Advanced Visualization and Cartography Laboratory

ADVANCED VISUALIZATION AND CARTOGRAPHY LABORATORY

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The Advanced visualization and Cartography Group at the University of A Coruña, located at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Elviña Campus, as well as the shared Advanced Visualization Room at CITEEC, comprises two laboratories: VideaLAB and CartoLAB, which focus their work on development, research and innovation in the field of graphical representation technologies applied to geography, infrastructure and construction, amongst other fields.

The Advanced visualization and Cartography Group at the University of A Coruña, located at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Elviña Campus, as well as the shared Advanced Visualization Room at CITEEC, comprises two laboratories: VideaLAB and CartoLAB, which focus their work on development, research and innovation in the field of graphical representation technologies applied to geography, infrastructure and construction, amongst other fields.

VideaLAB

The laboratory

The videaLAB, Laboratory for Advanced Visualisation in Engineering, Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of A Coruña, focuses its work on developing knowledge, conducting research and applying graphic representation technologies to geographical areas, infrastructure, construction, and historical, archaeological, landscape and cultural heritage.

The 3D visualisations of a project are extremely useful in studies related to environmental impact, material selection, lighting analysis, analysis of possible alternatives and process simulation, amongst many other applications, in addition to their role in public outreach and promotion.

In this regard, the research team is working on the reconstruction of heritage items, as well as on the design and development of systems and environments for research and public outreach in museum and exhibition facilities, paying particular attention to how these are experienced. It is worth highlighting the implementation of interactive solutions on natural interaction devices, such as those based on image analysis and gesture recognition, and the incorporation of visualisation systems using mixed reality, virtual worlds, video game engines, etc.

Projects

Some of its most significant projects include the Recreation and virtual museum exhibition of the Torre de la Parada and its collection of paintings for the Museum of Fine Arts in A Coruña, the three-dimensional geometric model designed to study the air circulation within Santiago de Compostela Cathedral as part of the project ‘Development of Computational Models for the Study and Prediction of Air Circulation inside the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela’, and the European EDINAF project, where the architectural design of the extended reality training system for the future European naval defence vessel was developed.

CartoLAB

The laboratory

The CartoLab is the Cartographic Engineering Laboratory, part of the Advanced Visualisation and Cartography Group (VAC) of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, within the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of A Coruña. Its work is mainly based on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applied to Civil Engineering as a computer tool for managing geospatial information, in order to achieve more efficient planning and management of infrastructure, services, resources and territorial areas.

It develops and implements methodologies and applications for the acquisition, processing, analysis and visualisation of geospatial data in public and private sector projects.

Projects

Some of its most significant projects include Emapic, a web application for the visualisation and management of geolocated questionnaires, allowing any knowledge, opinion or sentiment to be viewed on maps alongside its geographical location, and the dynamic study of school travel patterns using geolocated surveys Geomove, the initiative to help identify areas of natural interest and environmental vulnerabilities in Honduras Siros, the project to rehabilitate the Monelos River in A Coruña MonRiveR or the gvSIG-EIEL modules to help with the standard processes of projects under the Local Infrastructure and Facilities Survey.

It is currently involved in the Green Gap project (https://green-gap.eu/es/) as part of the POCTEP Programme to promote green infrastructure at a local level.