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And geography comes alive.

Geospatial World Forum / Hyderabad / India

IGN Presentation – 17 January 2011 – Mrs Marthe-Bismuth – General Manager

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IGN’s Mission IGN is the National Mapping Agency of France,

within the Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development.

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A French state agency, IGN is responsible for providing and distributing geometrical and physical representations

of the national territory and its land cover.

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National geographic information infrastructureGeodetic networks: IGN’s area of expertise

InternationalInternational DORIS Service center, and partnership with CNES to maintain and develop the DORIS system International GNSS Service center manager

Founding member of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG)

Z. Altamimi, IAG’s Reference Frame commission’s chairman

National74,000 points to the nearest centimeter

IGN supervises a network of 160 stations within the National Permanent Geodetic Network to provide real-time precision positioning.

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Orthoimage coverageBD ORTHO®

Land parcel coverageBD PARCELLAIRE®

Topographic coverageBD TOPO®

Address coverageBD ADRESSE®

National geographic information infrastructure LARGE-SCALE REFERENCE DATA (RGE): 4 main databases

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National geographic information infrastructure LARGE-SCALE REFERENCE DATA (RGE): Continuous updating

4 superimposable layers continuously updated

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3D Products

A futuristic representation of France

Litto3D®, the geographic reference for the French coastline

BATI-3D®, a visualisation tool for the city of the future

Digital terrain model (DTM) with hypsometric tints of Réunion island.

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Co-visualisation, overlay of data collections distributed across various servers in France

National spatial data infrastructure - NSDI

IGN operates the French national geoportal

Focal point to visualise all public sector geographic data collections – 2D & 3D

Easy to use data search tool

to improve access to public sector data

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National spatial data infrastructure - NSDI

Géoportail and its API developing new services

An example : Edugéo: IGN and the Ministry of National Education working together

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National spatial data infrastructure - NSDI

Sharing territorial platforms for geographic information

The Alpes-Maritimes general council’s geographic portal

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Distribution

Distributing data to professionals

Framework agreements to better serve Online major client ministries

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Distribution

Online internet site: www.ign.fr

Online sale of data sets for professional clients

Delivery via Internet

Online sale of paper maps (3,700 products)

Custom-made map service

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Consultancy Services and expertise

IGN Conseil consultants offer expertise in all fields relating to geographic information to serve the national and local, public and private sectors, in France and abroad with IGN FI

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IGN Present on the European and international scenes

An enlarged European Union and rapid advances in technology have accelerated European projects involving geographic information.

IGN is an active contributor to this revolution in European mapping, aiming towards more open space and cooperation

- INSPIRE: the participation of IGN experts

- IGN’s contribution to the GMES, the environmental information service

- IGN, an active member of EuroGeographics, the European association grouping its national mapping agencies

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Research4 laboratories75 permanent researchers plus doctoral students and trainees

LAREGGeodesy Research Laboratory

LOEMI Laboratory of Optronics, Electronics, and Mechanics for Instrument Design

COGIT OO Design, Generalization of Topographic Information, and Cartography

MATIS Photogrammetry, Computer Vision and Remote Sensing Laboratory

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ResearchInvolvement in competitivity clusters projects Engagement in international activities

Zuheir Altamimi, commission I Reference Frames chairman , International Association of Geodesy (IAG)

Nicolas Paparoditis, commission III president, International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)

Sébastien Mustière, commission on generalisation and multiple representations co-chairman, International Cartographic Association (ICA)

Anne Ruas, vice-president, International Cartographic Association (ICA)

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Training and education

ENSG, National School of Geographic Sciences,School of Geomatics in France

13 courses of study on undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate levels: cartographers, surveyors, technicians, engineers, experts.

All geomatics disciplines: data capture, data management and editing, map production, photo-grammetry, remote sensing, GIS.

Over 240 French and foreign students

Training of IGN personnel

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Partnership with Industry

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National DefenceAn exclusive official partnership

Framework agreementInvolved in geographic information armament programs (DNG3D, GEODE4D),

And in the reorganization of Defense Geography

IGN Espace 50 experts in satellite imagery for military applications

Activities to double in 2009-2015 Expertise, standardization, production and archiving, R&D

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National DefenceReference3D production in partnership with Spot Image

• DEM + Orthoimage + metadata

• Worldwide coverage – 50m km² available

– 100m km² in future

• 1° x 1° tiles produced by processing data from SPOT 5’s HRS sensor

DEM

Orthoimage

Correlation (MCo)

Merge (MMe)Exogenous data (MEx)Cloud (MCl)

Quality (MQu)Validation (MVa)Regulation (MRe)Water (MWa)

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New Products

From maps to portable products for the public-at-large

EVADEOX Model

géorando hiking made easy

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Archivideo / IGN Partnership

3D Model Whole France – Resolution 50 cm

Display on Internet and Smartphones

Large Public and Professional use (local authorities)

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Terra Numerica

3D data capture and display tools

Acquisition Data fusion Reconstruction

Production Platforms

Virtual reality

Augmented reality Embedded platforms

Compression – Transmission

Real-time 3D display

Back office platforms

Display Platforms

3. Modélisation des superstructures

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And geography comes alive.

Thank you for your attention.