GI不仅是为了户外活动

It is always interesting to discover applications of geospatial you’d never even considered. In September I attended a conference organised by GI Standards for companies and organizations involved in the UNCAP scheme. This is an EU initiative to encourage development of technology to assist Europe’s ageing population. We learnt about how RFID tags attached to medical equipment in hospitals can help keep track of where they’re located and when they need servicing; how an underfloor grid with sensors can be part of a system to track movement and falls of the elderly and vulnerable; how research is progressing on indoor location systems; and how CEP – complex event processing – can be part of a system to keep track of vulnerable people and warn when something untoward happens like a fall. We tend to forget that geospatial is not just for the great outdoors.

我们将在下一期GIS Pro中返回UNCAP和更长的文章。But if you’d like to learn more then please go to pvpubs.com/GISProfessional/Home where you’ll find a one-off special edition of GiSPro that was published to coincide with the conference and a meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium’s Technical Committee. Subscribers will have received a printed copy.

But if UNCAP is more about the micro then James Norris’ report on a recent meeting of the UNGGIM committee is very much at the macro level. Getting world leaders to understand how geospatial technology can help alleviate so many problems is hard missionary work, which no one has done better than Dr Vanessa Lawrence, who has been the driver behind the project for the last five years. Her work was recognised with a special award from the UN’s under-secretary-general of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Mr Wu Hongbo (page 24).

在接下来的几个月中，本期探讨的两个主题肯定会再次重新审视。标准和启发可能会很无聊，但它们是必不可少的。看看大众弄错了大众汽车发生了什么。在地理空间中，如果不同的系统和数据集之间没有无缝的互操作性，那么我们的许多系统将无法工作。OGC在这方面做了无名的工作，我鼓励您在第19页上与本杰明·艾伦（Benjamin Allan）在Inspire的第二阶段（第22页）一起阅读他们的两位专家的特别文章。

The second theme is drones, variously known as unmanned aerial vehicles or systems. Abi Page reports from Scottish AGI’s event (page 15) designed to acquaint members with their potential. There are also several other events coming up to promote this rapidly developing technology. They offer a relatively cheap way of rapidly acquiring areal data or close-range inspection. But there are limitations and the image sensors are often not designed for this purpose.

在上一期中，罗宾·沃特斯（Robin Waters）的Eurofile专栏简要介绍了欧洲的Corine Land Cover Map。杰夫·史密斯（Geoff Smith）博士在详细地解释了该项目（第12页）以及自1980年代以来如何跟踪土地使用变化。仅在六年中，英国就经历了栖息地丧失或使用使用变化为225,000公顷。

November sees our industry’s major gathering at Chesford Grange in Warwickshire for GeoCom. I am delighted that former AGI chief executive Chris Holcroft has previewed the event for us (page 16). It will be an exciting and eventful few days with some interesting top-line speakers. Don’t miss it, for while we can report and give a flavour through these columns there is no substitute for being part of the conversation.

对我来说，仅仅将您的注意力引起我们的非凡前封面以及第10页的支持文章，而Adena Schutzberg在空间数据公开时无法避免绘制映射的令人着迷的见解。我敢肯定，没有GIS Pro读者被公然抓住！

This article was published in GIS Professional October 2015