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H2020Staff exchange2017–2022

VOLTA · innoVation in geOspatiaL and 3D daTA

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2017-06-01 → 2022-11-30
EU contribution
€1,021,500
Participants
13
Scheme
MSCA-RISE

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Results in brief

innoVation in geOspatiaL and 3D daTA

VOLTA is a RISE MSCA project that offers and performs secondments, investigations, training activities and networking to facilitate knowledge exchange and career progresses in the geospatial field (i.e. photogrammetry, remote sensing, GIS, surveying, etc.). The geospatial field produces, delivers and uses geospatial data (i.e. data with a geographic component) for applications in smart cities, forestry, location-based services, 3D city modelling, navigation, mapping, heritage documentation, energy efficiency, etc. VOLTA want to reach the following objectives: - to develop new methodologies to extract accurate geometric information from images – at various scale and from different sensors – in a more automatic, reliable, repeatable and productive manner than current state-of-the-art; - to fuse sensors and data in order to exploit the intrinsic advantages of each one and generate products with superior quality characteristics than from a single (sort of) sensor; - to automatically classify and understand (2D and 3D) geospatial data, including 2D/3D feature extraction; - to exploit Cloud computing for faster processing and to provide access to large quantities of geodata. The project, within it researches, events and secondments, wants to demonstrate and enlarge the benefits of geospatial data and technologies, investigating open issues, offering new processing solutions and unveiling how the geospatial field is evolving and bringing benefits to the society. VOLTA includes 13 partners from research and academic institutions, geospatial companies and mapping agencies.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

Geodata are datasets that have a spatial, temporal and thematic aspect to describe phenomena and processes in time, space and topic. Geodata, or geospatial data, are nowadays collected and produced with various sensors and techniques which provide for images, 3D point clouds, thematic maps, etc. Geodata are used in many Geosciences and for various applications such as urban planning, territorial management, damage assessment, environmental monitoring, 3D city modelling, renewable energy assessment, land registry, heritage documentation, etc. Despite a growing market, a large number of applications, a vast series of publications and various acquisition and processing techniques, there are still many unresolved research questions on the automation of processing procedures, and on how to make them more reliable, powerful and scale-invariant. Moreover, an efficient availability, access and use of geospatial data are often missing. This hinders the growth of new applications and societal welfares. Progress in provision of efficiently and effectively derived 3D geospatial information is thus the key to more comprehensive, faster and better exploitation of geodata, for the benefit of individuals and societies. Last but not least, new occupations are emerging in the geospatial industry which requires capacity building for developing new applications of geospatial technologies. The VOLTA project, through secondments, training activities and networking, will facilitate knowledge exchange and career progresses in the geospatial field. The project will develop innovative solutions to (i) automatically provide metric information from images, (ii) fuse heterogeneous data coming from various sensors, (iii) segment 2D and 3D geospatial data and (iv) process large geospatial datasets in the Cloud. The project will share and exploit the complementary expertise of the partners to produce and transfer new skills and innovative solutions for mapping agencies and geospatial companies.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER · TrentoCoordinatorItaly
  • CENTRUL NATIONAL DE CARTOGRAFIE · BucharestRomania
  • GEODETSKI ZAVOD CELJE, d.o.o. · CeljeSlovenia
  • GEOIMAGING LIMITED · LEFKOSIACyprus
  • GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITAET HANNOVER · HannoverGermany
  • INSTITUT CARTOGRAFIC I GEOLOGIC DE CATALUNYA · BarcelonaSpain
  • INSTITUT NATIONAL DE L'INFORMATION GEOGRAPHIQUE ET FORESTIERE · Saint MandeFrance
  • ORDNANCE SURVEY LTD · SouthamptonUnited Kingdom
  • TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN · WienAustria
  • TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT · DelftNetherlands
  • UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI · WarszawaPoland
  • VERMESSUNG AVT-ZT-GMBH · ImstAustria
  • VEXCEL IMAGING GMBH · GrazAustria

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union