPV 200 capability in the aviation sector, which is already proving to be a major benefit in Europe and beyond. He also cited the concepts of smart cities, multi-modal logistics and the Internet of Things. “By 2020 it is anticipated that at least 50 billion ‘objects’ will be connected to the Internet,” he said. “Many of these will require positioning data services and applications.”
Matthias Petschke, Director of European Satellite Navigation Programmes at the European Commission, added that 6-7% of European GDP depends on the use of E-GNSS. Increasing the resiliency of these critical infrastructures would make a big difference, and Galileo will help. He also praised EGNOS, which he hailed as a true success story that was already making a huge difference in, for example, precision agriculture and civil aviation.
The European Commission’s Christoph Kautz gave an update on the two European GNSS programmes. As to Galileo, satellite launches are back on course, the ground infrastructure is expanding and the exploitation phase is now in sight with the target of 2017 and initial services in 2016. He also highlighted the decision to fund the next generation of EGNOS (V3) and extension of the service towards wide scale maritime and rail applications. He further discussed the European research and development funding for GNSS under the Horizon 2020 programme, along with the fundamental elements programme that aims to develop the chipsets and receivers Galileo needs to be in the market. In 2016, the Commission is looking to speed up market uptake through a variety of initiatives, and will also be looking to define strategic goals for the 2nd generation of satellites.
Hot Topics
Throughout the course of the conference, various panel discussions were held on an array 
of hot topics in the field of satellite navigation and earth observation. On the topic of Big Data, session moderator Jurry de la Mar of T-Systems said the world was experiencing a sensor revolution and managing all the data is proving a major challenge. “The data coming from EO operations over the next three years will be larger than the total collected by ESA in the last 30 years,” he said. “The key is to bring the user to the data, rather than data to the user, and for users to understand the semantics of the data. Handling this amount of data cannot be managed manually.”
One solution to the data overload is what Dr Manfred Krischke of CloudEO AG calls “geo-collaboration”. “Location based services are a key element of the sharing economy, enabling access to unused resources and saving costs,” he said. “Businesses should stop looking for the next killer app and start to make small apps that can be integrated with others via the geo-collaboration platform the cloud offers.”
Turning to Smart Cities, Stuart Martin of the UK’s Catapult Satellite Application declared it was the “Century of the City”. “The use of space data, along with GNSS, can have a massive impact on the development of Smarter Cities,” he said.
GNSS can also play an important role in creating Sustainable Solutions to Global Change. One example comes from the ESNC winner of Baden-Württemberg Challenge: ICARUS. ICARUS is a new global tracking service for small objects – birds and animals. Its aim is to monitor global migration, predict zoonotic diseases transmission and enhance climate modelling through a distributed animal-borne global sensor effort. Another example comes from the winner of the ESNC - The Netherlands Challenge and the University Challenge Special Prize, which uses GNSS monitoring of potential rain clouds over East Africa via low-cost receivers. The TAMHO project produces high resolution water vapour maps from GNSS signals that travel slightly slower through moist air. Low-cost receivers can measure this delay.
UAVs, or drones – always a hot topic at any GNSS event – was also discussed in Berlin. The panel highlighted two ESNC winners, including the overall Galileo Master Winner and also winner of the ESNC Valencian Community Challenge: POSEIDRON, a UAV for search and rescue and environmental defence using EGNOS and the Galileo SAR signal. Enrique JM Asensi saw applications in the current migrant crisis, as the vehicle can deploy a 70kg life raft, is 15 times cheaper than a helicopter and can be deployed in all conditions. The winning idea behind the ESNC - Switzerland Challenge and ESA Special Prize – RTKNAV – was described by Zhenzhong Su as a low cost, compact, real-time centimetre accuracy navigation solution. Its target market is high precision agriculture apps, UAVs, mobility, sport and health applications. “RTKNAV provids affordable, high precision for the mass market,” said Su.
Safety and security are two important topics to the Galileo programme, and the Disaster and Security session focused on Galileo for Security Search and Rescue opportunities. Kai Herrmann from the German Competent PRS Authority sees PRS as the EU’s strategic answer to the security challenges of our digital society. Specifically, he sees applications in secure services for emergency services and critical infrastructure as well as access control, spoof resistance and contributions to data security and data privacy, local authentication and traffic management applications.
An example of one of these applications came from Prof Mattia Giovanni Crespi from the University of Rome 'La Sapienza' and Dr Gabriele Colosimo from Leica Geosystems, who described the VADASE project that uses real-time monitoring of GNSS signals from a standalone receiver to monitor seismic events in real time. The idea won the 2010 ESNC DLR special prize, and Leica Geosystems launched the product this year with a VADASE engine able to compute seismic displacements in real time autonomously.
Another example came from Jukka Talvi, who described the HALI initiative from the northern Finnish city of Oulu, which won the ESNC - BMVI / BMWi Special Prize for its system that speeds emergency vehicles through green lights and has dramatically improved response times and safety. The system is currently being extended to the rest of Finland and perhaps the rest of Europe.
Media note: This feature can be republished without charge provided the European GNSS Agency (GSA) is acknowledged as the source at the top or the bottom of the story. You must request permission before you use any of the photographs on the site. If you republish, we would be grateful if you could link back to the GSA website (http://www.gsa.europa.eu).
European GNSS a Key Asset to ITS Infrastructures
10.11.2015 10:42 European GNSS AgencySignificant advancements in satellite-based positioning have enabled GNSS receivers and services to play a large role in intelligent transport systems in recent years. According to the European GNSS Agency (GSA) new applications for smart mobility are utilising EGNOS and Galileo, and GNSS is becoming a key asset in designing new ITS infrastructures.
Navigation is one of the most common ways GNSS can be used in
road applications. For example, satellites can help provide turn-by-turn information to drivers, cyclists, and even pedestrians. More so, they can also be used in fleet management on-board units and road traffic monitoring services.
The GSA recently highlighted these benefits at the European GNSS Village, part of the ITS World Congress 2015.
Better Public Transport
When it comes to using GNSS services in public transport, Kordis JMK, the operator of public transport in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic, is a successful example. Encompassing national and regional passenger trains, regional buses, city trolleybuses and trams, the project tracks vehicles using GNSS to guarantee passenger connections for those changing between different transport modes.
Using GNSS surveillance, the positions and real-time routes of all vehicles can be monitored, and drivers can be instructed to wait at stops until the connecting vehicle reaches the destination. This also helps ease congestion, as the public transport controller can be advised to take a detour in cases of congested areas.
Also Read: European GNSS Brings Added Value to ITS
Also working in public transport, Voxelia Simulate uses a multi-agent system model to simulate vehicles in order to evaluate practical situations. “Real-time simulations and studies of transportation systems are very important for us,” says Renan Zeo, Director General of Voxelia.
“For instance, a public transport operator needs to know precisely the reason for an irregular bus service. Without an accurate positioning system, the operator would ignore if a bus is stopped by a traffic light, for boarding passengers, or because of a traffic jam.”
Voxelia tracks buses using EGNOS in order to provide accurate answers for delays, preparing a solution for the autonomous vehicles of the future. “Unmanned cars need to communicate to avoid deadlock situations,” Zeo says.
Using research coordinated with the Technology University of Belfort-Montbeliard, Voxelia studied the positioning accuracy that vehicles could manage by themselves, as well as access to conflict zones like intersections. “Our simulation shows the feasibility of cooperative intersections according to the accuracy of positioning systems,” adds Zoe.
Geoimagine, another company using GNSS for transportation, is working to create smarter routes for taxis. Its network optimiser solution for fleet management uses mobile sensors to optimise itineraries to drive taxis towards areas with higher potential number of clients, depending on the time of the day, therefore saving time and lowering fuel consumption while increasing business. “We are understanding taxi driving behaviour in a rapid, demand-changing scenario,” says Isaac Pozo, the company’s CTO.
Important for the Future
With growing cities and increased public transport, it is clear that GNSS services will become more and more important. GNSS receivers and services have an estimated core revenue of EUR 36 billion by 2018, showing that EGNOS and Galileo-related road applications are in demand, and will assist in optimising mobility for years to come.
Media note: This feature can be republished without charge provided the European GNSS Agency (GSA) is acknowledged as the source at the top or the bottom of the story. You must request permission before you use any of the photographs on the site. If you republish, we would be grateful if you could link back to the GSA website (http://www.gsa.europa.eu).
European GNSS a Key Asset to ITS Infrastructures
10.11.2015 10:42 European GNSS AgencySignificant advancements in satellite-based positioning have enabled GNSS receivers and services to play a large role in intelligent transport systems (ITS) in recent years. New applications for smart mobility are utilising EGNOS and Galileo, and GNSS is becoming a key asset in designing new ITS infrastructures.
Navigation is one of the most common ways GNSS can be used in road applications. For example, satellites can help provide turn-by-turn information to drivers, cyclists, and even pedestrians. More so, they can also be used in fleet management on-board units and road traffic monitoring services.
The GSA recently highlighted these benefits at the European GNSS Village, part of the ITS World Congress 2015.
Better Public Transport
When it comes to using GNSS services in public transport, Kordis JMK, the operator of public transport in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic, is a successful example. Encompassing national and regional passenger trains, regional buses, city trolleybuses and trams, the project tracks vehicles using GNSS to guarantee passenger connections for those changing between different transport modes.
Using GNSS surveillance, the positions and real-time routes of all vehicles can be monitored, and drivers can be instructed to wait at stops until the connecting vehicle reaches the destination. This also helps ease congestion, as the public transport controller can be advised to take a detour in cases of congested areas.
Also Read: European GNSS Brings Added Value to ITS
Also working in public transport, Voxelia Simulate uses a multi-agent system model to simulate vehicles in order to evaluate practical situations. “Real-time simulations and studies of transportation systems are very important for us,” says Renan Zeo, Director General of Voxelia.
“For instance, a public transport operator needs to know precisely the reason for an irregular bus service. Without an accurate positioning system, the operator would ignore if a bus is stopped by a traffic light, for boarding passengers, or because of a traffic jam.”
Voxelia tracks buses using EGNOS in order to provide accurate answers for delays, preparing a solution for the autonomous vehicles of the future. “Unmanned cars need to communicate to avoid deadlock situations,” Zeo says.
Using research coordinated with the Technology University of Belfort-Montbeliard, Voxelia studied the positioning accuracy that vehicles could manage by themselves, as well as access to conflict zones like intersections. “Our simulation shows the feasibility of cooperative intersections according to the accuracy of positioning systems,” adds Zoe.
Geoimagine, another company using GNSS for transportation, is working to create smarter routes for taxis. Its network optimiser solution for fleet management uses mobile sensors to optimise itineraries to drive taxis towards areas with higher potential number of clients, depending on the time of the day, therefore saving time and lowering fuel consumption while increasing business. “We are understanding taxi driving behaviour in a rapid, demand-changing scenario,” says Isaac Pozo, the company’s CTO.
Important for the Future
With growing cities and increased public transport, it is clear that GNSS services will become more and more important. GNSS receivers and services have an estimated core revenue of EUR 36 billion by 2018, showing that EGNOS and Galileo-related road applications are in demand, and will assist in optimising mobility for years to come.
Media note: This feature can be republished without charge provided the European GNSS Agency (GSA) is acknowledged as the source at the top or the bottom of the story. You must request permission before you use any of the photographs on the site. If you republish, we would be grateful if you could link back to the GSA website (http://www.gsa.europa.eu).
European GNSS Set to Drive the Driverless Car
10.11.2015 10:12 European GNSS AgencyA relatively new phenomenon, autonomous and connected vehicles are the way of the future. As this industry grows, the European GNSS Agency (GSA) says GNSS-enabled vehicles will help make life simpler and safer for drivers.
Automated vehicles are becoming a reality, with promises of safer and 
more efficient roads. Drivers often struggle with maintaining a smooth speed, and usually do not maintain the appropriate distance between vehicles. Computer control optimises traffic flow and energy efficiency, and also helps prevent accidents due to speed or distance. In addition, autonomous vehicles could open greater transportation options for people with disabilities, and could allow drivers to work, sleep, read – or simply sit back and enjoy the ride.
GNSS plays a large role in providing accurate information for automated vehicles. In fact, Galileo is set to provide an even stronger service as it will be more resistant to multipath interference in urban canyons and will provide an authenticated signal allowing receivers to detect spoofing attacks. Galileo’s important role in automated vehicles was well-demonstrated at the European GNSS Village, part of the ITS World Congress 2015.
Also Read: European GNSS Brings Added Value to ITS
The Royal Borough of Greenwich is already taking advantage of GNSS to increase the flexibility and resilience of autonomous vehicles in the city environment as GNSS signals are currently used as a complement to LIDAR-based navigation systems in a trial project in Greenwich. If the trial is successful, it will increase potential applications for autonomous vehicles within the city environment and accelerate the uptake by the operators of business and leisure services, as well as increase the relevance of autonomous vehicles as part of the transport system for citizens.
Also using GNSS, Capturas is a vehicle connectivity platform from OTC Engineering addressed to the present and future of connected mobility. The solution takes the maximum benefit of the ICT integration inside vehicles and generates data for companies that rely on vehicles and mobility for business, such as fleet operators or renting companies. Operation times and costs can be reduced with better data, and productivity can increase.
The New Normal
As cities and companies see the benefits of autonomous and connected vehicles, they will become the norm. Major vehicle manufacturers are already delivering autonomous cars, and with connected services for drivers like weather reports and accident or traffic warnings, it is easy to see the appeal.
As autonomous vehicles enter the market, GNSS technologies such as EGNOS and Galileo are ready to deliver precise and trustable localisation, enhancing the safety and comfort of passengers.
Media note: This feature can be republished without charge provided the European GNSS Agency (GSA) is acknowledged as the source at the top or the bottom of the story. You must request permission before you use any of the photographs on the site. If you republish, we would be grateful if you could link back to the GSA website (http://www.gsa.europa.eu).
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INSPIRE téma Parcely (CP)
10.11.2015 1:00 Cenia - Katalog metadat ČR - INSPIRE Data odpovídají směrnici INSPIRE pro téma katastrální parcely (CP). Vychází z katastrální mapy, která je závazným státním mapovým dílem velkého měřítka, obsahuje body polohového bodového pole, polohopis a popis a může mít formu digitální mapy, analogové mapy nebo digitalizované mapy. Data publikovaná v rámci INSPIRE obsahují pouze katastrální území (pro celou Českou Republiku) a parcely a jejich hranice z území, kde je digitální mapa (k 09. 11. 2015 je to 79,25% území České republiky, t.j. 62 501,96km2). Více katastrální zákon 256/2013 Sb., katastrální vyhláška č.357/2013 Sb. v platném znění a INSPIRE Data Specification on Cadastral Parcels v 3.0.1.INSPIRE téma Adresy (AD)
10.11.2015 1:00 Cenia - Katalog metadat ČR - INSPIRE Data odpovídají směrnici INSPIRE pro téma adresy (AD). Vychází především z projektu RÚIAN (Registr územní identifikace, adres a nemovitostí), který je součástí základních registrů České Republiky a obsahuje informace o územní identifikaci, adresách a nemovitostech. Data publikovaná v rámci INSPIRE obsahují pouze adresní místa a jejich komponenty, kterými jsou stát, obec, část obce, městský obvod v Praze (MOP), městký obvod/městská část (MO/MČ), ulice a pošta a to na území celé České Republiky. Obsahují rozvněž geometrii, která určuje definiční bod adresního místa. V datové sadě nění uvedeno 3,22%, t.j. 93289 adresních míst (k 09. 11. 2015), protože neobsahují definiční bod, podle kterého by je bylo možné prostorově určit. Více v zákoně č. 111/2009 Sb., o základních registrech a ve vyhlášce č. 359/2011 Sb., o základním registru územní identifikace, adres a nemovitostí v platných zněních a INSPIRE Data Specification on Addresses v 3.0.1 z 26.4.2010.Aleje a stromořadí
10.11.2015 1:00 Cenia - Katalog metadat ČR - INSPIRE Služba zobrazuje vrstvu alejí a stromořadí v Moravskoslezském, Olomouckém a Zlínském kraji jejíž tvůrcem je Centrum pro podporu občanů Arnika (Arnika - Aleje a stromořadí). Druhá vrstva vznikla v rámci grantu Ministerstva kultury "MKČR - NAKI - DF12PO1OVV050" a jejím tvůrcem je Výzkumný ústav Silva Taroucy pro krajinu a okrasné zahradnictví, v. v. i. (VÚKOZ - aleje).Obraz katastrální mapy
10.11.2015 1:00 Cenia - Katalog metadat ČR - INSPIRE Obraz katastrální mapy Zlínského kraje, Stav dat k 1. 10. 2015. Vznik spojením DKM, KMD, KM-D a ÚKM.Vyhlášení vítězů mezinárodní soutězě ESNC 2015 v rámci semináře "Gate2Space 2015"
9.11.2015 13:22 Český Kosmický PortálDne 1.12.2015 pořádá Ministerstvo dopravy ČR ve spolupráci s organizací Výzkumný a zkušební letecký ústav, a.s. (VZLÚ) oficiální vyhlášení regionálního (českého) kola mezinárodní soutěže European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) pro rok 2015. Akce se bude konat od 10h v budově Technologického centra AVČR v zasedacím sále v rámci celodenního semináře Gate2Space 2015: Zapojení českých subjektů do kosmických aktivit.
European Global Navigation Satellite Systems: From Invention to Market
9.11.2015 11:23 European GNSS AgencyDuring the Satellite Masters Conference, the European GNSS Agency (GSA) held a special session dedicated to innovative E-GNSS applications and research and development results.
As part of the Satellite Masters Conference in Berlin, the GSA 
organised a full-day session on European Global Navigation Satellite Systems (E-GNSS) research and development results, as well as implementation activities. The innovative projects showcased during the event are all helping to accelerate the development of a European market for satellite navigation applications and create new opportunities for European industry.
Projects from both the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7) and the current Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (H2020), were on display.
“These GSA-funded programmes have done very exceptional work,” said the European Commission’s Christoph Kautz. He noted two reasons for this success. First, applicants had to provide a business plan – a unique concept under FP7 that has now been adopted across all research areas for H2020. Second, the GSA has followed all the projects in a detailed, personal way.
Funding for E-GNSS research has been doubled for H2020, and with Galileo initial services on course for next year, Kautz said this should be a game changer. However, he noted two issues that need to be considered. The so-called ‘valley of death’ needs to be tackled to facilitate the movement of successful research ideas into products and services available on the market, and synergies between Galileo and Copernicus need to be identified and built on.
GSA Head of Market Development Gian Gherardo Calini gave an overview of FP7 results. He said the GSA’s mission is “to achieve the highest return on investment in terms of benefit to users and economic growth.” The GSA is building on a solid base of tangible results. Under the
FP7 programme, 13 patents were filed and 45 commercial products and services launched. Forty percent of GSA funding has gone to SMEs (compared to the average of 15% across the whole of FP7) and the GSA programme also provided valuable business coaching for many start-up companies and SMEs.
The Project Portfolio
According to Tim Just of Innovate UK, innovation can be defined as “invention x market.” He said there is a need for both elements to achieve true success – a belief that was substantiated by all the presented FP7 success stories.
For example, in the area of mobility, Jürgen Seybold from TeleConsult Austria described MODIS, a mobile safety and emergency response system. The augmented EGNOS/Galileo handheld device targets people with reduced mobility. The underlying IEGLO technology was adapted for emergency call applications under the SAWOS brand in 2012, and MODIS is being used extensively in India as an effective monitoring solution in large factories, hospitals and schools.
On the topic of professional applications and transport, Klaus-Herbert Rolf from 365 FarmNet presented GEOPAL. This successful field route optimisation application was integrated as an on-vehicle platform tool for farmers, and also as a planning tool. The product has been on the market for four years and has proven easy and reliable in delivering real benefits.
Another success story in the area of transportation is TAXISAT. Dr Oihana Otaegui from Vicomtech-IK4 outlined the work done to develop a driverless GNSS vehicle able to operate safely and with high-reliability within private sites. The TAXISAT concept is now being commercialised.
Otaegui said the hybrid sensors from TAXISAT could be used to enable cloud based enhancement of maps in real time, and this area of research represents a huge opportunity for GNSS.
Horizon 2020
Moving to the current Horizon 2020 funding programme, the GSA’s Marta Krywanis-Brzostowska outlined the GSA’s recent calls. The first two calls awarded funding of €65.2m for 40 successful projects.
The GHOST project, described by Srdjan Tadic of Bitgear Wireless, looks at how Galileo can enhance services in Smart Cities. The project combines Galileo signals and video images in an intelligent system mounted on public vehicles (buses, waste lorries etc.) to monitor services such as parking enforcement (including disabled badge detection) and pothole and lighting outage detection.
Also Read: 13 H2020 projects focused on EGNSS applications development selected for funding
Another innovative project is COREGAL, which is developing a GNSS receiver that can be used to estimate biomass. Pedro Freire da Silva of Deimos Engenharia S.A. said that forest management requires accurate knowledge of the quantity of living, above-ground vegetation, and that knowledge has high economic and scientific value. COREGAL uses the Galileo E5 signal in an airborne receiver monitoring both direct and reflected signals to accurately estimate biomass.
The spyGLASS project also uses reflected signals in its Galileo-based Passive Radar System for Maritime Surveillance. Claudio Calisti from ASTER S.p.A. said the system uses fixed coastal receivers to analyse the reflected signal. The concept was low cost and preliminary trials have demonstrated the feasibility of project. Applications range from anti-piracy operations and environmental protection to maritime traffic safety.
Last but not least, the GEO VISION application demonstrated the opportunities that lie at the interface of Galileo and Copernicus. Dr Harald Skinnemoen from AnsuR Technologies said the project can provide visual situational awareness capability anywhere in the world, with the aim of enabling “observation to action” within one minute worldwide. There are two main markets: humanitarian and financial. The project is releasing products and applications to the market and they are already being used by the UN to map the effects of the earthquake in Nepal and help prioritise operations there.
Just Do It!
The day concluded with an extended panel discussion on space entrepreneurship and finance. Gregor Novak from the European Commission’s Executive Agency for SMEs (EASME) described the agency’s SME financing instrument as a perfect example of connecting and leveraging public and private investment. Reinhard Blasi of the GSA agreed on the importance of this instrument, highlighting the GSA’s interpretation of FP7 towards innovation that had helped some projects get to market, and said the key is to ensure projects have the momentum to continue to market.
“Now is the right time – there has never been a better time to invest in space,” said Blasi. “With so many means on the table, entrepreneurs should just do it!”
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Galileo satellites set for year-long Einstein experiment
9.11.2015 9:52 ESA Navigation
Europe’s fifth and sixth Galileo satellites – subject to complex salvage manoeuvres following their launch last year into incorrect orbits – will help to perform an ambitious year-long test of Einstein’s most famous theory.
V pátečních Událostech v regionech na ČT reportáž o našem testování UAV v rybářství
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9.11.2015 1:00 Cenia - Katalog metadat ČR - INSPIRE Mapová kompozice zobrazuje vrstvu alejí a stromořadí v Moravskoslezském, Olomouckém a Zlínském kraji jejíž tvůrcem je Centrum pro podporu občanů Arnika. Druhá vrstva vznikla v rámci grantu Ministerstva kultury "MKČR - NAKI - DF12PO1OVV050" a jejím tvůrcem je Výzkumný ústav Silva Taroucy pro krajinu a okrasné zahradnictví, v. v. i. (VÚKOZ - aleje).CleveRA Car před Kongresovým centrem v Praze
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CleveRA Car před Kongresovým centrem v Praze
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Nové WMTS služby RÚIAN a Katastrální mapa
6.11.2015 14:53 T-MAPY Připravili jsme pro vás nové WMTS služby RÚIAN a Katastrální mapa. Nabízené služby byly vytvořeny za přísného dohledu kartografů a respektují směrnice pro publikaci dat velkého měřítka. Kvalitní vizualizace a vnitřní logika dat přispívá mimo jiné k maximální čitelnosti mapy. Tyto služby je tak možné využít jako referenční podklad, ale i jako plně informační mapy základních prostorových registrů.Konference Inspirujme se… 2015
6.11.2015 13:31 GISportal.cz Ve dnech 24. – 25. 11. 2015 proběhne v Bratislavě 8. ročník konference Inspirujme se… Tato konference, tradičně věnovaná směrnici INSPIRE, se letos rozrůstá o témata Copernicus a environmentálního reportingu. Organizátoři se rozhodli následovat evropský trend, ...Sentinel-3A set for launch
6.11.2015 12:50 ESA Observing the Earth
Carrying a suite of state-of-the-art instruments to measure Earth’s oceans, land and ice, Sentinel-3A will soon be shipped to the Plesetsk launch site in Russia
Sentinel-3A set for launch
6.11.2015 11:36 ESA Observing the Earth
Carrying a suite of state-of-the-art instruments to measure Earth’s oceans, land and ice, Sentinel-3A will soon be shipped to the Plesetsk launch site in Russia
Sentinel-3A set for launch
6.11.2015 11:36 ESA Observing the Earth
Carrying a suite of state-of-the-art instruments to measure Earth’s oceans, land and ice, Sentinel-3A will soon be shipped to the Plesetsk launch site in Russia
Nile Delta Fertility
6.11.2015 10:05 ESA Observing the Earth
Earth observation image of the week: a Sentinel-2A image of Cairo, Egypt, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme
Galileo and EGNOS at the Heart of Future European Air Traffic Management System
6.11.2015 9:43 European GNSS AgencyThe European GNSS Agency (GSA) talks with Aerodays 2015 delegates on how the launch of LPV 200 brings precision landing to even more European airports and helipads and helps air traffic management.
Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), combined with the 
precision and robustness offered by the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS), will play a key role in the implementation of a European air traffic management (ATM) system. And the development of a harmonised European ATM is the central focus of the European Commission’s SESAR joint undertaking, which is now entering its deployment phase, as showcased at the Aerodays 2015 conference on innovation and research in aviation, held in London from 20-23 October.
“EGNOS and Galileo are involved in all three domains of ATM: communication, navigation and surveillance,” explained GSA Executive Director Carlo des Dorides, speaking at the conference, which is held once during every EU Framework Research programme. “The very accurate time measurement of Galileo will help to synchronise telecom networks, for example. In terms of navigation, Galileo will be central to the multi-constellation concept, which will greatly increase the availability, continuity and robustness of the signal. More so, SBAS (EGNOS) can also be used for surveillance as a positioning source for ADS-B, giving the same level of performance as for secondary radar, with 99.9 % availability.”
Precision Instrument Landing at Low Cost
EGNOS enables localiser performance with vertical guidance (LPV) approaches without the need for costly ground-based infrastructure (e.g. ILS CAT I), usually mandatory for precision instrument landing systems. Since the end of September, the GSA has deployed its EGNOS LPV 200 service, which offers aircraft approaches that are operationally equivalent to ILS CAT I, providing vertical and lateral guidance and with a decision height for a missed approach of just 200 feet.
“This is particularly interesting for smaller and more remote airports,” explained GSA Market Development Officer Carmen Aguilera. “Normally these airports don’t have enough traffic to justify the investment in ground-based infrastructure. With EGNOS and LPV 200, they can have the same performance, but at much lower cost, enabling them to remain open during bad weather and poor visibility conditions.”
At present, 202 EGNOS approaches are operational serving 120 airports in 18 countries. The goal is to have 440 procedures operational by 2018.
Continuous Descent Approaches
EGNOS and LPV 200 make curved and continuous descent final approaches possible, which are also core features of a deployed European ATM. Curved approaches mean that aircraft can avoid built-up areas during landing, reducing noise nuisance, while continuous descent saves fuel – and reduces CO2 emissions - as aircraft are less likely to need to stagger their approach. The expanded trajectory capabilities from take-off to landing offered by SESAR and underpinned by EGNOS will mean more efficient traffic management and flight predictability, with savings in terms of flight time and cost.
According to Olivia Nunez, ATM expert at SESAR, the AMBER demonstration project at Riga airport showed that, by optimising the flight path, 15 nautical miles can be shaved off the flight path, saving 145 kg of CO2 emissions, as well as reducing noise levels.
The latest EGNOS services are also of great interest to the rotorcraft industry, making helipads more accessible, more of the time. Special Point in Space (PINS) have been developed especially for rotorcraft, interleaving visual segments and instrument segments in departures and approaches. With LPV 200, these can now be implemented down to 200 feet with EGNOS-enabled instruments.
While most modern aircraft are now built to include satellite-based augmentation systems (SBAS) such as EGNOS, the GSA is working with the aviation industry to support the development of cost-effective avionics, to upgrade existing aircraft and perform LPV approaches. In June this year, the GSA launched its second EGNOS adoption avionics call for proposals, with a EUR 6 million budget. “So far it has been very well received,” said Aguilera. “We received applications that amounted to double the budget available and had to turn down some very high quality proposals.”
Towards a Multi-Constellation Environment
“The next EGNOS milestone, scheduled for the end of the decade, will be EGNOS version 3”, explained des Dorides. “This will offer two frequencies – L1 and L5 – meaning that it will be even more robust. It will also overlay not only GPS, as does the current version, but also Galileo, making the multi-constellation concept a reality.” The International Civil Aviation organization (ICAO) in its Global Air Navigation Plan, has recognised the advantages of multi-constellation, multi-frequency GNSS, both technically and in offering significant operational benefits.
One of the additional operational benefits for aviation that Galileo offers is the return link message service in aircraft emergency locator transmitters (ELTs), which confirms receipt of a distress message and greatly facilitates search and rescue operations.
Preparations for EGNOS v3 are now underway, not just in terms of infrastructure, but also the receivers. “At the moment there are no receivers able to process this future version of EGNOS,” explained Aguilera. “We recently launched a call for tenders to develop the prototype receivers that will work with this version, so we are supporting industry to get ready.”
Looking towards the future, beyond the next decade, des Dorides believes that transport will become increasingly intermodal and coordinated: “There will be a paradigm shift,” he said. “Mobility will be a service that is independent of the means - plane, boat or car etc. And here again, GNSS will have an important role to play.”
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5.11.2015 21:08 Bentley SystemsIntegrated BIM Process Helps Morphosis Deliver Award-Winning Bill & Melinda Gates Hall Project
5.11.2015 20:31 Bentley SystemsBentley Announces Winners of 2015 Be Inspired Awards
5.11.2015 17:01 Bentley SystemsLONDON – The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, today announced the winners of the 2015 Be Inspired Awards. The awards honor the extraordinary work of Bentley users improving the world’s infrastructure. At a ceremony and gala last night here at The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference, 18 Be Inspired Awards winners and five Be Inspired Special Recognition Awards winners were acknowledged. In addition, Bentley’s Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to J.P. (Peter) Blake, Director, Project Delivery Group for Hatch. (For details on Blake’s career achievements, see press release).
The Year in Infrastructure Conference is a global gathering of leading executives in the world of infrastructure design, construction, and operations. It features presentations and interactive sessions exploring the intersection of technology and business drivers, and how they are shaping the future of infrastructure delivery and investment returns. The 2015 event was also attended by more than 100 members of the media from leading publications around the globe who met with Bentley executives on Monday for the company’s annual Media Briefing. The agenda also includes presentations by finalists in the Be Inspired Awards program, culminating in the selection of the winning projects.
This year, 10 independent panels of jurors, comprising distinguished industry experts, selected the 18 Be Inspired Awards winners from 54 project finalists. These finalists had been previously chosen from over 360 submissions by organizations in 66 countries.
Candidates for Bentley’s Be Inspired Special Recognition Awards were selected by the jurors from the top finalist projects as well as other exemplary nominations. This selection was based on the projects’ uniquely innovative and visionary achievements that transcend the narrower focus of the standing Be Inspired Awards categories. The nominees were then reviewed by a panel of Bentley executives, who evaluated them based on the criteria established for each award.
Bentley Systems CEO Greg Bentley said, “This has been a year of major achievements for Bentley Systems that include the introduction of our CONNECT Edition infrastructure engineering software, providing a common environment for comprehensive project delivery. But the achievements that my colleagues and I are most proud of are those of our users. For while our goal at Bentley is advancing infrastructure, we can only accomplish it through the vision, talent, and dedication of the architects, engineers, constructors, and operations professionals who creatively apply our technology in pursuit of effective strategies for achieving new levels of project and/or infrastructure asset performance.
“Such achievements are exemplified by the extraordinary Be Inspired Award-winning projects we celebrated last night. I heartily congratulate the organizations that were instrumental in the delivery or operations of these truly inspiring projects. Moreover, I applaud all of the project nominees in this year’s awards program for their contributions to improving quality of life around the globe.”
The Be Inspired Special Recognition Awards winners for 2015 are as follows:
Advancing Collaborative BIM
- Morphosis Architects – Bill & Melinda Gates Hall – (Ithaca, New York, United States)
Advancing Comprehensive BIM “Playbooks”
- Hatch Ltd – Keeyask Hydroelectric Generating Station Project – (Nelson River, Manitoba, Canada)
Advancing Construction Modeling
- Jacobs – NAG Project – (Baytown, Texas, United States)
Advancing Information Mobility in Operations
- Western Power Distribution – EMU for iPad – (Exeter, United Kingdom)
Advancing Integrated Projects
- HDR – Union Station to Oak Cliff Streetcar TIGER Design-Build Project – (Dallas, Texas, United States)
The Be Inspired Awards winners for 2015 are as follows:
Innovation in Asset Performance Management
- SA Water – Predictive and Operational Analytics Tools, Adelaide Metro Water Distribution Network – (Adelaide, South Australia, Australia)
Innovation in Bridges
- LCW Consult – The Ceira River Bridge – (Coimbra, Coimbra District, Portugal)
Innovation in Building
- Robin Partington and Partners – One Merchant Square – (London, United Kingdom)
Innovation in Construction
- Vic’s Crane & Heavy Haul, Inc. – Unit 25 Project – (Rosemount, Minnesota, United States)
Innovation in Government
- Singapore Land Authority – Mapping Singapore in 3D – (Singapore)
Innovation in Land Development
- Tata Consulting Engineers Ltd. – Detailed Design of Utility Infrastructure – (Dharampur, Gujarat, India)
Innovation in Megaprojects
- AECOM – E4 The Stockholm Bypass - Förbifart Stockholm - FSK02 Rock Tunnels Design Contract – (Stockholm, Sweden)
Innovation in Mining
- Tetra Tech Proteus – Kvanefjeld Rare Earth: Uranium Project – (Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland)
Innovation in Offshore
- Keystone Engineering Inc. – Block Island Wind Farm – (Block Island, Rhode Island, United States)
Innovation in Power Generation
- MWH Global – Tyseley Resource Recovery Centre – (Birmingham, West Midland, United Kingdom)
Innovation in Process Manufacturing
- Giprotyumenneftegaz – Preliminary Water Removal Unit: North Vankor Field – (Igarka, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Russia)
Innovation in Project Delivery
- AECOM – Global Project Collaboration in a Design-build-finance-operate (DBFO) World – (Global)
Innovation in Rail and Transit
- London Underground Ltd – Bond Street to Baker Street Tunnel Remediation Project – (London, United Kingdom)
Innovation in Roads
- Grontmij – A6 to Manchester Relief Road – (Stockport, Manchester and Cheshire, United Kingdom)
Innovation in Structures
- Stanley D. Lindsey and Associates, Ltd. – SkyHouse Apartments – (Denver, Colorado; Atlanta, Georgia; Orlando and Tampa, Florida; Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina; Nashville, Tennessee; Austin, Houston, and Dallas, Texas, United States)
Innovation in Utilities and Communications
- Pacific Gas and Electric Company – Engineering Contractor Collaboration Solution Using ProjectWise and Bentley Substation – (San Ramon, California, United States)
Innovation in Water Network Analysis
- Prolagos/Aegea – Water Master Plan for the Região dos Lagos – (Região dos Lagos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Innovation in Water Treatment Plants
- Aqua+ – Complex Scheduling and Automatic Water Quality Monitoring of Groundwater – (Khabarovsk, Far East Federal District, Russia)
Bentley Systems has posted highlights of this year’s winning projects on its website. It will include more detailed descriptions of all nominated projects in the print and digital versions of its 2015 Infrastructure Yearbook,which will be published after the first of the year. To review the past 11 editions of this publication, which together feature more than 2,500 world-class projects recognized in the Be Inspired Awards program since 2004, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks.
About Be Inspired Awards Program and The Year in Infrastructure Conference
Since 2004, the Be Inspired Awards program has showcased excellence and innovation in the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure projects around the world. The Be Inspired Awards is unique – the only competition of its kind that is global in scope and comprehensive in categories covered, encompassing all types of infrastructure projects. In the awards program, which is open to all users of Bentley software, independent panels of industry experts select finalists for each category. For additional information, visit the Be Inspired Awards.
The Year in Infrastructure Conference is a global gathering of leading executives in the world of infrastructure design, construction, and operations. This year’s conference includes:
- The Project Delivery Summit (by invitation only)
- The Infrastructure Asset Performance Summit (by invitation only)
- The Building and Facilities Forum
- The Rail and Road Forum
- The Oil, Gas, Offshore, and Mining Forum
- The Utilities Forum
- The Visions for the Future Forum
- The Be Inspired Awards Ceremony
The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference sponsors include:
- Platinum: Microsoft
- Gold: ARC Advisory Group, Architectural Record, Electric Light & Power, Engineering News-Record, Geospatial Media + Communications, Infrastructure Intelligence, New Civil Engineer, Offshore, Power Engineering, and WaterWorld
For more details and a complete list of sponsors, including Silver level, click here.
About Bentley Systems
Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and comprehensive managed services.
Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2008 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.
Additional information about Bentley is available at www.bentley.com and in Bentley’s annual report. For Bentley news as it happens, subscribe to an RSS feed of Bentley press releases and news alerts. Visit The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference website for highlights of Bentley’s premier thought-leadership event, being held November 3-5, 2015, in London, U.K. To view a searchable collection of innovative infrastructure projects from the annual Be Inspired Awards, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks. To access a professional networking site that enables members of the infrastructure community to connect, communicate, and learn from each other, visit Bentley Communities.
To download the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners ranking, a unique global compendium of the top public- and private-sector owners of infrastructure based on the value of their cumulative infrastructure investments, visit BI 500.
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Bentley, the “B” Bentley logo, Be, Bentley Substation, MicroStation, and ProjectWise are either registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated or one of its direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiaries. All other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.Bentley Announces Winners of 2015 Be Inspired Awards
5.11.2015 17:01 Bentley SystemsLONDON – The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, today announced the winners of the 2015 Be Inspired Awards. The awards honor the extraordinary work of Bentley users improving the world’s infrastructure. At a ceremony and gala last night here at The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference, 18 Be Inspired Awards winners and five Be Inspired Special Recognition Awards winners were acknowledged. In addition, Bentley’s Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to J.P. (Peter) Blake, Director, Project Delivery Group for Hatch. (For details on Blake’s career achievements, see press release).
The Year in Infrastructure Conference is a global gathering of leading executives in the world of infrastructure design, construction, and operations. It features presentations and interactive sessions exploring the intersection of technology and business drivers, and how they are shaping the future of infrastructure delivery and investment returns. The 2015 event was also attended by more than 100 members of the media from leading publications around the globe who met with Bentley executives on Monday for the company’s annual Media Briefing. The agenda also includes presentations by finalists in the Be Inspired Awards program, culminating in the selection of the winning projects.
This year, 10 independent panels of jurors, comprising distinguished industry experts, selected the 18 Be Inspired Awards winners from 54 project finalists. These finalists had been previously chosen from over 360 submissions by organizations in 66 countries.
Candidates for Bentley’s Be Inspired Special Recognition Awards were selected by the jurors from the top finalist projects as well as other exemplary nominations. This selection was based on the projects’ uniquely innovative and visionary achievements that transcend the narrower focus of the standing Be Inspired Awards categories. The nominees were then reviewed by a panel of Bentley executives, who evaluated them based on the criteria established for each award.
Bentley Systems CEO Greg Bentley said, “This has been a year of major achievements for Bentley Systems that include the introduction of our CONNECT Edition infrastructure engineering software, providing a common environment for comprehensive project delivery. But the achievements that my colleagues and I are most proud of are those of our users. For while our goal at Bentley is advancing infrastructure, we can only accomplish it through the vision, talent, and dedication of the architects, engineers, constructors, and operations professionals who creatively apply our technology in pursuit of effective strategies for achieving new levels of project and/or infrastructure asset performance.
“Such achievements are exemplified by the extraordinary Be Inspired Award-winning projects we celebrated last night. I heartily congratulate the organizations that were instrumental in the delivery or operations of these truly inspiring projects. Moreover, I applaud all of the project nominees in this year’s awards program for their contributions to improving quality of life around the globe.”
The Be Inspired Special Recognition Awards winners for 2015 are as follows:
Advancing Collaborative BIM
- Morphosis Architects – Bill & Melinda Gates Hall – (Ithaca, New York, United States)
Advancing Comprehensive BIM “Playbooks”
- Hatch Ltd – Keeyask Hydroelectric Generating Station Project – (Nelson River, Manitoba, Canada)
Advancing Construction Modeling
- Jacobs – NAG Project – (Baytown, Texas, United States)
Advancing Information Mobility in Operations
- Western Power Distribution – EMU for iPad – (Exeter, United Kingdom)
Advancing Integrated Projects
- HDR – Union Station to Oak Cliff Streetcar TIGER Design-Build Project – (Dallas, Texas, United States)
The Be Inspired Awards winners for 2015 are as follows:
Innovation in Asset Performance Management
- SA Water – Predictive and Operational Analytics Tools, Adelaide Metro Water Distribution Network – (Adelaide, South Australia, Australia)
Innovation in Bridges
- LCW Consult – The Ceira River Bridge – (Coimbra, Coimbra District, Portugal)
Innovation in Building
- Robin Partington and Partners – One Merchant Square – (London, United Kingdom)
Innovation in Construction
- Vic’s Crane & Heavy Haul, Inc. – Unit 25 Project – (Rosemount, Minnesota, United States)
Innovation in Government
- Singapore Land Authority – Mapping Singapore in 3D – (Singapore)
Innovation in Land Development
- Tata Consulting Engineers Ltd. – Detailed Design of Utility Infrastructure – (Dharampur, Gujarat, India)
Innovation in Megaprojects
- AECOM – E4 The Stockholm Bypass - Förbifart Stockholm - FSK02 Rock Tunnels Design Contract – (Stockholm, Sweden)
Innovation in Mining
- Tetra Tech Proteus – Kvanefjeld Rare Earth: Uranium Project – (Narsaq, Kujalleq, Greenland)
Innovation in Offshore
- Keystone Engineering Inc. – Block Island Wind Farm – (Block Island, Rhode Island, United States)
Innovation in Power Generation
- MWH Global – Tyseley Resource Recovery Centre – (Birmingham, West Midland, United Kingdom)
Innovation in Process Manufacturing
- Giprotyumenneftegaz – Preliminary Water Removal Unit: North Vankor Field – (Igarka, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Russia)
Innovation in Project Delivery
- AECOM – Global Project Collaboration in a Design-build-finance-operate (DBFO) World – (Global)
Innovation in Rail and Transit
- London Underground Ltd – Bond Street to Baker Street Tunnel Remediation Project – (London, United Kingdom)
Innovation in Roads
- Grontmij – A6 to Manchester Relief Road – (Stockport, Manchester and Cheshire, United Kingdom)
Innovation in Structures
- Stanley D. Lindsey and Associates, Ltd. – SkyHouse Apartments – (Denver, Colorado; Atlanta, Georgia; Orlando and Tampa, Florida; Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina; Nashville, Tennessee; Austin, Houston, and Dallas, Texas, United States)
Innovation in Utilities and Communications
- Pacific Gas and Electric Company – Engineering Contractor Collaboration Solution Using ProjectWise and Bentley Substation – (San Ramon, California, United States)
Innovation in Water Network Analysis
- Prolagos/Aegea – Water Master Plan for the Região dos Lagos – (Região dos Lagos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Innovation in Water Treatment Plants
- Aqua+ – Complex Scheduling and Automatic Water Quality Monitoring of Groundwater – (Khabarovsk, Far East Federal District, Russia)
Bentley Systems has posted highlights of this year’s winning projects on its website. It will include more detailed descriptions of all nominated projects in the print and digital versions of its 2015 Infrastructure Yearbook,which will be published after the first of the year. To review the past 11 editions of this publication, which together feature more than 2,500 world-class projects recognized in the Be Inspired Awards program since 2004, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks.
About Be Inspired Awards Program and The Year in Infrastructure Conference
Since 2004, the Be Inspired Awards program has showcased excellence and innovation in the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure projects around the world. The Be Inspired Awards is unique – the only competition of its kind that is global in scope and comprehensive in categories covered, encompassing all types of infrastructure projects. In the awards program, which is open to all users of Bentley software, independent panels of industry experts select finalists for each category. For additional information, visit the Be Inspired Awards.
The Year in Infrastructure Conference is a global gathering of leading executives in the world of infrastructure design, construction, and operations. This year’s conference includes:
- The Project Delivery Summit (by invitation only)
- The Infrastructure Asset Performance Summit (by invitation only)
- The Building and Facilities Forum
- The Rail and Road Forum
- The Oil, Gas, Offshore, and Mining Forum
- The Utilities Forum
- The Visions for the Future Forum
- The Be Inspired Awards Ceremony
The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference sponsors include:
- Platinum: Microsoft
- Gold: ARC Advisory Group, Architectural Record, Electric Light & Power, Engineering News-Record, Geospatial Media + Communications, Infrastructure Intelligence, New Civil Engineer, Offshore, Power Engineering, and WaterWorld
For more details and a complete list of sponsors, including Silver level, click here.
About Bentley Systems
Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and comprehensive managed services.
Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2008 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.
Additional information about Bentley is available at www.bentley.com and in Bentley’s annual report. For Bentley news as it happens, subscribe to an RSS feed of Bentley press releases and news alerts. Visit The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference website for highlights of Bentley’s premier thought-leadership event, being held November 3-5, 2015, in London, U.K. To view a searchable collection of innovative infrastructure projects from the annual Be Inspired Awards, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks. To access a professional networking site that enables members of the infrastructure community to connect, communicate, and learn from each other, visit Bentley Communities.
To download the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners ranking, a unique global compendium of the top public- and private-sector owners of infrastructure based on the value of their cumulative infrastructure investments, visit BI 500.
# # #
Bentley, the “B” Bentley logo, Be, Bentley Substation, MicroStation, and ProjectWise are either registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated or one of its direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiaries. All other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.Earth from Space
5.11.2015 14:25 ESA Observing the Earth
Join us Friday, 6 November, at 10:00 CET for the ‘Earth from Space’ video programme. This week features a Sentinel-2A satellite image of Cairo
Earth from Space
5.11.2015 14:25 ESA Observing the EarthJoin us Friday, 6 November, at 10:00 CET for the ‘Earth from Space’ video programme. This week features a Sentinel-2A satellite image of Cairo
Diplomové práce z geografie – zadání nových témat
5.11.2015 12:58 Katedra geografie UP Olomouc Nová témata diplomových prací z geografie, s předpokládaným odevzdáním v dubnu 2017, jsou zveřejněna prostřednictvím tohoto seznamu (PDF 149 kB). K tématu diplomové práce se studenti musí přihlásit přes STAG nejpozději do 30. listopadu 2015 – týká se to všech studentů 1. ročníku navazujícího magisterského oboru Regionální geografie a také těch studentů 1. ročníku navazujícího magisterského oboru Učitelství geografie pro SŠ, kteří se rozhodli napsat svou diplomovou práci z geografie.Přihlášku k zadání vyplňte ve STAGu ve spolupráci s vedoucím diplomové práce. Vytištěnou a podepsanou ji doneste na sekretariát katedry, kde Vám na jejím základě bude vystaveno oficiální zadání práce (to je nutné uschovat, vkládá se do odevzdávané diplomové práce).
EGNOS Creates Smart Transport Management Systems for Cities
5.11.2015 10:12 European GNSS AgencyThere are many challenges facing road transport today, from safety to monitoring to traffic management. At this year’s ITS World Congress in Bordeaux, France, the European GNSS Agency (GSA) showed how European GNSS can benefit road applications.
EGNOS, Europe’s satellite-based augmentation system, 
plays a large role in ITS road applications, though often behind the scenes.
At the recent ITS World Congress in Bordeaux, the GSA put the spotlight on the role it plays in road transport by demonstrating the multiple uses of satellite navigation at the European GNSS Village stand. Organised with the Horizon 2020 project JUPITER, the stand showcased six topic areas where GNSS services play a role. One topic, Traffic Monitoring & Transport Management, focused on how EGNOS can create smart transport management systems for cities.
European GNSS in Action
The communauté d'agglomération du Grand Dax highlighted the use of EGNOS for public institutions. The organisation, which is an intercommunal cooperation of several municipalities in the area around Dax, France, works to create added value projects for the area. With a population of 60,000, Dax is one of the largest cities in the Landes department, but is still considered a small city. In recent years it has been struggling to find a modern transportation system to fit its size and budget. C.A. Grand Dax and its business innovation centre, Pulseo, have been working with EGNOS to develop intelligent transportation systems and use location based services to create a transportation network that works for Dax, with great success.
Another road application utilising GNSS services, GReD, presented its product GeoGuard. “This is our end-to-end service to measure displacements and deformations of structures or the ground, down to a millimetre level,” said Eugenio Realini, general manager of GReD. “It is completely based on cost-effective GNSS receivers and high-accuracy observation processing.”
GeoGuard continuously monitors critical infrastructure and natural hazards, helping to prevent catastrophic failures in infrastructure investments and reduce insurance costs. Since 2000, economic losses due to natural disasters have been around $2.5 trillion worldwide, according to Realini. With a monitoring system that predicts hazards and mitigates or eliminates risks, GeoGuard estimates that $400 billion could be potentially saved between now and 2030.
Also working on natural disasters and road applications, Planetek Italia presented its Preciso Landslide Risk Assessment for Railways, an application that provides periodical supply of a geographical database containing polygons of the landslide areas. Before building roads, municipalities can complete the assessment, which uses modern satellite sensors to evaluate the morphology of the area and the impact construction work will have, as well as potential future risks.
Proven to Increase Accuracy
Traffic Monitoring and Transport Management was just one of several topics highlighting the benefits space technology brings to intelligent transport systems and services. With a growing interest in optimising the use of roads in Europe, the GSA will continue to demonstrate how EGNOS has been proven to increase accuracy and robustness of the positioning.
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Opět po roce vystavujeme na české ESRI konferenci
5.11.2015 7:39 UpVision V těchto dnech opět po roce vystavujeme na 25. české ESRI (Arcdata) konferenci v Kongresovém centru v Praze...Více zde:
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Pasování prváků RG – středa 2. 12. 2015
5.11.2015 6:46 Katedra geografie UP Olomouc Jménem druháků Vás zveme na tradiční Pasování prváků Regionální geografie, které se odehraje ve středu 2. prosince 2015 se začátkem v 19:00 v klubu 15 Minut. Další info – viz Facebook.ČGS – Cestovatelský úterek 10. 11. 2015 (Makedonie a Kosovo)
5.11.2015 6:36 Katedra geografie UP Olomouc Zveme Vás na přednášku v cyklu Cestovatelské úterkyMakedonie a Kosovo: Neznámé střípky Jugoslávie
která se uskuteční v úterý 10. listopadu 2015 od 18.30 do 20.00 na učebně LP 3005. Přednáší Dominika Sommerová (pozvánka).
ČGS – Blok expertů ESUR 11. 11. 2015
5.11.2015 6:34 Katedra geografie UP Olomouc Zveme Vás na přednášku v rámci Bloku expertů ESURSchwartzova teorie základních hodnot a technologický skepticismus
která se uskuteční ve středu 11. listopadu 2015 od 15.00 do 16.30 na učebně LP 5007 Přírodovědecké fakulty UP. Přednáší doc. Bohuslav Binka (pozvánka).
Bentley Helps DOTs Prepare for Compliance Mandate on National Bridge Inventory and National Tunnel Inventory
4.11.2015 21:29 Bentley SystemsTrack Access Services Completes Data Capture at a Quarter of the Cost
4.11.2015 21:28 Bentley SystemsWitnessing Dramatic Business Process Improvements at Bentley's Year in Infrastructure #YII2015
4.11.2015 21:24 Bentley SystemsTata Consulting Engineers Builds Jain SRM Ashram for 100 Years of Sustainability Using Bentley Software
4.11.2015 21:22 Bentley SystemsRAM Produces Optimal Structural Solution for the Tallest Building in Brazil
4.11.2015 21:20 Bentley SystemsTetra Tech Wins 2015 Bentley Be Inspired Award for Innovations in Mining
4.11.2015 21:10 Bentley SystemsPřevod kompetencí k hodnocení půdy na SPÚ přinese víc škody než užitku
4.11.2015 19:01 Asociace poskytovatelů služeb v pozemkových úpravách Zdroj: www.agris.cz | 29.10.2015 | ASZ Jedním z mnoha na první pohled neviditelných opatření, která nepřímo přispějí ke zhoršení stavu naší krajiny, je změna instituce, která bude od příštího roku provádět aktualizaci bonitace půdně-ekologických jednotek (BPEJ). To dosud prováděl Výzkumný ústav meliorací a ochrany půd (VÚMOP), nově to má být podle plánu stávajícího vedení ministerstva zemědělství…Zpráva o stavu vodního hospodářství České republiky v roce 2014
4.11.2015 18:52 Asociace poskytovatelů služeb v pozemkových úpravách Již po osmnácté Ministerstvo zemědělství spolu s Ministerstvem životního prostředí vydává zprávu o stavu vodního hospodářství České republiky kde mimo jiné vyzdvihuje také význam pozemkových úprav pro snížení erozní ohroženosti půd, následků sucha a zvyšování ochrany před negativními účinky povrchového odtoku. Zpráva o stavu vodního hospodářství.pdfBentley Systems Honors Peter Blake of Hatch with Lifetime Achievement Award
4.11.2015 16:33 Bentley SystemsAttendees at London Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference Applaud Visionary Leader for a Career Dedicated to Advancing Use of Innovative Technologies
LONDON – The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, today presented J.P. (Peter) Blake, Director, Project Delivery Group for Hatch Chile, with its Lifetime Achievement Award. Blake was recognized for his exceptional vision, numerous career achievements, leadership, and effectiveness as a change agent, having tirelessly advocated throughout his career for improving infrastructure workflows through the better application of advanced technologies. Equally important, he was honored as a great friend and mentor to the infrastructure community at large.
Blake has served Hatch for more than four decades, playing a key role in its initial forays into CAD implementation and then 3D modeling, as well as managing assignments in equipment design, project engineering, and project management. Hatch is an employee-owned professional services firm that provides consulting, information technology, engineering, process development, and project and construction management to the mining, metallurgical, energy, and infrastructure sectors. Hatch has six decades of project experience in more than 150 countries, 10,000 people in 65 offices, and currently manages over $35 billion in projects.
Randy McMeekin, Hatch’s Managing Director of Engineering, said, “Peter is one of the most visionary and innovative people that we’ve had in the company. To me, he’s been a trusted advisor and a great mentor to this day.”
In recalling their work together in the late ’90s on a project for Stillwater Mining, McMeekin remarked, “He had the vision that to achieve schedule, we could go with a very lean engineering approach – that is, we would not make any paper deliverables. Against a lot of resistance from the project team, he drove us to the point where we actually built an entire smelter from a 3D model. That was true innovation.”
McMeekin continued, “I think many of the visionary thoughts that Peter had 30 years ago are now standard in the industry. Peter saw it a long time ago, that the world needed data and a 3D environment, that software was always getting better and bandwidth was always going to get better.”
Commenting on his long business relationship with Blake, Bentley Systems Senior Vice President Rob Whitesell said, “Peter is always thinking about what is the next big idea, how we can apply technologies from different areas to answer an engineering problem. He breaks that down in a way that is really easy for us to understand and is a great partner to work with. Moreover, he is a very warm individual, very personable. Peter is the kind of person who will take you into his home for dinner – definitely a relationship person. It’s always been a big part of doing business with him.”
Fiatech Director Ray Topping said about Blake’s many contributions to Fiatech and its work transforming the world’s infrastructure delivery and operations, “Peter has been active on the Fiatech board of directors for many years, dating back to before I became the director five years ago and served with Peter on the board. In 2012 and 2013, Peter led the Fiatech organization as board chairman, and during that time we developed and published our three-year strategic plan, delivered many industry advancements in our Fiatech projects, and had strong membership growth. His inspirational leadership and inclusive approach brings companies together, even competitors, for the greater good of the capital projects industry, for which he has tremendous passion.”
In presenting the award, Bentley Systems CEO Greg Bentley said, “Through his steadfast confidence in advanced technology to drive significant improvement in work processes, and with remarkable vision that has kept him one step ahead of the crowd, Peter Blake has been an effective change agent for our industry as a whole. But even more than that, he has been instrumental in influencing technology companies – including Bentley Systems – to further improve our offerings, patiently guiding us and helping us understand how we could improve product features and functionality. More importantly, he taught us why we should do it, emphasizing all the while that more advanced technology was needed ‘yesterday!’ For this, and for all Peter Blake has done through his important contributions to improving quality of life through infrastructure, he well deserves our Lifetime Achievement Award. Thank you, Peter Blake.”
Peter Blake said, “I am honored to have been selected as the recipient of this award, and am deeply humbled by all of the kind words expressed about me. What hasn’t been said is that my work seeking opportunities to drive improvements in an industry whose future is perennially made brighter thanks to advances in technology has been an exciting journey for me. I particularly enjoyed working with technology companies like Bentley that were willing to listen to industry needs and actively seek creative solutions to filling them. My thanks go to all who have stood with me as we forged ahead with change for the better.”
About J.P. (Peter) Blake
During his more than 40 years with Hatch, Peter Blake has been instrumental in championing and guiding the firm’s transition to CAD and later 3D modeling on a global basis. He also has had managing assignments in equipment design, project engineering, and project management. His career experience includes projects in a broad range of areas, from feed systems, power trains, refractories, and off-gas systems to hot metal and slag handling systems for high power electric smelting furnaces, and the design and installation of hydrometallurgical works. Blake served as chairman of Fiatech for two years beginning in May of 2012, advising its board of advisors in all aspects of the organization, including strategic planning and project selection and funding. Blake holds a degree in engineering from the University of Waterloo.
About Bentley’s Lifetime Achievement Award
Bentley’s Lifetime Achievement Award honors individuals whose collective extraordinary achievements and contributions over the span of their respective careers have left a lasting legacy from which the infrastructure community has greatly benefited. It is presented on the occasion of the recipient’s “retirement.” Past recipients since 2000 have included Tom Lazear, Chairman of California-based Archway Systems, the longest-serving Bentley Channel Partner, and Walter Lee Evey, former Program Manager of the Pentagon Renovation Program who headed reconstruction of the Pentagon after 9/11.
About Bentley Systems
Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and comprehensive managed services.
Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2008 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.
Additional information about Bentley is available at www.bentley.com and in Bentley’s annual report. For Bentley news as it happens, subscribe to an RSS feed of Bentley press releases and news alerts. Visit The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference website for highlights of Bentley’s premier thought-leadership event, being held November 3-5, 2015, in London, U.K. To view a searchable collection of innovative infrastructure projects from the annual Be Inspired Awards, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks. To access a professional networking site that enables members of the infrastructure community to connect, communicate, and learn from each other, visit Bentley Communities.
To download the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners ranking, a unique global compendium of the top public- and private-sector owners of infrastructure based on the value of their cumulative infrastructure investments, visit BI 500.
# # #
Bentley, the “B” Bentley logo, Be, MicroStation, and ProjectWise are either registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated or one of its direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiaries. All other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.
Bentley Systems Honors Peter Blake of Hatch with Lifetime Achievement Award
4.11.2015 16:33 Bentley SystemsAttendees at London Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference Applaud Visionary Leader for a Career Dedicated to Advancing Use of Innovative Technologies
LONDON – The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, today presented J.P. (Peter) Blake, Director, Project Delivery Group for Hatch Chile, with its Lifetime Achievement Award. Blake was recognized for his exceptional vision, numerous career achievements, leadership, and effectiveness as a change agent, having tirelessly advocated throughout his career for improving infrastructure workflows through the better application of advanced technologies. Equally important, he was honored as a great friend and mentor to the infrastructure community at large.
Blake has served Hatch for more than four decades, playing a key role in its initial forays into CAD implementation and then 3D modeling, as well as managing assignments in equipment design, project engineering, and project management. Hatch is an employee-owned professional services firm that provides consulting, information technology, engineering, process development, and project and construction management to the mining, metallurgical, energy, and infrastructure sectors. Hatch has six decades of project experience in more than 150 countries, 10,000 people in 65 offices, and currently manages over $35 billion in projects.
Randy McMeekin, Hatch’s Managing Director of Engineering, said, “Peter is one of the most visionary and innovative people that we’ve had in the company. To me, he’s been a trusted advisor and a great mentor to this day.”
In recalling their work together in the late ’90s on a project for Stillwater Mining, McMeekin remarked, “He had the vision that to achieve schedule, we could go with a very lean engineering approach – that is, we would not make any paper deliverables. Against a lot of resistance from the project team, he drove us to the point where we actually built an entire smelter from a 3D model. That was true innovation.”
McMeekin continued, “I think many of the visionary thoughts that Peter had 30 years ago are now standard in the industry. Peter saw it a long time ago, that the world needed data and a 3D environment, that software was always getting better and bandwidth was always going to get better.”
Commenting on his long business relationship with Blake, Bentley Systems Senior Vice President Rob Whitesell said, “Peter is always thinking about what is the next big idea, how we can apply technologies from different areas to answer an engineering problem. He breaks that down in a way that is really easy for us to understand and is a great partner to work with. Moreover, he is a very warm individual, very personable. Peter is the kind of person who will take you into his home for dinner – definitely a relationship person. It’s always been a big part of doing business with him.”
Fiatech Director Ray Topping said about Blake’s many contributions to Fiatech and its work transforming the world’s infrastructure delivery and operations, “Peter has been active on the Fiatech board of directors for many years, dating back to before I became the director five years ago and served with Peter on the board. In 2012 and 2013, Peter led the Fiatech organization as board chairman, and during that time we developed and published our three-year strategic plan, delivered many industry advancements in our Fiatech projects, and had strong membership growth. His inspirational leadership and inclusive approach brings companies together, even competitors, for the greater good of the capital projects industry, for which he has tremendous passion.”
In presenting the award, Bentley Systems CEO Greg Bentley said, “Through his steadfast confidence in advanced technology to drive significant improvement in work processes, and with remarkable vision that has kept him one step ahead of the crowd, Peter Blake has been an effective change agent for our industry as a whole. But even more than that, he has been instrumental in influencing technology companies – including Bentley Systems – to further improve our offerings, patiently guiding us and helping us understand how we could improve product features and functionality. More importantly, he taught us why we should do it, emphasizing all the while that more advanced technology was needed ‘yesterday!’ For this, and for all Peter Blake has done through his important contributions to improving quality of life through infrastructure, he well deserves our Lifetime Achievement Award. Thank you, Peter Blake.”
Peter Blake said, “I am honored to have been selected as the recipient of this award, and am deeply humbled by all of the kind words expressed about me. What hasn’t been said is that my work seeking opportunities to drive improvements in an industry whose future is perennially made brighter thanks to advances in technology has been an exciting journey for me. I particularly enjoyed working with technology companies like Bentley that were willing to listen to industry needs and actively seek creative solutions to filling them. My thanks go to all who have stood with me as we forged ahead with change for the better.”
About J.P. (Peter) Blake
During his more than 40 years with Hatch, Peter Blake has been instrumental in championing and guiding the firm’s transition to CAD and later 3D modeling on a global basis. He also has had managing assignments in equipment design, project engineering, and project management. His career experience includes projects in a broad range of areas, from feed systems, power trains, refractories, and off-gas systems to hot metal and slag handling systems for high power electric smelting furnaces, and the design and installation of hydrometallurgical works. Blake served as chairman of Fiatech for two years beginning in May of 2012, advising its board of advisors in all aspects of the organization, including strategic planning and project selection and funding. Blake holds a degree in engineering from the University of Waterloo.
About Bentley’s Lifetime Achievement Award
Bentley’s Lifetime Achievement Award honors individuals whose collective extraordinary achievements and contributions over the span of their respective careers have left a lasting legacy from which the infrastructure community has greatly benefited. It is presented on the occasion of the recipient’s “retirement.” Past recipients since 2000 have included Tom Lazear, Chairman of California-based Archway Systems, the longest-serving Bentley Channel Partner, and Walter Lee Evey, former Program Manager of the Pentagon Renovation Program who headed reconstruction of the Pentagon after 9/11.
About Bentley Systems
Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and comprehensive managed services.
Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2008 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.
Additional information about Bentley is available at www.bentley.com and in Bentley’s annual report. For Bentley news as it happens, subscribe to an RSS feed of Bentley press releases and news alerts. Visit The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference website for highlights of Bentley’s premier thought-leadership event, being held November 3-5, 2015, in London, U.K. To view a searchable collection of innovative infrastructure projects from the annual Be Inspired Awards, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks. To access a professional networking site that enables members of the infrastructure community to connect, communicate, and learn from each other, visit Bentley Communities.
To download the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners ranking, a unique global compendium of the top public- and private-sector owners of infrastructure based on the value of their cumulative infrastructure investments, visit BI 500.
# # #
Bentley, the “B” Bentley logo, Be, MicroStation, and ProjectWise are either registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated or one of its direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiaries. All other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.
Nabídka prodeje movitého majetku - PC a kopírka
4.11.2015 15:57 ČÚZK - předpisy a opatření /Urady/Katastralni-urady/Katastralni-urady/Katastralni-urad-pro-Pardubicky-kraj/Nabidky-majetku/Nabidka-prodeje-moviteho-majetku-PC-a-kopirkaNabídka prodeje movitého majetku - PC a kopírka
4.11.2015 15:57 ČÚZK /Urady/Katastralni-urady/Katastralni-urady/Katastralni-urad-pro-Pardubicky-kraj/Nabidky-majetku/Nabidka-prodeje-moviteho-majetku-PC-a-kopirkaBe Inspired Awards at Year in Infrastructure 2015: Operational Analytics Reduces Water Utility Power Bill By $3 Million
4.11.2015 15:20 Bentley SystemsESM Productions Credits Bentley Systems’ Reality Modeling Technology in Its Successful ‘Engineering’ of Philadelphia Papal Visit
4.11.2015 14:17 Bentley Systems
‘Virtuality’ Breakthrough Advances Project Planning and Risk Reduction for World-class Public Event
LONDON – The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference – ESM Productions, a full-service event production company, and Bentley Systems, a leading global provider of comprehensive software for advancing infrastructure, today jointly acknowledged the significant contribution of Bentley colleagues, and technology advances, to ESM’s successful planning of the visit of Pope Francis to Philadelphia during the week of September 21, 2015, including the anchor event of the Eighth World Meeting of Families Congress. In planning this massive and multi-faceted event, ESM needed to coordinate with Philadelphia’s many public services, as well as the U.S. Secret Service, Pennsylvania state agencies, and the local Philadelphia Catholic Diocese. This coordination was made more effective and timely through Bentley’s reality modeling technology, as well as services provided by a legion of Bentley colleague volunteers.
ESM had witnessed firsthand Bentley’s new reality modeling capabilities at a Bentley event that they produced, and was struck by its significant potential to accelerate their planning of the pope’s visit to Philadelphia. Upon learning of this interest, Bentley Systems CEO Greg Bentley invited Bentley colleagues (and retirees) to donate their time and talent to a “pro bono” effort on the part of Bentley Systems to help assure its headquarters region’s successful hosting of the pope and the unprecedented number of expected visitors. Some 30 colleagues participated in exploring how reality modeling could expedite the design and engineering of substantial temporary facilities for this highly visible, fast-tracked project, while supporting the extreme security workflows required.
Scott Mirkin, co-founder and executive producer, ESM Productions, said, “We wouldn’t be chosen to produce world-class events unless we did them well, and we do them well because we innovatively apply the appropriate and most effective technologies. The minute we saw Bentley’s reality modeling in action, we knew it could provide breakthrough benefits – but given the exceptionally tight deadlines, we had limited time, in our own right, to experiment with it. I thank the Bentley colleagues who offered their support and applied Bentley’s reality modeling within their engineering tools in a way that had never been done before. This jointly coordinated effort enabled our event organizing team to leverage reality modeling to speed stakeholder buy-in and to ensure that one of the country’s largest public events was executed with great success.
“In the end, we experienced dramatic risk reduction, better decision making, exceptional timeliness, and greater efficiency. The goal we set with Bentley to test the applicability of reality modeling as a mission-critical event planning technology was completely validated, and we are now planning to offer this new value to our clients going forward. We’ve already had conversations with many of the agencies and teams involved in the execution of this project and discussed the many benefits achieved by having a virtualized experience created through reality modeling. In fact, we were so impressed that we are creating a documentary highlighting our use and the outcomes we achieved.” For a preview of this documentary, visit https://youtu.be/dYJd36opBmY.
Bentley’s reality modeling process involved three steps:
- Capture reality. Bentley’s ContextCapture software was used to build a highly detailed, photo-textured 3D “reality mesh” model from 28,000 digital photographs, with unprecedented geometrical accuracy. Base imagery was provided by Pictometry, high-resolution aerial photography was taken by helicopter by AEROmetrex, and ground footage was captured by Bentley volunteers – including building facades, street views, and the inside of the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul.
- Engineer in context. The highly precise 3D model was populated with 2D and 3D maps and designs, resulting in a 28 GB dataset. The dataset was used to communicate the details for the 56,400 temporary structures, main and secondary stages and event seating, 33 miles of security barricade perimeter, special U.S. Secret Service security requirements, impact of local road closures to pedestrian traffic flows, and more.
- Enliven the engineered environment. Bentley’s LumenRT software was used to add motion and additional content to simulate the expected operational experience, a great help to decision makers. The team added moving people in crowds, vehicles flowing in traffic, dynamic sunlight conditions, and seasonal trees and plants.
Buddy Cleveland, a recently retired Bentley senior vice president who led the Bentley team, said, “This was a highly public and complex project, with many stakeholders and an impossible timeline. We got involved right in the middle of it. The papal visit required effective planning for the construction and management of temporary facilities and utilities amidst a busy urban infrastructure. The most expedient way we could add value to this project was to create, just in time, a comprehensive, highly detailed 3D model of Philadelphia that was visually realistic and dimensionally accurate, and then seamlessly integrate that model with engineering models produced by our tools. Both ESM and Bentley are very grateful to our partners, Pictometry and AEROmetrex, who stepped up to provide the base imagery, aerial imagery, and processing with ContextCapture to create the initial reality mesh.”
He continued, “I am deeply appreciative of my colleagues at Bentley who dedicated their time for this worthwhile project, in particular 3D developer extraordinaire Ray Bentley, who swiftly delivered many innovative software enhancements that enabled the project team to effectively apply ContextCapture, MicroStation CONNECT Edition, ProjectWise and LumenRT in new ways for this major global event. Finally, we’re very grateful to ESM and the city of Philadelphia for their foresight and willingness to apply new technology. This project certainly validated the value of reality modeling technologies for the planning and engineering of a project of this scale.”
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About ESM Productions
ESM Productions is a premier, full-service event production company that specializes in the creative design, planning and execution of high-profile events and broadcast productions. ESM supplies the innovative expertise, resources and state-of-the-art technology to meet a wide variety of production needs and challenges. Scott Mirkin is one of America’s most successful event producers and a pioneer in large audience and `high quality live streaming events. He has been responsible for producing for a wide array of important political icons, religious figures, and entertainment moguls, as varied as President Barack Obama, Pope Francis, and Jay Z. Additional information about ESM Productions is available at www.esmproductions.com.
About Bentley Systems
Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and comprehensive managed services.
Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2008 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions. Additional information about Bentley is available at www.bentley.com.
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Bentley, the “B” Bentley logo, Be, ContextCapture, LumenRT, MicroStation, and ProjectWise are either registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated or one of its direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiaries. All other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.
Sympózium „Living Planet“ má nový rekord
4.11.2015 13:56 Český Kosmický PortálRekordních téměř 2700 přihlášek se sešlo na páté sympózium ESA „Living Planet Symposium“. Podávání přihlášek bylo právě uzavřeno, takže jde o konečné číslo.
Sympózium „Living Planet“ má nový rekord
4.11.2015 13:56 Český Kosmický PortálRekordních téměř 2700 přihlášek se sešlo na páté sympózium ESA „Living Planet Symposium“. Podávání přihlášek bylo právě uzavřeno, takže jde o konečné číslo.
Úspěch v podnikatelské soutěži Equa bank Rodinná firma roku
4.11.2015 12:00 Hrdlička U příležitosti Dne podnikatelů proběhlo 3. listopadu slavností vyhlášení podnikatelské soutěže Equa bank Rodinná firma roku. Nominaci v letošním ročníku získala i naše společnost a v konkurenci 84 firem obsadila skvělé 3. místo. Manželé Hrdličkovi sami k umístění v soutěži dodávají: " toto ocenění není jen úspěchem naší rodiny, ale všech našich zaměstnanců."UPOZORNĚNÍ
4.11.2015 10:47 ČÚZK /Urady/Katastralni-urady/Katastralni-urady/Katastralni-urad-pro-Stredocesky-kraj/Katastralni-pracoviste/KP-Rakovnik/O-uradu/Aktuality/UPOZORNENIUPOZORNĚNÍ
4.11.2015 10:47 ČÚZK - předpisy a opatření /Urady/Katastralni-urady/Katastralni-urady/Katastralni-urad-pro-Stredocesky-kraj/Katastralni-pracoviste/KP-Rakovnik/O-uradu/Aktuality/UPOZORNENIŘeditel/ka Zeměměřického a katastrálního inspektorátu v Opavě
4.11.2015 10:08 ČÚZK - volná místa /Urady/Zememericke-a-katastralni-inspektoraty/Zememericke-a-katastralni-inspektoraty/Zememericky-a-katastralni-inspektorat-v-Opave/Uredni-deska/Oznameni-a-jina-uredni-sdeleni/Volna-mista/Reditel-ka-Zememerickeho-a-katastralniho-inspektorŘeditel/ka Zeměměřického a katastrálního inspektorátu v Opavě
4.11.2015 10:08 ČÚZK - předpisy a opatření /Urady/Zememericke-a-katastralni-inspektoraty/Zememericke-a-katastralni-inspektoraty/Zememericky-a-katastralni-inspektorat-v-Opave/Uredni-deska/Oznameni-a-jina-uredni-sdeleni/Volna-mista/Reditel-ka-Zememerickeho-a-katastralniho-inspektorŘeditel/ka Zeměměřického a katastrálního inspektorátu v Opavě
4.11.2015 10:08 ČÚZK /Urady/Zememericke-a-katastralni-inspektoraty/Zememericke-a-katastralni-inspektoraty/Zememericky-a-katastralni-inspektorat-v-Opave/Uredni-deska/Oznameni-a-jina-uredni-sdeleni/Volna-mista/Reditel-ka-Zememerickeho-a-katastralniho-inspektorTestujeme s Jihočeskou Univerzitou a rybáři využití UAV v rybářství
4.11.2015 7:54 UpVision Testujeme s Jihočeskou Univerzitou a rybáři využití UAV (multikoptér, ale hlavně bezpilotních letounů) v rybářství, převážně v období výlovů. Našeho testování na vyloveném 2. největším rybníku v ČR Bezdrevu se účastnila i Česká Televize a iDNES.Více zde:
https://plus.google.com/+UpvisionCz1/posts/iJyZpGG97XD
Leading Civil Engineers Credit Bentley’s OpenRoads ‘BIM Advancements’
3.11.2015 17:21 Bentley SystemsIntroducing OpenRoads CONNECT Edition, OpenRoads Navigator CONNECT Edition, and OpenRoads ConceptStation
LONDON – The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, today reported that OpenRoads is setting the pace for civil and transportation engineers, contractors, governments, and owner-operators that are meeting today’s design, construction, and operations challenges by working more productively, collaborating globally, and delivering better-performing infrastructure assets. Among the many projects crediting OpenRoads are 52 nominees, spanning 13 innovation categories, in the 2015 Be Inspired Awards program. Examples of projects that have benefited from OpenRoads’ ‘BIM advancements,’ along with a brief description of advantages gained, immediately follow the product advancement update below.
Product Advancement Update: OpenRoads CONNECT Edition
Dustin Parkman, Bentley vice president, product development, road, rail, and site design, said, “With our most recent V8i versions of OpenRoads and our sewer and stormwater offerings having led the way through unprecedented integration between civil design and analysis, here at The Year in Infrastructure 2015 we turn our attention to the even more comprehensive integration of the OpenRoads CONNECT Edition.
“OpenRoads is already known for empowering civil infrastructure project teams to accelerate design, produce intelligent 3D models that enable construction-driven engineering, share information across project teams, and facilitate project delivery. With the OpenRoads CONNECT Edition, we complete the reach of our common modeling environment across roads, bridges, rail, geotechnical, and site optimization.
“With this month’s General Access to the OpenRoads Navigator CONNECT Edition app, and our new OpenRoads ConceptStation available for Limited Access in 2016, we are advancing comprehensive project delivery from conceptioneering through field workflows and next, construction modeling.”
OpenRoads Navigator CONNECT Edition App
Bentley’s OpenRoads Navigator CONNECT Edition app provides easy-to-use workflow access to civil design and pay item information in the field. It supports teams working better together to speed approvals and resolve issues during design, construction, and operations. OpenRoads Navigator integrates with ProjectWise to support collaboration for all team members and enable even faster resolution of field issues, resulting in better decisions throughout the lifecycle of a project.
OpenRoads ConceptStation
The new OpenRoads ConceptStation CONNECT Edition introduces conceptioneering. Through conceptioneering at the project outset, users are able to balance the demands of creative infrastructure designs with the financial, environmental, and engineering performance requirements of modern infrastructure projects. In conceptioneering, users consider the larger issues to help shape the project’s approach to meeting the programmatic requirements. Accordingly, conceptioneering spans context capture through compelling communication of a design proposal. Throughout the project, users explore design alternatives through optioneering, applying engineering analyses to improve decision making.
OpenRoads ConceptStation will help users to explore preliminary design options, leverage functional component catalogs, optimize project performance, and rapidly make decisions in the pre-bid phase to avoid high-cost errors. This conceptual design workflow takes full advantage of reality modeling – first to enable engineering in context, including reality meshes from ContextCapture, and then to enliven the engineered environment through LumenRT, including moving traffic and dynamic landscaping. With OpenRoads ConceptStation, engineers can evaluate designs and associated costs faster and more easily, present projects through immersive visualization, and continuously advance conceptual designs through project delivery by way of Bentley’s CONNECT Edition common modeling environment.
Examples of Projects Crediting OpenRoads
Enabling Global Supply Chain Collaboration While Enhancing Quality through Standards
AECOM is a premier, fully integrated professional and technical services firm positioned to design, build, finance, and operate infrastructure assets around the world for public- and private-sector clients. Its Roadmap for the Development of the E4 from Ljungby to Toftanäs project in Småland, Sweden, involved more than 15 sub-consultants located in different locations, including different countries. The challenge was to provide design standards to ensure quality control and implement a well-defined data environment workflow. OpenRoads was used to define civil software standards across all design teams. It allowed extensive utilization of 3D models to streamline collaboration across all disciplines and provide earlier clash detection and resolution to reduce errors in the field. ProjectWise provided the common data environment to be used by all team members. Using both applications together allowed AECOM to increase overall project performance and deliver a higher-quality design.
Leveraging Design-time Visualization to Help Gain Project Approval
Louis Berger is a leading global professional services corporation that helps clients solve complex infrastructure and development challenges. For the I-11 Boulder City Bypass project in Nevada, U.S., the company produced a 3D animation of the critical mountain-pass section of the bypass just before the Mike O’Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge. The summit of the mountain pass provides panoramic views of Lake Mead and nearby mountain ranges. The design needed to provide a scenic overlook and dedicated wildlife crossing bridge before the summit. The visualization was needed to illustrate the new design at public meetings and on YouTube to gain public project approval. The team used edge-of-pavement and striping curves from the OpenRoads digital terrain model (DTM) to model the roadways and extensive cut-and-fill sections. The visualization was invaluable in helping not only the public but also the lawmakers clearly understand the road design.
Leveraging Benefits Tenfold, from Subsurface Utility Engineering
Utility Mapping Services, Inc., provides Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE) services for site developments and transportation projects. For its project encompassing the installation of a Puget Sound Energy 8-inch, high-pressure natural gas main along SR510 in Lacey, Washington, U.S., the firm used OpenRoads and Bentley Subsurface Utility Engineering to model the utility infrastructure and avoid potential utility conflicts. The result was reduced costs from unnecessary utility relocations, avoidable construction delays, and contractor change orders. Philip J. Meis, P.E., Utility Mapping Services principal engineer, said, “For a number of years now we’ve had the ability to acquire 3D data on existing utility infrastructure, but have not been able to effectively leverage the value of that data and the ‘engineering’ in our SUE services. With the Bentley Subsurface Utility Engineering application, the benefit and value of our services have increased by tenfold. … We are now, from a holistic stance, able to provide the public, to whom we owe our paramount responsibility as professional engineers, the full benefit of SUE!”
Creating Design-Construct-Operate Model via Reality Modeling
African Consulting Surveyors, a leading geospatial service and solution provider, working with global professional services firm SMEC, used LiDAR, terrestrial, and mobile scanning in the N1 Freeway Upgrade Mobile Laser Scanning Survey project for Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. All three imaging datasets were combined into a single point cloud to ensure a detailed accurate 3D model for the design work. Taking advantage of OpenRoads’ unmatched data acquisition capabilities, the design team created 3D models to ensure that all project information was available to all team members across disciplines such as bridges, drainage, road design, and construction. OpenRoads provided an intelligent and accurate design, helping minimize expensive construction errors. Brett Forbes, director business development, African Consulting Surveyors, said, “Bentley’s technology allows users in all phases of the project lifecycle, including survey, optioneering, design, construction, maintenance, and operations, to effectively manage and utilize the geospatially correct laser point cloud in their particular discipline. This enables informed decision making and improved design, which reduces costs and optimizes project expenditure.”
Meeting Budget Constraints with Information Sharing
from Design through Construction
BCC Engineering, Inc., known for its work on massive infrastructure and transportation projects, was the lead design firm on the SR 826/SR 836 Interchange Improvements – Section 5 Design-build Florida Department of Transportation Project in Miami, Florida, U.S. Using Bentley’s OpenRoads, LEAP Bridge, and STAAD, the team developed cost-saving innovations that brought the project within FDOT’s budget constraints. OpenRoads enabled information sharing among the large design team and allowed for standardization and efficiencies that could be used from design through construction by all disciplines. Jose A. Muñoz, PE, president, BCC Engineering, said, “Bentley’s software solutions provide BCC Engineering with the tools to confidently turn complex plans inside out to create better built designs and more cost-effective solutions to meet the needs of our clients.”
For additional information:
Follow @bentleysystems and #YII2015 on Twitter. Like Bentley on Facebook.
About OpenRoads
OpenRoads, Bentley’s successor to its InRoads, GEOPAK, and MX offerings, continues to push the envelope in road design, construction, and operations. Meeting the needs of multi-discipline civil engineering projects, OpenRoads’ industry-leading “BIM advancements” empower users through immersive modeling, design-time visualization, design intent capture and persistence, hypermodeling, model interoperability, and construction-driven engineering.
About Bentley Systems
Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and comprehensive managed services.
Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2008 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.
Additional information about Bentley is available at www.bentley.com and in Bentley’s annual report. For Bentley news as it happens, subscribe to an RSS feed of Bentley press releases and news alerts. Visit The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference website for highlights of Bentley’s premier thought-leadership event, being held November 3-5, 2015, in London, U.K. To view a searchable collection of innovative infrastructure projects from the annual Be Inspired Awards, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks. To access a professional networking site that enables members of the infrastructure community to connect, communicate, and learn from each other, visit Bentley Communities.
To download the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners ranking, a unique global compendium of the top public- and private-sector owners of infrastructure based on the value of their cumulative infrastructure investments, visit BI 500.
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Bentley, the “B” Bentley logo, Be, OpenRoads, Navigator, LumenRT, ConceptStation, InRoads, GEOPAK, MX, LEAP, STAAD, MicroStation, and ProjectWise are either registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated or one of its direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiaries. All other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.Leading Civil Engineers Credit Bentley’s OpenRoads ‘BIM Advancements’
3.11.2015 17:21 Bentley SystemsIntroducing OpenRoads CONNECT Edition, OpenRoads Navigator CONNECT Edition, and OpenRoads ConceptStation
LONDON – The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, today reported that OpenRoads is setting the pace for civil and transportation engineers, contractors, governments, and owner-operators that are meeting today’s design, construction, and operations challenges by working more productively, collaborating globally, and delivering better-performing infrastructure assets. Among the many projects crediting OpenRoads are 52 nominees, spanning 13 innovation categories, in the 2015 Be Inspired Awards program. Examples of projects that have benefited from OpenRoads’ ‘BIM advancements,’ along with a brief description of advantages gained, immediately follow the product advancement update below.
Product Advancement Update: OpenRoads CONNECT Edition
Dustin Parkman, Bentley vice president, product development, road, rail, and site design, said, “With our most recent V8i versions of OpenRoads and our sewer and stormwater offerings having led the way through unprecedented integration between civil design and analysis, here at The Year in Infrastructure 2015 we turn our attention to the even more comprehensive integration of the OpenRoads CONNECT Edition.
“OpenRoads is already known for empowering civil infrastructure project teams to accelerate design, produce intelligent 3D models that enable construction-driven engineering, share information across project teams, and facilitate project delivery. With the OpenRoads CONNECT Edition, we complete the reach of our common modeling environment across roads, bridges, rail, geotechnical, and site optimization.
“With this month’s General Access to the OpenRoads Navigator CONNECT Edition app, and our new OpenRoads ConceptStation available for Limited Access in 2016, we are advancing comprehensive project delivery from conceptioneering through field workflows and next, construction modeling.”
OpenRoads Navigator CONNECT Edition App
Bentley’s OpenRoads Navigator CONNECT Edition app provides easy-to-use workflow access to civil design and pay item information in the field. It supports teams working better together to speed approvals and resolve issues during design, construction, and operations. OpenRoads Navigator integrates with ProjectWise to support collaboration for all team members and enable even faster resolution of field issues, resulting in better decisions throughout the lifecycle of a project.
OpenRoads ConceptStation
The new OpenRoads ConceptStation CONNECT Edition introduces conceptioneering. Through conceptioneering at the project outset, users are able to balance the demands of creative infrastructure designs with the financial, environmental, and engineering performance requirements of modern infrastructure projects. In conceptioneering, users consider the larger issues to help shape the project’s approach to meeting the programmatic requirements. Accordingly, conceptioneering spans context capture through compelling communication of a design proposal. Throughout the project, users explore design alternatives through optioneering, applying engineering analyses to improve decision making.
OpenRoads ConceptStation will help users to explore preliminary design options, leverage functional component catalogs, optimize project performance, and rapidly make decisions in the pre-bid phase to avoid high-cost errors. This conceptual design workflow takes full advantage of reality modeling – first to enable engineering in context, including reality meshes from ContextCapture, and then to enliven the engineered environment through LumenRT, including moving traffic and dynamic landscaping. With OpenRoads ConceptStation, engineers can evaluate designs and associated costs faster and more easily, present projects through immersive visualization, and continuously advance conceptual designs through project delivery by way of Bentley’s CONNECT Edition common modeling environment.
Examples of Projects Crediting OpenRoads
Enabling Global Supply Chain Collaboration While Enhancing Quality through Standards
AECOM is a premier, fully integrated professional and technical services firm positioned to design, build, finance, and operate infrastructure assets around the world for public- and private-sector clients. Its Roadmap for the Development of the E4 from Ljungby to Toftanäs project in Småland, Sweden, involved more than 15 sub-consultants located in different locations, including different countries. The challenge was to provide design standards to ensure quality control and implement a well-defined data environment workflow. OpenRoads was used to define civil software standards across all design teams. It allowed extensive utilization of 3D models to streamline collaboration across all disciplines and provide earlier clash detection and resolution to reduce errors in the field. ProjectWise provided the common data environment to be used by all team members. Using both applications together allowed AECOM to increase overall project performance and deliver a higher-quality design.
Leveraging Design-time Visualization to Help Gain Project Approval
Louis Berger is a leading global professional services corporation that helps clients solve complex infrastructure and development challenges. For the I-11 Boulder City Bypass project in Nevada, U.S., the company produced a 3D animation of the critical mountain-pass section of the bypass just before the Mike O’Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge. The summit of the mountain pass provides panoramic views of Lake Mead and nearby mountain ranges. The design needed to provide a scenic overlook and dedicated wildlife crossing bridge before the summit. The visualization was needed to illustrate the new design at public meetings and on YouTube to gain public project approval. The team used edge-of-pavement and striping curves from the OpenRoads digital terrain model (DTM) to model the roadways and extensive cut-and-fill sections. The visualization was invaluable in helping not only the public but also the lawmakers clearly understand the road design.
Leveraging Benefits Tenfold, from Subsurface Utility Engineering
Utility Mapping Services, Inc., provides Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE) services for site developments and transportation projects. For its project encompassing the installation of a Puget Sound Energy 8-inch, high-pressure natural gas main along SR510 in Lacey, Washington, U.S., the firm used OpenRoads and Bentley Subsurface Utility Engineering to model the utility infrastructure and avoid potential utility conflicts. The result was reduced costs from unnecessary utility relocations, avoidable construction delays, and contractor change orders. Philip J. Meis, P.E., Utility Mapping Services principal engineer, said, “For a number of years now we’ve had the ability to acquire 3D data on existing utility infrastructure, but have not been able to effectively leverage the value of that data and the ‘engineering’ in our SUE services. With the Bentley Subsurface Utility Engineering application, the benefit and value of our services have increased by tenfold. … We are now, from a holistic stance, able to provide the public, to whom we owe our paramount responsibility as professional engineers, the full benefit of SUE!”
Creating Design-Construct-Operate Model via Reality Modeling
African Consulting Surveyors, a leading geospatial service and solution provider, working with global professional services firm SMEC, used LiDAR, terrestrial, and mobile scanning in the N1 Freeway Upgrade Mobile Laser Scanning Survey project for Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. All three imaging datasets were combined into a single point cloud to ensure a detailed accurate 3D model for the design work. Taking advantage of OpenRoads’ unmatched data acquisition capabilities, the design team created 3D models to ensure that all project information was available to all team members across disciplines such as bridges, drainage, road design, and construction. OpenRoads provided an intelligent and accurate design, helping minimize expensive construction errors. Brett Forbes, director business development, African Consulting Surveyors, said, “Bentley’s technology allows users in all phases of the project lifecycle, including survey, optioneering, design, construction, maintenance, and operations, to effectively manage and utilize the geospatially correct laser point cloud in their particular discipline. This enables informed decision making and improved design, which reduces costs and optimizes project expenditure.”
Meeting Budget Constraints with Information Sharing
from Design through Construction
BCC Engineering, Inc., known for its work on massive infrastructure and transportation projects, was the lead design firm on the SR 826/SR 836 Interchange Improvements – Section 5 Design-build Florida Department of Transportation Project in Miami, Florida, U.S. Using Bentley’s OpenRoads, LEAP Bridge, and STAAD, the team developed cost-saving innovations that brought the project within FDOT’s budget constraints. OpenRoads enabled information sharing among the large design team and allowed for standardization and efficiencies that could be used from design through construction by all disciplines. Jose A. Muñoz, PE, president, BCC Engineering, said, “Bentley’s software solutions provide BCC Engineering with the tools to confidently turn complex plans inside out to create better built designs and more cost-effective solutions to meet the needs of our clients.”
For additional information:
Follow @bentleysystems and #YII2015 on Twitter. Like Bentley on Facebook.
About OpenRoads
OpenRoads, Bentley’s successor to its InRoads, GEOPAK, and MX offerings, continues to push the envelope in road design, construction, and operations. Meeting the needs of multi-discipline civil engineering projects, OpenRoads’ industry-leading “BIM advancements” empower users through immersive modeling, design-time visualization, design intent capture and persistence, hypermodeling, model interoperability, and construction-driven engineering.
About Bentley Systems
Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and comprehensive managed services.
Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2008 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.
Additional information about Bentley is available at www.bentley.com and in Bentley’s annual report. For Bentley news as it happens, subscribe to an RSS feed of Bentley press releases and news alerts. Visit The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference website for highlights of Bentley’s premier thought-leadership event, being held November 3-5, 2015, in London, U.K. To view a searchable collection of innovative infrastructure projects from the annual Be Inspired Awards, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks. To access a professional networking site that enables members of the infrastructure community to connect, communicate, and learn from each other, visit Bentley Communities.
To download the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners ranking, a unique global compendium of the top public- and private-sector owners of infrastructure based on the value of their cumulative infrastructure investments, visit BI 500.
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Bentley, the “B” Bentley logo, Be, OpenRoads, Navigator, LumenRT, ConceptStation, InRoads, GEOPAK, MX, LEAP, STAAD, MicroStation, and ProjectWise are either registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated or one of its direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiaries. All other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.Leading EPCs and Owners Credit Bentley’s OpenPlant Advancements
3.11.2015 16:53 Bentley SystemsOpenPlant Support Engineering Advancement Accelerates Design, Analysis, and Placement of Plant Hangers and Supports
LONDON – The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, today reported that OpenPlant continues to set the pace for engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractors and owner-operators around the world who are embracing multi-discipline 3D plant design to deliver projects faster and to enable lifecycle information mobility. Among the projects crediting OpenPlant are 22 nominees for the 2015 Be Inspired Awards program, spanning nine countries and eight innovation categories. Examples of projects that have benefited from OpenPlant’s advancements, along with a brief description of advantages gained, immediately follow the product advancement update below.
Product Advancement Update: Accelerating Design, Analysis, and Placement of Plant Piping Supports and More
The most recent addition to OpenPlant applications is OpenPlant Support Engineering, now available through General Access. The new offering enables EPCs and owner-operators to accelerate the design, analysis, and placement of plant supports and support assemblies for plant piping, electrical, and HVAC components. OpenPlant Support Engineering increases productivity and design accuracy while decreasing overall project time through its intra-operability with other OpenPlant applications, access to multiple vendors’ catalogs of support components, and the automated generation of construction drawings and bills of material.
Bentley Systems Vice President Ken Adamson said, “OpenPlant Support Engineering fully integrates with OpenPlant Modeler, OpenPlant ModelServer, and OpenPlant Isometrics Manager, along with ProjectWise. As a result, users work directly within their OpenPlant environment and can easily integrate support and support assemblies into their overall plant designs. This substantially reduces time spent coordinating across design disciplines while decreasing errors.”
Damian Fonte, senior piping engineer, Hatch, said, “We anticipate OpenPlant Support Engineering will allow us to save time with quick and easy access to accurate support models. What impressed me most about the software is that the manufacturers’ certified catalogs are one click away.”
With OpenPlant Support Engineering, users can:
- quickly and accurately design, model, and place supports and support assemblies;
- cost-effectively engineer all supports in a reasonable time frame;
- leverage a common data environment, with analysis tools such as Bentley’s AutoPIPE and STAAD.Pro, to help ensure the structural integrity and safe operation of plants of all types;
- access an extensive selection of content from multiple vendor catalogs;
- automatically generate accurate construction drawings and bills of material; and
- increase productivity through enhanced collaboration and data reuse.
Examples of Projects Crediting OpenPlant
Compliance and Risk Mitigation
MWH Global’s engineers, consultants, and construction professionals are specialists in water and natural resources who use innovative ideas and technology to help solve complex infrastructure and environmental challenges. During the Tyseley Resource Recovery Centre power generation project in Birmingham, U.K., MWH used OpenPlant PID to produce P&IDs with embedded KKS to comply with power industry standards and to export i-models to synchronize with mechanical piping models. MWH Global used OpenPlant Modeler to design mechanical piping and equipment and attach nongraphical information to all 3D design models. The use of intelligent 3D models helped identify hazardous areas in plants and mitigate risks. Ashish Katake, lead CAD designer, MWH Global, said, “Bentley OpenPlant applications suite truly helped in our project design delivery and enabled us to stand tall in the crowd.”
Reducing Project Delivery Time
Enipro Sp. z o.o. is a multi-discipline engineering and construction company based in Gliwice, Poland, with a long history of scientific and technical achievements in the energy and environmental sectors and chemical industries. During an installation involving the Catalytic Denitrification and Dedusting Gas from Boilers at PKN ORLEN SA’s CHP Plant in Plock, Mazowieckie, Poland, the Enipro team employed OpenPlant Modeler to virtually model the piping installation to EU standards. Enipro project manager Wojciech Szczuka said, “The Enipro engineering team used OpenPlant on the Bentley platform to create 3D models that were shared by all disciplines. Having a 3D model shortened design time, reduced project delivery time, and minimized the occurrence of clashes during construction. Our use of OpenPlant Modeler reduced project cost by up to 20 percent.” Additionally, Enipro’s use of OpenPlant Isometrics Manager for isometric production reduced the delivery time for the project’s documentation by 20 percent.
Optioneering for Higher ROI
GEA Equipamentos E Soluҫões S/A, based in Campinas, Brazil, manufactures a range of process technology equipment and components largely for the food processing industry. In constructing a Milk Pasteurization System in Paraná, Brazil, GEA’s use of OpenPlant to model the plant’s piping enabled it to check for interferences and possible design errors while avoiding future costs of manufacturing errors. Willian Leite Avelino, piping designer for GEA, said, “The OpenPlant software enabled the modeling of the components, extraction of the isometric projections, and the preparation of plant options in a faster manner, reducing the delivery time of the design and, thus, time for construction.” By reducing the delivery time of the project by 10 percent, time of construction by 20 percent, and the number of labor hours for plant completion, OpenPlant increased the return on investment.
Multi-discipline Collaboration in Parallel
DI Soyuzhimpromproekt FSBEI HPE KSTU, a provider of design services for a wide range of facilities including hazardous materials plants, petroleum and gas stations, HVAC systems for industrial buildings, and more, recently worked on the Special Industrial Production of Methylchlorosilane project in Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. It involved the conversion of an existing synthetic rubber plant into the new production facility. With the help of OpenPlant, ProjectWise, and other Bentley software, the engineering team developed a federated information model to facilitate design and accelerate information exchange. The software further provided a unified database of materials and equipment, automated the generation of specifications and estimates, and improved the quality of design decisions as well as the efficiency of project manufacturing administration. Together, these advancements cut design time by 25 percent, time to produce project documentation by 50 percent, and the project travel budget by 30 percent. Sergei Krashakov, head of design team, DI Soyuzhimpromproekt, said, “The Bentley software allows the organization of parallel teamwork on a project by practically any number of specialists in various fields.”
About OpenPlant
OpenPlant provides advancements for the multi-discipline engineering of process plants. It is widely adopted by leading plant EPCs and owner-operators as the most practical and the most scalable solution to comprehensively support project delivery. Through its use of iRING/ISO 15926 as an intrinsic data model, OpenPlant enables users to coordinate and share information across multiple disciplines and the infrastructure lifecycle.
For additional information:
- OpenPlant
- OpenPlant Support Engineering
- The Be Inspired Awards Program
- The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference
Follow @bentleysystems and #YII2015 on Twitter. Like Bentley on Facebook.
About Bentley Systems
Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and comprehensive managed services.
Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2008 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.
Additional information about Bentley is available at www.bentley.com and in Bentley’s annual report. For Bentley news as it happens, subscribe to an RSS feed of Bentley press releases and news alerts. Visit The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference website for highlights of Bentley’s premier thought-leadership event, being held November 3-5, 2015, in London, U.K. To view a searchable collection of innovative infrastructure projects from the annual Be Inspired Awards, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks. To access a professional networking site that enables members of the infrastructure community to connect, communicate, and learn from each other, visit Bentley Communities.
To download the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners ranking, a unique global compendium of the top public- and private-sector owners of infrastructure based on the value of their cumulative infrastructure investments, visit BI 500.
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Bentley, the “B” Bentley logo, Be, OpenPlant, AutoPIPE, STAAD.Pro, MicroStation, OpenPlant Support Engineering, and ProjectWise are either registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated or one of its direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiaries. All other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.Leading EPCs and Owners Credit Bentley’s OpenPlant Advancements
3.11.2015 16:53 Bentley SystemsOpenPlant Support Engineering Advancement Accelerates Design, Analysis, and Placement of Plant Hangers and Supports
LONDON – The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, today reported that OpenPlant continues to set the pace for engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractors and owner-operators around the world who are embracing multi-discipline 3D plant design to deliver projects faster and to enable lifecycle information mobility. Among the projects crediting OpenPlant are 22 nominees for the 2015 Be Inspired Awards program, spanning nine countries and eight innovation categories. Examples of projects that have benefited from OpenPlant’s advancements, along with a brief description of advantages gained, immediately follow the product advancement update below.
Product Advancement Update: Accelerating Design, Analysis, and Placement of Plant Piping Supports and More
The most recent addition to OpenPlant applications is OpenPlant Support Engineering, now available through General Access. The new offering enables EPCs and owner-operators to accelerate the design, analysis, and placement of plant supports and support assemblies for plant piping, electrical, and HVAC components. OpenPlant Support Engineering increases productivity and design accuracy while decreasing overall project time through its intra-operability with other OpenPlant applications, access to multiple vendors’ catalogs of support components, and the automated generation of construction drawings and bills of material.
Bentley Systems Vice President Ken Adamson said, “OpenPlant Support Engineering fully integrates with OpenPlant Modeler, OpenPlant ModelServer, and OpenPlant Isometrics Manager, along with ProjectWise. As a result, users work directly within their OpenPlant environment and can easily integrate support and support assemblies into their overall plant designs. This substantially reduces time spent coordinating across design disciplines while decreasing errors.”
Damian Fonte, senior piping engineer, Hatch, said, “We anticipate OpenPlant Support Engineering will allow us to save time with quick and easy access to accurate support models. What impressed me most about the software is that the manufacturers’ certified catalogs are one click away.”
With OpenPlant Support Engineering, users can:
- quickly and accurately design, model, and place supports and support assemblies;
- cost-effectively engineer all supports in a reasonable time frame;
- leverage a common data environment, with analysis tools such as Bentley’s AutoPIPE and STAAD.Pro, to help ensure the structural integrity and safe operation of plants of all types;
- access an extensive selection of content from multiple vendor catalogs;
- automatically generate accurate construction drawings and bills of material; and
- increase productivity through enhanced collaboration and data reuse.
Examples of Projects Crediting OpenPlant
Compliance and Risk Mitigation
MWH Global’s engineers, consultants, and construction professionals are specialists in water and natural resources who use innovative ideas and technology to help solve complex infrastructure and environmental challenges. During the Tyseley Resource Recovery Centre power generation project in Birmingham, U.K., MWH used OpenPlant PID to produce P&IDs with embedded KKS to comply with power industry standards and to export i-models to synchronize with mechanical piping models. MWH Global used OpenPlant Modeler to design mechanical piping and equipment and attach nongraphical information to all 3D design models. The use of intelligent 3D models helped identify hazardous areas in plants and mitigate risks. Ashish Katake, lead CAD designer, MWH Global, said, “Bentley OpenPlant applications suite truly helped in our project design delivery and enabled us to stand tall in the crowd.”
Reducing Project Delivery Time
Enipro Sp. z o.o. is a multi-discipline engineering and construction company based in Gliwice, Poland, with a long history of scientific and technical achievements in the energy and environmental sectors and chemical industries. During an installation involving the Catalytic Denitrification and Dedusting Gas from Boilers at PKN ORLEN SA’s CHP Plant in Plock, Mazowieckie, Poland, the Enipro team employed OpenPlant Modeler to virtually model the piping installation to EU standards. Enipro project manager Wojciech Szczuka said, “The Enipro engineering team used OpenPlant on the Bentley platform to create 3D models that were shared by all disciplines. Having a 3D model shortened design time, reduced project delivery time, and minimized the occurrence of clashes during construction. Our use of OpenPlant Modeler reduced project cost by up to 20 percent.” Additionally, Enipro’s use of OpenPlant Isometrics Manager for isometric production reduced the delivery time for the project’s documentation by 20 percent.
Optioneering for Higher ROI
GEA Equipamentos E Soluҫões S/A, based in Campinas, Brazil, manufactures a range of process technology equipment and components largely for the food processing industry. In constructing a Milk Pasteurization System in Paraná, Brazil, GEA’s use of OpenPlant to model the plant’s piping enabled it to check for interferences and possible design errors while avoiding future costs of manufacturing errors. Willian Leite Avelino, piping designer for GEA, said, “The OpenPlant software enabled the modeling of the components, extraction of the isometric projections, and the preparation of plant options in a faster manner, reducing the delivery time of the design and, thus, time for construction.” By reducing the delivery time of the project by 10 percent, time of construction by 20 percent, and the number of labor hours for plant completion, OpenPlant increased the return on investment.
Multi-discipline Collaboration in Parallel
DI Soyuzhimpromproekt FSBEI HPE KSTU, a provider of design services for a wide range of facilities including hazardous materials plants, petroleum and gas stations, HVAC systems for industrial buildings, and more, recently worked on the Special Industrial Production of Methylchlorosilane project in Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. It involved the conversion of an existing synthetic rubber plant into the new production facility. With the help of OpenPlant, ProjectWise, and other Bentley software, the engineering team developed a federated information model to facilitate design and accelerate information exchange. The software further provided a unified database of materials and equipment, automated the generation of specifications and estimates, and improved the quality of design decisions as well as the efficiency of project manufacturing administration. Together, these advancements cut design time by 25 percent, time to produce project documentation by 50 percent, and the project travel budget by 30 percent. Sergei Krashakov, head of design team, DI Soyuzhimpromproekt, said, “The Bentley software allows the organization of parallel teamwork on a project by practically any number of specialists in various fields.”
About OpenPlant
OpenPlant provides advancements for the multi-discipline engineering of process plants. It is widely adopted by leading plant EPCs and owner-operators as the most practical and the most scalable solution to comprehensively support project delivery. Through its use of iRING/ISO 15926 as an intrinsic data model, OpenPlant enables users to coordinate and share information across multiple disciplines and the infrastructure lifecycle.
For additional information:
- OpenPlant
- OpenPlant Support Engineering
- The Be Inspired Awards Program
- The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference
Follow @bentleysystems and #YII2015 on Twitter. Like Bentley on Facebook.
About Bentley Systems
Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and comprehensive managed services.
Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2008 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.
Additional information about Bentley is available at www.bentley.com and in Bentley’s annual report. For Bentley news as it happens, subscribe to an RSS feed of Bentley press releases and news alerts. Visit The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference website for highlights of Bentley’s premier thought-leadership event, being held November 3-5, 2015, in London, U.K. To view a searchable collection of innovative infrastructure projects from the annual Be Inspired Awards, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks. To access a professional networking site that enables members of the infrastructure community to connect, communicate, and learn from each other, visit Bentley Communities.
To download the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners ranking, a unique global compendium of the top public- and private-sector owners of infrastructure based on the value of their cumulative infrastructure investments, visit BI 500.
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Bentley, the “B” Bentley logo, Be, OpenPlant, AutoPIPE, STAAD.Pro, MicroStation, OpenPlant Support Engineering, and ProjectWise are either registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated or one of its direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiaries. All other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.Earth from Space
3.11.2015 15:35 ESA Observing the EarthESA's Sentinel-3 Project Manager Bruno Berruti and Thales Alenia's Project Manager Yvan Baillion join the show to tell us more about the Sentinel-3A satellite and its mission
Earth from Space
3.11.2015 15:35 ESA Observing the Earth
ESA's Sentinel-3 Project Manager Bruno Berruti and Thales Alenia's Project Manager Yvan Baillion join the show to tell us more about the Sentinel-3A satellite and its mission
Leading Architectural and Design Practices Credit Bentley’s AECOsim Building Designer BIM Advancements
3.11.2015 15:29 Bentley SystemsIntrinsic Incorporation of GenerativeComponents Computational Design and AECOsim Energy Simulator Advance Conceptioneering
LONDON – The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, today reported how noteworthy building and infrastructure projects are benefiting from the pacesetting BIM advancements empowered by AECOsim Building Designer V8i for the architectural design and multi-discipline engineering of facilities. In the 2015 Be Inspired Awards program, 60 nominees, spanning 20 countries and representing a diverse range of infrastructure projects, credited Bentley’s AECOsim Building Designer innovations. Examples of projects that have benefited from AECOsim Building Designer’s BIM advancements, along with a brief description of advantages gained, immediately follow the product advancement update below.
Product Advancement Update: Conceptioneering and Optioneering
Commenting on the latest advancements in AECOsim Building Designer, Santanu Das, Bentley Systems senior vice president, design and simulation, said, “Increasingly, AECOsim Building Designer is setting the pace for the unconstrained architectural design and engineering of buildings of any size or scope. Now with the V8i (SELECTseries 6) version, we’ve added innovative capabilities for what we call conceptioneering, bringing analytical modeling and design modeling together in the early conceptual stages of a building project to help create effective design strategies to meet building performance objectives.”
Through conceptioneering at the project outset, users are able to balance the demands of creative infrastructure designs with the financial, environmental, and engineering performance requirements of modern infrastructure projects. In conceptioneering, users consider the larger issues to help shape the project’s approach to meeting the programmatic requirements. Accordingly, conceptioneering spans context capture through compelling communication of a design proposal. Throughout the project, users explore design alternatives through optioneering, applying engineering analyses to improve decision making.
In AECOsim Building Designer V8i (SELECTseries 6), GenerativeComponents’ proven technology now intrinsically drives BIM intelligence for computational design. This enables designers to explore more possibilities in less time, create better designs, and efficiently create and manage complex geometric relationships.
The latest AECOsim Building Designer now also features enhanced integration with AECOsim Energy Simulator for indicative energy performance simulation at the conceptioneering stage to enable better-informed decisions. AECOsim Building Designer can produce Analytical Space Models at later stages for optioneering by AECOsim Energy Simulator’s more detailed energy analyses, to continuously assure that the high-performance potential is fully realized.
Das added, “In 2016, conceptioneering and optioneering for AECOsim Building Designer will be further extended through CONNECT Edition Scenario Services, a cloud-based service for unlimited computational capability. With more rapid turnaround for building analysis, users will be able to evaluate a far greater number of alternatives than would otherwise be possible, to further leverage the analytical modeling capabilities of GenerativeComponents and AECOsim Energy Simulator.”
Examples of Projects Crediting AECOsim Building Designer
Interdisciplinary Federation Across Stakeholders
Morphosis Architects is an interdisciplinary practice involved in rigorous design and research that yields innovative, iconic buildings and urban environments. Morphosis recently employed AECOsim Building Designer on the Bill and Melinda Gates Hall, Cornell University project in Ithaca, New York. Throughout the design of the project an integrated and iterative 3D process was employed, which allowed Morphosis to efficiently and effectively communicate design ideas to consultants and the client. By using a federated approach, the design team was able to create a holistic view of the building and provide a single source of information for the project from early concepts through construction administration. The integrated model increased the design team’s productivity and reduced the staff required to design, document, and coordinate the deliverables. Said Cory Brugger, director of design technology, Morphosis Architects, “The success of this highly innovative, award-winning project was supported by Bentley’s modeling platform, which provided an environment for the development and communication of accurate and highly interoperable information for all stakeholders in the project.”
A Construction Museum Dream: Halving Project Duration while Reducing Errors
Sichuan Provincial Architectural Design and Research Institute, a large architectural design consultant organization providing professional services to urban construction and development, employed AECOsim Building Designer on the Panzhihua Three-line Construction Museum project in Sichuan, China. This key cultural facility is innovatively shaped like flower petals and has a floor space of 40,000 square meters. AECOsim Building Designer’s advancements helped shorten the project time by 60 percent. In addition, they helped reduce design errors by 80 percent, increased design depth by 50 percent, and shortened design time from an anticipated 14 months to 7 months.
Optioneering through Computational Design
Scheiwiller Svensson Arkitektkontor AB, a leading architectural firm in office, housing, retail, and industrial infrastructure, needed to maintain a very complex process involving several contractors in the creation of the NOD open public arena and business center in Stockholm, Sweden. GenerativeComponents was used at the beginning of the process to test some façade ideas, and AECOsim Building Designer was used for 3D simulation of installations and collision control. The ability to generate 3D PDFs made for fast communication with clients, consultants, and tenants, and proved to be crucial to the project being completed for lower than the estimated budget. Automated quantification and smart construction of 2D drawings from 3D models significantly reduced the team’s workload.
Ensuring Quality and Precision for Sustainability
AG5 is a full service architectural studio focused on contextual sustainability, value design, and integrated technology. AG5 Partner Brian Sheldon said, “We employ BIM at an expert level to ensure quality and precision in our work, and we do this using Bentley’s AECOsim Building Designer.” AG5 used AECOsim Building Designer on the Gran Rubina Tower in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta. The tower was designed in partnership with PDW, an Indonesian architectural firm. AG5 won the 2014 International Property Awards architecture prize for the tower’s first stage for its sustainable office complex. The 22-story tower uses 30 percent less energy than typical skyscrapers in the region.
About AECOsim Building Designer
AECOsim Building Designer empowers multi-discipline teams to deliver high-performance buildings through BIM advancements. It provides a robust, scalable, and computational design environment that enables architects and engineers to easily and efficiently collaborate, integrate information, clearly communicate design intent, model anything, and simulate and predict real-world performance, including evaluating alternatives through conceptioneering at the project outset and optioneering throughout.
For additional information:
- AECOsim Building Designer V8i (SELECTseries 6)
- AECOsim
- The Be Inspired Awards Program
- The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference
Follow @bentleysystems and #YII2015 on Twitter. Like Bentley on Facebook.
About Bentley Systems
Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and comprehensive managed services.
Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2008 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.
Additional information about Bentley is available at www.bentley.com and in Bentley’s annual report. For Bentley news as it happens, subscribe to an RSS feed of Bentley press releases and news alerts. Visit The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference website for highlights of Bentley’s premier thought-leadership event, being held November 3-5, 2015, in London, U.K. To view a searchable collection of innovative infrastructure projects from the annual Be Inspired Awards, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks. To access a professional networking site that enables members of the infrastructure community to connect, communicate, and learn from each other, visit Bentley Communities.
To download the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners ranking, a unique global compendium of the top public- and private-sector owners of infrastructure based on the value of their cumulative infrastructure investments, visit BI 500.
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Bentley, the “B” Bentley logo, Be, AECOsim Building Designer, MicroStation, GenerativeComponents, and ProjectWise are either registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated or one of its direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiaries. All other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.Leading Architectural and Design Practices Credit Bentley’s AECOsim Building Designer BIM Advancements
3.11.2015 15:29 Bentley SystemsIntrinsic Incorporation of GenerativeComponents Computational Design and AECOsim Energy Simulator Advance Conceptioneering
LONDON – The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, today reported how noteworthy building and infrastructure projects are benefiting from the pacesetting BIM advancements empowered by AECOsim Building Designer V8i for the architectural design and multi-discipline engineering of facilities. In the 2015 Be Inspired Awards program, 60 nominees, spanning 20 countries and representing a diverse range of infrastructure projects, credited Bentley’s AECOsim Building Designer innovations. Examples of projects that have benefited from AECOsim Building Designer’s BIM advancements, along with a brief description of advantages gained, immediately follow the product advancement update below.
Product Advancement Update: Conceptioneering and Optioneering
Commenting on the latest advancements in AECOsim Building Designer, Santanu Das, Bentley Systems senior vice president, design and simulation, said, “Increasingly, AECOsim Building Designer is setting the pace for the unconstrained architectural design and engineering of buildings of any size or scope. Now with the V8i (SELECTseries 6) version, we’ve added innovative capabilities for what we call conceptioneering, bringing analytical modeling and design modeling together in the early conceptual stages of a building project to help create effective design strategies to meet building performance objectives.”
Through conceptioneering at the project outset, users are able to balance the demands of creative infrastructure designs with the financial, environmental, and engineering performance requirements of modern infrastructure projects. In conceptioneering, users consider the larger issues to help shape the project’s approach to meeting the programmatic requirements. Accordingly, conceptioneering spans context capture through compelling communication of a design proposal. Throughout the project, users explore design alternatives through optioneering, applying engineering analyses to improve decision making.
In AECOsim Building Designer V8i (SELECTseries 6), GenerativeComponents’ proven technology now intrinsically drives BIM intelligence for computational design. This enables designers to explore more possibilities in less time, create better designs, and efficiently create and manage complex geometric relationships.
The latest AECOsim Building Designer now also features enhanced integration with AECOsim Energy Simulator for indicative energy performance simulation at the conceptioneering stage to enable better-informed decisions. AECOsim Building Designer can produce Analytical Space Models at later stages for optioneering by AECOsim Energy Simulator’s more detailed energy analyses, to continuously assure that the high-performance potential is fully realized.
Das added, “In 2016, conceptioneering and optioneering for AECOsim Building Designer will be further extended through CONNECT Edition Scenario Services, a cloud-based service for unlimited computational capability. With more rapid turnaround for building analysis, users will be able to evaluate a far greater number of alternatives than would otherwise be possible, to further leverage the analytical modeling capabilities of GenerativeComponents and AECOsim Energy Simulator.”
Examples of Projects Crediting AECOsim Building Designer
Interdisciplinary Federation Across Stakeholders
Morphosis Architects is an interdisciplinary practice involved in rigorous design and research that yields innovative, iconic buildings and urban environments. Morphosis recently employed AECOsim Building Designer on the Bill and Melinda Gates Hall, Cornell University project in Ithaca, New York. Throughout the design of the project an integrated and iterative 3D process was employed, which allowed Morphosis to efficiently and effectively communicate design ideas to consultants and the client. By using a federated approach, the design team was able to create a holistic view of the building and provide a single source of information for the project from early concepts through construction administration. The integrated model increased the design team’s productivity and reduced the staff required to design, document, and coordinate the deliverables. Said Cory Brugger, director of design technology, Morphosis Architects, “The success of this highly innovative, award-winning project was supported by Bentley’s modeling platform, which provided an environment for the development and communication of accurate and highly interoperable information for all stakeholders in the project.”
A Construction Museum Dream: Halving Project Duration while Reducing Errors
Sichuan Provincial Architectural Design and Research Institute, a large architectural design consultant organization providing professional services to urban construction and development, employed AECOsim Building Designer on the Panzhihua Three-line Construction Museum project in Sichuan, China. This key cultural facility is innovatively shaped like flower petals and has a floor space of 40,000 square meters. AECOsim Building Designer’s advancements helped shorten the project time by 60 percent. In addition, they helped reduce design errors by 80 percent, increased design depth by 50 percent, and shortened design time from an anticipated 14 months to 7 months.
Optioneering through Computational Design
Scheiwiller Svensson Arkitektkontor AB, a leading architectural firm in office, housing, retail, and industrial infrastructure, needed to maintain a very complex process involving several contractors in the creation of the NOD open public arena and business center in Stockholm, Sweden. GenerativeComponents was used at the beginning of the process to test some façade ideas, and AECOsim Building Designer was used for 3D simulation of installations and collision control. The ability to generate 3D PDFs made for fast communication with clients, consultants, and tenants, and proved to be crucial to the project being completed for lower than the estimated budget. Automated quantification and smart construction of 2D drawings from 3D models significantly reduced the team’s workload.
Ensuring Quality and Precision for Sustainability
AG5 is a full service architectural studio focused on contextual sustainability, value design, and integrated technology. AG5 Partner Brian Sheldon said, “We employ BIM at an expert level to ensure quality and precision in our work, and we do this using Bentley’s AECOsim Building Designer.” AG5 used AECOsim Building Designer on the Gran Rubina Tower in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta. The tower was designed in partnership with PDW, an Indonesian architectural firm. AG5 won the 2014 International Property Awards architecture prize for the tower’s first stage for its sustainable office complex. The 22-story tower uses 30 percent less energy than typical skyscrapers in the region.
About AECOsim Building Designer
AECOsim Building Designer empowers multi-discipline teams to deliver high-performance buildings through BIM advancements. It provides a robust, scalable, and computational design environment that enables architects and engineers to easily and efficiently collaborate, integrate information, clearly communicate design intent, model anything, and simulate and predict real-world performance, including evaluating alternatives through conceptioneering at the project outset and optioneering throughout.
For additional information:
- AECOsim Building Designer V8i (SELECTseries 6)
- AECOsim
- The Be Inspired Awards Program
- The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference
Follow @bentleysystems and #YII2015 on Twitter. Like Bentley on Facebook.
About Bentley Systems
Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and comprehensive managed services.
Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2008 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.
Additional information about Bentley is available at www.bentley.com and in Bentley’s annual report. For Bentley news as it happens, subscribe to an RSS feed of Bentley press releases and news alerts. Visit The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference website for highlights of Bentley’s premier thought-leadership event, being held November 3-5, 2015, in London, U.K. To view a searchable collection of innovative infrastructure projects from the annual Be Inspired Awards, access Bentley’s Infrastructure Yearbooks. To access a professional networking site that enables members of the infrastructure community to connect, communicate, and learn from each other, visit Bentley Communities.
To download the Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners ranking, a unique global compendium of the top public- and private-sector owners of infrastructure based on the value of their cumulative infrastructure investments, visit BI 500.
# # #
Bentley, the “B” Bentley logo, Be, AECOsim Building Designer, MicroStation, GenerativeComponents, and ProjectWise are either registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated or one of its direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiaries. All other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.Ředitel/ka Zeměměřického a katastrálního inspektorátu v Plzni
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3.11.2015 14:24 ČÚZK - předpisy a opatření /Urady/Zememericke-a-katastralni-inspektoraty/Zememericke-a-katastralni-inspektoraty/Zememericky-a-katastralni-inspektorat-v-Plzni/Uredni-deska/Oznameni-a-jina-uredni-sdeleni/Volna-mista/Reditel-ka-Zememerickeho-a-katastralniho-inspektorDva radioamatéři vyhráli ve výzvě o zachycení signálu
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Dva radioamatéři vyhráli ve výzvě o zachycení signálu
3.11.2015 14:14 Český Kosmický PortálGratulace putuje k radioamatérům Miku Rupprechtovi (Německo) a Edsonu W. R. Pereirovi (Brazílie), kteří přijali výzvu ESA Education Office a jako první zachytili rádiové signály vysílané družicí AAUSAT5 CubeSat!
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3.11.2015 12:00 Jihočeský kraj V sekci Zajímavé stránky (http://geoportal.kraj-jihocesky.gov.cz/gs/zajimave-stranky/) byl doplněn odkaz na mapovou aplikaci W3W (https://map.what3words.com/), která umožňuje určení polohy kdekoliv na světě pomocí tří slov v prostorové mřížce 3x3 m.V sekci Zajímavé stránky byl d
3.11.2015 12:00 Jihočeský kraj V sekci Zajímavé stránky byl doplněn odkaz na mapovou aplikaci W3W, která umožňuje určení polohy kdekoliv na světě pomocí tří slov v prostorové mřížce 3x3 m.Ve všech mapových službách byl
3.11.2015 12:00 Plzeňský kraj Ve všech mapových službách byla provedena aktualizace vektorových katastrálních map (DKM, KMD a ÚKM). Data jsou s platností k 1. 10. 2015. Nově je v DKM zpracováno 26 katastrálních území. Stav digitalizace je k dispozici zde (http://cuzk.cz/Dokument.aspx?AKCE=META:SESTAVA:MDR004_XSLT:WEBCUZK_KRAJ:400). Pro práci s daty katastru nemovitostí je možné například využít tuto mapovou službu (http://mapy.kr-plzensky.cz/gis/katastr/). Seznam všech mapových služeb je k dispozici zde (http://geoportal.plzensky-kraj.cz/gs/vsechny-mapy/). Zároveň došlo k aktualizaci dat ve výdejním modulu.Ve všech mapových službách byl
3.11.2015 12:00 Plzeňský kraj Ve všech mapových službách byla provedena aktualizace vektorových katastrálních map (DKM, KMD a ÚKM). Data jsou s platností k 1. 10. 2015. Nově je v DKM zpracováno 26 katastrálních území. Stav digitalizace je k dispozici zde. Pro práci s daty katastru nemovitostí je možné například využít tuto mapovou službu. Seznam všech mapových služeb je k dispozici zde. Zároveň došlo k aktualizaci dat ve výdejním modulu.Precision Agriculture Helps Feed Earth’s Growing Population
3.11.2015 11:11 European GNSS AgencyAs the world population increases, the European GNSS Agency (GSA) says the agriculture industry is looking at satellite-enabled technologies to maximise yields and improve efficiency.
By 2050, the world’s population is predicted to increase by 2 billion, reaching a total
population of 9 billion people. To cope with this reality, the agriculture industry must maximise the use of available resources. Precision agriculture, which uses satellite navigation to help increase crop yields and improve efficiency, will play an important role in this effort – and an increasing number of precision agriculture professionals are already relying on EGNOS.
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“Farmers are early adopters of precision agriculture, and the GSA is strongly committed to the farming community,” said GSA Head of Market Development Gian-Gherardo Calini, speaking at a conference entitled Risk Management and Climate Change: Tools to Support Farmers to Produce Food and Public Goods, held in connection with Expo Milan. “Their needs are becoming more sophisticated, leading to high productivity and farm profitability.”
While the technology has a variety of uses, the main application is tractor guidance. Positioning applications can be used to guide a tractor around a field and minimise the effort exerted by a farmer, thus increasing efficiency and reducing labour costs.
EGNOS can also be used to help farmers enhance crop management and improve position-based tasks like spraying insecticides and pesticides and harvesting crops. In turn, this increases yields and helps provide much-needed food supply around the world.
A Need for Advanced Applications
As precision agriculture technology becomes more widely available, farmers are demanding advanced applications of satellite technology and are looking for entire farm management solutions. Farmers want technology that allows them to make better decisions and have more predictable outcomes.
Unmanned drones, or UAVs, are aiding in this effort. When combined with remote sensors, UAVs can be used to determine crop progress as well as crop deficiencies and the presence of disease and water monitoring. This information could lower pesticide usage, thus decreasing the environmental footprint of agriculture.
One example of this is FieldCopter, an EU-funded project where UAVs fly a pre-determined pattern and collect data from agricultural land. Another is the Mistrale project, which seeks to provide soil moisture maps using GNSS Reflectometry, helping farmers maximise water efficiency. The Mistrale project was successfully tested in 2015 and is part of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme.
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This cutting-edge work has gotten the attention of organisations around Europe and the world, as they can see the benefits that the technology can have on agriculture.
“Coldiretti (Italy’s national confederation of agriculture entrepreneurs) is extremely interested in innovation and the benefits that European GNSS can bring to agriculture,” said Calini. “From a farmer’s perspective, GNSS is only one satellite technology amongst others. For example, Copernicus complements positioning with remote sensing information.”
The crop insurance industry can also benefit from positioning and earth observation tools, as the technology creates better models to predict weather patterns and determine crop yields. With that information, crop insurance companies can set predictable rates and manage profits.
“By harnessing new technologies and accessing more precise data, we are increasing production and improving the efficiency of our work for the benefit of consumers and society as a whole,” Calini concluded.
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