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Daryl Smith, Product Manager for PLTS, gives an overview of PLTS and discusses the PLTS events and activities at the 2009 ESRI International User Conference. —Published July 03, 2009
Robin Smith, Environmental Industry Manager, previews the environmental industry events and activities at the 2009 ESRI International User Conference. —Published June 30, 2009
Simon Thompson, Director of Commercial Business Industry, previews the events and activities at the 2009 ESRI Business GIS Summit, which will coincide with this year’s ESRI International User Conference in San Diego, California. —Published June 25, 2009
Shelli Stockton, Industry Manager of Facilities Management, previews the facilities management events and activities at the 2009 ESRI International User Conference. —Published June 17, 2009
Mark Cygan, Maps Industry Manager, previews the maps, chart, data production, and SDI events at the 2009 ESRI International User Conference. —Published June 9, 2009
Randy Frantz, Telecommunications Industry Manager, discusses the telecommunications industry events and activities at the 2009 ESRI International User Conference. —Published June 4, 2009
Bill Davenhall, Global Marketing Manager for Health and Human Services, previews the Health and Human Services events and activities at the 2009 ESRI International User Conference. —Published June 3, 2009
Peter Eredics, Forestry Industry Manager, previews the events and activities to take place at the upcoming 2009 ESRI International User Conference. —Published May 20, 2009
Bill Harp, Defense and Intelligence Industry Manager, previews the Defense and Intelligence industry demonstrations and activities at the 2009 ESRI International User Conference. —Published May 14, 2009
Terry Bills, Transportation Industry Manager, previews the transportation industry events and activities at the 2009 ESRI International User Conference. —Published May 12, 2009
Rob Brook, Pipeline and Gas Utility Industry Manager, discusses the Gas Utility industry topics and events at the upcoming 2009 ESRI User Conference. —Published May 5, 2009
Rob Brook, Pipeline and Gas Industry Manager, gives a preview of the pipeline industry events and activities at the 2009 ESRI International User Conference. —Published April 30, 2009
Chuck Cmeyla, public works industry manager, gives a preview of the public works events and activities at the 2009 ESRI International User Conference. —Published April 28, 2009
Rob Elkins, ESRI Developer Group Product Manager, talks about the important happenings and unveilings at the 2009 ESRI Developer Summit in Palm Springs, California. —Published April 10, 2009
Mark McCoy, the insurance industry solutions manager, ESRI, provides an overview of the value of GIS in the insurance industry while discussing the 2009 ESRI Business GIS Summit and its benefits specifically for insurance professionals. —Published March 31, 2009
Sabine Barrera and Jay Chen, product engineers, provide an overview of the Programming and Design Patterns for the ArcGIS Mobile API session that they will present at the upcoming 2009 ESRI Developer Summit, March 23-26 in Palm Springs, California. This session will cover key features of the ArcGIS Mobile SDK and describe in detail what developers need to know to write effective mobile applications for ArcGIS Server. —Published March 4, 2009
Shelli Stockton, the finance and banking industry solutions manager, ESRI, provides an overview of the use of GIS in the banking and financial services industry. Stockton also discusses the 2009 ESRI Business GIS Summit, May 4-6, in Denver, Colorado, and its benefits specifically for financial institution professionals. —Published March 3, 2009
Art Haddad, development lead/architect, and Rex Hansen, ArcGIS Server product engineer, introduce the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight and provide an overview of the sessions on the API that they will be presenting at the 2009 ESRI Developer Summit, March 23-26 in Palm Springs, California. —Published February 25, 2009
Simon Thompson, ESRI's commercial industry solutions manager, provides an overview of the 6th annual ESRI Business GIS Summit. The Summit will be held May 4-6 in Denver, Colorado and is a must-attend event for business professionals and industry leaders looking for solutions to help their organizations survive and thrive during challenging economic times. —Published February 23, 2009
Jeremy Bartley, product engineer, and Keyur Shah, developer, provide an overview of the Using the ArcGIS Server REST API session that they will present at the upcoming 2009 ESRI Developer Summit, March 23-26 in Palm Springs, California. The session will provide an overview of the REST API, REST principles, and some of the new functionality for the API with the upcoming ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 release. —Published February 14, 2009
Jeremy Bartley, product engineer, and Jayant Sai, software developer, provide an overview of the 2009 ESRI Developer Summit ArcGIS API for JavaScript sessions. These sessions include an overview of the API for beginners, a best practices discussion for those familiar with the API, and techniques for developing advanced HTML and JavaScript Web applications for experienced developers. —Published February 12, 2009
Eric Bader, product manager, and Ranjit Iyer, software programmer, share what they will be presenting at the Extending ArcGIS with Java session at the 2009 ESRI Developer Summit, March 23-26 in Palm Springs, California. In their presentation, Eric and Ranjit will introduce what the extensibility of ArcGIS for Java really means, its purpose, and what the SDK for Java at ArcGIS 9.3.1 will provide. —Published February 11, 2009
Antony Jayaprakash and Bjorn Svensson, product engineers, discuss the three ArcGIS API for Flex sessions that will be presented at the 2009 ESRI Developer Summit, March 23-26 in Palm Springs, California. In addition to an overview of each session, Antony and Bjorn share some of the recent updates to the ArcGIS API for Flex. —Published February 5, 2009
Rex Hansen and Rich Zwaap, ArcGIS Server product engineers, share what they will be presenting at the Building .NET Applications Using the ArcGIS Server Web ADF session at the 2009 ESRI Developer Summit, March 23-26 in Palm Springs, California. In their presentation, Hansen and Zwaap will introduce and discuss different parts of the Web ADF and some of the key enhancements related to the upcoming release of ArcGIS Server 9.3.1. —Published February 4, 2009
Jim Barry, program manager for the ESRI Developer Network, provides a preview of the presummit seminars and technical sessions scheduled for the 2009 ESRI Developer Summit, March 23-26 in Palm Springs, California. —Published January 29, 2009
Jim Barry, program manager for the ESRI Developer Network, invites all ESRI developers to submit their development work, anything from a discussion about development practices to a complete application, for the opportunity to be showcased at the 2009 ESRI Developer Summit, March 23-26 in Palm Springs, California. —Published January 28, 2009
Rob Shanks, Senior Product Manager for ArcGIS Online, discusses the improvements to the new version of ArcGIS Online, which makes sharing GIS content over the Web easier than ever. —Published July 2, 2009
Lynn Wombold, Chief Demographer and Data Development Team Manager, provides valuable insight on how demographic trends, such as housing, income, and employment, are impacting the U.S. population. —Published June 24, 2009
Lynn Wombold, chief Demographer and manager of ESRI’s data development team, provides valuable insight on how the new data gathering methods of the 2010 Census will impact data users. —Published June 17, 2009
David Danko, GIS Standards Consultant, discusses the importance of metadata in the geospatial realm—in particular, ESRI's support of the ISO standard. —Published June 10, 2009
Christopher Thomas, government industry solutions manager at ESRI, discusses how government organizations can better manage their fleets using ArcLogistics, ESRI's routing and scheduling solution. ArcLogistics empowers fleet managers to efficiently deploy vehicles based on location and vehicle capacity while reducing costs in the process. —Published May 28, 2009
Christophe Charpentier, Product Manager for ESRI StreetMap Premium, discusses the latest version of StreetMap Premium, ESRI's geocoding and routing solution for ArcGIS Server. —Published May 21, 2009
Jian Lange, ArcPad Product Manager, and Elvin Slavik, Lead ArcPad Developer, talk about new capabilities, performance improvements, and quality enhancements in ArcPad 8. —Published April 14, 2009
Ismael Chivite, ArcGIS Server product manager, provides a preview of the enhancements in the upcoming release of ArcGIS Server 9.3.1. Chivite highlights the faster dynamic map services, new tools to author and publish optimized map services, and a new developer API, the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight. —Published April 7, 2009
Simon Thompson, ESRI's director of commercial business industry solutions, shares how ESRI's logistics solutions, including ArcLogistics and ArcGIS Network Analyst, help companies of all sizes enhance their trucking and delivery by optimizing their operations and improving customer service, while reducing costs and emissions. —Published March 24, 2009
Simon Thompson, ESRI's commercial business industry solutions director, discusses the role of GIS in successful franchising and the different solutions ESRI provides to assist businesses looking to expand at a profitable pace. —Published March 18, 2009
Simon Thompson, ESRI's director of commercial business industry solutions, discusses the state of the GIS market in the current economy. Thompson also discusses how GIS is being leveraged by many businesses during these tough times to better understand their customers, optimize their operations, and make better decisions. —Published March 10, 2009
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—Diana Dittemore, Product Marketing Coordinator, ESRI
ESRI invites you to take a short survey about podcast listening and video viewing preferences. In appreciation of your time you will receive a complimentary ESRI Virtual Campus course. To take the survey, go to: www.esri.com/mediasurvey. —Published March 6, 2009
Joe Johnson, one of the coordinators of the ESRI International User Conference Student Assistantship Program, and Tania Pal, a former participant in the program and current ESRI employee, provide an overview of the program and tips for students interested in applying for the assistantship. —Published March 5, 2009
Kerry Somerville, product manager for navigation, ESRI, discusses how ESRI's ArcLogistics Navigator, an in-vehicle navigation solution, ensures that the efficiencies created with ArcLogistics desktop occur as planned in the field by allowing route planners and dispatchers to provide preoptimized stops to drivers. —Published February 10, 2009
Jeff Rashid, manager of ESRI's Utility Team, introduces the Small Utilities Enterprise License Agreement (SU-ELA) program. This program provides utilities, including electric, gas, water, telecommunications, and others, in the United States serving less than 100,000 meters with unlimited access to a complete array of GIS technology for a fixed price. —Published January 8, 2009
Myles Sutherland, ArcGIS Mobile product manager, ESRI, discusses the enhancements and new functionality available in the recently released ArcGIS 9.3 Service Pack 1, including ArcGIS Mobile out-of-the-box application support for Windows Mobile 5 and 6 smartphones and a multi-user geodatabase. —Published December 4, 2008
Christopher Thomas, government industry solutions manager, ESRI, discusses how ESRI's ArcLogistics allows governments to make the most of the resources they already have by optimizing the routes of employees in the field, eliminating inefficient district designations, improving productivity, and reducing vehicle use. —Published December 2, 2008
Mitchell Garnett, ESRI's electric utility industry solutions manager, discusses how GIS can be used in the growth and integration of renewable energy generation. Garnett explains how the ModelBuilder application in ArcGIS can accelerate and simplify the process of assessing potential areas for wind energy generation. —Published November 25, 2008
Mansour Raad, senior software architect, ESRI, discusses the recently released ArcGIS API for Flex, which allows users to transform their local data into a visually rich interactive map, query and display GIS data features and attributes, locate addresses, identify features, and perform complex spatial analytics. —Published November 18, 2008
Bill Meehan, director of utility solutions, ESRI, explains the concept of smart grid electric solutions and how enterprise GIS technology can help to manage these systems, allowing consumers to make more informed and efficient decisions regarding their electricity usage. —Published November 12, 2008
Alison Moore, global navigation project manager, ESRI, discusses the key improvements and new features of the recently released Production Line Tool Set (PLTS) for ArcGIS 9.3—Aeronautical Solution, an extension to ArcGIS that allows civil and military agencies, commercial airlines, and chart producers to create, maintain, or utilize standard aeronautical datasets based on the latest digital data. —Published October 21, 2008
Shelli Stockton, the finance and banking industry manager, ESRI, explores how financial institutions, ranging from large national corporations such as FDIC to local credit unions, use GIS during times of economic crisis to help them optimize their business and resources. —Published October 16, 2008
Rob Brook, pipeline industry manager, ESRI, explains the advantages that a GIS offers to a pipeline organization as well as the different data models available and solutions for vertically integrated pipeline companies. —Published October 1, 2008
Dave Peters, director of systems integration, ESRI, discusses his ESRI Press Book, Building a GIS: System Architecture Design Strategies for Managers, which details a proven methodology for building an infrastructure to successfully support a GIS. —Published September 30, 2008
Mansour Raad, a senior software architect, ESRI, discusses the new ArcGIS Server API for Flex including topics such as MXML, ActionScript, REST, and Adobe AIR. —Published September 25, 2008
Tim Hodson, Lead Product Engineer on the Survey Team, ESRI, discusses the vertical integration of data using Cadastral Editor and the meaning and importance of accuracy of GIS data. —Published September 17, 2008
David Maguire, Victoria Kouyoumjian, and Ross Smith, discuss their new ESRI Press book, The Business Benefits of GIS: An ROI Approach, which details a return on investment (ROI) methodology that explains how the implementation of a GIS can create business value for an organization. —Published September 9, 2008
Rob Shanks, ArcGIS Online senior product manager, ESRI, discusses the recent official release of ESRI's ArcGIS Online Services which now include a choice of standard or premium services, both providing immediate access to ready-to-use 2D maps, 3D globes, and reference layers via the Web. —Published September 2, 2008
Christopher Thomas, Government Industry Solutions Manager, ESRI, discusses the benefits of ESRI's Small Municipal and County Government Enterprise License Agreement Program in the context of an enterprise GIS. —Published July 30, 2008
Karl Terrey, ArcLogistics Product Manager, ESRI, discusses the fuel savings benefits of ArcLogistics 9.3 and highlights ArcLogistics-related activities at the upcoming 2008 ESRI International User Conference. —Published July 23, 2008
Chris Thomas, Government Industry Solutions Manager, ESRI, discusses the benefits that Business Analyst Online, ESRI's Web-based analysis tool for on-demand reports and map generation, provides to economic development planners. —Published July 15, 2008
Myles Sutherland, ArcGIS Mobile Product Manager, ESRI, discusses what users can expect with the latest release of ArcGIS Mobile 9.3 and highlights mobile events at the upcoming 2008 ESRI International User Conference. —Published July 8, 2008
Chuck Cmeyla, ESRI Public Works Industry Solutions Manager, discusses what attendees can expect to learn at the upcoming Water Seminar Series which will be held at 20 cities across the U.S. in September and October. —Published June 10, 2008
Lynn Wombold, Chief Demographer and Manager of ESRI's Data Development Team, discusses the 2008/2013 demographic data update changes, trends, and methodologies. —Published June 3, 2008
What's New in ArcPad 7.1
—Elvin Slavik, ArcPad lead developer, and Jian Lange, ArcPad product manager
Bob Hazelton, ArcGIS Business Analyst Product Manager, gives an overview of this new product and how organizations benefit from using it. —Published April 24, 2008
Christian Carlson, Regional Manager of ESRI's Charlotte, NC office talks about how small municipal and county governments can leverage ESRI's Enterprise License Agreement that has been specifically designed for them. —Published March 26, 2008
ESRI Dallas product manager Jay Hoffman discusses the various uses of RouteMAP IMS for the retail and health care industries. —Published March 13, 2008
Bill Meehan, ESRI Director of Worldwide Utility Industry Solutions and author of Empowering Electric and Gas Utilities with GIS, draws on his experience in GIS and the utilities industry to discuss how the adoption of an enterprise GIS by electric and gas utilities can positively impact their financial and customer service performance. Employing the case study of a fictional utility, Meehan demonstrates concepts and applications that provide clear examples of the overall benefits of enterprise GIS in the utilities industry. —Published February 16, 2008
Chris Cappelli, ESRI Director of U.S. Sales, discusses the benefits of the new Enterprise License Agreement program for Small Municipal and County Governments. —Published January 18, 2008
Brent Jones, Surveying and Engineering Manager, ESRI, discusses how the new cadastral editor tools in ArcGIS Survey Analyst 9.2 improve parcel management. —Published October 9, 2007
Michael Young, Senior Enterprise Architect with ESRI's Professional Services Division, discusses his recent white paper Geospatial Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). —Published September 6, 2007
Chuck Cmeyla, Public Works Industry Solutions Manager, ESRI, talks about what attendees can expect at the upcoming Public Works seminar series being held in 19 U.S. cities this September and October. —Published August 7, 2007
Jim Herries, Product Manager for Business Analyst Online, ESRI, talks about the benefits and updates of the latest release of Business Analyst Online. —Published August 2, 2007
Fred Miller, author of the ESRI Press book GIS Tutorial for Marketing, talks about the reason for writing the book and how he got involved with ESRI Press at the 2007 ESRI International User Conference. —Published July 31, 2007
John Young, Director of Enterprise Solutions, ESRI, and a former CIO in the US federal government, talks about how GIS can deliver a competitive advantage to organizations throughout the public and private sectors and why senior managers should implement an enterprise GIS within their organizations. —Published July 25, 2007
Listen to Dave Busser discuss Enterprise GIS and what organizations need to know in order to get started with an Enterprise GIS. —Published June 12, 2007
Lynn Wombold, ESRI's chief demographer, describes how ESRI investigated new sources of information from disaster response agencies, news reports, and fieldwork to estimate the impact of the 2005 hurricanes. Some of this information is conflicting; all is subject to change. The 2006 estimates reflect information current as of January-February 2006. —Published December 28, 2006
Lynn Wombold, ESRI's chief demographer, describes the 2006/2011 updates that include new development methods and measures of catastrophic change in Gulf Coast communities after the 2005 hurricane season. ESRI combined spatial and demographic analysis with new data sources, producing more accurate methods to track and forecast the changing population distribution. —Published December 21, 2006
Bern Szukalski, Product Manager, ESRI, presents an overview of the new product ArcGIS Online. Listen as he discusses the content and capabilities that ArcGIS Online services provide to ArcGIS users. —Published December 12, 2006
Bern Szukalski is ESRI's Product Manger for ArcGIS Explorer. Listen to his discussion of the evolution of ArcGIS Explorer, what can be expected with the initial release, as well as plans for the software in the coming year. —Published November 15, 2006
Steve Radice, Vice President of Utility Transmission and Distribution Solutions, Ventyx, talks about how utilities can benefit from implementing an enterprise GIS for workforce management. —Published April 24, 2009
Ken Casazza, Vice President, Corporate Development, Penobscot Bay (Penbay) Media, LLC, talks about data modeling standards and the logistics of enterprise GIS. Penbay builds enterprise facilities management solutions using ArcGIS software. —Published April 17, 2009
Jeff Allen, vice president of Coler & Colantonio, talks about the application of GIS in developing Intrepid, its software suite that has automated the workflows in the pipeline industry. —Published April 16, 2009
Brian Boulmay, business partner manager at OpenSpirit, an ESRI business partner, discusses how OpenSpirit's software and integration solutions for upstream oil and gas provide connectivity into ESRI's GIS technology, including ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Server, and ArcGIS Explorer. —Published March 19, 2009
Danny Hatcher, senior software engineer for 3-GIS, an ESRI business partner, introduces Network Express, a browser-based engineering solution built on ESRI's ArcGIS Server technology, including the ArcGIS API for Flex. Network Express allows users to plan, design, and manage their GIS asset data within a work order environment utilizing the Internet. —Published March 11, 2009
Scott Tidemann, global sales and marketing manager at Petrosys, an ESRI business partner, discusses Petrosys' Plug-In for ESRI. This plug-in allows users in the petroleum exploration and production industry to access the full power of the Petrosys surface modeling capabilities and to directly display the resultant surfaces, contours, and faults calculated in their ArcGIS systems. —Published February 26, 2009
Milton Ospina, business development manager of the Enterprise Americas Team at NAVTEQ, discusses how the current strained economy is a catalyst for coupling ESRI GIS with NAVTEQ data to increase efficiencies and cut costs throughout an organization. —Published January 27, 2009
Adam Tonkin, solutions architect at Enspiria Solutions, an ESRI business partner, discusses ESIntial, Enspiria’s executive dashboard solution for utilities. This solution integrates utilities’ performance systems with their spatial data using ESRI’s ArcGIS Server and Microsoft PerformancePoint Server and SharePoint, to provide a single portal view into their businesses. —Published January 21, 2009
Karyn Tareen, president of GeoCove, Inc., an ESRI business partner, discusses her company's use of ArcGIS Mobile-based field data collection applications to improve damage assessment workflows and quickly provide decision makers with a common operational picture. —Published January 6, 2009
Rosario Giusti de Pérez, director of ESRI Venezuela, and Ramón Pérez, president of ESRI Venezuela, discuss their ESRI Press book, Analyzing Urban Poverty: GIS in the Developing World. With thirty years of experience using GIS technology to manage urban problems in Venezuelan barrios, the authors describe how they developed sustainable solutions that go beyond conventional planning programs. —Published December 16, 2008
Paul Adkins, marketing communications manager at Laser Technology Inc., an ESRI hardware partner, discusses how his company's laser systems allow users to collect field data that can be used with ESRI software for any number of remote features from the convenience of a single location. —Published December 10, 2008
Bob Honn, director of marketing at Océ, an ESRI hardware partner, explains how the TCS500, Océ's innovative, full-color, large-format printer offered by ESRI, allows users to increase their productivity by easily and quickly plotting their data-rich GIS files from their desktop to printed maps. —Published November 19, 2008
Thomas Palizzi, executive director of sales and marketing at Azteca Systems, Inc., an ESRI business partner, discusses Azteca System's local government enterprise license agreement (ELA) program. It is designed to work together with ESRI's Small Municipal and County Government ELA program, which provides small governments with wide access to GIS for faster and more efficient enterprisewide deployments. —Published November 6, 2008
Arnab Bhowmick, program manager at Weston Solutions, an ESRI Business Partner, discusses how his organization used ArcGIS Survey Analyst with Cadastral Editor software to realign the City of Encinitas' basemap, improving the spatial accuracy of the City's enterprise GIS. —Published October 23, 2008
Sean Johnson, GIS channel development manager at Adapx, an ESRI hardware partner, discusses Capturx for ArcGIS Desktop, a fully integrated GIS solution offered by ESRI and Adapx that digitally enables paper-based field mapping with a digital pen and standard paper for a broad range of industries. —Published October 9, 2008
Timothy McCormick, the senior vice president of Dewberry's Hazard Engineering and Geospatial Services Group and a keynote speaker at the 2008 ESRI Survey and Engineering GIS Summit, discusses how Dewberry's GeoFIRM application uses ArcGIS to help organizations such as FEMA create digital flood insurance rate maps. —Published October 8, 2008
Andrew Pitcairn, senior director of strategic sales at i-cubed, discusses DataDoors for ArcGIS, an application from i-cubed that allows users to download ArcGIS Online content to use locally with their own data and GIS software. —Published October 2, 2008
Matthew Reddington, CEO of TDC Group, an ESRI Business Partner, discusses how his company's GIS solution, Freeance Mobile, allows users to host enterprise data and maps using ArcGIS Server and deploy critical business information directly to BlackBerry smartphones. —Published September 18, 2008
Mike Forster, managing director of GeoWise, a platinum sponsor of the upcoming 2008 ESRI Health GIS Conference, discusses how GeoWise's InstantAtlas combines statistics and GIS data to provide interactive, cost-effective, and user-friendly Web solutions for the health industry. —Published August 27, 2008
Alan Girten, Project Manager for Utility Data Contractors, discusses the customization of ArcPad for utility inventory and field inspections. —Published August 12, 2008
Martin Copping, Vice President of Operations at Geo-Visus, a new ESRI business partner, discusses the ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Mobile-based services and solutions his company provides. —Published June 24, 2008
John Brosowsky, product development director with GeoComm, who also won Business Partner of the Year, discusses his ArcGIS Server Code Challenge entry, ALOHA for ArcGIS Server. —Published May 15, 2008
Skip Parker, Global Account Representative for ESRI at NAVTEQ, provides highlights and benefits of the new NAVTEQ Small Municipal and County Street Data Enterprise License Agreement (ELA). —Published April 17, 2008
Chris Gerecke, Geospatial Solutions Manager with Timmons Group, a leader in geospatial and engineering consulting services, shares how ArcGIS Mobile and Server GIS technology has helped increase ROI and bring value to their clients. —Published January 29, 2008
Chad Yoder, Mobile GIS Developer and Project Manager at Electronic Data Solutions, talks about the mobile applications his company develops using ArcPad. —Published December 4, 2007
Jim Tochterman, VP of Research and Development at Bradshaw Consulting Services, discusses the benefits of using the ArcGIS Mobile SDK when developing mobile field applications. —Published October 30, 2007
David Ruttka, Senior Software Architect at 3-GIS, discusses how his company is implementing ArcGIS Mobile to deliver field applications to their customers. —Published October 2, 2007
Listen to Hecht describe a typical local government scenario for integrating the two systems and making it much easier to retrieve drawing documents. —Published June 12, 2007
Listen to Hecht describe a pipeline company scenario for integrating GIS and DMS to help meet inventory and inspection requirements. —Published June 12, 2007
Amy Hoyt, GIS Manager, Lee County, Florida, describes Lee County's use of mobile GIS for field data collection. Hoyt details how ArcGIS Mobile was deployed to conduct a successful county-wide damage assessment exercise. —Published June 23, 2009
Charlotte Bjerregaard, geographer for the Danish Maritime Safety Administration, discusses how DMSA uses GIS to manage nautical information. —Published June 11, 2009
Greg Knight, senior GIS application developer for the Boston Redevelopment Authority, discusses the Solar Boston map that allows users to see active renewable energy installations within the city and to calculate the solar potential of building rooftops. The map was created by the Boston Redevelopment Authority in cooperation with the Solar Boston Program using several ArcGIS tools, including ArcGIS Spatial Analyst and the ArcGIS API for Flex. —Published April 2, 2009
Jon Kimerling, one of the authors of the ESRI Press book Map Use: Reading and Analysis, Sixth Edition, explains how the book benefits anyone who works with, studies, or just appreciates maps. Map Use includes an overview of different types of maps, map scale and projections, grid coordinate systems, relief portrayal, qualitative and quantitative thematic maps, area and volume measures, GPS and maps, and spatial pattern analysis. —Published March 26, 2009
Conrad Dalton, information technology manager at Rio Grande Electric Cooperative, discusses how the utility improved its mapping and communication capabilities by securing better access to GIS technology through ESRI's Small Utility Enterprise License Agreement program. —Published March 17, 2009
Dr. Devendra Pandey, director general of the Forest Survey of India and one of the keynote speakers at the 2008 ESRI Remote Sensing and GIS Summit, discusses the impact of remote sensing and GIS in managing India’s forests, including how the technology has been used to mitigate encroachment conflicts. —Published February 18, 2009
Edward Hammond, chair of Health Level Seven, an international organization for developing health data standards, discusses the importance of establishing geographic location as a data standard in health and the challenges that development of international information standards presents. —Published February 3, 2009
William Boyer, communications director, and Zacharias Hunt, GIS manager, both at the County of Santa Barbara, discuss how the County used GIS to respond to a 240,000-acre fire. GIS was used to determine evacuation routes, the fire's growth pattern and size, locations to deploy fire crews, and recovery approaches. —Published January 15, 2009
Husband and wife team, Garrett and Robbi McKinney, discuss their video, "This Is How We Use GIS," which earned them a first place prize in ESRI's GIS in Action Video Contest. Garrett, GIS analyst for Knoxville Geographic Information System, and Robbi, data visualization specialist for ARCADIS, used 3D animation to depict GIS in action for infrastructure and environment projects. —Published January 13, 2009
David Zilkoski, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Geodetic Survey (NGS), discusses how the NGS uses remotely sensed data and GIS to provide the geospatial infrastructure to meet the nation's economic, social, and environment needs. —Published December 18, 2008
Kirk Halford, national data sharing coordinator at the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and Eric Ingbar, director of Gnomon, Inc., discuss the BLM's Cultural Resources Data Sharing Program and its use of GIS to enable cultural resources professionals to have consistent, reliable, easy-to-use spatial information systems on their desktops. —Published December 11, 2008
Tim DeSalvo and Kirstin Platt of the Public Works Department for the City of Newport News, Virginia discuss the process of replacing the Department's existing legacy command line infrastructure management system with a GIS-based asset management system to more accurately assign and track maintenance activities. —Published December 9, 2008
Dr. Martien Molenaar, chancellor at the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), discusses how for over 50 years ITC has been using GIS in its program courses, research approaches, and projects that train professionals in less developed countries to deal with drastic changes in their operating environment such as trends, increased competition, and government policies. —Published December 3, 2008
Darren Rozenek, GIS administrator for the City of Akron, Ohio Public Utilities Bureau (APUB), discusses the process of creating the City's centralized GIS which included in-house migration of its expansive utility assets into a versioned geodatabase environment. The City's GIS assets now provide a strong foundation for customer support, design, infrastructure planning, and pro-active business operations. —Published November 20, 2008
Dr. Bolaji Taiwo, chief technical adviser for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), discusses how the UNFPA used ESRI GIS to help the Central Statistics Office (CSO) of Afghanistan conduct the first complete, accurate population and housing census for Afghanistan since 1979. With the state-of-the-art GIS infrastructure now in place, the CSO can efficiently conduct future censuses. —Published November 13, 2008
J. Allison Butler, the managing member of MilePost Zero, a transportation GIS consulting firm, discusses his ESRI Press book, Designing Geodatabases for Transportation. Butler's book provides a practical, step-by-step approach to designing a GIS to manage data about transportation facilities and services, from railroads to traffic-monitoring systems. —Published November 11, 2008
Uday Kale, vice president of IT at Reliance Energy Limited, India's largest private sector enterprise in power utility, describes how ESRI GIS has helped to expedite the implementation of enterprisewide projects and the integration with SAP, SCADA, and other IT systems. —Published November 5, 2008
Kendall Fancher, supervisory cartographer, and Eric Linzey, cartographer, at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Geodetic Survey (NGS), a participant in the 2008 ESRI International User Conference MAPS Industry Showcase, discuss how the NGS uses GIS for shoreline and coastal mapping and in their outreach to the geospatial community. —Published November 4, 2008
Joshua Lyons, GIS analyst for UNOSAT, a United Nations program that delivers satellite solutions to relief and development organizations, discusses the maps he created with ESRI's ArcGIS software to monitor the Somali pirate activity that is currently disturbing humanitarian efforts in the Gulf of Aden. —Published October 29, 2008
Kathryn Keranen and Dr. Robert Kolvoord, discuss their ESRI Press book, Making Spatial Decisions Using GIS, the fourth volume in the Our World GIS Education book series. The authors describe how this scenario-based book helps readers enhance their GIS and decision-making skills using real-world situations and GIS data. —Published October 22, 2008
Lee Hartsfield, interlocal coordinator for the Tallahassee-Leon County GIS, discusses how the Tallahassee-Leon County Interlocal Program breaks down silos of information that exist when there are barriers to data sharing across jurisdictions, agencies, and departments. He also explains how the program works to support the integration of GIS into business processes. —Published October 15, 2008
James Mallory, GIS director, and Mike Morrison, comptroller and web master, from the Oklahoma County Assessor's Office discuss the video, "Tracing the Trails," they made with their colleague Larry Stein, chief deputy. Their video, a first place winner in ESRI's GIS in Action Video Contest, captures the use of historic maps and GIS to outline the Chisholm Trail. —Published October 14, 2008
Forrest Smith, GIS specialist for the Canyon County Sheriff's Office in Idaho, discusses the Office's Road Centerline Geodatabase Project which uses ArcGIS Server to consolidate their GIS efforts and reduce the duplication of work. —Published October 7, 2008
Dr. Bradley D. Doorn, Remote Sensing Program Manager at USDA, discusses how the USDA uses remote sensing and GIS to manage the nation's food supply and provides guidance for organizations looking to use remotely sensed data with their GIS. —Published September 24, 2008
Della Adams, GIS program manager at the City of Memphis, Tennessee, discusses the enterprise GIS the City created to centralize their existing GIS and extend the functionality and benefits directly to the citizens of Memphis. —Published September 23, 2008
Niels la Cour, planner for the University of Massachusetts, discusses the Town of Amherst's enterprise GIS which is an integral part of Amherst's IT infrastructure, creating a more informed community and enhanced democracy. —Published September 3, 2008
Susan Radke, founder and president of Berkeley Geo-Research Group, and Eddie Hanebuth, founder and president of Digital Quest Inc., discuss their new ESRI Press book, GIS Tutorial for Homeland Security, a broad-based, hands-on resource for learning how to use GIS technology in homeland security planning and operations. —Published August 19, 2008
Vish Uma, a GIS software engineer, discusses his ArcGIS Server Code Challenge entry SOExplorer: ArcGIS Server Administration Tool. —Published June 25, 2008
Jeff Machamer, senior systems engineer with 3-GIS, talks about his ArcGIS Server Code Challenge entries, Custom Task Results to Extend Context Menu Entries and Custom Query Task to Query External Databases. —Published June 18, 2008
Ed Clow, programmer analyst with the Texas Legislative Council, gives a brief overview of his ArcGIS Server Code Challenge entry, ArcGIS Server Unique Value Generator Geoprocessing Tool. —Published June 12, 2008
John Little, GIS Manager with Greenville Utilities in Greenville, NC, talks about his ArcGIS Server Code Challenge entry, ArcGIS Server Custom Controls for Desktop. —Published June 4, 2008
Danny Hatcher, senior software engineer with 3-GIS, talks about his ArcGIS Server Code Challenge entry, Arc Server Map Service Tester. —Published May 29, 2008
Justin Burns, GIS coordinator with St. Clair County in Port Huron, Michigan, talks about his ArcGIS Server Code Challenge entry, Sign Inventory Mobile Application. —Published May 28, 2008
Marco Genovesio, a developer with Studio A&T in Milan, Italy, speaks on behalf of Domenico Ciavarella, Project Manager also at Studio A&T, about Domenico's ArcGIS Server Code Challenge entry, Print Task with Options 9.2 sp4. —Published May 21, 2008
Bing Jing, a Web developer with the City of Carson, California, gives a brief overview of her ArcGIS Server Code Challenge entry, ArcSDE Geodatabase backup. —Published May 20, 2008
John Waterman, vice president of Geospatial Solutions at GCS Research in East Burke, Vermont, 1st place winner of the ArcGIS Server Code Challenge at the 2008 ESRI Developer Summit, discusses his code sample entry, Display Geospatial Analysis Results in Google Maps and Microsoft Virtual Earth using ArcGIS Server. —Published May 7, 2008
Vijay Sambandhan, a GIS developer from Bergmann Associates in Buffalo, New York and 3rd place winner of the ArcGIS Server Code Challenge at the 2008 Developer Summit, discusses his code sample entry SDE Web Catalog. —Published April 29, 2008
Nianwei Liu, senior system analyst programmer with the City of Charlotte, NC, discusses his ArcGIS Server Code Challenge entry, Google Maps Adapter to ArcGIS Server Map Cache, for which he received Honorable Mention. —Published April 22, 2008
Kent Riggins, a software engineer with the U.S. Federal Government, briefly discusses his ArcGIS Server Code Challenge entry, Show Result Table Task in ArcGIS Explorer. —Published April 15, 2008
Keith Fraley, GIS Developer with Shell Oil Company in the U.S., discusses his ArcGIS Server Code Challenge entry, WMS Search and Spatialization Tool for ArcGIS Server. —Published April 8, 2008
Dave Bouwman, 2nd place winner of the ArcGIS Server Code Challenge at the 2008 ESRI Developer Summit, talks about his code sample entry, ArcGIS Server Virtual Tile Server. —Published April 1, 2008
Cynthia A. Brewer, Professor of Geography at The Pennsylvania State University, discusses her illustrated new ESRI Press book, Designed Maps: A Sourcebook for GIS Users. By showcasing maps along with her redesigns, Brewer hopes to inspire GIS users with design ideas to help them produce useful, meaningful, and good-looking maps. —Published February 26, 2008
Dr. Prasad Thenkabail, Principal Researcher and Head of the Remote Sensing and GIS unit at the International Water Management Institute in Sri Lanka, discusses spatial technology research and the Special Achievement in GIS award that the Institute received at the 2007 ESRI International User Conference. —Published February 13, 2008
Frank LaFone, Sue Bergeron and Jesse Rouse of VerySpatial blog and podcast talk about the Special Achievement in GIS award they received at the 2007 ESRI International User Conference. —Published February 6, 2008
Vince Brown, Senior Program Specialist in the Mitigation Division at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and Kevin Mickey, Director of Professional Education and Outreach at The Polis Center, Indiana University, Indianapolis, discuss the release of the new HAZUS-MH Web-based courses to help public and private organizations plan for and mitigate natural disasters as well as the upcoming HAZUS-MH User Conference and related activities. —Published February 5, 2008
Ed Woods, Manager of Planning, IT and GIS Services, and Steve Whitehead, Geomatics coordinator, City of Quinte West, Ontario, Canada, talk about implementing a GIS throughout all of Quinte West's city departments. —Published January 30, 2008
Dawn J. Wright, Professor of geography and oceanography at Oregon State University, Michael J. Blongewicz, senior GIS specialist at DHI Water and Environment, Inc. in Portland Oregon, Patrick N. Halpin, Gabel Associate Professor of the Practice of Marine Geospatial Ecology director of the Geospatial Analysis Program at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University, and Joe Breman, GIS architect for Akimeka LLC on Maui, Hawaii discuss the release of their new book. —Published January 19, 2008
Anne Kelly Knowles, a historical geographer who teaches at Middlebury College in Vermont, and Amy Hillier, who teaches courses on the application of geographic information systems (GIS) in city planning, urban studies, and social work at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, discuss Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing Historical Scholarship. The book and digital supplement demonstrate how GIS can be used in historical research. —Published January 17, 2008
Breece Robertson, National GIS Director at Trust for Public Land, discusses how greenprinting—a GIS-aided analysis of community, land, and conservation issues—helps communities organize and prioritize land conservation strategies for maintaining access to parks and open spaces. —Published January 8, 2008
Dr. David Dzielak, Associate Vice Chancellor for Strategic Research Alliances and Dr. Fazlay Faruque, Director of GIS and Remote Sensing and Professor of Health Systems, both at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, discuss incorporating GIS in health sciences. —Published December 18, 2007
Vince Brown, Senior Program Specialist in the Mitigation Division at FEMA, and Kevin Mickey, Director of Professional Education and Outreach at The Polis Center, Indiana University, Indianapolis, discuss how the HAZUS-MH Web-based courses help public and private organizations plan for and mitigate natural disasters. —Published December 11, 2007
Abel Kho, M.D., assistant professor of medicine at Northwestern University and affiliated scientist at Regenstrief Institute, Inc. discusses how GIS is used to track and visualize data about hospital-acquired infection rates. —Published November 27, 2007
Kristen Kurland, faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University with a joint appointment at the School of Architecture and H. John Heinz School of Public Policy and Management, talks about the ESRI Press book she co-authored with Wilpen L. Gorr titled GIS Tutorial, Second Edition. —Published November 13, 2007
Joe Kezon, GIS Manager at the Chicago Police Department, talks about the crime database that was built for the police department. —Published October 23, 2007
Deane Maynard, Project Manager at McMaster University GIS Lab, School of Geography and Earth Sciences, talks about her experience with hosting a GIS Day at the university. —Published September 26, 2007
Ian Masser, visiting Professor at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands, the University of Melbourne, Australia, and the Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College in London, discusses his inspiration for writing the book and the importance of spatial data infrastructures (SDIs). —Published September 25, 2007
John Watermolen, GIS Specialist for the State of Nevada Division of Environmental Protection, talks about implementing a GIS system across various bureaus within the division, and how it has improved communication and tracking of facilities. —Published August 28, 2007
Diana Sinton, Chief Program Officer for the Latitude GIS Initiative at the National Institute for Technology & Liberal Education, and Jennifer Lund, who supports the faculty at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, discuss their book Understanding Place: GIS and Mapping Across the Curriculum. —Published August 21, 2007
Lucy Waruingi, Chair of the Society for Conservation GIS in Kenya and GIS Manager with the African Conservation Center, talks about using GIS technology to promote conservation efforts. —Published August 14, 2007
Geoffrey Almvig, GIS Manager with Skagit County in Washington, discusses Skagit County's enterprise-wide GIS system and their Special Achievement in GIS Award at the 2007 ESRI International User Conference. —Published July 19, 2007
Eric Abe, GIS Administrator at Maui Electric Company, Ltd. talks about the Special Achievement in GIS Award that Maui Electric received at the 2007 ESRI International User Conference. —Published July 18, 2007
Bradley Doorn, Technical and Remote Sensing Coordinator at the US Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service, talks about his organization's Crop Explorer application which won them a Special Achievement in GIS Award at the 2007 ESRI International User Conference. —Published July 17, 2007
Listen to Dr. Roger Tomlinson talk about the third edition of his book Thinking about GIS: Geographic Information System Planning for Managers. —Published May 30, 2007
Dr. William R. Elliott works as a cave biologist for the Missouri Department of Conservation, Resource Science Division and won a Special Achievement in GIS Award at last summer's ESRI International User Conference. Bill applies GIS software in projects that help to protect caves and cave dwellers such as bats, cavefishes, snails, salamanders, and other species. By understanding which caves rank high in biodiversity and knowing the geographic distribution of those caves, Elliott and his colleagues can do a better job directing conservation resources to those sites. —Published January 11, 2007
Tom Johnson is the Managing Director of the Institute for Analytic Journalism, winner of a Special Achievement in GIS Award at the 2006 ESRI International User Conference. Listen as Johnson talks about educating and promoting the use of GIS among journalists and other media professionals. —Published January 3, 2007
Ian Von Essen is the GIS Manager for the County of Spokane, Washington and a Special Achievement in GIS Award Winner. Von Essen talks about his efforts to implement GIS software throughout all local county agencies and on his experience with GIS. —Published December 5, 2006
Eugene Cieri is the deputy chief of the Hartford Fire Department in Hartford Connecticut and a Special Achievement in GIS Award winner. Listen as Cieri discusses how the idea began for this project and how GIS was used in order to provide more information for first responders on scene. —Published November 29, 2006
Dave Zilkoski is the director of the National Geodetic Survey, NOAA, winner of a Special Achievement in GIS Award. Zilkoski talks about designing a more efficient system that allows users easier access to data from the NGS. —Published November 20, 2006
Jeff Nighbert, past winner of the ESRI map gallery competition, reflects on his passion for creating great maps with ESRI's GIS software during the past 30 years. Jeff explains how his personality as a geographer and artist allows him to create maps that explore the landscape and reveal the beauty of the geography.
Justin Pummell is a Geographer with the Army Corps of Engineers, Hawaii, a Special Achievement in GIS Award winner. Pummell talks about the process and results of implementing an enterprise GIS along with data sharing with their partners in the Pacific.
Arnold van Oostrum is a Project Manager at the Ministry of LNV, Dienst Regelingen a Special Achievement in GIS Award recipient. van Oostrum discusses the challenges and results of developing an internet application using GIS for farmer's to use in the Netherlands.
Chetan Desai is the chief scientist for the GIS group at ProLogic, a Special Achievement in GIS Award winner and an ESRI business partner. ProLogic's Geospatial Information Systems business focuses on developing ArcGIS extensions and providing ArcGIS integration services. Desai describes recent projects including Weather Explorer for ArcGIS and LIDAR Explorer for ArcGIS.
Steve DeWilde, a GIS coordinator for the Orange County Sanitation District, which won a Special Achievement in GIS award, uncovers the process of implementing a GIS to meet the organization's needs. In his discussion, DeWilde delves into the problems a GIS helped solve, the implementation needs, and how the technology helps the organization with facility management.
Environmental science instructor Mark Ericson, one of the 2006 ESRI Special Achievement in GIS Award winners, uses ESRI ArcView software and the ArcGIS Spatial Analyst extension as an educational tool for connecting Santa Fe Indian School students with science and their communities. Students apply GIS to community, environmental, agriculture, and even utilities mapping projects.
Paul Leedham is the GIS coordinator in the GIS department at the City of Hudson in Ohio. The department won a Special Achievement in GIS Award. Leedham discusses the development of the city's enterprise GIS including the challenges faced along the way and the benefits of this implementation.
Mindia Brown is the Information Systems Manager at the Virginia Department of Forestry (VDOF), a Special Achievement in GIS Award winner. The VDOF recently developed the Integrated Forest Resource Information System (IFRIS). Brown discusses the process and results of developing this centralized Web-based enterprise information system that integrates GIS functionality.
Royal & SunAlliance's Rob Osment, a 2006 ESRI Special Achievement in GIS Award winner, talks about his company's pioneering integration of ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Server technology with core business processes to improve insurance industry performance. The company is using GIS technology for validation and geocoding, to make peril risk assessments, and to support risk accumulation management.
Juna Papajorgji is the co-chair and co-founder of URISA's GIS Corps, which received a Special Achievement in GIS Award. The program has volunteers around the globe. Papajorgji discusses how the program helps communities that need short-term volunteer GIS services, especially in the fields of health, education, humanitarian relief, and community development.
David Thornburrow is a GIS specialist for the New Zealand Post, a Special Achievement in GIS award winner. Here he discusses how GIS technology is used to help the organization deliver more than one billion items of mail to approximately two million delivery points in New Zealand. The discussion delves into the implementation process, training the necessary staff, and the overall benefits of the new systems.
Neal Bratschun is Project Manager for the Afghanistan Information Management Services (AIMS) winner of a Special Achievement in GIS Award. Listen to Neal discuss how AIMS continues to make remarkable progress helping local Afghanistan governments throughout the country build and sustain GIS knowledge and capacity within an exceptional and challenging environment.
United Power, which won a Special Achievement in GIS award, is one of the fastest growing electric cooperatives in the U.S., serving more than 100,000 people in 16 cities. Diego Portillo, GIS coordinator for United Power, discusses how GIS technology helps the organization streamline processes and more efficiently deliver services. Portillo highlights both the challenges of implementation and the final outcome.
Larry Orman is the Founder and Executive Director of the non-profit organization GreenInfo Network, a Special Achievement in GIS Award recipient. Orman explains how the organization helps other non-profits use GIS. During the past 10 years, the program has worked with more than 280 groups, which are often located in the U.S., particularly on the West Coast.
The Missouri Botanical Garden received a Special Achievement in GIS Award for its longtime commitment to environmental education using GIS. Bob Coulter talks about how he has been creating GIS-based curricula for educators and hosting training events for more than seven years.