All the world's buildings available as 3D models for urban and climate research

With the GlobalBuildingAtlas, a research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has created the first ...
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First high-resolution 3D map covering all of Earth’s 2.75 billion buildings unveiled

Scientists in Germany have, for the first time, created the most comprehensive digital representation of the world’s man-made ...
Science Daily

IBM Research creates world's smallest 3D map; brings low-cost, ease of use to creation of nanoscale objects

IBM scientists have created a 3D map of the earth so small that 1,000 of them could fit on one grain of salt. The scientists accomplished this through a new, breakthrough technique that uses a tiny, ...
TechCrunch

Five years of observations from tandem satellites produce 3D world map of unprecedented accuracy

A pair of satellites operating in tandem for five years have produced a depth map of the planet so exact you could theoretically zoom down to street level and tell an adult from a kid, or spot a ...
SlashGear

Google Project Tango Will 3D Map The Whole World With hiDOF

Today Google announced Project Tango, delivered first as a smartphone that's able to scan the world around it in real time. This phone knows its position in space in real time using a variety of ...
Fast Company

AI researchers want to map the 3D world. That means going vertical—and possibly nuclear

Spatial intelligence is an emerging approach to deploying AI in the physical world. By combining mapping data with artificial intelligence, it aims to deliver “smart data” tied to specific ...