- Nearmap newest streaming 3-D product -
“3-D Viewer and 3-D Export” - democratizes and accelerates access
to 3-D imagery with easy-to-use browser application
- Nearmap has developed AI technology to
create new datasets from its high-resolution aerial imagery,
allowing to identify ground features and detect change over time at
massive scale and incredible accuracy
- Nearmap 3-D will be fully unveiled, and
Nearmap AI capabilities will be previewed at its flagship event,
Navig8
Aerial imagery business, Nearmap, today launched its new 3-D
product in a move that will revolutionize the way industries such
as urban planning, architecture, construction, government and
councils view and shape cities across Australia and the U.S. The
company is also previewing its groundbreaking AI technology at its
customer event, Navig8.
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Nearmap 3-D allows customers to stream
and export 3-D imagery on-demand at massive scale, through its
proprietary MapBrowser web application. Additionally, because the
imagery is updated frequently, businesses can work with the most
current information to make better informed decisions. (Photo:
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In an industry first, Nearmap 3-D allows customers to stream and
export 3-D imagery on-demand at massive scale, through its
proprietary MapBrowser web application. Additionally, because the
imagery is updated frequently, businesses can work with the most
current information to make better informed decisions.
Nearmap has developed new AI technology that is turning millions
of aerial images, captured over a decade, multiple times a year,
into valuable datasets. These datasets can be used to more
accurately and efficiently measure change and quantify attributes,
such as solar panels, pools, roofs or construction sites.
Organizations ranging from small businesses to large companies and
cities will be able to take advantage of AI-driven location
intelligence.
“Product innovation is in our DNA. Everything we do has the
customer at the core,” said Tony Agresta, Executive Vice President
of Product at Nearmap. “Our customers’ worlds are evolving every
day. We need to keep innovating to continue to give our customers a
competitive advantage through technology breakthroughs like the
ones we are sharing today at Navig8.
“Nearmap 3-D is the result of a significant investment in
R&D, but also listening to our customers and what they need to
transform the way they work. Accessing 3-D imagery up to now has
typically been an arduous, time-consuming and expensive process -
but not anymore. This represents the single largest, most
frequently updated footprint of 3-D accessible through a browser.
The ability to measure in 3-D space, size up an area and then
export Nearmap 3-D for use in other platforms will transform the
aerial imagery market.
“The AI technology that we’re working on will allow
organizations to identify locations with specific attributes and in
so doing, reduce site visits, generate more leads, and eliminate
the time involved to inspect properties manually. Nearmap AI does
the heavy lifting so you don’t have to,” Agresta said.
Instant Access to 3-D through MapBrowser
Nearmap is making 3-D imagery accessible to anyone, in the same
way it has with 2-D. While Nearmap has offered 3-D imagery since
2017, this new iteration of the technology allows users to
instantly stream 3-D content at massive scale via its MapBrowser
web application.
The light-weight platform offers customers a fully immersive 3-D
experience, allowing them to visualize cities in 3-D from any
direction, measure distances, and immediately export a custom area
in a variety of 3-D formats at unprecedented speed – the download
time is a matter of minutes for most requirements and only a few
hours for very large footprints.
“It’s like switching from DVDs to streaming services,” said Dr.
Tom Celinski, Executive Vice President of Technology &
Engineering at Nearmap. “Our camera technologies have been
capturing 3-D since 2017, but now our secret sauce is bringing it
onto MapBrowser, allowing users to easily and instantly stream this
content with many export options. Now users can visualize, measure,
define a custom area, export our 3-D and use it in their workflows
with other commercial platforms and tools. We're helping 3-D
experts and novices alike access reality like never before, and
this is an important next step in our Reality as a Service
journey.”
And like the best streaming services, Nearmap 3-D comes with an
extensive library, more than 400,000 km2 covered. It is updated
once a year and covers major urban areas in Australia and the
U.S.
“We live in a 3-D world, we think in 3-D, and so we have to
ensure that our products give the closest representation of reality
as possible,” Celinski said. “That means businesses that rely on
visualizing 3-D content, like architects, for example, can now
access up-to-date 3-D models instantly and export them in just
minutes. In a tender process, for example, that can be the
difference between winning a new project or not. The opportunities
for Nearmap 3-D are endless.”
Petabytes of images, and a living data set
Nearmap AI technology is the result of more than two years’
worth of research and development, and a team of close to 20 data
scientists and machine learning engineers. The team, led by Dr.
Michael Bewley, is using the petabytes of imagery that the business
has captured over the past 10 years and turning it into a living
dataset to accurately identify changes or quantify attributes from
the Nearmap library of aerial imagery.
Nearmap has built highly accurate machine learning models and
deployed them on a massive scale. The automated process, and the
constantly learning engine, means that the AI technology can be
applied to any new geography. Nearmap also applies the models to
new surveys, generating fresh results with current imagery.
To date, Nearmap has performed analysis on over 1 million square
kilometers of imagery across Australia and the U.S. (which
constitutes about 80 million properties) and is performing more
analysis every day. Nearmap is now inviting customers to take part
in a beta program to experiment with various use cases.
“We don’t prescribe how our technologies or content can be used
by our customers,” said Dr. Michael Bewley, Director of AI Systems
at Nearmap. “Our solar customers could use the AI technology to
easily identify where and when solar panels have been installed for
maintenance jobs, to prospect new clients in an area where solar
energy’s popularity is on the rise; or a government entity that
previously had the arduous task of tracking swimming pools or
construction in their jurisdictions will be able to do it
automatically.”
“But this is the tip of the iceberg - we’re just getting
started. This technology is going to profoundly change the way that
cities are built,” Bewley said. “Our plans include delivering AI
results in many forms, much the same way we deliver our imagery
today.”
Both technologies will be presented at Nearmap’s flagship event,
Navig8, in Perth on June 6, Melbourne on June 11 and Sydney on June
13.
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You can grab images of Nearmap 3-D and AI tool here.
About Nearmap
Nearmap delivers high resolution aerial imagery as a service to
businesses across the world, powered by industry-leading geospatial
mapping technology. Using its own patented camera systems and
processing software, Nearmap captures wide-scale urban areas in
Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S. multiple times each year,
making fresh content instantly available in the cloud via web app
or API integration.
Every day, Nearmap helps thousands of users conduct virtual site
visits for deep, data-driven insights — enabling informed
decisions, streamlined operations, and robust bottom lines. Founded
in Australia in 2007, Nearmap is one of the 10 largest aerial
survey companies in the world by annual data collection volume, and
is publicly listed in the ASX 200.
For more information, visit https://go.nearmap.com/.
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