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Esri announced today the acquisition of Switzerland-based company Procedural with their CityEngine application that allows for the quick modeling and visualization of cityscale models. With this acquisition, Esri enters the 3D design and city modeling space in force, further blurring the lines between what the CAD and GIS toolset are capable of in terms of [...]
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Jack Dangermond, president and founder of Esri, addressed the 14,000 attendees at the Esri International User Conference today, speaking about our rapidly changing world, and our need to deal with major change. These issues include such things as climate change, population, political and social conflict, loss of biodiversity, energy, water security, natural resources, human health, [...]
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Jack Dangermond, president and founder of Esri, gave the morning keynote at the Senior Executive Seminar at the 2011 Esri International User Conference in San Diego this morning. The topic matched the theme of this year’s conference, “Understanding Our World.” Today, GIS is changing our planet by helping us understand our world, rooted in the [...]
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Starting on Sunday, the world’s largest and most diverse gathering of geospatial professionals will take place in San Diego for the Esri International User Conference. It’s hard to imagine any other conference in any other software field with a more diverse set of users and application areas that all gather together at a central event. [...]
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The Esri International User Conference program is now available in PDF format as it will appear in print, with a “mobile optimized agenda” coming soon. I’ve been on the lookout for news on keynote speakers for the plenary session, and note that while there are several top-level speakers in the agenda, there’s not one identified [...]
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Today at the Esri Forestry GIS Solutions Conference there was a sneak peek at the beta of ArcGIS 10.1, from Damian Spangrud ArcGIS Product Manager. The beta will be available for wide open trial in June 2011 for anyone that’s a current customer, with release in early 2012. You can sign up via Beta Community. [...]
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Jack Dangermond, founder and president of Esri, addressed the start of the company with the audience at the Esri Forestry GIS Solutions Conference today. He discussed that many of the company’s first customers were in the forestry industry with an open source stack of software, where they sold it, and people went off with the [...]
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Neal Ewald, vice president of California operation at Green Diamond Resources, “The California Redwood Company,” spoke to how far we have come in terms of environmental management in the forest industry at the Esri Forestry GIS Solutions Conference. The photo representation of clear cuts in redwood forests, with display of old caterpillar tractors cutting roads [...]
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The first Esri Forestry GIS Solutions Conference is taking place today at the Esri headquarters in Redlands, Calif. this week. The community of the Esri forestry users is more than 1,000 strong, with 13 different countries represented at the event. The comprehensive management of forestry lands in the United States involves 750 million acres of [...]
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This morning at the ASPRS annual conference Esri released an online Landsat satellite imagery viewer called ChangeMatters along with online imagery services to access multi-temporal and multi-spectral worldwide Landsat data. The online ChangeMatters imagery viewer is accompanied by a series of tutorial videos to walk you through all that is offered, with details on how [...]
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