September 22, 2016
REDLANDS, Calif.- Smart mapping leader Esri announced it is engaging students all over the world in a new contest called the Global Content Challenge. With the power of Esri content at their disposal, students will tell their own compelling scientific stories using the Esri Story Map Journal app. Entrants will use personal geographic analyses, visualizations,
September 21, 2016
EDMONTON, Esri Canada User Conference – The use of geographic information systems (GIS) at the Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service ( STARS) has evolved significantly over the years. Previously, the non-profit air ambulance service provider primarily used GIS to identify where emergencies occurred so that it could dispatch resources to the site. Today, STARS relies
September 20, 2016
Redlands, California — Smart mapping leader Esri announced today that it has been recognized in a new report by PwC as one of the 25 fastest growing cloud companies. The report assesses some of the ways cloud computing continues to change and shape the software industry. The cloud enables organizations to manage a growing volume
September 16, 2016
REDLANDS, Calif.- Esri, the world leader in smart mapping technology, announced a whole new way of measuring the ocean on September 15, 2016, at the Oceans Conference in Washington, DC. Ecological Marine Units (EMUs) are Esri’s gift to a world whose final unexplored terrain lies beneath its seas. Esri and USGS collected a series of
September 13, 2016
Exprodat, the oil and gas ArcGIS platform specialist, Esri Gold Partner and Getech group company, has released the latest version of its popular Data Assistant software, which simplfies and speeds up the process of importing and exporting common exploration data, to and from Esri’s ArcGIS platform. Data Assistant v222 is now compatible with ArcGIS Desktop
September 12, 2016
Redlands, California—Global smart-mapping leader Esri has partnered with the United Nations Foundation’s Nothing But Nets campaign in the fight against malaria.Malaria claims the life of a child every two minutes, despite being both preventable and treatable. Recently, Nothing But Nets created a story map using Esri’s ArcGIS platform to help people learn more about malaria.
September 8, 2016
REDLANDS, Calif.- Global smart-mapping leader Esri and three of its customers were recognized at the 13th Annual International Business Awards (IBA) for exemplary achievement in the workplace. The International Business Awards, known as the Stevies, is one of the best known international business award programs. Individuals and organizations worldwide are eligible to submit nominations in
September 6, 2016
Esri customers in the United States can now purchase Septentrio’s Altus NR2 high-accuracy GNSS receiver, according to an announcement today from the two partner companies. The open-architecture Altus NR2 is fully compatible with Esri’s new version of Collector for ArcGIS, giving Esri users a powerful combination for GIS data gathering in applications requiring centimeter-level positioning,
September 2, 2016
Springfield, Va. — The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the National Science Foundation publicly released new 3-D topographic maps of Alaska Sept. 1 in support of a White House Arctic initiative to inform better decision-making in the Arctic. The 3-D digital elevation models, or DEMs, are the first to come from the ArcticDEM project, which was created after a
September 1, 2016
Redlands, California—Leading Global Geospatial Platform Provider Esri was among six companies that Forrester invited to participate in its Q3 2016, Forrester Wave™ evaluation, Geospatial Analytics Tools and Platforms. Forrester conducted interviews with 23 organizations and selected Esri as one of the top six software providers to evaluate in the report.Forrester notes, “Esri is an authoritative