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This blog article was originally published August 24, 2020. The previous update was August 28, 2023. In the news: According to the National Hurricane Center, Hurricane Isaias, the first hurricane in the Atlantic this season, made landfall this evening along the Florida panhandle near Destin. The storm hit land with sustained winds of 105 mph, with expected torrential rain and a significant storm surge to areas along the Gulf Coast.

Imagine standing in the middle of a utility-scale solar facility, surrounded by thousands of nearly identical panels that stretch row after row in every direction. Then you spot it: a panel with a problem. The next challenge is identifying exactly which panel it is, documenting what you found, and making sure the right people know about it. Field technicians often face this challenge when inspecting and maintaining solar facilities.

Your browser does not support the audio tag. This audio is AI-generated. It may contain mispronunciations or unnatural phrasing. The Aeronautics Division at the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) transformed its drone program into a living system of record for the entire commonwealth by treating imagery as infrastructure rather than project output. Key Takeaways MassDOT standardized its drone data pipeline and turned a fragmented program into a commonwealth-wide system of record.

Bryan Chandler, Vice President of Innovation, Technology & Analytics at The Shopping Center Group, explains how location technology helps retailers better understand their siting options to maximize business. geography supply chain visualization You're Leaving Esri.com You are about to open a website that isn't owned or managed by Esri. The destination may have its own privacy and security policies. An error has occured, please reload the page and try again.

Increasingly, the ArcGIS community is making use of web-based apps to open up GIS for more people in their organizations, and in some cases augmenting desktop more workflows. Web-based workflows help organizations bring powerful GIS tools to more users across the organization. They provide simple-to-use focused apps for data editing and maintenance.

Game engines like Unity and Unreal Engine have revolutionized how we create immersive, photorealistic 3D experiences. Now, imagine combining that visual power with real-world geographic data, including reality capture, to build applications grounded in actual locations, complete with accurate terrain, buildings, and infrastructure. Before diving in, let’s clarify what an SDK is. A Software Development Kit (SDK) is a collection of software development tools for building applications.

Pop-Quiz: When does it make sense to use a dark basemap? (There can be more than one right answer.) A. When creating a map to be used in low-light environments (e.g. field worker collecting data at night) B. When creating a map to be shown on a large monitor in an Operations Control Center C. When creating a map about a heavy, somber topic D. When creating a map for workshop materials that will be printed out in individual packets Hopefully you chose A, B, and C.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) administers over 30 million GIS parcels, which draws millions of requests from energy developers, state agencies, county assessors, federal partners, and the public who depend on the Public Land Survey System (PLSS) to locate, permit, manage, and use the resources in and on America’s public lands. Key Takeaways For the first time, the infrastructure exists to support one connected and authoritative national land records system.

This practical deployment guide for new and existing ArcGIS and SAP HANA users explains key tasks and concepts such as the deployment lifecycle, compatibility checks, client configuration, geodatabase creation, access management, and upgrades. It is intended for database administrators, geodatabase administrators, and GIS platform administrators. Keep the Introduction to enterprise geodatabases in SAP HANA help topic available as the central reference while you work through the setup process.

In this Blog post, I’ll show how ArcGIS for Excel, Python in Excel, Machine learning models and Excel can work together and turn Excel data into decision making. We’ll walk through a field-operations scenario, but the pattern applies anywhere you have location data. ArcGIS for Excel ArcGIS for Excel is part of the ArcGIS for Microsoft 365 family. ArcGIS for Excel is an add-in to Microsoft 365 that you can use to add ArcGIS mapping capabilities to Microsoft Excel.