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Mapping the Underworld Workshop 3

3rd Workshop - KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION

The workshop has now ended. Please see the programme, where presentations can be downloaded.

Tue 17th April 2007

How can legacy asset information be enhanced and new location information integrated?

Inaccuracies in existing information, coupled with a lack of methods to integrate, share, reuse and effectively communicate knowledge held by owners of underground assets, means that more excavations are required to locate them, causing unnecessary traffic congestion and increased costs for the UK economy. Unnecessary damage to underground assets results in increased costs, possible injury of workers and loss of service to consumers, both business and domestic.

In the Mapping the Underworld project (MTU), and a complementary Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) project (VISTA), the University of Leeds is researching techniques to enhance and integrate existing legacy asset information, together with new dynamically acquired, accurately geo-referenced data in the street. They are developing novel techniques for displaying the resulting knowledge to digging teams and network planners appropriately, using innovative use of three dimensional computer graphics and virtual reality, which makes this research particularly exciting and cutting edge work.

Given the wide scope of current and potential research being covered by this workshop, it is hoped that it will appeal to a wide-ranging audience, particularly anyone with a responsibility for, or interest in, maintaining records of public and private services and supplies. However, it may also equally appeal to anyone involved in human-computer interaction and imaging.

The workshop will consist of a variety of presentations from researchers on these projects and from industry, along with opportunities for discussion of the issues raised. Previous workshops have been attended by around 100 participants from across the sector.

For more information on this workshop, please click here for a leaflet in PDF format.

Contact Details

For further details please contact Dr Nicole Metje by clicking here