One of the earliest topics that researchers and educators tackled with GIS was natural hazards, because of their multi-disciplinary nature, and because hazards data were readily available in formats easily ingested by GIS software. Fifteen years later, hazards data are more easily used immediately after a hazardous event than ever ...

The ArcGIS Explorer (AGX) Resource Center is a great place to discover tips, tricks, and fun things you can do with AGX. I was touring the AGX blog and ran across a compelling post—Creating cool text and titles for your ArcGIS Explorer presentations, by Bernie Szukalski of the Explorer Team. It is a good piece on tying multiple ...

Among its many powerful features, ArcGIS Explorer (AGX) can display GeoRSS data – a data stream containing geography and attribute information. One of the most compelling features of GeoRSS is it’s ability to be readily created, allowing websites to display real-time or near real-time data. In AGX, when you link to GeoRSS data, you can ...

Recently PBS aired The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. The series has inspired this sequence of blog postings about aspects of my personal park explorations over the years. I’m using ArcGIS Explorer (AGX) in the investigation. See other national park blog posts for more. Over the past few weeks we have explored some of the ...

Recently PBS aired The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. The series has inspired this sequence of blog postings about aspects of my personal park explorations over the years. I’m using ArcGIS Explorer (AGX) in the investigation. See other national park blog posts for more (including details on performing some functions listed below). ...

Recently PBS aired The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. The series has inspired this sequence of blog postings about aspects of my personal park explorations over the years via ArcGIS Explorer (AGX). See other national park blog posts for more. We’re moving through my Fav 7. Today, Acadia—the first national park east of the ...

Recently PBS aired The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. The series has inspired this sequence of blog postings about aspects of my personal park explorations over the years via ArcGIS Explorer (AGX). See other national park blog posts for more. We’re moving through my Fav 7. Today, Great Sand Dunes. The park is made up of various ...

October 11-17 is Earth Science Week (''ESW''), organized by the American Geological Institute. The purpose is to encourage people to learn about the natural world and examine the geosciences. This year, particular attention is being given to climate. ESRI is proud to be a sponsor and supporter of ESW. Educators can acquire an ESW Toolkit, ...

Recently PBS aired The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. The series has inspired this sequence of blog postings about aspects of my personal park explorations over the years via ArcGIS Explorer (AGX). See other national park blog posts for more. We’re moving through my Fav 7. Today, Arches. I began visiting the Moab, UT area in the ...

Kathryn Keranen and Lyn Malone, two retired teachers who now train other teachers to use GIS, and who also write award winning curricula for ESRI, led educators from across USA on a tour of Yosemite and Shenandoah National Parks for PBS, as part of PBS's educational follow-up to ''The National Parks: America's Bes Idea'', the recently broadcast ...