Monday, February 25th, 2013
Esri and DigitalGlobe recently updated the ArcGIS World Imagery basemap service with more than 10 million square kilometers of high-resolution aerial views. The World Imagery map is a free map service for ArcGIS users that contains quality contributions from Esri partners and the global GIS community. The World Imagery Map is one of several useful
Monday, February 25th, 2013
Third in Esri’s Mapping the Nation series, Mapping the Nation: Pioneering a New Platform for Government includes 133 full-color maps produced by more than 30 United States federal government agencies, including the Department of Transportation, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Senate. It demonstrates how government at the national level uses GIS to encourage citizen
Monday, February 25th, 2013
Specialist British GIS software developer Cadcorp, has announced the immediate availability of Web Map Layers for Insurance. The product brings together the location of both assets and hazards into a single geographic information system, and provides location intelligence in support of multiple business activities in insurance, notably sales, underwriting, customer service, and claims investigation.
Monday, February 25th, 2013
STRaND-1, a nanosatellite carrying a smartphone, has successfully launched into Space from India today. STRaND-1 will fly the world’s first smartphone in orbit and is the UK’s first CubeSat launched. The satellite flies a Google Nexus One smartphone, a new Linux-based high-speed processor and attitude & orbit control system, and two novel propulsion systems (8
Monday, February 25th, 2013
Blue Marble Geographics will be exhibiting at the upcoming Esri Federal User Conference in Washington D.C. Blue Marble will showcase Global Mapper and its newly enhanced LiDAR features including a significant improvement in the ability to load and classify massive amounts of LiDAR point cloud data, jumping from supporting files that contain tens of millions
Thursday, February 21st, 2013
Google Maps for Education provides resources to help teachers and students explore, create, and collaborate with mapping tools. Students who are taught geography are better equipped to understand how human and physical systems interact and to make informed decisions based on that knowledge.
Thursday, February 21st, 2013
A Leica ALS70 airborne LIDAR system was delivered to the Karoly Robert College in Gyöngyös/Hungary. The ALS70 HP LIDAR system will be used to capture highly accurate and dense surface models of the earth, combined with the multispectral imagery of an integrated camera system. Major applications are data capture for topographic mapping, flooding simulation, forestry
Thursday, February 21st, 2013
Americans today face challenging economic times. Families are sitting down at their kitchen tables and making tough choices with tighter budgets. Businesses are weighing whether to hire new employees or expand operations. Communities are challenged to determine which essential services to provide to their citizens and businesses. Across the country, we are forced to balance
Thursday, February 21st, 2013
Cutting-edge mapping technology is being used to tackle child obesity in South Australia by pinpointing communities across the state with poorer health outcomes. The Geographic Information System (GIS) technology from industry leaders Esri Australia is being used by South Australia’s Department for Health and Ageing and local governments in a five year evaluation of facilities
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
For decades, scientists have disagreed about whether the sea is higher or lower heading north along the east coast of North America. Thanks to precision gravity data from ESA’s GOCE satellite, this controversial issue has now been settled. The answer? It’s lower.
