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Comrades Marathon
A very successful Two Oceans broadcast, and the preparation for Comrades has proved that real-time GIS offers an excellent solution to event broadcasting. No other GIS technology can fill this gap, as you have to react to changes during the event. The ability to create new animation on the fly (what I see on my computer screen, is broadcast live across the country) is paramount to the success.
If you want more information on what I can do for your business, please contact me.
Cell: 084 584 2136
Jhammes@mweb.co.za
Johan Hammes
nineteen70five
specialises in the import of GIS data sets and creation of a GIS viewer
which allows the user to "fly" over a 3-D image of their data sets. What
makes our work unique is the seamless merging of mosaic images, the conversion
of data to display in real time and the draping of images over an elevation
grid which renders the image three dimensional.
One of our major clients in the Peace Parks Foundation, (http://www.peaceparks.org) a prestigious environmental organisation focused on the creation of trans-frontier conservation areas on the African sub-continent with a view to sustainable economic development and preservation of biodiversity.
The software we have developed for the foundation is used for presentations which are pitched to blue chip business corporations and world leaders to give a visual image of what the peace parks will mean to the southern African region.
Johan Hammes
The founder of nineteen70five, Johan has dedicated his working career
to the creation of real time 3D software. While studying for a Bachelor
of Science in Electronic Engineering at the University of Pretoria, after
matriculating with distinction, he has created a flight simulator demonstrator
which was taken up by Electronic Arts. This experience led to a position
with 5DT (Fifth Dimension Technologies), a Pretoria based company which
specialise in custom-designed simulators for both military and civil use.
While here he developed terrain-rendering technology for use in simulators
and project managed several projects, including:
- The creation of a mechanised coal mining simulator for petroleum giant,
Sasol, for training purposes.
- Lead
a team in the creation of a simulator for the training of Unmanned Arial
Vehicles operators.
- The
writing of demo simulator software which would enable air force fighter
pilots to re-live a flight in order to maximise training.
- The creation of simulator software for the training of air traffic controllers
to enable them to visualise and conceptualise the air space around the
airport.
In 1999 he left 5DT to further his work with terrain rendering and to start nineteen70five. Since then he has written code can handle the import of GIS data sets, convert and display them in real time and mosaic the images seamlessly. In latter years he has worked on creating spherical earth views.
Last he year wrote and presented a paper for the first Digital Earth Moving International Symposium, in Manno in Switzerland. The paper was published in Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. (This paper can be found in the downloads section)