 So, welcome to day 3 of interview 2021. We are in the spur to the end of this year's edition and today we are looking forward to the final of this great annual meeting point of the geospatial industry. So today we are going full steam ahead together with you and taking you along with us on the digital platform into the exhibition halls in Hanover. Christiane Salbach, Managing Director of the Organizer, DVW starts right at the beginning with an outlook on today's conference and other topics and my colleague Günter Knappes spoke with her. Christiane Salbach, welcome again as the representative of the event, last time here, the third time here in the InterGeo TV studio, we have one more day, the final day of InterGeo 2021 for us, yesterday there were certain topics on the conference digital twins and BIM, what do you expect in the future? I expect that the development in connection with the digitalization will progress further forward, as is already the case, the acceleration will probably take a bit longer. We have new technologies like machine learning, like cloud computing, but also big data analytics and the most modern visualization methods, like augmented reality, virtual reality or mixed reality and these technology trends are drivers of innovation. We actually heard this before yesterday, on our first conference day, and also digital twins and building information modeling are central aspects of digitalization. We are building modern sensor technologies in the digital processes and this will also be a very important topic in my opinion, with positive impact on all areas of life, so on mobility, on living, on working, everything you can imagine. A few concrete examples of this? Yes, I can do that. I'll give you an example that you might not be able to see right away. This would be, for example, the immobility assessment, which is also under pressure. On the other hand, there are a lot of purely commercial products on the market, so for portals for immobility assessment. On the other hand, the immobility economy requires a stronger market transparency and here I see, in the field of digitalization for immobility assessment, a very high potential. And also in the communal administration, I think, we still have the opportunity to optimize our work processes and processes through digitalization. And I think we can do that very well, if we, with trained staff, develop the existing processes in digital processes. What role does the subject of sensor technology play in this context? Thank you for the keyword. Yes, autonomous driving. A lot of people have individual traffic in their heads. I actually see a little less. I see more of the freight area and the logistics area at this point. And of course, modern sensor technologies are needed here. Connected sensor technology, smart sensor technology. But we also need precise HD maps to be able to really visualize these applications. And the same with the sensors we have in autonomous driving. Of course, we have that in the air. So we don't just land, but also in the air with the UAVs. This is, for example, also a turning point. And of course, also very central controls by robots. And these will be topics that accompany us today in the conference. In this case, Lade is very welcome. Visit the conference and be there live. An exciting day, Christiane Saalbach. Thank you very much. We look forward to the final of the Intergeo 2021. Thank you. Thank you, Günther and Christiane Saalbach, for this overview of today's conference and the invitation to join you. So, and another area besides the conference, which also stands for inspiring presentations and exchange, is the Intergeo Expo stage. In the middle of the exhibition hall, Caroline Karnowale had a look around there. Thanks, Denise. Yes, I'm here in front of the Expo stage. And by my side is Tobias Pläger, Expo manager. And yes, tell us a little bit about the two days here, full of interesting presentations. What are your personal highlights? My personal highlights. So we have a full packed stage every day from 9.30 to 5.00 in the afternoon. And it will be around Smart City. It will be around drone. So there will be a lot of topics for the whole geo community. And tell us a little bit how it works, hybrid. Yeah, it's a pretty cool thing because like 501, it's the first time. Not only in ANOVA, it's not only digital as it was 2020 and 2019 before. No, this time we have the first Intergeo hybrid. So you can follow the stage as you see in here in ANOVA. If you come around or you can just click onto our platform where you can jump into the lectures and follow them digitally. So finally the first time we're going hybrid and it works pretty well. It's a lot of fun. Great. So there are also a lot of visitors. They come here to the stage. To be honest, yesterday the stage was packed. The hallway was packed. It was really great to see that. But also I know that we had a lot of visitors and viewers on the digital platform. So there's a lot of stuff going on at the moment. At the expo stage with Stefanie Lampe, she is Global States Operations at Wingtra. And you had yesterday two presentations. Tell us a little bit about your topics. Yes, cool. Well, thanks a lot for having me here. I was representing Wingtra and Wingtra is a drone manufacturer. So we developed drones for mapping and surveying. And I was on one hand presenting our newest addition to the team, which is the Wingtrae 110-2. It's a new drone with new capabilities. And then I was also talking about how we mapped Zurich. So I was presenting a city map case. Okay. And let's tell us a little bit about being live here at InterGio. Meeting people again. How is it for you? I mean, I think it's really, really great to be here again. It's such a different way of connecting to people, of course, if you see them in person. I'm actually quite positively, not say surprised, but it's quite busy. And for us, it's quite nice to meet customers and our partners. So that's really good. So thank you so much and have a good day tomorrow at the interview. Perfect. Thanks a lot. And now back to you, Denise. So and now let's have a look backstage because, you know, Günther and Caroline and Helm, but there are many, many more people. And because the concept of InterGio is hybrid, we have laid many meters of cable, brought a lot of technology into the halls, into the conference and the expo stage. And above all, a professional team of producers, of editors, of technicians and a lot more. Nearly 30 people work for your live streaming experience on the digital platform of InterGio. And as you can see, they are all really on fire for your live stream at InterGio 2021. So, and now we will have a look at my guest last evening because I met Uwe Bacher from Hexagon Geosystems. At InterGio's conference, the President GSI at Hexagon, Dr. Jürgen Dold was talking about Mirror World, Germany's digital twin. In this presentation, he visualized a future in which a consistent, precise and cost-effective digital twin of Germany will help predict and mitigate disasters, support infrastructure planning and able sustainable city planning and much more. So, cloud-based visualization and collaboration platform could link this digital twin to real-time data and yield further insights through simulations. Making such information available to everyone will help governmental and private actors collaborate and make informed decisions. So, Hexagon's portfolio offers a range of solutions for creating and leveraging such mirror worlds. And at Hexagon 2021, Hexagon announced Metro HD City Data, which is a new offering of ultra-high-resolution 2D and 3D digital twin of major cities. It is an off-the-shelf product through the HXGN content program. And about this, because I'm not the expert about this, I'm going to talk now to Dr. Uwe Bacher from Hexagon Geosystems. Welcome to InterGio TV. Thanks for inviting me. Yeah, because I got a lot of briefing and I read these words and names and applications. But, I mean, you're here for explaining to us what it exactly means. So, just could you tell us about this content program and why does Hexagon offer high-definition city data as a part of it? Yeah, let's start with the content program. Content program is our data program where we offer country-wide aerial data over the whole U.S., captured every year or every second year. It depends a bit in really high resolution, 15 centimeters usually. And also we do the same for Europe also rapidly. Now we have captured it for huge parts of Europe already second time. It's a resolution at the moment, 30 centimeters, but we also move into 15 centimeters on a really wide coverage. And this means we offer aerial imagery, but also derived products from this, like elevation models or land use data for really large areas in a consistent way that is really useful for analysis. And that's also a bit the basis for, as Jürgen mentioned, the digital twin for the whole country. If you have enough information, you can really manage a country or if a problem or disaster happens, you need this consistent information. Okay, so what exactly does the METRO HD include? METRO HD? Yeah, METRO HD, or as we also call it, city program. Much easier, city program. Absolutely. That contains, in addition to our wide area coverage, city data, so we really take data or acquire data for certain cities like Munich, New York, Tokyo, what we already did in a really high resolution. At the moment it's 5 centimeters, so you really can see small details on the imagery. And this is really important because cities are growing more and more and there is a huge flow of people moving into the cities. And that also means in the context of climate change and all the things that happened over the last years that the management of a city becomes more and more complex. So there is a huge need for managing cities and to manage something. You really need to know what to manage. So you need to have an understanding of the spatial relationship between assets and buildings and roads and so on. And that's to have a smart city, as we call it, if we connect all the data from different sources, we need a kind of digital twin of the city. So really building inside a computer or our network the digital representation of the city, meaning where are the buildings, what are the buildings looking like, how are they connected. And we don't stop only with the geo data here. We also include additional data from public sources, from other information sources. And then starting with our analysis on this to really offer the decision makers in the end easy to use dashboards that they can just take to make the decision, to have all the information that is necessary for them at the right moment in an easy way and just by looking onto a dashboard, usually web-based, to get all this information. This seems so fascinating to me to capture all those data from different sources and then you have one platform and you see everything in different anchors. But also you are focused to the right thing. So we have different applications for different use cases and really the right person gets the right view on the data at the right moment. You talked about the different sources and how does Sekthagon capture the data? To capture the data, we developed a really unique sensor system. It's called the city map. It's a hybrid sensor system consisting of six cameras. Two of them pointing directly to the ground. They have cameras in RGB, red, green and blue and also near infrared camera. And then in addition to this, we have four oblique cameras that are pointing 45 degrees to the front, to the back and to both sides. And in addition to this, and that makes it really unique, we have added a LiDAR scanner to it. So a first-class LiDAR scanner. What is an active system to measure the elevations of every single object on the ground? By combining these data sources, these complementary sources or sensors into one platform, we are able to capture a really huge variety of different data types and combining them in a way that we use the strengths of both subsystems, so to say, and to overcome the weaknesses of the other system by doing this. So that's our main source. So we usually take the sensor. It's quite a huge thing. 80 kilograms installed in a manned aircraft and flying over the cities usually patterned up and down. The city mapper. And what applications is the data typically used for? The applications are very wide, so it has everything to do with the management of the cities. Security infrastructure. But also a lot of going into the sustainability of cities. Because as we have added a LiDAR scanner to it, we are able to measure very well vegetation and ground in one. So we are able to model, for example, trees by our AI-based analysis software or tools. We are able to do a land use classification so we know where the surface is sealed or imperious, where water cannot flow away, that's it. And also where heat islands might be in the end. And then by combining this with tree data, we are able to model heating in the city. We are also able to manage fresh air flows or all these things to get really sustainable city in the end. And that's, I didn't mention all the products yet, so we have a really wide variety of data that we produce from our hybrid sensor data. So starting from image data, this site looking gives us information about the facade so we know what buildings are used for, how many stories they have. And so by combining all these data sets, we are able to have a really, I always call it unlimited number of applications. Wow, that's cool. How can I get access to it? If you're excited, we have our sales channels directly inside Hexagon. We work with partners, we work with integrators to use the data and put more value on it somehow. And we also have an online platform, HXDR, where we offer it online, so really to stream or to access it via web portal. So it's pretty easy, just click on our web page or contact us to get more of the data. Super cool, that sounds so interesting. Thanks for joining us here on InterGio TV, Uwe Bacher from Hexagon Geosystems. It was a pleasure being here, thanks a lot for having me here. Thank you. So we now wish you a great day at InterGio 21. Whether you are in the exhibition halls in Hanover or browsing the streams or the expo area on the digital platform. We will see you again at 1 p.m. and would like to invite you already now to the closing at 4.15 p.m. at the expo stage. So see you then.