The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
Digital Urban is moving from blogger, over the next few hours the domain will point to a new server hosting us on a WordPress system.
Digital Urban 2005
Its been a blast, with over 1900 posts dating from 2005 and 3000+ comments, it equates to rough…
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We are working on a new look at digitalurban, at the moment its very much in its beta phase with the move away from blogger and into wordpress. The move allows us to set up a range of new features and portfolio type pages, for example if you click on…
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Below we provide full details for 2012 entry on the new MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation (ASAV). The course reflects the current state of play in geographic, urban and architectural information systems with an emphasis on visual…
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Below we provide full details for 2012 entry on the new MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation (ASAV). The course reflects the current state of play in geographic, urban and architectural information systems with an emphasis on visual…
Continue reading »We are pleased to announce 2 fully funded PhD studentships at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London.
Full details below, its a unique opportunity to carry out new cutting edge research in the field of smart cit…
Continue reading »Nearly 7,000 photos make up this 3 minute video of a flight from MDT-ATL (Harrisburg to Atlanta) flying in a CRJ-200:
540 Miles in 3 Minutes from Mitchell Blackburn on Vimeo.
Lovely, created by Mitchell Blackburn on vimeo.
Continue reading »Captured from the 21st floor of an apartment overlooking Vancouver – we esp like the zoom in on the skytrain:
The movie was captured by tmac over on Vimeo.
Continue reading »Robin Edwards, a student on our MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation here at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, has used Processing to create a visualisation using data from OpenFlights.org.
The clip b…
Continue reading »We are pleased to announce the publication of the following issue:
Future Internet, Volume 4, Issue 2 (June 2012), Pages Pages 362-617
http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/4/2/
Table of Contents:
Line Lundvoll NilsenArticle: Collaboration between Pro…
The 37 minute film below by D-Fuse and Illustrious Company has been commissioned to make a new immersive visual and sound installation, to be presented as part of the opening of the revitalised and refurbished National Film Theatre, BFI Southbank. Desi…
Continue reading »The movie below by Sean Dooley showcases the city of Philadelphia via a series of timelapses captured over a 10 week period. It details some of the most iconic places in the city:
Philadelphia: a city in motion from Sean Dooley o…
Continue reading »‘City in the sky’ is a concept about an imaginary tranquil oasis above the mega-developed and polluted city, where one can escape from the everyday noise and stress. It was developed as part of the ‘Megatropolis’ project, which started in Lon…
Continue reading »While planning out some future research in the office this morning the conversation turned to low cost drones with 720p recording. The movie below provides a glimpse of a possible future purchase – the Parrot AR Drone 2:
The cityscape in the mo…
Continue reading »We are pleased to announce the latest Future Internet Paper entitled The U-City Paradigm: Opportunities and Risks for E-Democracy in Collaborative Planning by Francesco Rotondo from the Department of Architecture and Town Plann…
Continue reading »The clip below details how to go from SketchUp to CryEngine 3 using PlayUp tools – a quick and easy route direct into the game engine:
http://www.playuptools.com/ – playup toolshttp://sketchup.google.com/ – google sketchup
Thanks go…
Continue reading »We are pleased to announce the availability of six fellowships are available to support individuals in non-academic institutions to undertake defined research projects at the Centre for Spatial Analysis and Policy (CSAP) in Leeds or the Centr…
Continue reading »Being UCL based we are slightly biased, but this is a stunning job advert to head up the new Collaborative Research Institute (Intel CRI) for Sustainable Connected Cities in the role of Principal Investigator.
Full details are below:
Jo…
Continue reading »Aidan Slingsby is the Willis Research Fellow over at the excellent giCentre from City University. He was part of a team who entered the Nokia Mobile Data Challenge (research.nokia.com/mdc).
The challenge centered around …
Continue reading »As part of the MRes of Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation in CASA, the course has been exploring various techniques relevant to urban modelling and visualisations, such as Cellular Automata and (CA), Agents Based Modelling. These approac…
Continue reading »Finding Portland was produced, shot, and edited in 51 days during March and April at the invitation of TEDx Portland, where the video was unveiled to a sell out crowd of 650 and met with a standing ovation. Filmed in Portland and the Columbia Gorg…
Continue reading »Robin of geotheory.org and a student on our MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation course here at CASA, University College London has created an interesting movie looking at data from openflights.org.
Created in Processing the c…
Continue reading »This year, and for the first time, the SLACTIONS Steering Committee has included a day devoted to Machinima in the conference program. The SLACTIONS 2012 Machinima Festival is a Machinima competition included on the SLACTIONS 2012 Research conference o…
Continue reading »Electronic Arts has released 4 short clips examining the simulation capability of the GlassBox Game Engine behind the forthcoming SimCity update.
Image: Traffic Density in the original SimCity release.
The mix of agent based modelling, e…
Continue reading »At night or in bad weather, elite military and security professionals are reliant on technology to find potential threats. Infrared and video cameras can not get enough pixels on target to cover wide areas. But radar coupled with a PTZ camera and you h…
Continue reading »Minecraft is a sandbox construction game involving players creating and destroying various types of blocks in a three dimensional environment. The player takes an avatar that can destroy or create blocks, forming fantastic structures, creations and art…
Continue reading »We like GIS here at digitalurban but obviously not as much as @josephkerski who has written a song all about his love for all things GIS:
Slightly (actually more than slightly) lost for words, but we applaud the enthusiasm….
Continue reading »The 3D-GIS in the Cloud App for iPad and Smartphones allows city data to be navigated in 3D. Mixing augmented reality and 3D visualisations the App extends the reach of GIS beyond the office and allows organisations to mak…
Continue reading »On our MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation we are currently focused on Lumion and Unity for rapid urban or data visualisation. Yet our eyes are turning towards the possibilities offered by the CryEngine 3. With a 2013 release …
Continue reading »Regular readers will know that we have a bit of a ‘thing’ for the interiors of churches/chapels, timelapse imagery and high dynamic range photography, as such the movie below is one of our favourites:
The Chapel is a …
Continue reading »Below is a 3-minute journey through the last 250 years of our history, from the start of the Industrial Revolution to the Rio+20 Summit. The film charts the growth of humanity into a global force on an equivalent scale to major geological processes.
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Continue reading »QRator, the Museum focused ‘Internet of Things/Smart Places’ project developed jointly with us here at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL Digital Humanities and UCL Museums, with funding from the UCL Public Engagement Unit , has w…
Continue reading »Over the last few weeks we have been looking at ESRI’s CityEngine and how it can be used to create rapid urban scenes. As we noted it moves GIS visualisation a step forward while at the same time bringing procedural city modelling into the ma…
Continue reading »As regular readers will know we recently held a one day conference here at CASA entitled Smart Cities, Bridging the Physical and Digital. As part of the conference Steven Gray and George MacKerron built various exhibition pieces, in…
Continue reading »Here at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, we have just made live our latest in a series of services examining live data feeds – CityDashBoard. The system pulls in data from a variety feeds, de…
Continue reading »Last Friday (April 20th) over 350 members of the public attended our Smart Cities ‘Bridging Physical and Digital’ open day and conference at Senate House, London. The full day of talks, accompanied by the Smart Cities exhibition, was aimed at openi…
Continue reading »Having recently made various presentations on the future of augmented reality, we have to say that the Google Glasses concept brings AR back into play:
With technology it always seems like one is waiting for the next big thing, but this takes it t…
Continue reading »Carrying on the theme of new papers, we are pleased to announce the following publication:
Future Internet 2012, 4(1), 306-321; doi:10.3390/fi4010306
Article
Driving the Internet: Mobile Internets, Cars, and the Social
Gerard Gogg…
Continue reading »Carrying on the theme of new papers, we are pleased to announce the following publication:
Future Internet 2012, 4(1), 306-321; doi:10.3390/fi4010306
Article
Driving the Internet: Mobile Internets, Cars, and the Social
Gerard Gogg…
Continue reading »As Editor of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903), an open access journal on Internet technologies and the information society, published by MDPI online we are pleased to announce the publication of the latest paper:
Character…
Continue reading »As Editor of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903), an open access journal on Internet technologies and the information society, published by MDPI online we are pleased to announce the publication of the latest paper:
Character…
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