The Army Engineer Officer and GIS

Kyle Merritt discusses the application and importance of GIS to U.S. Army engineer officers in this article.

August 16, 2020

H3: Open Source Geospatial Indexing System

H3, developed by Uber, divides the Earth into hexagons.

August 14, 2020

Using GIS to Track Historical Land Cover Change and Growth Rate at Fort McCoy

Christian Rodriguez outlines the process to track land cover changes on a military installation using ArcGIS.

August 14, 2020

Improving Urban Decision Making with Open Earth Observations

Steven Ramage, Head of External Relations, Group on Earth Observations (GEO), outlines innovative partnerships and activities GEO has been working…

August 6, 2020

Open Geospatial Data and COVID-19

Some of the key GIS datasets being used today for research and outreach related to COVID-19 are assessed and reviewed.

August 5, 2020

Mapping Urban Heat

Lead by Portland State University professor Vivek Shandas, a network of citizen volunteers and local organizations are mapping urban heat…

August 3, 2020

Recent Developments in Remote Sensing and Earth Observation

Remote sensing and earth observationcapabilities at satellite, aerial, UAV, and ground levels have radically improved in the last decade.

August 2, 2020

GIS and the Telecom Market

Devanshu Shrivastava synthesizes an analysis of GIS in the Telecom Market including a growth forecast for coming years.

July 29, 2020

Esri Debuts New GIS Tools and Apps at the 2020 Annual User Conference

The first two plenary sessions contained a lot of demonstrations by Esri staff featuring the new GIS tools and applications…

July 22, 2020

How Geospatial Technologies are Helping to Complete the Effort to Map the World’s Ocean Floor

Only 20% of the ocean's floor has been mapping in detail.

August 18, 2020