The Platform for 3D Geospatial

With Ansys Systems Tool Kit (STK), engineers model land, sea, air, and space scenarios to understand the relationships among vehicles, payloads, facilities, and environments, including terrain. Ansys Geospatial Data Cloud (GDC) integrates Cesium ion Self-Hosted and global 3D content to provide STK with out-of-the-box access to accurate geospatial context within its time-dynamic simulations.

Our third installment highlights two more tracks at the 2025 Cesium Developer Conference: community-contributed aerospace and defense topics and sessions on Cesium, iTwin, OGC 3D Tiles, and other open technologies compiled by the teams at Cesium and Bentley Systems who work on them.

GEOINT Symposium is one of my favorite events of the year. It’s where the geospatial intelligence community comes together to share how we’re advancing national security through geospatial innovation, and Cesium is proud to once again sponsor and participate.

Cesium ion SaaS and Cesium ion Self-Hosted utilize containers to provide Cesium ion. Containers are cloud-native, lightweight, and stand-alone software packages that include everything needed to run a piece of software: the code, runtime, system tools, libraries, and settings. This encapsulation ensures that the software runs consistently across various computing environments, from development to testing and production, regardless of the underlying infrastructure. At the heart of any container is the base image, and Cesium has recently updated base images to use the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Universal Base Image as deployed by Iron Bank. Because containers are smaller than virtual machines, it reduces the surface area to patch and update as part of the software stack. 

We're excited to announce the release of 3D Tiles for Godot, an open source plugin for Godot Engine built by Battle Road through the support of a Cesium Ecosystem Grant. 

Our next update on sessions and tracks at the Cesium Developer Conference includes two significant sets of community-submitted talks: one focused on Climate and Disaster Resilience and the other on 3D, AI, and Data Technology.