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The February issue of the WGIC Policy Watch highlights a number of advances, which in just the second month of 2021, are already taking hold.
At GeoBIM 2020, WGIC, along with UN-GGIM and WFEO, and member companies Bentley Systems and Oracle Construction and Engineering, discussed the need, challenges, and opportunities of uptake of GeoBIM technologies in the areas of resilient infrastructure, sustainable urban development, and building back better cities.
This issue of Policy Watch highlights policy and program advances that countries around the world are making in Space, AI, UAVs, and data.
In November 2020, of WGIC’s Policy Watch Newsletter, we are…
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WGIC Member, Maxar Technologies has released a series of satellite images that sees through smoke showing details on the ground, detecting fire lines and hot spots.
E-Geos and Maxar Technologies, members of WGIC, have come up with satellite data to understand the extent of the damage of the Beirut disaster.
Sanjay Kumar, CEO, World Geospatial Industry Council( WGIC) made this…
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WGIC has seen an uptake in the application and use of spatial analytics during the COVID-19 pandemic in the form of dashboards. A majority of them are providing near real-time information on the global and regional spread. And some are offering a historical analysis. A select few are also explaining how it happened through an interactive map story. This effort from WGIC is to highlight the great work from various organizations and individuals who are providing the COVID-19 dashboards enabled with spatial analytics.
One of the earlier dashboards we saw during the COVID-19 crisis was from the Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). We also now find the University of Virginia, lavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford and the University of Wisconsin providing GIS-based dashboards. Here is a brief into their work.
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As the COVID-19 spread across the globe, The World Health Organization (WHO) took proactive steps to enable a global COVID-19 dashboard. This was then followed by regional level agencies and other organizations in the medical profession. Here is the list of five dashboards that we have found.
According to resources published by our patron member, Esri alone has enabled dashboards of two hundred and ten dashboards across eighty-eight countries.
WGIC came across the work from four global media brands – BBC, The Washington Post, The Financial Times and The New York Times. The most recommended work from this is the work titled ‘How the Virus Got Out’ from The New York Times.
Here is how various countries are using location tracking and personal data to combat COVID-19.