自动驾驶汽车在漫长的道路上。耕种和啤酒是第一位的！

一个有趣而多样化的问题，涵盖了Smart，即自动驾驶汽车的前景，即杂志；以及某些人如何避免3D图像并需要现实世界的规模模型。

I have always believed that fully autonomous road vehicles are several decades away. Semiautonomous ones running on motorways and interstates will be the first to see driverless vehicles, indeed they are already upon us in the US. This is revealed by Wired, the USA-based online news site, which reports that Uber has managed to send a self-driving truck on a two-hour journey of 120 miles to deliver... wait for it... 50,000 cans of beer! The truck was a vast 18 wheeler in which the US specialises. It was controlled by a system developed by Uber owned startup Otto, whose founder Lior Ron foresees a future where human drivers only take over near the final destination, rather like ships with river and harbour pilots.

Back in the UK, we report on a rather more prosaic application of autonomous driving – a driverless tractor. It’s always seemed to me that agricultural land is a safer starting point for autonomous vehicles. There’s open space, few people around and no other traffic. Already GNSS guidance in harvesting, seed sowing machinery and fertilizer application machinery has brought improved crop yields, so why not full automation of the machinery? The farm of the future might employ very few hands and with automation could work at night. Read more about this development involving Ordnance Survey GB and CASE IH Advanced Farming Systems (page 25).

The Challenge from Below and Above

如何更好地管理英国的挑战s underground assets has attracted the interest of OS’s Geovation initiative. An open competition to come up with an idea that will solve a real problem in this area is inviting proposals by the end of this month (November). The prize is expert support from OS plus software, geospatial data and £10k of support. Go for it! More on page 17.

我们在这个问题上有两个关于Smart和IoT的贡献，即所谓的物联网。SMART是今年Intergeo的主要主题（请参阅第24页），而参加Smart Cities Summit的Ian Dowman教授观察到位置数据是在网络智能城市中授予的（第14页）。能够将运输，卫生和公用事业等活动联系起来很重要。总体肯定是安全和公共保护系统，英国政府最近宣布了19亿英镑的推动力，以阻止黑客和欺骗者。当我们考虑启用IoT设备时，该计划非常必要。IT记者和学者约翰·诺顿（John Naughton）在他的常规观察者报纸专栏中认为，网络本质上是不安全的。他认为，危险来自“以拉佐尔（Razorthin）的利润率出售的小型国内物联网设备，通常由中国和台湾公司建造，这些公司不具备使其安全的专业知识（或激励措施）。”188asia备用网址希望我们的一些反货币将旨在帮助国内用户。

We’ve become used to 3D imagery. The PlayStation generation has arrived. But somehow or other the majority of people still like to see physical objects, which they can touch and observe from any angle. Readers will be interested that the Environment Agency recently called for a large scale model to be prepared for a series of local meetings to explain their flood management strategy. Although the 3D data was all available from lidar and other sources, it still presented quite a challenge for the surveyors, as Richard Groom reports, in preparing it for a 3D printer (page 21).

GWORD辩论

The Gword debate has reared its head again. Gordon Johnston reports in his Chair’s column (page 11) on an inconclusive survey of RICS members about possibly renaming the Geomatics Group. I am glad no immediate name change is proposed. Not just for this journal, whose title is well established, but for the dozens of companies and organisations which include the word in their titles and departments. Consultations way beyond RICS members are surely needed.

寻找2017年

With this issue, you should also receive a copy of the SCCS Year Planner for 2017. We hope you will find it useful to put up on the wall and mark off those important dates (not forgetting your nearest and dearest’s birthday, as I too often forget!).

The next issue of GW will be the first of 2017 and we expect to be bringing readers a refreshed layout along with some interesting applications of UAVs, a report on a recent RICS lecture on Rights to Light, several new technologies for mobile mapping and much more. In the meantime, we wish all readers a pleasant holiday break and a very successful new year.

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