Geoinformatics company licences 150 European 3D city maps for navigation
(GTA 05-2010)

GTA Geoinformatik GmbH (Germany) has delivered the first bundle of 150 European 3D city maps to customers dealing in navigation services. The 3D city maps are high-quality, detailed data in level of detail 2 (LOD 2) with generalised roof and wall textures and a very large coverage with an average of 30 sqkm per city. The 150 3D city maps were produced automatically from aerial imagery using the software tridicon^TM ROOF which was developed by GTA.
Several established producers of navigation software and devices already count on GTA’s 3D solution. GTA
produces 3D city maps of 900 European cities which will be the basis for one of the largest commercial databases of 3D city maps worldwide. From now on the database “Europe 3D” is available for potential customers at advantageous conditions. Also planned and drafted is a database of 300 cities for the US market.
The 3D city models are also suitable for other purposes than navigation and location based services like solar radiation analysis, urban planning, radiowave and noise propagation and others.
GTA Geoinformatik GmbH has already compiled more than ten million buildings and produced more than 200 digital 3D city maps for European, North American and Asian capitals and major cities. Since the starting of 3D business, GTA has also produced more than 4.700 digital 3D landmarks.
GTA, - founded in 1991 as geoinformatics company with ist main office in Neubrandenburg, is one of the leading producers in 3D production technology worldwide and has a staff of 50.

GTA Geoinformatik GmbH at the Intergeo 2009 in Karlsruhe
(VDV Magazin 6-2009)

At the booth of GTA the most important topic was automatic roof modelling with tridicon^TM ROOF, a software developed by GTA. Based on photogrammetric methods this technology offers an excellent cost-performance-ratio in the production of 3D city models.

Also presented was the camera system GeoSIS which was developed to take vertical and oblique imagery within the same flight misssion.

Using parts of a 3D city model of Munich different possibilities to texture roofs and facades were presented.

Great interest attracted the 3D city model of Berlin which covers with 892 sqkm the whole city in level of detail 2. Despite the large data volume the model can be visualised in realtime using the dynamic paging technology of the tridicon^TM CityDiscoverer that makes data processing very fast. The software can therefore handle very large 3D models of any size.

Recent orthophotos of Berlin were produced in 2009 and can be purchased from GTA.

With Geoinformatics into the future
(Nordkurier 07.09.2009)

Aerospace days start with a technology forum. Focus: satellite navigation & co.

"We are market leaders in digital 3D Maps of major cities", states Dr. Lieckfeldt with self-confidence. About 85 major cities worldwide have been modelled by GTA three-dimensionally. "This business is only at the beginning", he says.  The advance of mobile navigation services is unstoppable. As well as car navigation services there will be more services for pedestrians. (...)

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Aiming at producers of navigation systems
GTA Geoinformatik's focus is on third dimension
(Wirtschaftsspiegel 07/2009)

GTA Geoinformatik produces digital, threedimensional city maps with the software tridicon by automatically measuring the third dimension from aerial images. "At the moment the program is the most developped technology", says managing director Dr. Peter Lieckfeldt.

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GTA builds large commercial data base for 3D maps in Europe
Navigation industry and drivers rely increasingly on three-dimensional devices
(GTA 2009-04-09)

GTA Geoinformatik GmbH (GTA) in Neubrandenburg, Germany, produces 3D city maps of 900 European cities, building one of the largest commercial data bases with three-dimensional city maps. Background is an increasing demand in the navigation industry. About half of all new devices are already 3D compatible, though suitable and available modern 3D city maps are scarce. The branch expects that 95 percent of devices will be 3D compatible by 2012.

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New touristic highlight in Neubrandenburg's concert hall tower
GTA Geoinformatik involved in multimedia show
(Press information, City of Neubrandenburg 2009-05-27)

(...) A 360° presentation was installed in the octagonal tower of Neubrandenburg's spectacular concert hall. Eight synchronised video projectors show historic views of Neubrandenburg around 1900. Tourists and citizens of Neubrandenburg go on an 8 minute journey through time to learn about the towns' history, culture and settlement.

Less than 150 Euros per square kilometre
With new software GTA Geoinformatik reduces time and cost in the production of 3D city models
(Business Geomatics 2009-04-27)

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Mecklenburg geoinformatics company announces breakthrough success in 3D technology
Fully automated production now unrivalled fast and low priced
(2009-03-09)

GTA Geoinformatik GmbH (GTA) in Neubrandenburg succeeds with an important breakthrough in the fully automated production of 3D models from aerial images. The new software solution tridicon™ ROOF makes the production of true to original digital 3D city models which are highly detailed possible. Hightech technology reduces production time and costs of complete threedimensional city maps substantially.
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Annual conference of the German Society for Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation 2008
(2008-04)
The conference was held between the 23^rd and 26^th of April 2008 in Oldenburg.
With over 400 participants, a comprehensive exhibition, interesting presentations and a good suporting program, this successful event made possible a lively scientific exchange between the participants.
GTA Geoinformatik GmbH presented as one of the leading companies in the area of production and usage of 3D city models.

With the presentation of "Practical examples for employing 3D city models in urban planning" up to date use cases of urban 3D models were shown.
(Presentation as PDF (German))

• presentation of a powerful server concept for the visualisation of 3D city models in Google Earth
• introduction of 3D visualisation software tridicon™ CityDiscoverer
• presentation of 49 city models of international capitals and major cities which were produced in 2007 and which are available for licensing