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A Common Approach to Geo-Referencing Building Models in Industry Foundation Classes for BIM/GIS Integration

ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2021, 10(6), 362; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijgi10060362
by Junxiang Zhu and Peng Wu *
Reviewer 1: Anonymous
Reviewer 2: Anonymous
Reviewer 3: Anonymous
ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2021, 10(6), 362; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijgi10060362
Submission received: 22 April 2021 / Revised: 23 May 2021 / Accepted: 23 May 2021 / Published: 26 May 2021

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The authors present a review of the different meaning of the term georeferencing in the domain of BIM-GIS integration to develop a common approach considering common IFC entities. This study proves that different versions of IFC are valid for accurate geo-referencing. Moreover, a level of the spatial reference model is conceptualised.

The research is well structured, and the methodology is straightforward. The study is constructive in clarifying the georeferencing concept. It adds values in the nowadays scenario of GIS-BIM integration research. Moreover, it helps solve a very actual issue for practical work, such as urban planning, hazards scenario, smart cities development heritage maintenance, etc.

 Here some suggestions of integration are reported:

  • In the Introduction, please also mention georeferenced data from 3D integrated metric survey.
  • Moreover, authors could add an hint about georeferencing data problems from different GIS sources (such as different SDIs or geoportals). In these case, datasets have to be harmonised and converted or projected by adopting GIS software or external software tools.

(the ones you name semi-georeferenced data and that you explained very well in the case study)

 

Here just some general questions that could help an improvement of the work:

  • What about georeferencing of BIM model designed following the scan-to-BIM approach?
  • What about georeferencing meaning in different communities and actors deriving from other areas of research/disciplines (such as geomatics, as you reported, or drawings)? Is it a semantic problem?

 

  • As state of the art for BIM integration in GIS - that is missing - you could have a look or take into consideration also these other works:
  • Amirebrahimi, S.; Rajabifard, A.; Mendis, P.; Ngo T. A BIM-GIS integration method in support of the assessment and 3D visualisation of flood damage to a building. Journal of Spatial Science, 2016, 61(2), pp. 317-350.
  • Banfi, F. (2019). The integration of a scan-To-hbim process in bim application: The development of an add-in to guide users in autodesk revit. In 2nd International Conference of Geomatics and Restoration, GEORES 2019 (Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 141-148). Copernicus GmbH.
  • Boguslawski, P.; Mahdjoubi, L.; Zverovich, V.; Fadli, F.; Barki, H. BIM-GIS modelling in support of emergency response applications. WIT Transactions on The Built Environment, 2015, Vol. 149, pp. 381-392.
  • Colucci, E.; De Ruvo, V.; Lingua, A.; Matrone, F.; Rizzo, G. 2010. HBIM-GIS Integration: From IFC to CityGML Standard for Damaged Cultural Heritage in a Multiscale 3D GIS. Appl. Sci. 2020, 10, 1356. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/app10041356
  • El Meouche, R., Rezoug, M., & Hijazi, I. (2013). Integrating and managing BIM in GIS, software review. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2, W2.
  • Fosu, R.; Suprabhas, K.; Rathore, Z.; Cory, C. Integration of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) – a literature review and future needs. Proceedings of 32nd CIB W78 Conference 2015, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 27th-29th 2015, 2015, pp. 196-2014.
  • Hao Wang, Yisha Pan, Xiaochun Luo, Integration of BIM and GIS in sustainable built environment: A review and bibliometric analysis, Automation in Construction 103 (2019) 41–52.
  • Noardo, F.., Biljecki, F., Agugiaro, G., Arroyo Ohori, K., Ellul, C., Harrie, L., & Stoter, J.. (2019). GeoBIM benchmark 2019: Intermediate results. In International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences-ISPRS Archives (Vol. 42, No. 4/W15, pp. 47-52). International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
  • Tolmer, C. E., Castaing, C., Diab, Y., & Morand, D. (2013, October). CityGML and IFC: Going further than LOD. In 2013 Digital Heritage International Congress (DigitalHeritage) (Vol. 1, pp. 645-648). IEEE.

 

 

  • Paragraph 4 could be implemented to validate the well-explained methodology.

 

Authors could add a reflection of the new tools of some proprietary software such as ESRI ArcGISPro to import georeferenced model in its 2d or 3d maps directly. Are there differences with ArcGIS Online tool for BIM?

 

You can add other existing examples, in which are they similar or different from yours? What is the added value?

With the purpose of BIM-GIS integration….What about comparing IFC entities (of the same or different IFC version) with CityGML ones? Are there correspondences in georeferencing area? (e.g. site, place, building, building part, …)

 

  • Please place captions of Figure 1 and 13 on the same page.

 

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Reviewer 2 Report

The BIM/GIS integration topic is an emerging research topic in the GIS and BIM fields. The topics and researchers' dedicated efforts are praiseworthy. However, the reviewer concerns about insufficient academic sounds. This research provides a solution in transforming the projected CRS to the site-level LCS with a hierarchy. It is fine, but not sure how it can help the integration of BIM/GIS. My question is that previous or current approaches to integrate BIM with GIS do not solve the problems in processes of spatial reference. Is this the first try that integrating BIM with the GIS environment? If not, please provide relevant research, rather than only providing georeferencing in the current literature review section. Even I do not know how it can help facilitate the development of smart cities and digital twins. Please consider the above two major comments. Except for the portion mentioned here, others are good to go.

Line 3, satellite imageries à satellite images, Imageries are not often used.

The interpretation in Table 6 is a bit subjective.

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Reviewer 3 Report

The paper is interesting, the idea is acceptable for publication, and the paper's topic is well presented. The structure of the work is satisfactory. The methodology and model are presented in a way that is acceptable to the reader. The part related to the verification of the model needs to be improved; the current verification is generalized to only one case. Model verification should be improved, extend verification cases, explained in more detail, and the advantages of the proposed model should be confirmed. 

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Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

Fine

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Thanks for all your comments and suggestions.

Reviewer 3 Report

I think it is not enough to verify the model on only one example and state that 12 models, it is not acceptable (Table 5). Furthermore, I believe that the authors should provide appropriate models for verification, the types of selected models are acceptable, but verification should be performed on acceptable data. The paper treats georeferencing, not a quality assessment of available models. It is not enough to contact that the available models are defective. The authors should provide adequate models for verification.

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