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2008 Special Achievement in GIS Award-International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation Helps Less Developed Countries through GIS Education, Research, and Services
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.
ESRI's ArcLogistics Helps Governments Improve Routing and Scheduling of Vehicles and Staff
Christopher Thomas, government industry solutions manager at 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.
The Role of GIS in Renewable Energy Development
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.
2008 Special Achievement in GIS Award – City of Akron, Ohio Public Utilities Bureau Completes Expansive Asset Conversion to Create GIS-Centric Business Workflow
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.
Printing Large Complex GIS Files Quickly and Easily with Oce Solutions
Bob Honn, director of marketing at Oce, an ESRI hardware partner, explains how the TCS500, Oce'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.
ESRI's ArcGIS API for Flex Gives Developers Direct Access to ArcGIS Server 9.3
Mansour Raad, senior software architect at 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.
2008 Special Achievement in GIS Award-–United Nations Population Fund Uses ESRI GIS to Complete Afghanistan Population and Housing Census
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.
Smart Grid and Enterprise GIS for Electric Utilities
Bill Meehan, director of utility solutions at 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.
Interview with the Author of Designing Geodatabases for Transportation
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.
Small Municipal and County Government Enterprise License Agreements from ESRI and Azteca
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.
2008 Special Achievement in GIS Award-Reliance Energy Limited Implements ESRI GIS to Leverage Spatial Information Across Diverse IT Network
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.
NOAA's National Geodetic Survey Uses GIS to Promote Geodetic Standards and Applications
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.
Monitoring Modern-Day Pirate Activity with GIS
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.
2008 Special Achievement in GIS Award–Weston Solutions Uses ArcGIS Survey Analyst to Deliver New Cadastral Fabric to City of Encinitas
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.
Interview with the Authors of Making Spatial Decisions Using GIS
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.
What's New in PLTS for ArcGIS 9.3-Aeronautical Solution
Alison Moore, global navigation project manager at 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.
How Banks and Financial Institutions Use GIS to Stay Afloat During Times of Economic Crisis
Shelli Stockton, the finance and banking industry manager at 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.
2008 Special Achievement in GIS AwardTallahassee-Leon County Interlocal Program Integrates GIS
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.
2008 GIS in Action Video Contest Winners: Oklahoma County Uses GIS to Trace the Historic Chisholm Trail
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.
Turning Ink into Digital GIS Data with Capturx for ArcGIS Desktop
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.
2008 Special Achievement in GIS Award - Dewberry's GeoFIRM Flood Mapping Solution Uses ArcGIS to Help Protect Lives and Property
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.
2008 Special Achievement in GIS Award - Canyon County Sheriff's Office Uses ArcGIS Server for Road Centerline Geodatabase Project
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.
2008 ESRI Homeland Security GIS Summit
Russ Johnson, public safety industry manager at ESRI, shares what attendees can expect to find at the 2008 ESRI Homeland Security GIS Summit in Scottsdale, Arizona, October 20-23.
Access ArcGIS Online Content Offline with Data Doors for ArcGIS
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.
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