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Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai

Watch PBS series Independent Lens on Tuesday April 14 and see how the simple act of planting trees lead to political change and a Nobel Peace Prize. Maathai was the keynote speaker at the ESRI International User Conference in 2007. Check for local broadcasting Read More...
Posted Monday, April 13, 2009 11:42 AM by GeographyMatters | 0 Comments
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GIS Used to Manage and Access the Largest Earthquake Drill in U.S. History

At 10:00 a.m. on November 13, 2008, millions of people throughout Southern California participated in The Great Southern California ShakeOut Drill, the largest earthquake preparedness exercise in U.S. history. The ShakeOut was organized by the Earthquake Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 20, 2008 9:17 AM by GeographyMatters | 0 Comments

ESRI President Jack Dangermond Talks about the Future of GIS

Recently, Jack Dangermond, ESRI president, talked with Government Technology on what lies ahead for GIS and how the Web plays a crucial role. "My forecast is that as society becomes familiar with looking at things through geospatial visualization, they Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2008 5:18 AM by GeographyMatters | 0 Comments

GIS Researchers See Pollution Come to Light

Artificial light is not conventionally thought of as a source of contamination, but its disruption of habitats and behaviors of plants and wildlife have brought it into the spotlight as a threat to the environment. Excess light can affect nocturnal predators Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2007 8:37 AM by GeographyMatters | 1 Comments
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GIS Is Providing a New Medium for Understanding

In a recent issue of ArcNews, ESRI President Jack Dangermond explains the new and expanding role of GIS professionals and outlines some of the underlying technologies that will support this vision. He also talks about the future of GIS on the Web and Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 22, 2007 1:47 PM by GeographyMatters | 0 Comments

Jack Dangermond on Enterprise GIS

GIS has evolved to meet enterprise-wide needs much like the enterprise software evolutions in the financial, human resources, supply chain, and customer management arenas. An enterprise GIS is an integrated, multi-departmental system for collecting, analyzing, Read More...
Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 12:43 PM by GeographyMatters | 0 Comments

A Post by Jack Dangermond: More Thoughts on the Benefits of GIS

Last month I wrote about educating upper management about the value and benefits of GIS. Now I would like to discuss these benefits in more detail. Organizations of all sizes and users in almost every industry get value from GIS. They are increasingly Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 05, 2006 2:05 PM by GeographyMatters | 0 Comments

GIS Industry Moving Closer to Society-wide Application

There are several important trends occurring in the GIS industry. The first is the growing volume of geospatial data coming from many sources. There is an increase in geographic measurement being driven by new technologies (i.e. satellite and airborne Read More...
Posted Friday, September 01, 2006 2:30 PM by GeographyMatters | 0 Comments

GIS and geography are a powerful medium for communication and collaboration

The work of GIS users has clearly demonstrated the value of using geographic knowledge and GIS tools for applications in almost every discipline and field. Their efforts, together with the underlying technology, have stimulated a new geography-based approach Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:04 AM by GeographyMatters | 0 Comments
 
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