Spatial data processing system and method

1. A system for handling 3 dimensional spatial information geo-located within a geodetic reference frame expressed by latitude, longitude, and altitude, the system including:

a specialized application layer for the production of visual interactive applications associated with the 3 dimensional spatial information;

a generic foundation client providing 3 dimensional spatial information interrogation routines, including a message passing interface; and

a voxel server interconnected to said generic foundation client via said message passing interface for the storage of 3 dimensional spatial information as a voxel database,

wherein said voxel database structures said 3 dimensional spatial information in the form of a plurality of geo-referenced location voxels indexed by coordinates corresponding to latitude, longitude, and altitude in the geodetic reference frame.

2. A system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said voxel database stores said 3 dimensional information indexed by individual x, y and z co-ordinates geolocated within the geodetic reference frame, with x and y being planar co-ordinates corresponding to latitude and longitude, and z being depth co-ordinates corresponding to altitude.

3. A system as claimed in claim 2 , wherein said voxel database recursively structures said 3 dimensional spatial information recursively, in a hierarchical manner.

4. A system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said 3 dimensional information is stored as either a geodetic space or Euclidian space which can be geolocated within the geodetic reference frame.

5. A system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the 3 dimensional spatial information includes material properties associated with said location information.

6. A system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the 3 dimensional spatial information includes data objects such as points, lines, planes, surfaces, polygons, shapes or volumes.

7. A system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the 3 dimensional spatial information includes structured data objects such as textures, images and video.

8. A system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said specialized application layer includes a real time object moving in a 3 dimensional spatialized space, recording spatialized data.

9. A system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said 3 dimensional spatial information includes mineral resource value estimates associated with said 3 dimensional spatial location.

10. A system as claimed in claim 9 , wherein said mineral resource value estimates are derived from the merging of multiple models associated with the 3 dimensional spatial information.

11. A system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said 3 dimensional spatial information includes blockchain verifiable data.

12. A method for storage, access and updating of geographically or geodetically based data geo-located within a geodetic reference frame expressed by latitude, longitude, and altitude, the method including the steps of:

storing the data in the form of a plurality of geo-referenced location voxels indexed by individual x,y and z coordinates, with x and y indicating planar coordinates corresponding to latitude and longitude in the geodetic reference frame, and z indicating depth coordinates corresponding to altitude in the geodetic reference frame.

13. A method as claimed in claim 12 , further comprising storing the data indexed by temporal coordinates.

14. A method as claimed in claim 12 , wherein said geographically or geodetically based data is stored in a recursively subdividable 3D volumetric manner with geo-referenced spatial location data.

15. A method as claimed in claim 12 , further comprising forming material voxels having volume elements spatially quantizing volumes of material.

16. A method as claimed in claim 15 , wherein said material voxels are hierarchically composable and decomposable.

17. A method as claimed in claim 12 , wherein said x and y coordinates represent approximately 1 m distances with scalability.

18. A method as claimed in claim 12 , wherein said z coordinates range from a default height of about 20 km to a depth of about 5 km.

19. A method as claimed in claim 12 , wherein said voxels include data objects including points, lines and planes (which can be textures, images and video).

20. A method as claimed in claim 12 , wherein said voxels include volume data bounded by a spatial boundary.

21. A method as claimed in claim 12 , wherein said voxels include temporal time series elements.

22. A method as claimed in claim 12 , wherein said voxels include structures defining a probabilistic distribution of material within a voxel.

23. A method as claimed in claim 12 , further including a voxel editor for editing voxels.