Woolpert to Provide Aerial Mapping for West Virginia

DAYTON, Ohio, July 21, 2014—Woolpert, a national geospatial, infrastructure management and design firm headquartered in Dayton, announced that it has been awarded a one-year contract with the West Virginia Department of Transportation, Division of Highways to...

40cm Satellite Imagery Now Available through East View Geospatial

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 22, 2014—East View Geospatial, the leading provider of geospatial data and GIS production services, enthusiastically announces the availability of 40 cm Core Imagery products from DigitalGlobe.  New government permissions allow DigitalGlobe...

Zooming in on Alaska's Forests

Zooming in on Alaska's Forests

Scour the Web, and you might conclude Earth scientists have learned”and mapped”pretty much everything they possibly could about the world's forests. But talk to forest experts, and they'll remind you there's still plenty more to learn.

GRACE Satellite Paints Bleak Groundwater Picture

GRACE Satellite Paints Bleak Groundwater Picture

Drought and wildfires are battering several U.S. regional economies, as residents and agricultural businesses move toward water restrictions. Part of this story of water woes lies underground.

Monitoring Water Quality Down Under

Monitoring Water Quality Down Under

Former Copernicus Masters competition winner EOMAP launched a new Web-based application that provides daily maps of Australia's coastal water quality.

Satellites Track Aerosols to Smoky and Sandy Sources

Satellites Track Aerosols to Smoky and Sandy Sources

Twenty years after developing instruments that could monitor Earth's ozone layer, scientists learned they could use the same observations to detect ultraviolet-absorbing aerosols in the air such as volcanic ash, dust and smoke.

Esri Press Announces GIS Tutorial for Python Scripting

Redlands, Calif., July 14, 2014—Python is a key tool for scripting geoprocessing functions and tasks in ArcGIS for Desktop, but many GIS professionals have not had the opportunity to learn it. New from Esri Press, GIS Tutorial for Python Scripting, by David W....