Friday, November 16th, 2012
Clifford W. Greve and Vincent V. Salomonson have been selected as the next Honorary Members of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS). Their nominations were recently approved by the ASPRS Board of Directors. This is the highest award bestowed by ASPRS and there can be only 25 living Honorary Members of the
Friday, November 16th, 2012
Astrium, a world leader in space technologies, and EADS North America today jointly announced the creation of Astrium Americas, America’s newest space company. A subsidiary of EADS North America, Astrium Americas will bring Astrium’s broad global space capabilities to North America. Astrium Americas will also provide government customers with secure satellite communications services formerly marketed
Friday, November 16th, 2012
The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), has now officially launched SeaSketch, an ocean planning tool supported by Esri, the world leader in GIS. Conservationists, planners, and ocean resource managers will use the GIS application and Esri’s ArcGIS Online to plan sustainable ocean use management.
Friday, November 16th, 2012
RapidEye, a leader in high-resolution, wide area repetitive coverage of earth through its constellation of five satellites, announced that a new product, the RapidEye Mosaic, is now available. RapidEye Mosaics are a five meter, natural color, seamless orthorectified imagery product using the most recently acquired RapidEye data available.
Friday, November 16th, 2012
Groundwater provides drinking water for millions of Americans and is the primary source of water to irrigate cropland in many of the nations most productive agricultural settings. Although the benefits of groundwater development are many, groundwater pumping can reduce the flow of water in connected streams and rivers—a process called streamflow depletion by wells. The USGS
Wednesday, November 14th, 2012
In celebration of GIS Day, Esri Canada and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS) today announced a collaborative agreement that will advance the organizations’ common goal of promoting geographical literacy. Esri Canada provides the world’s leading geographic information system (GIS) technology, to which 50% of Canada’s publicly-funded educational institutions have access. The RCGS is a non-profit
Tuesday, November 13th, 2012
Applying the geographic approach to problem solving originally proposed by Esri president Jack Dangermond, Economic Development and GIS by J. M. Pogodzinski and Richard M. Kos, AICP, examines the many ways GIS can be used to further economic development.
Tuesday, November 13th, 2012
Professionals in the oceanic and atmospheric communities often use the popular file format called the Network Common Data Form (netCDF) to create, manage, store, and distribute scientific data. Esri ArcGIS 10.1 works with this file format, reading and writing data that’s stored in netCDF and letting scientists and researchers integrate data related to temperature, precipitation,
Thursday, November 8th, 2012
The “Thinkers Dinner” concept was developed from a need for government to discuss with industry pressing challenges and innovative solutions.
Thursday, November 8th, 2012
On Wednesday, November 14, 2012, join hundreds of Canadians as they celebrate the transforming power of geographic information system (GIS) technology on GIS Day. This year marks the 50th anniversary of GIS, which was invented by Dr. Roger Tomlinson in Canada in 1962. Dr. Tomlinson conceived the idea of using computers to automate mapping analysis for
