Tag: ESRI
Following the 2011 Esri UC
You can follow the morning’s plenary proceedings and news from this year’s Esri User Conference from several sources. Straight from Esri, there are several ways to follow: Esri’s International User Conference blog, Esri’s UC Facebook Page, and the Esri UC twitter account. You can also follow any tweets relating to the Esri UC through the #EsriUC [...]
GIS News: Esri releases, Image of the Week from ESA
The roundup of geospatial news over the past week includes several software and data announcements from Esri, an image of the week from ESA covering the volcanic island of Guadalupe, and the winners of the 2011 Thacher Environmental Research Contest. SuperGeo, Topcon, TC Technology, OGC, Bluesky, eSpatial, IDV Solutions, gvSIG, and Safe Software also have released announcements. [...]
New GIS Workbook
Esri Press has released a new GIS tutorial book: Understanding GIS: An ArcGIS Project Workbook, explains the methods, tools, and processes needed to apply full-scale GIS analysis to a spatially based problem. Readers are guided through a hypothetical project of selecting a suitable location for a park near the Los Angeles River in California. “This book [...]
Conservation Mapping Competition Winners
Esri and SCGIS jointly announced the winner of the International Conservation Mapping Competition. Andrew DiMatteo, cartographer at the State of the World’s Sea Turtles (SWOT) project and associate in research at Duke University, is the grand prize winner in the International Conservation Mapping Competition. DiMatteo’s map, Worldwide Green Turtle Nesting Sites 2011, displays 1,167 green sea turtle [...]
Ice Thickness and Ocean Maps
Two new datasets have been announced. The ESA unveiled its new ice thickness map at the Paris Air and Space Show. The sea-ice thickness map is the result of ESA’s CryoSat mission which, over the last seven months has been delivering precise measurements to study changes in the thickness of Earth’s ice. ESA’s Earth Explorer CryoSat mission [...]