Integration of Standardized Geographical Data in the Detectino® Project

Abstract

Geoinformation represent an important economic tool. It establishes well in different business sectors. The damages caused by construction machines in underground pipeline structures cause significant economical losses. The project is combines methods of mechatronics, geophysics and informatics to investigate surface near underground to perform real-time detection and documentation of pipeline structures. Different sensor systems like electromagnetic (EM), ground penetrating radar (GPR) and a new seismic method for the surfaced generate data sets of the same objects in the ground. The data fusion and automatized interpretation results in high probabilities which kind of object is encountered at in which depth in the ground. Those objects will be visualized three-dimensional including data from geographical information systems (GIS) and georeferenced data. This paper deals with the standards of geographical data and their integration in the IT sector using the example of the Detectino project.