Airborne 3D data supporting

solutions to Global Challenges

Geospatial World Forum, Amsterdam

April 3rd, 2019, Anders Ekelund, Hexagon

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Everybody is linked to the Ocean

Sources: WWF and NOAA

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Global warming: Global average temperature anomaly development over 140 years

Source: NASA

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Global sea-level rise

Sources: NASA and FoodMap.net

• Current average Global sea-level

rise 1/8th of an inch (3.3 mm)

per year

• Projection for year 2100

• Minimum 8 inches (0.2 m)

• Maximum 6 feet (2 m)

What happens at a

2 m sea-level rise?

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Global sea-level rise

Source: NOAA

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3D data to mitigate global warmning and sea-level rise

• Planning of infrastrucure investments to mitigate

effect of sea-level rise

• Coastal erosion monitoring

• Fresh water supplies

• Inland flood projections due to climate change

• New fairways due to melting ice-bergs Lefuka Island, Tonga

Island Sylt, Gemany Colorado River, US

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Coastal changes: Tsunami - East coast of Japan, 2011

• Cost of Fukoshima estimated by Japanese

government to

• $15 Billion direct costs in cleanup over

20 years

• $ 60 Billion on refugee compensation

• Total reconstruction and recovery costs of

the tsunami in 2011, is expected to top $250

Billion

Source Forbes

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Coastal monitoring – Japan

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World Population Growth

Source: Our World in Data based on UN and HYDE projections

Expected to pass 10

billion people around

year 2055

World population 28th of March 2019

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LiDAR Bathymetry – Canal Profile & Cross Sections, Indonesia

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Asset Management & Monitoring

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World Population Growth – Blue economy!

Sources: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

The World Bank and WWF

• By year 2030 about 62%

of the sea-food we eat will

be farmed raised to met

growing demand.

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Fish farm survey – Fuijan, China

Fuijan,

China

Large fish farm in Fuijan

province, China

Purpose of survey:

Asset monitoring of the

fish farm cages

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Oyster farming: Canada

Oyster farm in Shediac

bay due east of

Moncton on

Northumberland strait,

Canada

Environmental analysis

of how Oyster farming is

affecting the eelgrass

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Elwha river and esturary

Elwha Dam (31m)

Glines Canyon Dam (62m)

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A total of 21 million cubic meters (~30 million tonnes) of

sediment was exposed in the reservoirs after dam

removal

Prior location of

Glines Canyon Dam

Lake Mills (March

2016)

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Global Oil tanker spill

Source: IOTPF

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Oil Spill Simulation: Cow bay, Canada

No wind: 14 hrs to make landfall 30 knot on shore wind: 3 hrs to make landfall

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Benthic Cover Map (Habitat), Cow Bay, Canada

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Anders Ekelund VP Airborne bathy LiDAR

anders.ekelund@hexagon.com

Cell: +46 70 6596685

Thanks!