BRO 3D webservices wins SAG Award in San Diego
The Geological Survey of the Netherlands, part of TNO, won the Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award with BRO 3D webservices at the Esri User Conference 2024 in San Diego.
The SAG Award is presented as a token of appreciation to organizations that have made a special achievement in GIS. Until recently, it took an enormous amount of time and computing power to deal with huge amounts of data and a large scale of the models – ranging from the north to the south of the Netherlands – into a GIS system. With the development of the BRO 3D web services on the Key Registery of the Subsurface, this has been done for you, so to speak. This makes the subsurface even more accessible and it is much easier to view the subsurface in conjunction with the topsoil.
Impact of BRO 3D web services
Addressing complex issues such as energy transition, climate adaptation and housing development requires cross-sector solutions. It is important to visualize data from the surface and subsurface in an integral and coherent way. This is now possible with the BRO 3D web services. First up are the services that use the OGC format i3S.
Saves a lot of time and work
With the BRO 3D web services, employees of municipalities, provinces, water boards and, for example, engineering and consultancy firms working with geo-information, can carry out insightfully studies more easily. For example, in area development. It helps to look at the surface in an integral and coherent way. The BRO 3D web services are included in Esri’s Living Atlas and can also be found on the BRO 3D portal (Dutch).
Appreciation
Rob van der Krogt: “This award is recognition for realizing efficient, country-wide and visually insightful access to large amounts of (BRO) subsurface data in 3D for broad groups of users, which can be used to support societal challenges such as climate adaptation, sustainable energy and spatial planning. We remain committed to further development and cooperation.”
The development of the BRO 3D web services is a collaboration between the Geological Survey of the Netherlands, Esri Netherlands, the program ‘Basisregistratie Ondergrond’ of the Ministry of Housing and Spatial Planning and the Kadaster.