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Posted: January 6th, 2009, 12:14am CET
Small utilities will soon have greater access to GIS technology as ESRI rolls out the Small Utilities ELA program.
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Posted: January 5th, 2009, 11:03pm CET
Karyn Tareen, president of GeoCove, Inc., an ESRI business partner, discusses her company's use of ArcGIS Mobile-based field data collection applications to improve damage assessment workflows and quickly provide decision makers with a common operational picture.
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Posted: January 5th, 2009, 6:48pm CET
ESRI, the world leading GIS software vendor, recently announced the addition of an environmental industry manager, Dr. Robin D. Smith.
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Posted: December 31st, 2008, 7:10pm CET
As Web GIS emerges as a platform for both social and business, organisations are finding they can leverage that architecture to mash up content to deliver information to a much broader audience.
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Posted: December 23rd, 2008, 1:28am CET
Highlights of whats coming in the next version of ArcPad, expected to be released in Q1 2009.
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Posted: December 19th, 2008, 1:40am CET
Contract ensures access to GIS software, updates, maintenance, and support.
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Posted: December 17th, 2008, 11:58pm CET
David Zilkoski, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Geodetic Survey (NGS), discusses how the NGS uses remotely sensed data and GIS to provide the geospatial infrastructure to meet the nation's economic, social, and environment needs.
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Posted: December 17th, 2008, 11:43pm CET
ESRI is hosting the 2009 ESRI T3G Institute (Teachers Teaching Teachers GIS), June 14-19, 2009, at its company headquarters in Redlands, California.
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Posted: December 17th, 2008, 9:20pm CET
Get time-saving tips to help you edit and update data in the ArcGIS Desktop ArcMap application.
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Posted: December 15th, 2008, 11:01pm CET
Presentation to detail dow geographic business intelligence increases profits, improves customer service, and creates environmentally responsible organizations.
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Posted: December 15th, 2008, 9:45pm CET
In a rare interview, ESRI founder and president Jack Dangermond explains why geographic information systems (GIS) are so much more than just Google Maps.
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Posted: December 15th, 2008, 9:36pm CET
Chain restaurant operators lead the way in adopting technologies to help minimize human error and increase efficiency.
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Posted: December 15th, 2008, 9:15pm CET
Rosario Giusti de Perez, director of ESRI Venezuela, and Ramon Perez, president of ESRI Venezuela, discuss their ESRI Press book, Analyzing Urban Poverty: GIS in the Developing World. With thirty years of experience using GIS technology to manage urban problems in Venezuelan barrios, the authors describe how they developed sustainable solutions that go beyond conventional planning programs.
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Posted: December 15th, 2008, 8:11pm CET
Get tips for administering and maintaining desktop and workgroup geodatabases. This is the third episode of a series on implementing and managing desktop and workgroup geodatabases.
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Posted: December 13th, 2008, 12:06am CET
Experts are developing geospatial analytic predictive techniques that seek to project where an event or individual can be found in the future.
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Posted: December 11th, 2008, 11:35pm CET
In the wake of natural disasters and humanitarian emergencies, one of the first teams on the scene is from a charity you may never have heard of: MapAction.
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Posted: December 10th, 2008, 10:39pm CET
Kirk Halford, national data sharing coordinator at the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and Eric Ingbar, director of Gnomon, Inc., discuss the BLM's Cultural Resources Data Sharing Program and its use of GIS to enable cultural resources professionals to have consistent, reliable, easy-to-use spatial information systems on their desktops.
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Posted: December 10th, 2008, 12:13am CET
Learn how to create desktop and workgroup geodatabases and be introduced to the role of the database server administrator account. This is the second episode of a series on implementing and managing desktop and workgroup geodatabases.
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Posted: December 9th, 2008, 11:42pm CET
Paul Adkins, marketing communications manager at Laser Technology Inc., an ESRI hardware partner, discusses how his company's laser systems allow users to collect field data that can be used with ESRI software for any number of remote features from the convenience of a single location.
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Posted: December 9th, 2008, 7:20pm CET
Thanks to ESRI, voters in California's Alameda County this past November were able to visit a GIS-enabled Web site to see election results at the precinct level in real time.
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Posted: December 9th, 2008, 12:44am CET
Tim DeSalvo and Kirstin Platt of the Public Works Department for the City of Newport News, Virginia discuss the process of replacing the Department's existing legacy command line infrastructure management system with a GIS-based asset management system to more accurately assign and track maintenance activities.
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Posted: December 8th, 2008, 7:30pm CET
Learn how to perform GIS analysis tasks such as address location, proximity search, and direction finding with ArcGIS Explorer.
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Posted: December 4th, 2008, 8:39pm CET
Among ESRI's many products being explained at the Congress is its latest, ArcLogistics, which is a routing and scheduling solution for fleet management.
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Posted: December 4th, 2008, 4:14am CET
Myles Sutherland, ArcGIS Mobile product manager at ESRI, discusses the enhancements and new functionality available in the recently released ArcGIS 9.3 Service Pack 1, including ArcGIS Mobile out-of-the-box application support for Windows Mobile 5 and 6 smartphones and a multi-user geodatabase.
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Posted: December 3rd, 2008, 11:18pm CET
Working with CAD Data in ArcGIS Desktop will be offered January 21-23, 2009, from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (Pacific standard time).
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Posted: December 3rd, 2008, 12:56am CET
In Cary, N.C. Players in leagues for ages 6 to 10 consistently attend practices near their homes, thanks to a GIS application created by Leith Britt, GIS analyst for the Cary Technology Services Department.
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Posted: December 3rd, 2008, 12:24am CET
Dr. Martien Molenaar, chancellor at the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), discusses how for over 50 years ITC has been using GIS in its program courses, research approaches, and projects that train professionals in less developed countries to deal with drastic changes in their operating environment such as trends, increased competition, and government policies.
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Posted: December 2nd, 2008, 7:26pm CET
An ESRI Web seminar will show how the software extension helps read, translate, and transform many formats.
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Posted: December 2nd, 2008, 1:09am CET
Become familiar with the installation process of ArcSDE technology for Microsoft SQL Server Express licensed for ArcGIS Desktop or ArcGIS Server Workgroup. This is the first episode of a series on implementing and managing desktop and workgroup geodatabases.
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Posted: December 2nd, 2008, 1:09am CET
Become familiar with the installation process of ArcSDE technology for Microsoft SQL Server Express licensed for ArcGIS Desktop or ArcGIS Server Workgroup. This is the first episode of a series on implementing and managing desktop and workgroup geodatabases.
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Posted: December 2nd, 2008, 12:04am CET
Find out how your organization can save fuel, reduce emissions, and cut costs in this free online course.
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Posted: December 1st, 2008, 11:56pm CET
Christopher Thomas, government industry solutions manager at ESRI, discusses how ESRI's ArcLogistics allows governments to make the most of the resources they already have by optimizing the routes of employees in the field, eliminating inefficient district designations, improving productivity, and reducing vehicle use.
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Posted: December 1st, 2008, 10:38pm CET
Planning an election, managing the voting in multiple precincts and disseminating results all present complex technical challenges.
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Posted: December 1st, 2008, 7:54pm CET
ESRI Press has published an update to the book, Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop: Basics of ArcView, ArcEditor, and ArcInfo, Second Edition, with revisions compatible with the latest software release, ArcGIS 9.3.
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Posted: November 25th, 2008, 10:30pm CET
Precinct-level voting result maps delivered in time online.
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Posted: November 25th, 2008, 8:34pm CET
Industry leaders discuss GIS, Smart Grid technology, and renewable energy at ESRI's Electric & Gas user group conference.
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Posted: November 24th, 2008, 10:44pm CET
Mitchell Garnett, ESRI's electric utility industry solutions manager, discusses how GIS can be used in the growth and integration of renewable energy generation. Garnett explains how the ModelBuilder application in ArcGIS can accelerate and simplify the process of assessing potential areas for wind energy generation.
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Posted: November 20th, 2008, 10:45pm CET
SmartBuy deal could turn into business bonanza but vendors wary about facing deep discounts.
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Posted: November 20th, 2008, 10:37pm CET
We were thrilled when Joseph agreed to take a moment out of his recent trip exploring GIS education in Taiwan to answer some of our questions about geospatial technology and his work with ESRI.
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Posted: November 20th, 2008, 6:31pm CET
Technology partnership in FusionX makes fusion center situational analysis affordable, easy to use.
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Posted: November 20th, 2008, 1:30am CET
Experienced leader focuses on critical role of imagery in GIS.
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Posted: November 20th, 2008, 12:06am CET
Darren Rozenek, GIS administrator for the City of Akron, Ohio Public Utilities Bureau (APUB), discusses the process of creating the City's centralized GIS which included in-house migration of its expansive utility assets into a versioned geodatabase environment. The City's GIS assets now provide a strong foundation for customer support, design, infrastructure planning, and pro-active business operations.
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Posted: November 19th, 2008, 7:34pm CET
ArcGIS users can perform SQL queries and operations on spatial data within Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
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Posted: November 19th, 2008, 6:21pm CET
The English government has saved 700,000 by using geographic information software on mobile computers to produce the most detailed Countryside Survey to date.
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Posted: November 19th, 2008, 12:06am CET
Bob Honn, director of marketing at Oce, an ESRI hardware partner, explains how the TCS500, Oce's innovative, full-color, large-format printer offered by ESRI, allows users to increase their productivity by easily and quickly plotting their data-rich GIS files from their desktop to printed maps.
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Posted: November 18th, 2008, 12:02am CET
ESRI provides staff and resources for the Great Southern California ShakeOut.
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Posted: November 17th, 2008, 11:30pm CET
Learn how you can easily share GIS maps, data, and images using the OGC Web services included with ArcGIS Server 9.3.
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Posted: November 17th, 2008, 10:35pm CET
Learn methods and best practices for working with native CAD data in ArcGIS, how to convert CAD data to GIS data, and options for converting GIS data to CAD formats.
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Posted: November 17th, 2008, 10:28pm CET
Mansour Raad, senior software architect at ESRI, discusses the recently released ArcGIS API for Flex, which allows users to transform their local data into a visually rich interactive map, query and display GIS data features and attributes, locate addresses, identify features, and perform complex spatial analytics.
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Posted: November 17th, 2008, 10:16pm CET
Online ESRI seminar will cover topics such as topology, labels, and tables.
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Posted: November 14th, 2008, 6:48pm CET
Access to a full range of ESRI products hastens information system improvements.
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Posted: November 14th, 2008, 5:30pm CET
The City of Boston is committed to inreasing its solar energy output fiftyfold by 2015. As part of that initiative, the city is mapping rooftops to find those ideal for photovoltaic panels. ArcGIS Server is being used to map out Solar Boston.
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Posted: November 13th, 2008, 7:45pm CET
MapAction is using the latest in geographic information technology to bring speedy relief to disaster victims.
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Posted: November 13th, 2008, 12:05am CET
Dr. Bolaji Taiwo, chief technical adviser for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), discusses how the UNFPA used ESRI GIS to help the Central Statistics Office (CSO) of Afghanistan conduct the first complete, accurate population and housing census for Afghanistan since 1979. With the state-of-the-art GIS infrastructure now in place, the CSO can efficiently conduct future censuses.
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Posted: November 12th, 2008, 12:41am CET
Bill Meehan, director of utility solutions at ESRI, explains the concept of smart grid electric solutions and how enterprise GIS technology can help to manage these systems, allowing consumers to make more informed and efficient decisions regarding their electricity usage.
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Posted: November 11th, 2008, 9:07pm CET
Only through careful observation of the data, application of scientific principals, and by using the latest technology do we have any hope of truly understanding the stressors and impacts on the incredibly complex system of Earth's climate. Learn more about GIS for climate change through this collection of articles and user stories.
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Posted: November 11th, 2008, 8:14pm CET
Ten state, regional, and local governments have been awarded $95,950 in software, hardware, and training grants.
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Posted: November 11th, 2008, 7:36pm CET
High-tech system gets patients to the right hospital.
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Posted: November 11th, 2008, 12:31am CET
J. Allison Butler, the managing member of MilePost Zero, a transportation GIS consulting firm, discusses his ESRI Press book, Designing Geodatabases for Transportation. Butler's book provides a practical, step-by-step approach to designing a GIS to manage data about transportation facilities and services, from railroads to traffic-monitoring systems.
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Posted: November 10th, 2008, 10:08pm CET
The United Nations Environment Program's World Conservation Monitoring Center (UNEP-WCMC ) in Cambridge, United Kingdom, has a dedicated staff of more than 60 people that work to bring together data on global biodiversity and conservation to guide policy.
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Posted: November 8th, 2008, 12:42am CET
ArcGIS for AutoCAD Build 110 has just been made available to support AutoCAD versions 2007 and higher. To download or to learn more about ArcGIS for AutoCAD.
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Posted: November 6th, 2008, 8:52pm CET
Help us improve our ESRI Virtual Classroom offerings by taking a short survey.
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Posted: November 6th, 2008, 5:49pm CET
GIS expert Peter Eredics examines the role of GIS technology in modern forest management applications.
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Posted: November 5th, 2008, 11:15pm CET
GIS helps monitor millions of money order transactions.
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Posted: November 5th, 2008, 6:51pm CET
Thomas Palizzi, executive director of sales and marketing at Azteca Systems, Inc., an ESRI business partner, discusses Azteca System's local government enterprise license agreement (ELA) program. It is designed to work together with ESRI's Small Municipal and County Government ELA program, which provides small governments with wide access to GIS for faster and more efficient enterprisewide deployments.
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Posted: November 5th, 2008, 5:45pm CET
Your free copy helps you make an informed training decision by giving you a complete listing of instructor-led and Web training options.
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Posted: November 5th, 2008, 5:43pm CET
In "Introduction to ArcGIS Desktop for Mining Geoscience," find out how to use ArcGIS Desktop software to solve mining geoscience problems such as detecting mineral occurrence patterns, identifying optimal areas for exploration, and locating prospective deposits.
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Posted: November 5th, 2008, 5:39pm CET
The integration of multiple technologies in one device is now enabling soldiers and civilians to determine geographic coordinates at remote targets up to 1,000 meters away.
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Posted: November 5th, 2008, 5:26pm CET
As a graphical representation of a place, a map can reveal a great deal about not only topography and physical boundaries, but also the political and personal landscape of a town.
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Posted: November 5th, 2008, 1:00am CET
Are you interested in improving your GIS skills, jumpstarting a new or stalled project, or strengthening your resume? ESRI training can help you achieve these goals, giving you the knowledge you need to stay competitive and up-to-date with industry trends and new technologies.
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Posted: November 5th, 2008, 12:34am CET
Software agreement ensures GIS expansion within federal agency.
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Posted: November 5th, 2008, 12:05am CET
Uday Kale, vice president of IT at Reliance Energy Limited, India's largest private sector enterprise in power utility, describes how ESRI GIS has helped to expedite the implementation of enterprisewide projects and the integration with SAP, SCADA, and other IT systems.
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Posted: November 4th, 2008, 11:53pm CET
The deadline to apply is December 1, 2008.
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Posted: November 4th, 2008, 11:19pm CET
With Election Day upon us, Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama have shifted their focus from tearing each other apart to getting out the vote.
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Posted: November 3rd, 2008, 9:27pm CET
Kendall Fancher, supervisory cartographer, and Eric Linzey, cartographer, at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Geodetic Survey (NGS), a participant in the 2008 ESRI International User Conference MAPS Industry Showcase, discuss how the NGS uses GIS for shoreline and coastal mapping and in their outreach to the geospatial community.
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Posted: November 1st, 2008, 12:30am CET
A GIS expert addresses GIS/CAD interchange, interoperability, 3-D modeling, and data accuracy.
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Posted: October 31st, 2008, 8:05pm CET
GIS is a unique tool for synthesizing information because it can correlate data that seemingly has no relationshipdata connected by location alone.
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Posted: October 31st, 2008, 8:02pm CET
The Indiana Homeland Security Department is deploying a communication network that uses ESRI geographic information system software.
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Posted: October 31st, 2008, 7:33pm CET
GIS software improves ability improves ability to monitor probationers and provide public safety.
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Posted: October 30th, 2008, 12:04am CET
Web GIS tool gives developers direct access to ArcGIS Server 9.3.
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Posted: October 29th, 2008, 7:52pm CET
With about 1600 in attendance, "this conference is the largest gathering of GIS professionals in the UK and in Europe," said Richard Waite, director of ESRI (UK).
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Posted: October 29th, 2008, 7:44pm CET
Staff take advantage of powerful analysis and real-time data.
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Posted: October 29th, 2008, 12:22am CET
Geospatial software facilitates greater communication and collaboration.
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Posted: October 28th, 2008, 11:36pm CET
Joshua Lyons, GIS analyst for UNOSAT, a United Nations program that delivers satellite solutions to relief and development organizations, discusses the maps he created with ESRI's ArcGIS software to monitor the Somali pirate activity that is currently disturbing humanitarian efforts in the Gulf of Aden.
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Posted: October 28th, 2008, 11:14pm CET
ESRI's 2008 Health GIS Conference in Washington, D.C., explored advances in GIS technology that meet critical needs to measure and analyze human health and programs on local to global scales.
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Posted: October 28th, 2008, 5:05pm CET
Learn about the new out-of-the-box ArcGIS Mobile application and enhancements to the ArcGIS Mobile software development kit in the free Web training seminar, "Introduction to ArcGIS Mobile 9.3".
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Posted: October 28th, 2008, 12:02am CET
Receiving awards were the Alabama Department of Children's Affairs (ADCA); Pat Libbey, executive director of the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO); Bruce Ripley, Planning Systems Support Group, Veterans Health Administration (VHA); and the Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre, Canada.
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Posted: October 27th, 2008, 8:10pm CET
Acquire new skills and techniques that you can quickly apply to your job and become more proficient in performing GIS-related tasks.
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Posted: October 27th, 2008, 8:08pm CET
Get the skills and knowledge you need to become proficient in working with the geodatabase.
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Posted: October 27th, 2008, 4:33pm CET
Visit the ESRI Training Matters blog often to get tips or ask questions about ESRI training and education products.
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Posted: October 24th, 2008, 10:05pm CEST
ESRI intermediate-level courses provide techniques to administer and fine-tune your GIS server for best performance.
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Posted: October 24th, 2008, 5:29pm CEST
As neighbourhoods change overnight, and as pressure on limited municipal resources increases, the effective management of those resources requires a greater level of insight.
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Posted: October 23rd, 2008, 10:32pm CEST
Grange's hospital, Loma Linda University Medical Center east of Los Angeles, is several years into a GIS development project with nearby GIS firm ESRI.
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Posted: October 23rd, 2008, 12:27am CEST
Arnab Bhowmick, program manager at Weston Solutions, an ESRI Business Partner, discusses how his organization used ArcGIS Survey Analyst with Cadastral Editor software to realign the City of Encinitas' basemap, improving the spatial accuracy of the City's enterprise GIS.
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Posted: October 23rd, 2008, 12:12am CEST
The worldwide event, sponsored in part by ESRI and the National Geographic Society, showcases the importance of GIS, GPS, and other technologies.
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Posted: October 21st, 2008, 8:52pm CEST
New systems integration technologies put power behind geospatial intelligence.
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Posted: October 21st, 2008, 8:32pm CEST
Kathryn Keranen and Dr. Robert Kolvoord, discuss their ESRI Press book, Making Spatial Decisions Using GIS, the fourth volume in the Our World GIS Education book series. The authors describe how this scenario-based book helps readers enhance their GIS and decision-making skills using real-world situations and GIS data.
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Posted: October 21st, 2008, 12:12am CEST
FAA is a longtime user of ESRI software for applications including obstruction evaluation, charting, airspace evaluations, aeronautical data management, minimum vectoring altitudes, facilities management, noise monitoring and modeling, and environmental assessment.
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Posted: October 20th, 2008, 10:49pm CEST
Alison Moore, global navigation project manager at ESRI, discusses the key improvements and new features of the recently released Production Line Tool Set (PLTS) for ArcGIS 9.3-Aeronautical Solution, an extension to ArcGIS that allows civil and military agencies, commercial airlines, and chart producers to create, maintain, or utilize standard aeronautical datasets based on the latest digital data.
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Posted: October 20th, 2008, 10:26pm CEST
ESRI will demonstrate the power and flexibility of its ArcGIS software platform to manage geospatial intelligence during the GEOINT 2008 Symposium, October 27-30, 2008, in Nashville, Tennessee.
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