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Savannah Delivers Critical Data to Prospective Businesses

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The Savannah Economic Development Authority’s (SEDA) online Property Search map now gives business leaders direct access to extensive demographic, consumer spending, and business information through a customized version of ESRI Business Analyst Online (BAO). ESRI business partner BinaryBus, Ltd., implemented the solution using the BAO API to give people considering opportunities in Savannah, Georgia, the ability to create a variety of free reports including income, age, traffic, and expenditure profiles. Visitors to the site can also access neighborhood descriptions that provide information about education, types of housing units (owner-occupied, rental, vacant), employment status, and more.

“It saves us a lot of time,” said Amanda Taylor, project manager, SEDA. “It’s a quicker, more efficient way to give people the information they need to understand the economic landscape and possibilities in Savannah. And they love being able to go to the site and do this research for themselves.”

Prior to expanding the Property Search map application, SEDA provided census data for Chatham County on the Web site and purchased individual BAO reports for interested businesses. Now that BAO is integrated into the Web site, visitors have immediate access to critical demographic data for Chatham County and beyond, which helps them accurately assess the labor market and customers around the Savannah region.

“There’s no way we would have been able to buy the data for the 11 surrounding counties that make up our labor draw area,” noted Taylor. “It used to be that when a site visitor searched outside a 10-mile radius of a property, it would fall outside of the county lines and skew the results. In terms of accuracy, the improvement is huge.”

To learn more about BAO and the BAO API, visit www.esri.com/ba.

first published week of:   04/19/2010

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SIS Announces PDAD workshop and Poster Session at ISPRS/ASPRS Orlando Fall Conference

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Spatial Information Solutions, Inc. (SIS) was at ASPRS in Orlando, FL, this week. SIS President, Dr. Charles O‚Hara, Director of Communication, Leslie O‚Hara, and Mapping Technologies Consultant, Karen Schuckman, were on site conducting presentations and demonstrations. Dr. O‚Hara and Greg Stensaas, the Remote Sensing Technologies Project Manager for the USGS, presented automated verification methods during the Primary Data Acquisition Division session, Quality Assurance Processes for Creating Useful Data and Results.

SIS, of Starkville, MS, released Accuracy Analyst, a standalone software tool that automates verifying and documenting orthophoto accuracy and integrates quality control and data review capabilities.

Accuracy Analyst replaces manual map accuracy verification, documentation, and quality control and eliminates the lengthy, tedious, and inconsistent aspects of the verification process. The software provides a unique, streamlined software solution that delivers significant benefits through savings in costs and time.

first published week of:   11/15/2010

Skyguide and Intermap Join Forces to Provide a Solution to an International Civil Aviation Organization Mandate

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Intermap Technologies and Skyguide today announced the formation of a formal cooperation to deploy an advanced terrain and obstacle solution in support of the International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO’s) Electronic Terrain and Obstacle Data (eTOD) mandated initiative. Intermap, a worldwide 3D digital mapping and geospatial solutions company, and Skyguide, the organization responsible for providing air navigation services within Swiss airspace and in the airspace of certain adjoining regions in neighboring countries, will provide ICAO-compliant and seamless terrain data for eTOD Areas 1 and 2 as well as any customer-supplied data in an industry-compatible database.

Under ICAO mandates, member states are required to provide more accurate terrain and obstacle data in the vicinity of aerodromes as part of a strategy to increase the safety while efficiently managing the growth in air traffic. Intermap’s aviation data service will allow air navigation service providers (ANSPs) and civil aviation authorities (CAAs) to operationally plan  more efficiently while providing an increased level of quality, all enabled by the unprecedented accuracy and consistency of Intermap’s NEXTMap® elevation data and its multi-nation coverage.

first published week of:   03/08/2010

Software Adds Maps and Spatial Analytics to SharePoint
Esri Releases ArcGIS Mapping for SharePoint

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Esri announced the release of ArcGIS Mapping for SharePoint. ArcGIS Mapping for SharePoint is a set of easy-to-configure Web parts, delivered as an out-of-the box solution for displaying information on a map in SharePoint. With the latest release, it is much easier for ArcGIS Server users to work with their information in Microsoft's file-sharing and Web publishing software. Version 2.0 features a streamlined user interface and advanced geoprocessing capabilities built on an extensible framework.

Users can quickly create new maps or add existing maps and perform advanced spatial analysis on layers within Web Map Part using ArcGIS Server geoprocessing services as tools. New geocoding enhancements shorten workflows by allowing address locations to be automatically updated when a data record is added or changed. Esri also revamped the software to improve extensibility, providing a lightweight framework that makes it easy to add custom commands, behaviors, and layout widgets to the application.

“We have greatly simplified the effort required to create new maps in SharePoint and add maps from existing ArcGIS applications,” said Bob Hazelton, product manager for ArcGIS Mapping for SharePoint. “This opens the audience pool to include designers with no programming background. Developers will find the ability to extend ArcGIS Mapping for SharePoint with the ArcGIS API for Silverlight to be very helpful.”

first published week of:   10/11/2010

Spatial Energy Adds 19 Oil & Gas Basins to BasinWatch Service

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Spatial Energy, the energy industry’s source for digital imagery and related solutions, has added 19 oil and gas producing basins to its BasinWatch imagery service. To provide this solution, Spatial Energy continually acquires new sub-meter satellite imagery of the world’s most active geologic basins and delivers them in comprehensive and up-to-date image data sets to support the hydrocarbon exploration and production activities of clientele worldwide.

Spatial Energy now offers BasinWatch imagery data sets for 34 geologic basins in North America and around the world. New additions to the service include the following basins: Marcellus, Horn River and Eagle Ford in North America; and the South Iraq and North Caspian internationally. Most of these data sets were acquired in 2008 or 2009 with ongoing updates.

The BasinWatch service introduced 10 new basins just last year. Among the most popular BasinWatch data sets are the Haynesville, Barnett, Powder River, Green River, Permian, and Williston along with plays in Algeria, Argentina, China, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Kazakhstan, Libya, Sudan and Tunisia.

“BasinWatch is the most up-to-date and cost-effective imagery source for regional and global oil and gas operators,” said Bud Pope, Spatial Energy President. “Our flexible purchase and subscription options enable clients to quickly access the image data sets they need and share them inexpensively across their enterprise.”

The BasinWatch solution offers numerous advantages:

• Streaming sub-meter resolution imagery for the entire basin with imagery purchase
• Large area coverage with known geolocational accuracy
• Facilitates 3D seismic modeling/planning, well spotting, facilities monitoring, change detection and feature extraction.
• No mobilization costs to collect imagery and updates automatically available
• Share information easily, on demand, without having to exchange files

With the most up-to-date and complete imagery available, BasinWatch continues to support Spatial Energy’s ongoing commitment to functional, cost-effective innovations on behalf of the energy industry.

first published week of:   02/15/2010

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