Posts Tagged ‘GIS’
Thursday, October 1st, 2015
Jeff Wood – vice president, WW Product Management, Workstation and Thin Client Business HP and Josh Peterson- director, WW Product Management, Workstation and Thin Client Business, HP met with the press in a virtual press briefing prior to the announcement of the new HP Z240 Tower and Z240 SFF Workstations with next generation Intel processors and HP Z Turbo Drive options, raising the bar for entry-level workstations, while providing the reliability of a workstation at the price point of a desktop PC.
 HP Z240 SFF Workstation and HP Z240 Tower Workstation (more…)
Tags: Autodesk, Bentley, crowdsourcing, data, geospatial, GIS, HP, HP Z240 SFF, HP Z240 Tower, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, LiDAR, location, mapping, maps, mobile, remote sensing, workstations
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2015
This panel discussion, entitled “A Conversation with NGA Leadership,” conducted Wednesday June 24th, at GEOINT 2015 had the flavor of an inside meeting, according to USGIF CEO Keith Masback, who joked that “we cleverly tricked about 1,500 people into coming to a staff meeting.”
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Tags: ArcGIS, cloud, crowdsourcing, data, ESRI, GEOINT 2015, geospatial, GIS, Google, mapping, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, NGA, NOAA
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Friday, September 4th, 2015
Michael Healander, founder of Geometri, spoke with GISCafe Voice about the evolution of that company, and the recent announcement from Geographic Information Services, Inc. (GISi) an Esri Platinum Partner, that its Board of Directors has formally approved the spin-off of its operating unit, GISi Indoors, as an independent company. The new business is named Geometri, LLC., Geometri is the name of their flagship indoor GIS software-as-a-service product.
Healander said he and Lee Lichlyter, CEO of Geometri and former CEO of GISi, are looking for strategic partners in the industry so they can grow faster. Geometri is still part of the GISi family but is now more of a holding company.
GISi was one of ten Esri platinum partners and now Geometri is part of the Esri startup program.
“The reason we got into indoor mapping,” said Healander, “Is we focused on the fact that when you go indoors you lose your navigation on your phone. And there’s a lot of opportunity as people spend money indoors. It’s hard to navigate, and we took on that problem. We built a platform and called it Geometri. We have taken complex pieces of technology to create indoor GPS, whether indoor maps, indoor routing or indoor search. We’ve taking the outdoor routing algorithms that we used in our main company and now we make them for indoor.”
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Tags: ArcGIS, ESRI, GeoMetri, geospatial, GIS, GISi, GPS, indoor mapping, Intergraph, iPhone, LiDAR, location, mapping, maps, mobile, smartphones
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Thursday, August 13th, 2015
Randy Denny, vice president of Sales for Xplore Technologies, talked recently at the Esri User Conference held in San Diego about the company’s big news: acquiring Motion Computing in April of 2015. Motion added to Xplore a broader portfolio of solutions in the “rugged category” of tablets.
 Xplore Technologies recently acquired Motion Computng (more…)
Tags: ArcGIS, cloud, crowdsourcing, data, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, GPS, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, location, mapping, maps, mobile, navigation, rugged devices, ruggedized computers, smartphones
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Wednesday, August 5th, 2015
“The business of weather is a storm of data driven change,” said Dr. Joel Myers, founder, president and chairman of AccuWeather in his keynote address entitled “Transformational Change Driven by Big Data” at the Esri User Conference 2015 held in San Diego. Myers added that, “We are reinventing ourselves over and over, to become the world’s most trusted source of weather information.”
 AccuWeather Portal Weather information has definitely morphed over recent years, with maps that can be customized to the user’s requirements. With weather that has become increasingly unpredictable in the world, the challenge to provide up to the minute accurate coverage of weather patterns has also increased.
Tile data from AccuWeather allows users to see an accurate representation of the weather and “manage their business processes via the weather,” said Myers.
This certainly does seem to be the case for big weather events. Myers said that the key criteria for weather are the following: what was it and what will it be, how severe and how will it be presented, when will it happen? Where?
Weather today is the original Big Data, according to Myers, and has helped drive increases in data power.
In the 1940s, thousands of pieces of data were collected and plotted onto maps called weather maps. They were analyzed by meteorologists to create forecasts, including how terrain, water and land boundaries impacted the movement of weather patterns. Weather forecasters were among the first to use big data collected in real time. In 1960 the first accurate weather prediction was made 24 hours ahead of the weather event.
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Tags: Accuweather, ArcGIS, cloud, crowdsourcing, data, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, Infrastructure, LiDAR, mapping, maps, mobile, social media
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2015
A look at what is being demonstrated on the Exhibit Floor is a great way to see what is trending in the geospatial industry. Location, navigation, GIS positioning, sensors, geospatial intelligence, UAS, 3D, emergency response are just a few of the areas covered in the vast offerings seen throughout the week.
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Tags: ArcGIS, climate change, cloud, crowdsourcing, data, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, Google, Google Maps, GPS, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, lbs, LiDAR, location, mapping, maps, mobile, NASA, navigation, SAP, satellite imagery, social media, USGS
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Friday, July 24th, 2015
Decision making in GIS would not be possible without knowledge of location and with it, a sense of place and culture. The stories of the afternoon plenary session at Esri UC 2015 showcased real life examples of this reality, from fighting the Ebola epidemic to fighting crime in Baltimore.
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Tags: ArcGIS, cloud, crowdsourcing, data, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, imagery, intelligence, lbs, location, mapping, maps, satellite imagery, social media
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Friday, July 17th, 2015
GISCafe will be exhibiting at the Esri User Conference 2015 in San Diego this coming week at Booth #616. Our president, Sanjay Gangal , will be recording video interviews at the booth. Editor of GISCafe and GISCafe Voice, Susan Smith, will be onsite covering the conference. Come by to participate in the video interviews or for a chance to win a KindleFire!
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Tags: ArcGIS, Esri User Conference 2015, geospatial, GIS, GISCafe, San Diego
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Thursday, July 16th, 2015
Bob Freinberg, CEO of Airbus DS Communications, an entity of Airbus Defense and Space, talked with GISCafe Voice about the new VESTA Text-to-9-1-1 and upgrades for that company.
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Tags: Airbus, ArcGIS, Autodesk, cloud, data, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, GPS, imagery, intelligence, iPhone, LiDAR, location, mapping, mobile, NASA, satellite imagery, VESTA
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2015
Partnerships, unmanned spacecraft, technologies and sensors were some of the topics covered in a panel discussion and press luncheon held at GEOINT Symposium 2015 in Washington D.C. recently, by Northrup Grumman.
 An E-2C test aircraft assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 20 conducts an aerial refueling dry-plug engagement with an F/A-18. (more…)
Tags: Citysourced, climate change, cloud, crowdsourcing, geospatial, GIS, Google, imagery, Infrastructure, intelligence, LiDAR, location, mapping, mobile, NASA, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, NOAA, Northrup Grumman, remote sensing, satellite imagery, USGS
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