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How GNSS Receivers Empower Smart Cities
March 5, 2019

By 2050, more than 60 percent of the world's population is expected to live in urban areas. Cities are facing this rapid...


Aerial Self-sufficiency
March 5, 2019

A large risk-assessment and data-analytics company created its own internal system to collect imagery, write software, and develop...


Predicting Crumbling Cliffs
March 5, 2019

Cliff Erosion: a Global Issue In 2012, nine homes in Happisburgh, an historic village on England’s Norfolk coast,...


Standalone UAV Lidar
March 5, 2019

A surveying company developed a self-contained UAV lidar system so teams could gather data without a lidar specialist. Some...


Street Views of the Water
November 6, 2018

Mapping rivers above and below the surface creates great opportunity for engineers and stewards. The way maps are produced...


After the Storm
November 6, 2018

Post-hurricane coastal mapping is a complex process made easier with airborne bathymetry. Lately, large storms such as hurricanes,...


mESRIsoft
November 6, 2018

More than partners, Esri and Microsoft collaborate and combine platforms to benefit their users and the public. From their...


Not Everything Requires High Accuracies
November 6, 2018

How feature inspection, assessment, and reporting are now available to non-experts (and experts alike). In the early 2000s,...


Where the Data Comes From
November 6, 2018

Members of Esri’s Living Atlas unit detail the company’s wide variety of data sources. For nearly 50 years, Esri has been...


Freeing the Data
November 6, 2018

A Canadian software company is making it easy for the geospatial community (and beyond) to work with, exchange, and extract...