00:01Well, let's move on. Let's talk about 3D GIS.

00:07ArcGIS 10 is a 3D system. That means data models, tools, analysis, visualization techniques.

00:15When I first got started with 3D GIS, it was about subsurface geology in Texas.

00:21But that's just one of many different disciplines that need this 3D capability.

00:25You can be doing facility management and office space utilization; that's a 3D problem.

00:31Or you could be planning airspace corridors and trying to deconflict airspace for safe travel...another example.

00:38To take you through a few more examples, I'd like to introduce two members of our development team...

00:44...Gert van Maren and Nathan Shephard.

00:47Thanks, John. Good day, folks.

00:51I'm Gert, originally from the Netherlands...

00:54...and unfortunately, we lost the World Cup soccer final last night...yesterday against Spain.

01:00However, I'm still excited about the new 3D capabilities of ArcGIS 10.

01:08Not only can you view your 2D and 3D GIS data in ArcScene and ArcGlobe, but now for the first time...

01:15...you can edit and analyze in true 3D space.

01:19At 10, ArcGIS is a complete system for 3D GIS. And many users can benefit from such a system.

01:27And today, we're going to focus on local government and virtual cities.

01:31I want to show you a virtual city project that Nathan and I have been working on just to try to give you a sense...

01:38...an idea, of how powerful 3D GIS can be.

01:42But first, let me show you how ArcGIS Explorer and a virtual city model can be used to brief city councilors and other stakeholders...

01:51...such as the public, about upcoming redevelopment projects in inner cities.

01:56And one example of such a city is Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

02:01Now ArcGIS Explorer is a great tool to present your city in 3D.

02:05You can navigate around to give the audience a feel for the layout of the city, with its River Maas in the center.

02:12And you can zoom in to particular areas of interest. And this is the Wilhelminakade here on this peninsula.

02:19Now, the city of Rotterdam has the grand vision of a Manhattan on the Maas redevelopment at this particular location.

02:27Five high-rises designed by famous architects, such as Rem Koolhaas, will be built here over the course of 4 to 5 years.

02:35Now, during the planning stages of this big redevelopment, a number of issues were raised by the public on blogs and forums.

02:42And the two most common asked questions were...

02:45...How visible are these buildings going to be from various locations around the city?

02:51And the second question was, What will the impact be and, more in particular, what will the shadow impact be of this new development?

02:59Now let's go over to Nathan, and he's going to show you how the new 3D capabilities of ArcGIS 10 can help answer these questions.

03:07Thanks, Gert.

03:09Before I answer those questions, I need to add one more building into my virtual city.

03:16So I'm going to use the 3D edit environment and interactively place the architect's model directly into my 3D view...

03:26...and then move it into place.

03:32Now most of my attributes have been populated by my edit template; I can always come in and update them as needed.

03:41We can see that the height of this building is going to be about 150 meters tall.

03:45So I'm going to just validate that I got the right model and they came in in the right units using the 3D Measure tool.

03:56And we see that's right on 150 meters, so we've got the right model and our city is complete.

04:05So let's just zoom around and see what it's going to look like.

04:15Very nice.

04:19Okay, let's get back to those questions.

04:22The first question was, How visible are these buildings going to be? It's fundamentally a line-of-sight problem.

04:28So I've abstracted the question out to ask, How visible will these buildings be from the major roads?

04:34I can run these representative viewpoints through the standard line-of-sight tools.

04:42We can see this is going to be a very visible building from many locations around Rotterdam.

04:48So I'm Australian, and naturally suspicious, so let's validate these results.

05:03So here's where the major roads have a line of sight to Baltimore Building. See, there's a little gap here.

05:09So let's come down to see what's going on. And sure enough, there's a building that's going to obscure that visibility.

05:21If we come across to the other side, we can see the building comes out again.

05:26So now that we have some confidence that our results are good, we need a way to share this with the people of Rotterdam.

05:33A good way to do that is with a map.

05:35So I can turn on the major roads, the sections of the road that can see the Baltimore Building...

05:41...put a nice basemap behind it, and a blue dot for the building.

05:45It makes it really easy for them to understand how visible this building will be.

05:49So we can repeat this for each of the other buildings and answer that first main question that people had about this construction.

05:59This means that we can go on and look at the second question...shadows.

06:06Before we can talk about future shadows, we need to know current shadows, so let's calculate them right now.

06:11My GP model runs a Python script for creating sun positions...

06:15...sends those points and parallel rays through the Skyline tools, and creates shadow volumes.

06:20And we also add an attribute saying what hour of the day that shadow represents.

06:29So here's the results at 11 o’clock in the middle of winter.

06:33And we can step through and see how that shadow's going to move through the day.

06:39Or we can look at all of our results at once.

06:42If we go back to the hourly view, turn on the planned buildings and their shadows...

06:49...you can step back through the day...

06:53...and see how it's going to change with this new construction.

06:57So seeing this is very helpful and useful, but 3D GIS is more than just seeing the data; it's also about understanding it.

07:04So we can summarize the impact at the building level.

07:07So we can identify the buildings and the residents who are going to have, in some cases...

07:12...up to three extra hours of shadow from this construction.

07:16And we can send them a letter and let them know about it before it happens.

07:24So city-scale analysis is important, but it's also important at a single building level, so here is the KPN building.

07:32It's in a great location, and if we step through the day, you can see that right now, it doesn't get very much shadow.

07:41That's all going to change.

07:46So in the same way that we summarized at the building level, we can also summarize at the window level.

07:55Makes it really easy to identify which window's going to get six or even seven hours of extra shadow in the middle of winter.

08:01That's almost the entire day in shadow.

08:05This is just a couple of examples of how you can use 3D GIS to analyze your city, and I could work on this for days.

08:12But, let's go back to Gert and see how you share these results in a mobile device.

08:17Thanks, Nathan.

08:25Now together with our business partners Procedural and Mental Images...

08:29...we've been exploring ways of how to get our virtual city model on a mobile device and view and interact with it.

08:36Now this can be an iPhone or an iPad or a Tablet, such as the one I have here.

08:42And here we go.

08:44In a browser, no plug-in download...

08:47...I can navigate around my city model to give people in the street a bird's-eye view of...of where this new development is going to be...

08:57...but I can also go down to street level and talk to the people that live there...

09:02...and show them how their view is going to change over the next five years with this new development.

09:10I can also show the results of the shadow analysis we just did earlier and, if need be...

09:18...I can access the wealth of geodatabase information in ArcGIS Server.

09:27Now with this 3D demo, we only showed you a glimpse of the new 3D capabilities of ArcGIS 10.

09:33I hope it triggered your mind as to how all this new functionality can be applied to your own line of work.

09:39We're very excited about it, and I hope you will be too.

09:42Over to you, John.

09:49Thanks, Gert.

09:50Thanks, Nathan.

09:52You saw 3D GIS; you saw virtual cities. But that's...that’s really just the tip of the iceberg.

09:58Imagine going below the surface and doing these same types of analyses in the subsurface world.

10:03Or going aboveground, going into the air and doing air pollution or weather modeling, climate modeling.

10:11The use of 3D GIS is really endless.