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Thursday, July 26th, 2012

SAG Awards at Esri UC Honor Outstanding Applications of Geospatial Technology

Esri recognized more than 170 organizations during the Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Awards ceremony yesterday at the annual Esri International User Conference (Esri UC) in San Diego, California. The SAG Awards acknowledge innovative and intelligent applications of GIS technology.

Thursday, July 26th, 2012

USGS Helps Debut New Technology to Improve Access and Use of Earth Science Data

Researchers investigating global issues now have an easy method for finding and using earth science data through a new technology developed by the Data Observation Network for Earth, or DataONE. Understanding broad and complex environmental issues, for example climate change, increasingly relies on the discovery and analysis of massive datasets. But the amount of collected

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

Esri and DigitalGlobe Sign Multi-Year Agreement

DigitalGlobe today announced that Esri has licensed the rights for DigitalGlobe’s Global Basemap imagery layer. The announcement was made at the Esri International User Conference, occurring this week in San Diego, California. The imagery layer will be integrated into Esri’s existing imagery basemap in ArcGIS Online, Esri’s cloud-based mapping and collaborative content management system. Later

Tuesday, July 24th, 2012

Optech Wins JALBTCX 2012 Awards

Optech, the world leader in the development, manufacture and support of advanced lidar and camera survey instruments, is pleased to announce that Optech has been presented with two awards from the Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise (JALBTCX): the Sebastian Sizgoric Technical Achievement Award, and the 532 Award. The Sebastian Sizgoric Technical Achievement

Tuesday, July 24th, 2012

Esri Presents Honolulu Mayor Peter Carlisle with Making a Difference Award

Esri today announced that the City and County of Honolulu was awarded one of the company’s annual Making a Difference Awards. Honolulu Mayor Peter Carlisle was honored for his administration’s ground-breaking use of geographic information systems (GIS) in the city’s urban planning efforts.

Monday, July 23rd, 2012

TomTom Global Geocoder Delivers Enhanced Precision and World-wide Location Intelligence

Today TomTom unveils the latest version of its high volume batch geocoding web service launched in April.    Geocoding converts addresses into geographic coordinates to enable rich location analysis. With this upgrade, the TomTom Global Geocoder extends our ability to help businesses make smart decisions.

Monday, July 23rd, 2012

Esri and Microsoft to Provide Online Maps and Applications during Disasters

Today, Esri announced a strategic alliance with Microsoft to assist public and private agencies and communities around the world during disasters. Microsoft will display Esri public information maps on its cloud-based Disaster Response Incident Portal, as well as point citizens to the maps via its online outlets, such as MSN and Bing. Esri’s ArcGIS integration

Monday, July 23rd, 2012

Esri Maps for Office Extends Location Analytics throughout Organizations

Esri today released Esri Maps for Office, a new analysis tool that allows business professionals to visualize data by creating and sharing interactive maps directly within Microsoft Office. Esri Maps for Office is a downloadable add-in for Microsoft Office 2010 that helps organizations make better decisions through location analytics.

Monday, July 23rd, 2012

Intergraph Partners with Alvarez and Associates Under NASA’s Government-Wide Acquisition Contract

A powerful new partnership between Intergraph Government Solutions and Alvarez and Associates emerged within the federal geospatial landscape today. Alvarez and Associates, a Washington, D.C.-based Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVO/SB) information technology company and Intergraph Government Solutions, the leading provider of engineering and geospatial software, announced a partnership to provide products and services

Monday, July 23rd, 2012

TerraGo to Preview TerraGo Mobile for Android, Demonstrate Recently Acquired GeoXray Solution at Esri International User Conference

TerraGo Technologies, an innovative provider of widely adopted geospatial intelligence software, will preview its Mobile® for Android solution, as well as the recently acquired Geosemble GeoXray solution, at this week’s Esri International User Conference (UC) in San Diego.