[OSGeo-Discuss] What GeoSpatial Open Source Software do Surveyors use?

[Markus Neteler]

Cameron,

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Cameron Shorter
<cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you Marina,

(small correction: Maria)

> That is a good example.
> To be complete, could you also answer:
> * What would be the proprietary equivalent software you would use?

I'll leave that to Maria.

> * Why did you decide to use GRASS instead of proprietary software?
> (Hopefully more than "it was cheaper")

... note that she actually *author* of the code. She and her team have
developed it over the last years.

> * It seems you are officiated with a University?

She is professor there.

> Industry is more convinced
> by case studies that come out of industry, as universities are often
> associated with "smart geeks, who have a high tollerance to things going
> wrong because they can fix it themselves". Is there a non-education
> affilition you can draw upon? Did you do this work for a governement
> department or similar?

I leave this again to Maria.

Best
Markus

> maria.brovelli at diiar-topo.polimi.it wrote:
>>
>> Dear Cameron
>> if you are interested also in LiDAR data filtering (to obtain from the
>> LiDAR point cloud the digital terrain model), we developed  commands into
>> GRASS. They have to be used in sequence.
>>
>> http://grass.osgeo.org/gdp/html_grass64/v.lidar.edgedetection.html
>> http://grass.osgeo.org/gdp/html_grass64/v.lidar.growing.html
>> http://grass.osgeo.org/gdp/html_grass64/v.lidar.correction.html
>> http://grass.osgeo.org/gdp/html_grass64/v.surf.bspline.html
>>
>> A detailed description is available here:
>>
>>
>> http://www.foss4g2006.org/getFile.py/access?contribId=48&sessionId=59&resId=7&materialId=slides&confId=1
>>
>> a more recent and summarised version can be found here:
>>
>>
>> http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/corsi/remote_sensing/LiDAR_filtering_with_GRASS-lab4.pdf
>>
>> We worked also on calibration of  the filtering parameters (around 20
>> parameters) by integrating the USGS UCODE and GRASS. Details are available
>> here:
>>
>> http://www.isprs.org/proceedings/XXXVIII/1_4_7-W5/paper/Brovelli-126.pdf
>>
>> I hope it helps.
>>
>> Cheers.
>> Maria
>>
>>
>>
>>> ----- "Cameron Shorter" <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm giving a presentation on GeoSpatial Open Source at the
>>>> international
>>>> Surveyors conference here in Sydney.
>>>> http://www.fig2010.com/
>>>>
>>>> I'd like advice on what use cases and Open Source packages I should
>>>> focus on during the presentation.
>>>> Feedback from Surveyors welcomed.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Cameron Shorter
>>>> Geospatial Solutions Manager
>>>> Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
>>>> Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
>>>>
>>>> Think Globally, Fix Locally
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