This company provides a virtual navigation platform offering hydrologic surveys. Their platform uses street view-style panoramic imagery, collected from the water's surface and fused with water quality data, to enable online navigation of rivers and provide location-specific information.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Problem
Traditional methods of surveying waterways and off-street locations are often time-consuming, costly, and lack the immersive detail needed for comprehensive analysis and stakeholder engagement. These limitations hinder effective environmental monitoring, infrastructure assessment, and conservation efforts.
Solution
EarthViews provides a virtual navigation platform that captures and delivers data-rich, 360° panoramic imagery of waterways, trails, and other off-street environments. The platform fuses street view-style imagery, collected from various vehicles such as boats, kayaks, and cars, with GIS data to enable online navigation and location-specific information retrieval. This approach allows users to virtually explore locations, conduct remote site assessments, and enhance communication with stakeholders through immersive visual experiences. EarthViews integrates with Esri's ArcGIS tools, enabling users to overlay additional GIS data layers, such as side-scan sonar or water quality metrics, onto the 360° imagery for enhanced analysis.
Target Audience
EarthViews serves environmental engineering firms, conservation organizations, government agencies, and other stakeholders involved in environmental monitoring, infrastructure assessment, and conservation planning.
Features
- Custom 360° "StreetView" creation for waterways, trails, and off-street locations
- Compatibility with various data collection methods, including boat, kayak, car, kite, and backpack-mounted cameras
- Integration with Esri's ArcGIS platform for overlaying GIS data layers
- Linear data display for visualizing water quality and other data along the survey route
- Virtual walkthrough capabilities for remote site assessments and infrastructure surveys
- Creation of comprehensive "before and after" visual records for environmental monitoring
- Hosting and publishing of custom maps on the EarthViews platform