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Virtual Geoscience Conference 2016: where geomatics meets geoscience [Editorial]

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posted on 2018-03-05, 11:33 authored by Simon Buckley, Tobias H. Kurz, Michael Jaboyedoff, Marc-Henri Derron, Jim Chandler
We are currently witnessing an exciting period for the geomatics sector as the fundamental role of spatial data is increasingly recognised in our society. Driven by hardware developments, software innovations and a general convergence of previously unconnected disciplines, geomatics methods are being rapidly adopted in novel ways, both within the scientific community, as well as by industry and the public sector. Geoscience is one broad field that is currently benefitting from developments in geomatics acquisition, processing and data exploitation methods made over the last decade. It is here, at the confluence between geomatics, computer science, visualisation and the broad arms of the geosciences, where the Virtual Geoscience conference series has been established. The second Virtual Geoscience Conference 2016 (VGC 2016) was characterised by consolidation and growth following an earlier event in 2014, as explored in this Editorial.

Funding

We are grateful to the Research Council of Norway for a conference arrangement grant (FRINATEK project number 249999/F20). In addition, we acknowledge Institut Carnot BRGM, the University of Lausanne, HySpex, MEAS-IT, 3D Laser Mapping, Wiley and 3D Teknikk for invaluable financial support.

History

School

  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Published in

Photogrammetric Record

Volume

32

Issue

160

Pages

346 - 349

Citation

BUCKLEY, S. ... et al, 2017. Virtual Geoscience Conference 2016: where geomatics meets geoscience [Editorial]. The Photogrammetric Record, 32 (160), pp.346-349.

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons Ltd © The Authors © The Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society and John Wiley & Sons Ltd

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2017-10-19

Publication date

2017

Notes

This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: BUCKLEY, S. ... et al, 2017. Virtual Geoscience Conference 2016: where geomatics meets geoscience [Editorial]. The Photogrammetric Record, 32 (160), pp.346-349., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/phor.12220. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions

ISSN

0031-868X

eISSN

1477-9730

Language

  • en