LiDAR, acronym for Light Detection and Ranging is a remote sensing technique to capture precise elevation including any vegetation or buildings on the earth’s surface. Over from the Lidar News blog is a short video from the Department of Geosciences at Idaho State University, introducing the principle of LiDAR and its application in elevation modeling [...]

With all the rave reviews that Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx has been getting over the past couple of months, I couldn’t help myself upgrading and checking out the exciting new features and the enhanced interface, which I think was a much needed overhaul for the best desktop Linux OS. A new version meant fresh installation [...]

This week marked the end of the 2010 ESRI Worldwide Business Partner Conference (BPC) and the 2010 ESRI Developer Summit at Palm Springs, California which was host to the largest gathering of GIS developers. The BPC set the tone for the Developer Summit by showcasing features of the upcoming release of the ArcGIS product suite [...]

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Just noticed today, ESRI has made available proceedings of the 2009 Developer Summit at http://proceedings.esri.com/library/… The proceedings include code demonstrations and presentations (slides and video) by the EDN team and ESRI users for Presummit Seminar Technical sessions Developer Keynote session User Presentations Special Interest Group Meeting and Demo Theater Presentations

Among the GIS blog world, this is the fourth posting today on ESRI’s official YouTube channel. ESRI operates a channel on YouTube under then name esritv which is a useful resource with videos on product demos, conference presentations, howto’s, process work flows and other interesting stuff. It so happens that many of the videos uploaded [...]

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This is no new news (definitely not for users of ESRI products), but for all those who may have missed the buzz around the latest version of ArcGIS Explorer which is soon to be released during the ESRI Developer Summit ’09, here’s a quick preview of the upcoming 900 version.