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Singapore is a gardenlike city, where great emphasis is placed on planting and tending trees. The Singapore National Parks Board (NParks) relies on GIS technology to manage data about and inspect all 1.3 million of them. Read the article.
In Westchester County, New York, the GIS team launched a Green Map to help residents find green resources such as recycling centers. Read the article.
Singapore's busy Orchard Road is well known for its traffic, shopping, and trees.
Near Tool Now Handles Multiple Feature Types
For ArcInfo users, the Near tool in ArcGIS Desktop 9.3 provides additional proximity analysis. More feature types can be used for this analysis and additional results are generated and saved as output.
ArcWatch is published monthly by ESRI and contains GIS news, practical advice, and updates about the company's software and events. To submit article ideas,
e-mail editor Carla Wheeler at arcwatch_editor@esri.com.
Scientists at the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) in Massachusetts are tracking carbon footprints across the globe, starting with U.S. forests. In one study, they are using GIS to measure the carbon-rich biomass in heavily wooded areas to indicate the effect deforestation and land use have on rising carbon levels in our atmosphere. Read the article.
Researchers from the University of Arkansas, along with the U.S. Forest Service, used GIS software from ESRI to create thematic maps that helped them visualize the extent of devastation the Red Oak Borer Beetle has caused in the Ozark Mountains. Read the article.
GIS software was used to create a route of pedestrian-friendly roads for former New York Giants defensive end George Martin's 3,003 mile "a Journey for 9/11." Read the article.
The next five years will be revolutionary as GIS increasingly moves to the Web, allowing more people to access GIS applications and share maps and data, writes ESRI president Jack Dangermond. Read the article.
In this podcast, ESRI's government industry solutions manager Chris Thomas explains the benefits that Business Analyst Online, a Web-based analysis tool for on-demand reports and map generation, provides to economic development planners. Download the podcast. Find out about some new features in Business Analyst Online, too.
Updated for 9.3, this new volume provides GIS training in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step format. The book includes two new tutorials that utilize the ArcGIS 3D Analyst and ArcGIS Spatial Analyst extensions. The book also comes with a 180-day trial of ArcView 9.3 software on DVD and a data CD. Buy this book.
Applications are now being accepted for the 2008 ESRI and Xplore Technologies Mobile Government Demonstration Project Grant Program. State, regional, and local governments in the United States can apply for the grants, which must demonstrate how GIS is a mission-critical technology in delivering government services. Learn more and apply for a grant.
The article Enterprise Geodatabase 101 explains the key features, capabilities, and architecture of the enterprise geodatabase. Bonus podcast: Five Best Practices for Maintaining an Enterprise Geodatabase.
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ESRI offers, for U.S. customers only, new lower pricing for Capturx for ArcGIS Desktop by Adapx.
Visit the ESRI Store to find more software and extensions, upgrades, data, books, and hardware bundles.
Want some tips related to ArcObjects? Go straight to the ArcObjects Development Blog. Here's something interesting that was recently posted: New for .NET developers at 9.3 is the ArcGIS Snippet Finder. This is a cool tool for finding commonly used blocks of code you can use in developing your applications. Don Kemlage from ESRI's .NET development team describes the new tool in this video.
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