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

[G. Allegri]

Some collegues of mine use this LIS DESKTOP [1] fromLaserData.
It's a proprietary/commercial module for SAGA [2]:

[1] http://www.laserdata.at/prod_desk.html
[2] www.saga-gis.org

Giovanni

2010/4/2 Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org>:
> 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
>>>>>
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>> --
>> Cameron Shorter
>> Geospatial Solutions Manager
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>> Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
>>
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