Abstract
KSU Campus GIS
Track: Architecture, Engineering, and Construction
Authors: Abdulaziz Aldegheishem
During 2003-2011, one of the most comprehensive campus GIS was developed in King Saud University (KSU), Riyadh, covering an area of about 9 km2. The GIS layers of geodetic reference, topography, orthorectified imagery, land use, planimetry, buildings, engineering structures, utilities, transportation, street furniture, and services were established. About 38,000 engineering drawings of buildings and utilities were scanned and georegistered. The total area digitized and georegistered is about 1,715,000 m2. The following statistics of utilities only is a prrof of the size of this project: in the utility system, there are about 2 million features corresponding to a length of about 2000 km. In summary, very detailed spatial geodatabase of campus, even down to the individual offices and partitions, has been established.
Campus applications have also been established using the powerful geodatabase and ESRI platform.
Finally, the establishment of such a system and implementation are discussed in the paper.