Better Data Collection, Sharing and Wild Land Fire Fighting with Capturx for ArcGIS, Adapx Michael Hoose, a fire captain for the Santa Barbara Fire Department, is on the front line of wild fire response throughout the state of California, the county of …

Land Cover Classification and Analysis Using Radar and Landsat Data in North Central Ethiopia, George Mason University Authors: Haile K. Tadesse and Allan Falconer Radar and Landsat data were used to classify land cover in north central Ethiopia. Both images were registered and …

UTILIZING NASA SATELLITE MISSIONS TO IDENTIFY BARK BEETLE INFESTATION IN SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, NASA Ames Research Center Featured Paper by Michelle Newcomer, Janine E. Bird, Shaina M. Sabatine, Gabriel C. Sady, Ashley M. Stalzer, Tim A. Wheeler, Cindy Schmidt and J. W. Skiles …

GIS DATABASE DESIGN FOR APEX MODEL, Northwest Missouri State University Featured Paper by Ming-Chih Hung, R. Paul Duckworth, Yi-Hwa Wu and Jamie Patton Blackland Research and Extension Center (BREC), Texas AgriLIFE Research, Texas A&M …

Organic Enterprise GIS Architecture: Laying foundations for more sustainable environments, Esri Users Group Conference Featured Paper by Igor Albornett Current IT architectural trends actively promote the benefits of integrated, normalized and service oriented Enterprise designs. …

OPTIMAL PARAMETER DETERMINATION FOR MEAN-SHIFT SEGMENTATION-BASED SHORELINE EXTRACTION USING LIDAR DATA, AERIAL ORTHOPHOTOS, AND, The Ohio State University Featured Paper by I-Chieh Lee, Liang Cheng, Ron Li A method for shoreline extraction has been developed that is based on mean-shift segmentation and the …