Elisa van Bergen

Is your Diver an ideal home for spiders? Quality assurance and control are needed to provide reliable and insightful data. However, within that data, you can sometimes find interesting and unexpected things! In one of our projects monitoring the floodplains of the Rhine and Meuse rivers in the Netherlands for Rijkswaterstaat, we faced an unusual challenge. During the validation of data, we noticed some strange anomalies in some of the Diver’s pressure data. The air pressure deviated from the air pressure recorded by an external source during the day. However, during the night no differences in air pressure were recorded. Upon further investigation, we discovered that sac spiders had made their nests inside the pressure chambers of the Divers. These nocturnal spiders, hiding in their webs during the day, were affecting the pressure membrane and skewing our data. For the next monitoring campaign, we installed new Divers, now with a medical finger bob around it, to prevent spiders from entering the pressure chamber. We'll see next year if this solution works! To learn more about our dataloggers, visit: ➡️https://bit.ly/4eTDSC0 #diver #datalogger #telemetry #remediation #groundwater #watermonitoring #watermanagement #datamanagement

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Map made on QGIS QGIS Gebruikersgroep Nederland QGIS-PT IRD Global Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) Mapping becomes more informative through QGIS

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Last month we presented #DataGenesis to the geospatial and disaster response community at the The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) MM#128 in Delft, Netherlands. This slide here showed the importance of understanding the evolution patterns of a population: 👩‍👦 Is the population getting younger or older? Richer or poorer? 🏡 Are residents moving to suburbs with higher risk of being hit by disasters? 🏥 What is the expected burden for insurers and healthcare providers? Some lessons can be extracted from our synthetic dataset of Miami, Florida already. We see interesting trends in terms of respiratory disease incidence and habits in vehicle ownership. Want to know more? Ask us at datagenesis@skymantics.com #syntheticdata #insurance #disasterresponse

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Curious to know what to expect during a shoot? Well, apart from at least one curious neighbour who mistakes our drone for a swarm of bees, here’s typically how a session goes: ✅ We arrive on site and chat with our client, ensuring that everyone’s on the same page about the vision, or if anything has changed since our consultation. ✅ We carefully observe our surroundings to make sure we’re avoiding interference, obstacles, and ensuring the privacy of people nearby. ✅ We have takeoff! It’s time to launch the drone and follow a pre-determined shot list of photos and video footage. 🚀 ✅ Time to pack up without leaving a trace on the environment and bring your vision to life with our post-production magic! ✨ Book a free consultation on our website at levitateguelph.ca or message us directly to learn about our aerial imaging services. #guelph #guelphsmallbusiness #smallbusiness #droneservice #guelphsmallbusiness #dronephotography #aerialimaging #dronevideo #uavphotography #uavpilot #ontario #guelphrealtor #guelphlife #guelphbusiness #guelphhomes #realestate #dronestagram

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Podcast alert 🎤 Innovative Drone Integration at the Port of Rotterdam, in collaboration with DronePort Rotterdam, explained by our own Niels Kalshoven! 🚀 We’re thrilled to have joined The Vertical Space for an engaging discussion on the vertical integration of spatial layers—a principal aim at Drone Port Rotterdam. A special thank you to The Vertical Space for hosting us and to Andrew Hately for establishing this valuable connection. In this podcast Niels, Head of Drone Innovation Program at Port of Rotterdam and Co-founder of Drone Port Rotterdam, brings a unique maritime perspective on how drones are revolutionizing port operations. 🕒 In this episode the following topics are dicussed: ➡️ The Evolution of Drone Operations at the Port of Rotterdam: Exploring how drone technology has progressed and its increasing importance in port logistics. ➡️ Integrating Drones into Port Operations: Strategies for embedding drone capabilities seamlessly within existing port functions. ➡️ Deciding How to Bring Aboard Drones at the Port: The decision-making process behind the adoption of drones in port operations. ➡️ The Practical Benefits and Use Cases of Drones in Port Management: From surveillance to maintenance, how drones are being used to enhance efficiency. ➡️ U-Space at the Port: Understanding the designated airspace for drones and its management. ➡️ Expanding Use Cases: How drones are evolving from simple observational tools to complex delivery systems and eVTOL applications. ➡️ Understanding Air and Ground Risk: Managing the risks associated with operating drones in a bustling port environment. ➡️ Centralized vs. Decentralized Drone Management: Different approaches to managing drone operations within port settings. ➡️ Business Models and Charging for Drone Operations: Exploring how drone services are commercialized. ➡️ Customer Feedback and Future Business Opportunities: Insights into customer responses and potential future expansions. ➡️ Building the Drone Ecosystem and International Collaboration: Steps towards creating a robust drone ecosystem and the importance of global partnerships. ➡️ Frustrations With Current Drone Offerings: Challenges currently faced and areas for improvement. ➡️ Future of Drone Operations and Advice for Innovators: Niels shares his vision for the future and tips for upcoming innovators in drone technology. 🔗 Listen to the entire podcast via: https://lnkd.in/e43FVbZW 🤝 Whether you’re an innovator in the drone industry or interested in how technology intersects with maritime operations, this conversation sheds light on the transformative impact of drones and offers a roadmap for future advancements. #Drones #Innovation #MaritimeIndustry #PortofRotterdam #TechnologyIntegration

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Over the weekend, we successfully delivered a cutting-edge application for a municipality in the Netherlands. This innovative tool provides citizens with crucial information on rules and policies for specific areas. Here's a glimpse of what the application accomplishes: - It showcases relevant maps utilizing ArcGIS services, offering OpenStreetMap, Historical Maps (with users selecting the year), and Aerial photographs. - The application matches natural language inquiries to relevant rules using an LLM enhanced mechanism for cross-language matching with the thesaurus. - Using vector search, it retrieves similar questions, reducing reliance on the LLM and enhancing speed. - The tool displays policies pertinent to the question and the location, ensuring comprehensive information delivery. - Employing AI/LLM, it evaluates the question's relevance, filtering out nonsensical inquiries while logging them for reference. - Human assessment of response quality aids in refining candidate questions. - It generates a PDF with a clickable Table of Contents, maps, policies, background information, and sidebars, enhancing user experience. All these functionalities are powered by Graphileon low-code functions. Through iterative enhancements, we streamlined the core application to under 40 functions and 90 triggers, making it one of the most robust and compact solutions we've developed to date. The visual representation of the core application's graph, strictly adhering to the (:Function)-[:TRIGGER]->(:Function) pattern in a graph database, enables us to create a heat map for functionality usage visualization. Additionally, access to function data can be restricted through an additional permission graph, exemplifying true low-coding capabilities. #Innovation #Technology #LowCode #ApplicationDevelopment #GraphDatabase

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📢🌍 🌡️ Are you studying in a Dutch university and want to apply your Geo-Spatial Data Skills to make European CITIES more HEAT RESILIENT? An internship opportunity is still open in the World Resources Institute to join the Data For Cool Cities Team! 🔥 🏙️ 🌡️ We are building Data, Maps and Tools to support cities for implementing cooling infrastructure and reducing population exposure to Extreme Heat 🥵. #urbanheat #geospatial #dataforgood #cities You can learn more about our heat data products in the comment below 👇

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Mud Season is Upon Us, and We're Not Afraid to Get a Little Dirty! Take a look at this Hagglunds BV206 hauling fuel through some seriously muddy terrain. Whether it's navigating treacherous landscapes, working in remote locations, or finding innovative solutions to complex problems, we're up for the challenge. At Low Impact, we're not afraid to test the limits of our equipment. We've got a proven track record of delivering results for our clients, even in the most demanding situations. Contact us today to learn more about how we can help you tackle your toughest challenges and deliver the results you need. #Lowimpact #Hagglunds #MudSeason #pipeline #oil #utility #offroad #prinoth #InnovativeSolutions #RemoteOperations

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My passion for Earth Observation and Spatial data science is unlimited. Thanks to University of Twente for making learning possible and help me in completing a very interesting training #EESA #Twente Surface Flood Modelling Supported by Cloud-Based RS & GIS

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📣 Collect 360 imagery yourself! 📣 At Horus, we believe everyone has the power to gain valuable insights from their environment. Maximize the value by being able to decide for yourself when imagery are collected. For certain issues, timeliness is important. At the ESRI Connect 2024 in Utrecht today, an example was given of how a municipality can obtain valuable GIS insights with high-resolution geo-referenced 360-degree imagery with the help of an AI model. So what are you waiting for? Discover the power of data collection with Horus and make the leap to smarter decisions today! 💡🌐 https://lnkd.in/eZM4brc7 #CollectYourself #Horus #ESRIConnect #EC24 #HorusCityMapper #Ladybug6 #Celantur #YOLO #SegmentAnything #OrientedImagery #ArcGIS #SmartDecisions

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We measure and document a lot of bridges which add up to a comprehensive collection of bridge surveys! 🛤️ MetricArt: We approach things systematically so you don't have to. 🔄 #CFDP #topo #topografie #proiectare

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Extra function key commands are frequently requested and added to Trimble Access. In the most recent release (v2023.10) we added function key commands to control map selections, control the display of map toolbars like "Limit box" or the "Snap-to" toolbar, and also for Total Station users to open the "Check backsight" or "Change target" form.

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As developers are increasingly working on projects in mountainous terrain or at the intersection of land and water, using data with high spatial resolution should be without question. Some data providers offer access to a low-resolution version of their datasets, i.e. 10 km × 10 km, and a higher resolution version, representing the native resolution of satellite imagery. Note that with lower-resolution datasets, the uncertainty of estimates is higher than the advertised uncertainty of the high-resolution dataset. Solar asset developers, owners, and operators should also pay close attention to the spatial resolution of meteorological parameters. Often, meteorological parameters, e.g. air temperature, are derived from numerical weather models that have a coarse spatial resolution such as 25 km × 25 km. This can result in higher uncertainty for yield estimates in regions with variable terrain or in proximity to lakes and seas. When selecting data for energy yield simulations, you should prefer datasets that include post-processed meteo inputs, for example elevation corrected and de-biased air temperature data. We talk more about the MASTER approach in our ebook on selecting the right dataset: https://lnkd.in/eyueXZqW #SolarEnergy #DataScience #SolarData #SolarPowerAnalysis

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Innovative Use of Geosynthetic Clay Liners (GCLs) in Levee Reinforcement 🚧 We are proud that the innovative application of GCLs in levee reinforcement has been published in the June issue of the engineering journal Geotechniek/Geokunst. 📍 Project location: Beesel, Limburg, Netherlands 📏 Scope: Application of GCLs over 530 meters levee length on the outer slope, crest, and part of the inner slope 💡 Innovation: First-time using GCLs at a levee in the Netherlands This unique project was realized in collaboration with ABT bv, Waterschap Limburg, Mourik, FL B.V., and Naue Group. The article covers various aspects, including material properties, design, implementation, and maintenance. It also discusses the monitoring of grass cover during the operation phase. #naue #geosynthetics #bentonitemats #GCL #geotechnicalsolution #hydraulicengineering #floodcontrol #leveeconstruction

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QGIS-Tipp: Erweiterte Digitalisierung / Advanced digitization - burdGIS-Video-Tutorial https://lnkd.in/eDzvrXND #qgis #switch2qgis #gistribe #gischat #fossgis #foss4g #OSGeo #spatial #geospatial #opensource #geo #geoObserver pls RT via @burdGIS

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Urban Mapping: Stadtkarten mit QGIS und QuickOSM / City maps with QGIS and QuickOSM https://lnkd.in/eU4BqbDb #qgis #switch2qgis #osm #openstreetmap #gistribe #gischat #fossgis #foss4g #OSGeo #spatial #geospatial #opensource #mapping #DataViz #gis #geo #geoObserver pls RT

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