Wish Software is proud to announce a new version of VisualGIS Server with some exciting new features.
For now, it may be best for this blog entry to be “What is VisualGIS Server” as some of you may not be familiar with it.
VisualGIS Server is a web application that allows user to view subsea Digital Video with accompanying survey data in an HTML5 browser. It requires no install or browser add-ins.
VisualGIS Server optionally links to ArcGIS Server or ArcGIS Online for 2D GIS data and Autodesk Forge for 3D Data.
It can be utilised at the survey contractor level to provide access to clients to their data and/or at the Operator level for their own internal users as well as 3rd parties carrying out, for instance, environmental impact studies.
VisualGIS Server allows
• New insights to be revealed by bringing disparate datasets together
• Reduces time to identify issues
• Year-on-Year comparators to asses temporal change
• Viewing of Subsea Digital Video, Drone Video & High resolution Stills
The benefits of a web application are
• No Shipping of drives
• No Corporate IT requirement to install an application
• Access to vast video data stores
• Controlled access to 3rd party users over the Internet
For example, Equinor (Statoil) shares over 400TB of Digital Video to their users worldwide. Shell Norway have implemented VisualGIS Server in the Microsoft Azure Cloud Environment to allow 3rd party remote access. Nordstream 2 allows their users access to thousands of recent UXO surveys and timely ongoing updates during mattress installation & pipelay.
VisualGIS Server in action
The user can load video/survey datasets. Playing the video will cause all other windows to synchronise. Any action in any windows will cause all other windows to synchronise to the current position.
Note the Esri window on the middle-right – it is showing an ArcGIS Server service – again synchronised with all other windows.
A second window can be started that shows a survey of the same location at a different time – those 2 surveys are then synchronised on position.
VisualGIS Server can also be linked to Autodesk’s 3D Forge service that shows 3D objects and surfaces – in this case an Inline T-Assembly.
Future blog entries will describe drone footage; high-resolution stills and how we transcode older formats on-the-fly; no waiting around whilst the video is prepared!
Please get in touch with us at Support@Wishsoftware.com if you would like more information. If you would like to try it out for yourself then we can just provide a link!
