Thursday, March 18, 2010

Importance of CAD drafting

CAD drafting services plays an important role in our daily life.CAD is an important industrial art extensively used in all areas and in many applications, including automotive, shipbuilding,aerospace industries, industrial and architectural design, prosthetics, and many more. CAD has been a major driving force for research in computational geometry, computer graphics (both hardware and software), and discrete differential geometry.

Because of its enormous economic importance, CAD drawings are the most effective way to document technical drawings and related information in an organized manner. CAD combined with GIS enables data to be analysed geographically.

CAD conversion services ranges from GIS to CAD format conversion,
CAD to GIS format conversion, CAD Drafting, paper to CAD conversions etc.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

GIS mapping services

Mapping services are categorized based on user specified specifications.
some of the important services are:
* Custom mapping: Mapping Services and GIS Data for Businesses purposes
* Shoreline mapping: The wet/dry line is the feature mapped as the shoreline on historical photography. Therefore to detemine a representative elevation of the wet/dry line so that our lidar-derived elevation-based shoreline is comparable to earlier mapped shorelines.
* Utility mapping : This mapping experience ranges from in all sort of field ie small corner gas stations, through industrial plants, military installations, to entire towns, and involves every type and construction of pipe and cable - including utilities beneath buildings or other structures.
* Muncipal mapping : Includes mapping of town planning.
* Parcel mapping
* Mapping of reclamation activities
* Wildlife and habitat monitoring

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Creation ofDigital Elevation Model (DEM)

For the accurate removal of the image distortions, a digital elevation model (DEM) is used to make image orthorectification. The requisite DEM can be produced by semi-automatic DEM extraction software from stereo satellite scenes obtained by the QuickBird, IKONOS, SPOT-5, or ASTER satellite sensors, and stereo aerial photography.

In situations where higher mapping accuracy standards are required, the DEM is extracted from the already existing topographic maps with reference to a standard scale or collected using stereo satellite image data.

To obtain this accuracy standard, adequate GPS-derived ground control points (GCPs) are necessary. Other remote sensing techniques can also be used such as radar interferometry or LIDAR.

When a particular vector data needs to be extracted from satellite or aerial image data by raster-to-vector translation, the process of ortho rectification of the remotely sensed image data can rectify all digital images of geological, environmental, topographic or any other source map which will be used in the GIS mapping environment.

Creating anOrthophoto / Orthorectification

In the areas of GIS data acquisition, visualization and general mapping, digital satellite imagery and aerial photographs have a significant place.Photographs obviously provide a solid visual effect. Imperceptible spatial concepts are more clearly understood by viewing the photographs. These are not photographs taken by ordinary cameras. These are very professional high-end cameras with higher zoom and clarity.
Another important role of these photos is to provide a foundation for collecting the spatial information needed. Data in the form of the satellite images or aerial photographs must be taken without any distortions, if you need to gather information useful for a mapping or GIS system in the case of roads, marine forms or vegetation.
This process of correcting the distortions of a satellite image of aerial photograph is called Orthophoto rectification.This process allows you to make direct and precise measurements of areas, distances, angles, positions etc.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Web mapping services

The GIS /Mapping services specializes in Graphical Information Systems (GIS), and has produced several interactive online maps (and printed maps) for public use.Today, a variety of Web mapping services exist, each of them providing a similar interface to extensive mapping and other GIS data.Compare various web map services and service providers http://www.sblgis.com/web-mapping-services.aspx
,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_map_services .