What are the data layers that need to come together to image and document and integrate our data about the world to generate an active living digital twin of time and space? A rapid discussion of the possibilities....
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3. TABLE OF CONTENTS
Digital Scaffold Defined
Remote Sensing Defined
Visible Light Imaging
Intro to the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Multispectral Imaging
Passive vs. Active Sensors
From the Macrocosm to the Microcosm
Game Changing Game Theory
Why Hasn’t This Been Built Before?
4. Time & Space Visualized
What is “the digital scaffold?”
5. Topography
Bathymetry
GISImagery
Meteorology
BiofeedbackAcoustic
Flora & Fauna
HUMAN FACTORS
Political
Economic
Social
Media
ART
REMOTE SENSING
(Simplified) Types of
Data That Can Be
Cognitively
intertwined to allow
for new meaning
making and
exploration
Why should we start with visualizing time & space?
Loom : Tapestry
Canvas : Painting
Foundation : Building
6. How do you visualize time & space?
CREATED CONTENT COLLECTED CONTENT
Built by Hand Built by Sensor
(Remote Sensing)
VS
+
&
Faster to Collect,
Higher Resolution/ Accuracy,
Harder to Process
9. Visible Light: Photography: What is it?
Traditional Photography Digital Photography
USING LIGHT TO CAPTURE A 2D IMAGE
10. Visible Light: Photography: What is it used for? How has it been used?
Captures a 2D moment in time
Exploration,
Survey,
& Science
Novelty Family
Record
Keeping
Experiential
Record
Keeping
Everything
1800s 1900s 2000s
11. Visible Light: Photography: Who Uses it & Stores it?
Government,
Science&
Exploration, &
Wealthy
Professional
Industries,
Hobbyists, &
Artists
Stored:
Everyone for
Everything
Note: Video Following Similar Path
13. Captures a Bird’s Eye View, Time lapse
Visible Light: Aerial Photography: What is it used for? How has it been used?
Surveillance, Exploration, Science,
Commercial Mapping
Surveillance, ExplorationSurveillance
1800s 1900s 2000s
Drones
14. Visible Light: Aerial Photography: Who Uses it & Stores it?
Science/Academia,
Government, &
Exploration
Professional
Industries,
Hobbyists, &
Artists
Stored:
Everyone for
Mapping
15. Visible Light: Photogrammetry—What is it?
Close Range Photogrammetry
(of an object/space)
Aerial Photogrammetry
(of a landscape)
USING PHOTOGRAPH GEOMETRY TO BUILD A 3D MODEL
17. Visible Light: Photogrammetry: Who Uses it & Stores it?
Science/Academia,
Government,
Museums,
Exploration
Real Estate
Industry,
Hobbyists, &
Artists
Stored:
18. Visible Light: Structured Light Scanning (SLS): What is it?
USING CALIBRATED LIGHT PATTERNS TO CREATE A 3D MODEL
High-Resolution SLS Low-Resolution SLS
19. Visible Light: Structured Light Scanning (SLS): What is it used for?
Object/Space
Recognition in Gaming
Diagnostic Imaging
21. Visible Light: Terrestrial Light Detection & Ranging (tLiDAR): What is it?
USING LIGHT TO CAPTURE A 3D SPATIAL ‘IMAGE’
(aka Laser Scanning, Linear mode)
22. Visible Light: Terrestrial Light Detection & Ranging (tLiDAR): What is it used for?
High resolution imaging of interiors and exteriors, natural and man-made
48. This is just part of the macrocosm.
It also extends to the
microcosm…
• TEM transmission electron microscopes
• SEM Scanning electron microscopes
• WMF wide field microscopes
• LSCSM laser scanning confocal microscopy
• Structured illumination microscopy
• Atomic force microscopy
• Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR)
• X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF)