Blogs

Data driven approach to climate challenges and biodiversity using smart combinations of Tygron and FME
GAES is a consultancy for greening and climate challenges, biodiversity objectives and social issues. Central to their data-driven concept is the role of ecosystem services. Ecosystem services include all goods

Standardizing flood defenses using a supercomputer
The Vechtstromen water organisation was faced with the task of standardizing its flood defenses. In total, the water organisation has 400 km of barriers. The main questions to be answered

3-30-300 for healthier urban living with Urban Sync
The 3-30-300 rule is a rule of thumb for urban forestry and urban greening that was developed by Professor Cecil Konijnendijk, director of the Nature Based Solutions Institute. This rule states

Hydrodynamic Model of Khakovka dam breach
In the hours and days after the catastrophic Kakhovka dam break in Ukraine, Tygron worked intensively with Arcadis to build a model in order to gain better insights into the disaster.

Interactively developing urban plans by using connected geo-applications in a Digital Twin
Several partners involved with ‘De Kien’ in Deventer are working on digital twin applications. ‘De Kien’ is the name of an innovative campus and development hub, but also a network of partners

Rotterdam in action: Cooperation and Participation as an answer to heat stress
The engineering office of the Municipality of Rotterdam is working on ways to visually design complex projects. This can be done by means of a 3D model that is based

Heat analytics for the city of Amsterdam
Climate experts Marijke Clarisse, Ruben Gauw, Hester Wilderburg, Frans Wijkhuizen and Govert ter Mos from the municipal engineering firm Ingenieursbureau Amsterdam (IB Amsterdam) have successfully completed a course on ‘Modelling

Modelling the flying routes of bats in a Digital Twin
The City of Rotterdam faces a huge challenge. Many new homes need to be built. The city must remain accessible, with opportunities for business. But there is also a strong

Tygron’s API in practice
The Tygron API has been available to all Tygron users since the beginning of 2020. This opens up an endless amount of new possibilities for using the Tygron Platform. The

Logbook flooding in Limburg (NL) 16 juli 2021
In July, 2021 the Dutch watersystem was confronted with a historical runoff of water. In the hours after the flood, the Tygron Team has processed all relevant data and tried

Importing 3D models into the Tygron Platform
The Tygron Platform automatically generates a 3D world by combining open data. The buildings in the 3D world have LoD (Level of Detail) 2. Read more about how the roof

Hyper-resolution Flooding of the Bommelerwaard
Last year Tygron breached the 1 billion grid cells threshold. Today we are using this Massively parallel GPU technology (100.000 execution tasks in parallel) for more use-cases and refining it