Richard Cook, President of ITT Visual Information Solutions (ITT Vis), discusses the complementary technologies of remote sensing and GIS and how they seamlessly perform together in ENVI EX

Tags: Remote Sensing

Cary Roberts, GIS Specialist, Coachella Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District, discusses how server and mobile GIS worked together to improve mosquito control in California’s Coachella Valley.

Tags: Public Health

Cathy McCully, Chief, U.S. Census Bureau Redistricting Data Office and Deirdre Bishop, Assistant Chief U.S. Census Bureau Redistricting Data Office, discuss the use of GIS in testing tabulation and processing systems for the 2010 U.S. Census.

Tags: U.S. Census Bureau, Census Data

Chris McInnish and Steve McKinney, winners of a 2009 SAG Award, explain how the Alabama Resource Management System (ARMS) uses GIS to serve programs in the state of Alabama to meet the needs of disadvantaged children and families.

Tags: SAG, Resource Management

Auralie Shapiro, Remote Sensing Specialist in the Conservation Science Program, talks about how GIS and remote sensing are used to study land use change, migration patterns, and natural threats to species to facilitate conservation efforts.

Tags: Remote Sensing, Wildlife

Kass Green, past President of the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, explains how digital imagery technology and the growth of hardware capacity have made the full integration of GIS and imagery a reality.

Tags: Remote Sensing

Shawana Johnson, President of Global Marketing Insights, discusses how her firm conducted an online study on the use of remotely sensed data in Africa using ESRI software. The study helped reveal much about the political, cultural, and environmental trends on the continent.

Tags: Remote Sensing

Brad Ball, GIS Team Lead for NASA Langley Research Center (LARC), explains how GIS has been used by LARC for more than a decade to optimize facility space use.

Tags: NASA, Federal

Andreas Seibert, Head of Geospatial Solutions at Munich RE, discusses how GIS is used to make maps of geologic hazards to inform its clients about risk.

Tags: Insurance

John Young, Business Lead for Federal Civilian Facilities Management, explains how GIS is used to manage federal infrastructure assets. Young discusses how viewing assets on an interactive map makes maintenance planning and workload distribution more precise.

Tags: Federal, GIS

Sal Aguilar Jr., Environmental Engineer with the City of Los Angeles, Bureau of Sanitation Division, discusses how the City of Los Angeles uses ArcLogistics to plan the routes of the city’s sanitation fleet.

Tags: ArcLogistics, GIS, Fleet Routing

Thomas Gibbs, Federal Government Account Manager, talks about how federal agencies use GIS to manage federal government campuses. Gibbs explains how GIS can be integrated into existing systems to maximize available office space.

Tags: Government, GIS, Federal

Dennis Smith, Federal Team Member, talks about the need to precisely manage federal real property. In 2004, an executive order was issued to enforce the efficient and economical use of government real property assets. Smith explains why GIS is the ideal platform for the task.

Tags: Government, GIS, Federal

Christophe Charpentier, ArcGIS Content Product Manager, talks about the benefits of using ArcGIS Data Appliance, a preconfigured network storage device loaded with an extensive collection of maps and tasks optimized for publishing with ArcGIS Server. In addition to ready-to-use imagery, street, and other basemaps, ArcGIS Data Appliance now also provides secure access to geocoding and routing functionality.

Tags: Data, ArcGIS

John Young, Business Lead for Federal Civilian Facilities Management, details how GIS helps real estate portfolio managers determine the location of office space by giving them a geographic perspective.

Tags: Government, Federal, Management

Kim Avery, ESRI, and Ryan Cragg, Safe Software, discuss the benefits of Data Interoperability’s extract, transform, and load capabilities in migrating large amounts of data. ESRI and Safe Software now offer Web courses to help organizations use the Data Interoperability extension in their data migration projects.

Tags: Desktop, GIS

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.

Tags: Online, GIS

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.

Tags: Data

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.

Tags: Data

David Danko, GIS Standards Consultant, discusses the importance of metadata in the geospatial realm—in particular, ESRI's support of the ISO standard.

Tags: Data

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.

Tags: Transportation, Specialized GIS

Christophe Charpentier, Product Manager for ESRI StreetMap Premium, discusses the latest version of StreetMap Premium, ESRI's geocoding and routing solution for ArcGIS Server.

Tim Kearns, Maritime Deputy Program Manager, talks about enabling hydrographic offices with enterprise GIS technology.

Tags: National Mapping

Jian Lange, ArcPad Product Manager, and Elvin Slavik, Lead ArcPad Developer, talk about new capabilities, performance improvements, and quality enhancements in ArcPad 8.

Tags: Mobile GIS

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.

Tags: Server GIS

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.

Tags: Specialized GISLogistics

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.

Tags: Business

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.

Tags: Business

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.

Tags: Specialized GIS, Transportation

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.

Tags: Utilities

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.

Tags: Mobile GIS

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.

Tags: Specialized GIS, Transportation, Government

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.

Tags: Utilities

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.

Tags: Server GIS

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.

Tags: Electric, Utilities

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.

Tags: Specialized, GIS

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.

Tags: Business, Banks

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.

Tags: Pipeline

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.

Tags: ESRI Press Books

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.

Tags: Server, GIS

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.

Tags: Desktop, GIS

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.

Tags: Enterprise GIS, ESRI Press Books

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.

Tags: Online GIS

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.

Tags: Government

Mansour Raad, Senior Software Architect, ESRI, talks about the plans for the new ArcGIS Server Flex API.

Tags: Server GIS

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.

Tags: Specialized GIS, Transportation

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.

Tags: Data

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.

Tags: Mobile GIS

Bruce Harold, ArcGIS Desktop product manager, ESRI, gives a summary of what users can expect in the upcoming 9.3 release.

Tags: Desktop GIS

Ismael Chivite, ArcGIS Server Product Manager, ESRI, gives an overview of what's new with ArcGIS Server at the 9.3 release.

Tags: Server GIS

Bob Hazelton, ArcGIS Business Analyst Product Manager, gives an overview of this new product and how organizations benefit from using it.

Tags: Specialized GIS

Derek Law, Geodatabase Technical Analyst, ESRI, gives an overview of what's new in the ArcGIS 9.3 Geodatabase.

Tags: Desktop

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.

Tags: Government

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.

Tags: Electric Utilities, ESRI Press Books

Chris Cappelli, ESRI Director of U.S. Sales, discusses the benefits of the new Enterprise License Agreement program for Small Municipal and County Governments.

Tags: Government

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.

Tags: ESRI Press Books, Marketing

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.

Tags: Enterprise GIS

Listen to Dave Busser discuss Enterprise GIS and what organizations need to know in order to get started with an Enterprise GIS.

Tags: Enterprise GIS

Listen to Jones talk about the trends in surveying and GIS that improve the spatial accuracy of survey data within GIS.

Tags: Surveying

Listen to Geringer discuss the importance of GIS for senior executives.

Tags: Enterprise GIS

Heath Wallis, Supervisor of Technical Applications Development for Samson, talks about the benefits of integrating GIS into the enterprise.

Tags: Oil and Gas

Joel Campbell, Senior Director of Product Development for GeoEye, discusses GeoFuse, a data search and discovery tool built on top of ArcGIS that speeds access to massive amounts of remotely sensed data.

Tags: Enterprise GIS

Dave Stampfli, Technical Architect, Microsoft, discusses the challenges of Fusion Center management. Recently, ESRI and Microsoft collaborated to create Fusion Core Solution, a management tool that combines robust ArcGIS Advanced Enterprise Server technology and SharePoint Server 2007 to improve Fusion Center operations.

Tags: Enterprise GIS

Rich Arata, Distribution Practice Manager, New Century Software, explains the application of GIS to risk assessment management in the gas industry. Spatial Risk Analyst combines spatial and tabular data to assess the impact of threats and analyze the risks to any facility in the gas distribution system.

Tags: Specialized GIS, PUblic Safety

Elizabeth Marshall, CEO, Marshall GIS, details how Marshall GIS helps its clients implement mobile GIS technology into the enterprise.

Tags: Enterprise GIS, Mobile GIS

Mike Dana, Business Development Leader, Wacom, discusses Wacom’s digital pen technology and how it streamlines the GIS workflow while increasing productivity.

Tags: Hardware, Mobile GIS

LeeAnn Denney, CEO Health Infotechnics, discusses how her organization uses ESRI software and demographic data to centralize its clients health information and increase market intelligence.

Tags: Health and Human Services

Tara Macey, GIS Specialist for Geosoft, discusses Geosoft's new GIS offering which allows geologists to analyze geochemical data from mining sites in an ArcGIS environment.

Tags: Mining

Marius Rocher, Senior Software Engineer, TC Technology, talks about its mobile GIS solutions. Roche gives examples of small and large organizations that use its GO! Sync mobile products in the field to collect data and sync it back with the office.

Tags: Mobile GIS

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.

Tags: Utilities

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.

Tags: Facilities Management

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.

Tags: Pipeline

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.

Tags: Petroleum

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.

Tags: Engineering

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.

Tags: Petroleum

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.

Tags: Data

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.

Tags: Utilities

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.

Tags: Mobile GIS, Local Government

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.

Tags: ESRI Press Book

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.

Tags: Hardware, Mobile GIS

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.

Tags: Hardware, Mobile GIS

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.

Tags: Government, Mobile GIS

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.

Tags: Land Administration

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.

Tags: Hardware, Desktop GIS

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.

Tags: Emergency, Disaster Management, Public Safety

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.

Tags: Data

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.

Tags: Hardware, Mobile GIS

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.

Tags: Health and Human Services

Alan Girten, Project Manager for Utility Data Contractors, discusses the customization of ArcPad for utility inventory and field inspections.

Tags: Utilities, Mobile GIS

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.

Tags: Enterprise GIS

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).

Tags: Government, Data

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.

Tags: Civil Engineering, Mobile GIS

Chad Yoder, Mobile GIS Developer and Project Manager at Electronic Data Solutions, talks about the mobile applications his company develops using ArcPad.

Tags: Hardware, Mobile GIS

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.

Tags: Mobile GIS, Public Safety

David Ruttka, Senior Software Architect at 3-GIS, discusses how his company is implementing ArcGIS Mobile to deliver field applications to their customers.

Tags: Mobile GIS

Listen to Hecht present an overview of DMS technology and learn some of the benefits of integrating GIS with a DMS.

Tags: Content Management Systems

Listen to Hecht compare and contrast two strategies for GIS/DMS integration.

Tags: Content Management Systems

Listen to Hecht explain the basic features of PlaceLynx for ArcGIS, an integrated GIS/DMS solution.

Tags: Content Management Systems

Listen to Hecht describe a typical local government scenario for integrating the two systems and making it much easier to retrieve drawing documents.

Tags: Government, Content Management Systems

Listen to Hecht describe a pipeline company scenario for integrating GIS and DMS to help meet inventory and inspection requirements.

Tags: Pipeline, Content Management Systems

David Allen, Author of GIS Tutorial II: Spatial Analysis Workbook, explains how educators and self-learners alike can benefit from the hands-on lessons in his workbook.

Tags: ESRI Press Books, Education

Julian Ware, Spatial Data Analyst, City of Oakland, explains how the city converted its database into maps and improved delivery of geospatial information using ArcGIS Server. The city’s GIS-based mapping application earned it a 2009 Special Achievement in GIS Award.

Tags: Server GIS, Government

Assad Reichdan, Consultant for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, explains how the bureau uses GIS to manage a multitude of irrigation projects. ESRI ArcGIS Server, combined with IBM’s Maximo, also provides an interactive work order and asset management system for the organization.

Tags: Facilities Management

Dr. Tom Koch, author of Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine, describes how mapping and geospatial technologies can be used to analyze relationships concerning viral and bacterial occurrences, including the 2009 flu pandemic, H1N1.

Tags: ESRI Press Books, Health

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.

Tags: Government, Public Safety, Mobile GIS

Charlotte Bjerregaard, geographer for the Danish Maritime Safety Administration, discusses how DMSA uses GIS to manage nautical information.

Tags: National Mapping, Ports and Maritime

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.

Tags: Electric Utilities

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.

Tags: ESRI Press Books

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.

Tags: Electric Utilities, Mobile GIS

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.

Tags: Forestry

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.

Tags: health and human Services

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.

Tags: Public Safety, Public Safety

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

Tags: Environmental Management

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.

Tags: National Mapping

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.

Tags: Archaeology

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.

Tags: Public Works, Facilities Management

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.

Tags: Education

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.

Tags: Water, Waste Water

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.

Tags: Government

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.

Tags: ESRI Press Books, Transportation

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.

Tags: Electric Utilities

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.

Tags: Marine and Coast, National Mapping

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.

Tags: Ports and Maritime

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.

Tags: ESRI Press Books

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.

Tags: Government

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.

Tags: Archaeology

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.

Tags: Transportation

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.

Tags: Agriculture

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.

Tags: Government

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.

Tags: Urban and Regional Planning

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.

Tags: ESRI Press Books

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.

Tags: ESRI Press Books

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.

Tags: Water, Wastewater

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.

Tags: Training, Public Safety

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.

Tags: Urban and Regional Planning

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.

Tags: ESRI Press Books, Ports and Maritime

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.

Tags: ESRI Press Books, Archaeology

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.

Tags: Health and Human Services, Conservation

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.

Tags: Health and Human Services

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.

Tags: Public Safety, Government

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.

Tags: Health and Human Services

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.

Tags: ESRI Press Books

Joe Kezon, GIS Manager at the Chicago Police Department, talks about the crime database that was built for the police department.

Tags: Public Safety

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.

Tags: GIS Day

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).

Tags: ESRI Press Book, National Mapping

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.

Tags: Environmental Management

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.

Tags: ESRI Press Books, Education

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.

Tags: Conservation, Government

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.

Tags: Enterprise GIS, Government

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.

Tags: Electric Utilities

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.

Tags: Agriculture

Listen to Dr. Roger Tomlinson talk about the third edition of his book Thinking about GIS: Geographic Information System Planning for Managers.

Tags: ESRI Press Books

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.

Tags: Conservation, Cave and Karst

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.

Tags: Media and Press

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.

Tags: Government

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.

Tags: Public Safety, Government

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.

Tags: National Mapping, Government

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.

Tags: Engineering

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.

Tags: Agriculture

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.

Tags: Defense and Intelligence

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.

Tags: Water, Wastewater

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.

Tags: Education

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.

Tags: Government

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.

Tags: Forestry

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.

Tags: Insurance

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.

Tags: Sustainable 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.

Tags: Logistics

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.

Tags: Sustainable Development

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.

Tags: Electric Utilities

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.

Tags: Conservation

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.

Tags: Education, Environment