VOLTA is a RISE MSCA project that offers and performs secondments, investigations, training activities and networking to facilitate knowledge exchange and career progresses in the geospatial field (i.e. photogrammetry, remote sensing, GIS, surveying, etc.). The geospatial field produces, delivers and uses geospatial data (i.e. data with a geographic component) for applications in smart cities, forestry, location-based services, 3D city modelling, navigation, mapping, heritage documentation, energy efficiency, etc.
VOLTA want to reach the following objectives:
- to develop new methodologies to extract accurate geometric information from images – at various scale and from different sensors – in a more automatic, reliable, repeatable and productive manner than current state-of-the-art;
- to fuse sensors and data in order to exploit the intrinsic advantages of each one and generate products with superior quality characteristics than from a single (sort of) sensor;
- to automatically classify and understand (2D and 3D) geospatial data, including 2D/3D feature extraction;
- to exploit Cloud computing for faster processing and to provide access to large quantities of geodata.
The project, within it researches, events and secondments, wants to demonstrate and enlarge the benefits of geospatial data and technologies, investigating open issues, offering new processing solutions and unveiling how the geospatial field is evolving and bringing benefits to the society.
VOLTA includes 13 partners from research and academic institutions, geospatial companies and mapping agencies.
