GeoANAS: An Information Hub and a Reusable Service

Google Earth Enterprise (GEE) is being widely adopted by government agencies, infrastructure operators, private and public companies because it is a cost effective, readily deployable, user friendly, de-facto standard solution to represent geospatial information. Experience shows that standard solutions do not necessarily match business requirements, especially when a geographical information system (GIS) is to be used to manage and operate a widespread infrastructure such as the National road network. Data and information must be augmented in order to guarantee the correct level of usability by road management specialists. Orthography must be enhanced to provide an adequate quality of imagery. Vector data must be accurately selected and fused into the virtual globe. Terrain and slow changing assets data must be included in the virtual globe in order to fully obtain the expected benefits from the intuitive Google Earth client search or browser like Google Maps capabilities. A carefully fused virtual globe becomes a reusable service for a number of applications in the typical intelligent transportation (IT) landscape of an infrastructure operator. This document describes the GeoANAS project, an actual case of the implementation of GEE at ANAS (Italian National Road Agency) as a practical support tool for core business processes such as traffic and right-of-way asset management.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Intelligent Transportation Society of America.
• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • De Marinis, Pierluigi
  • Pisani, Luigi
  • D’Attoma, Massimo
• Conference:
  • 19th ITS World Congress
  • Location: Vienna , Austria
  • Date: 2012-10-22 to 2012-10-26
• Publication Date: 2012

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: CD-ROM; Figures; Maps; Photos; Tables;
• Pagination: 7p
• Monograph Title: 19th ITS World Congress, Vienna, Austria, 22 to 26 October 2012

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Asset management; Geographic information systems; Highway traffic control; Intelligent transportation systems; Right of way (Traffic)
• Identifier Terms: Google Earth
• Geographic Terms: Italy
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01496494
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 24 2013 3:38PM