Friday, February 26th, 2016
Redlands, California—February 25, 2016—Mapping the Nation: Building Smart Government with GIS, a new book from Esri, illustrates the many ways government uses maps created with geographic information system (GIS) technology to create safer, healthier, and more resilient communities. The sixth in Esri’s Mapping the Nation series, the book includes a collection of more than
Thursday, February 25th, 2016
Airbus Defense and Space and the J.R. Simplot Company have signed a multi-year agreement that will enable Simplot to have access to very high resolution imagery products from the Pléiades satellites (50cm resolution) over locations in the United States as well as Mexico for precision agriculture. The data will be processed near real-time in the
Thursday, February 25th, 2016
Ubisense Group plc (AIM:UBI), a leader in enterprise location intelligence solutions, has released myWorld 3, a significant leap forward for the state of the art in modern geospatial mobile platforms. Key new features of myWorld 3 for mobility include adding support for Apple iOS to existing support for Android and Windows, and the ability to
Thursday, February 25th, 2016
WASHINGTON — The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has awarded a $6 million Wide Area Visualization Environment (WAVE) contract to energy services provider Spectrum Solutions. Spectrum Solutions will implement the WAVE Energy Information Management (EIM) system using software from OSIsoft, the global leader enabling operational intelligence, and Esri, a geospatial technology pioneer, to
Thursday, February 25th, 2016
KNOXVILLE, TN – A new storymap developed by U.S. Forest Service researchers allows users to interactively chart the ebb and flow of forest products across the southern states — and visually tells the story of the decline of the forest products industry in the South over the last decades. Using Forest Service Inventory and
Thursday, February 25th, 2016
Redlands, California—February 25, 2016—Esri released World Geocoder for ArcGIS today. World Geocoder for ArcGIS enables users to securely map global addresses behind a firewall so that sensitive data is never exposed. Geocoding adds location context to data so that it can be displayed on a map. World Geocoder for ArcGIS has several key benefits for
Thursday, February 25th, 2016
Redlands, California—February 24, 2016—At the Esri Federal GIS (FedGIS) Conference in Washington, DC, today, Esri president Jack Dangermond awarded Dr. John Brockhaus, director of the geospatial program at the United States Military Academy at West Point, with the prestigious Making a Difference Award for inspiring students to serve others. “The United States Military Academy’s geospatial
Wednesday, February 24th, 2016
MULTIROTOR is the B2B world market leader for professional micro drones in industry, documentation and surveying. To develop very successful products further continuously and to deal with the increasing demand, the company extends its capacities. In Brieselang near Berlin, the development department is being extended. The MULTIROTOR Drone Lab provides the engineers with new resources
Wednesday, February 24th, 2016
24 February 2016 — The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) requests information to help advance the “Arctic Spatial Data Pilot”. The Arctic Spatial Data Pilot is an OGC Interoperability Program initiative sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey and Natural Resources Canada. This recently launched initiative aims to help all Arctic stakeholders benefit from improved access to the
Wednesday, February 24th, 2016
As NASA continues to make progress on its new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), testing the hardware is becoming a crucial focal point at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Each structural test article must be carefully evaluated to verify its integrity and ensure it can withstand the loads it may
