Unmanned Aerial Systems is one of the disruptive technologies of this century. Whomever would have thought that small flying planes, that look very much like the hobbyist planes that people fly remotely, would someday take the role of carrier pigeons in delivering packages and also providing aerial surveillance, both on a government and citizen level.
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Special Coverage: UAS: Disruption in the Skies
Thursday, October 23rd, 2014Check out GeoPlanner from Esri
Thursday, October 16th, 2014Ken Gorton of Esri talked about the GeoPlanner at Esri UC 2014 in the Plenary, mostly in relationship to the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI)’ s work in Africa with the great apes’ habitat.
GeoPlanner supports every step in the design workflow for Geodesign and is an addition to the ArcGIS platform. Built on ArcGIS Online, it leverages web maps and can be used in infrastructure design, public safety, and planning of all kinds. GeoPlanner can be put on the portal so everyone involved can use it.
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Reaching the mobile user with Moasis
Wednesday, October 8th, 2014Tim Garcia, vice president of Business Development and Emerging Markets for Moasis Global said in a recent article for GISCafe:
“The latest frontier is how to effectively reach the mobile user by leveraging the data based on a consumer’s geographic position. Utilizing profiles integrated within geo-location, brands, agencies and even small businesses are able to locate consumers within a specific area and target them with the marketing message that is most relevant.”
Moasis’s team combines marketing and the technologies disrupting today’s information ecosystem. They’ve developed a platform based on the fusion of location data and multi-screen delivery, with the flexibility to weather the ongoing change in digital media and local marketing.
Moasis Global created the Intelligent Location Engine marketing platform, which encompasses their GeoGrid technology. In July 2014, they announced a partnership with Esri to provide marketers with consumer segmentation data that classifies US neighborhoods into market segments based on socioeconomic and demographic factors. By integrating Esri’s Tapestry data into a location-based mobile marketing platform, marketers can optimize the performance of their mobile marketing campaigns and better pinpoint the best potential customers and prospects using Moasis.
The partnership facilitates marketers who want to measure the performance and appeal of their mobile marketing and optimize in real time, combine Moasis’ location marketing platform with Esri’s Tapestry data to help target the customers and prospects in a particular area. The platform allows marketers to create behavioral market segments by location and target lifestyle demographics as well as where such customers live, down to their local neighborhoods.
Mosaik Solutions: from roaming guides to GIS and core analytics
Friday, October 3rd, 2014Recently I spoke with Mosaik Solutions’ John Gilmer, VP, Data Integrity, Brian McNamara, product manager, Todd Cotts, director, Product Management and Matt Oak, manager GIS department regarding their business and recent announcements.
Special Coverage: Greater Clarity from Space — Update on Satellite Imagery
Monday, September 15th, 2014PDF3D conversion and publishing software addresses merging GIS and CAD data from diverse sources
Monday, September 8th, 2014PDF3D 3D PDF conversion and publishing software has released their latest version update with more features of their advanced PRC technology for GIS users. The development timeframe has been speeded up to bring this technology to market early.
LizardTech’s GeoGofer finds, organizes and tracks geospatial imagery
Thursday, September 4th, 2014Jon Skiffington, LizardTech director of Product Management, spoke to the GISCafe Voice about the latest release of GeoGofer, LizardTech’s latest software solution for finding geospatial imagery quickly and efficiently, regardless of where it is located is now available for only $250.