Sasquatch, also known as Bigfoot, Yeti, Squatch, Skunk Ape, Wendingo, among others is thought to be a large hairy humanoid that some believe to live in the northwestern United States and western Canada (although sightings have been reported from every U.S. state with...
With the release of ArcGIS Pro, what was formerly known as "map books" in ArcGIS Desktop, has been renamed "map series", but the concept is still the same. A map series is a collection of pages (also known as map sheets) built from a single layout in an ArcGIS Pro...
Many of our readers regularly work with U.S. Census data for mapping and analysis purposes. Whether you work with these datasets every day or just every now and then to create a simple map you've no doubt discovered how difficult it can be to decipher census table...
ArcGIS Pro 2.6 is now available to users. This new version contains many improvements which we have been asking for for a long time. This video covers many of those improvements we think will have the most impact on current users. Hope you enjoy it....
ArcGIS Pro enables the creation of raster surface models (Digital Elevation Models and derivatives such as a Digital Surface Model) from lidar point cloud data. Digital Elevation Models and derivatives such as Digital Surface Models and Digital Terrain Models are...
ArcGIS Pro enables the creation of Ground Control Points as a way to georeference drone data to satellite base map data, so that user-generated imagery data is placed on the correct spatial location and fit for further use inside a GIS. When bringing in a new drone...
In the Q&A for the Esri 2020 User Conference, Esri announced it will be releasing ArcGIS Pro 2.6 after the virtual UC in July. This blog post gives an overview of some of the highlights of this new release. As the version number indicates, Pro 2.6 is a major...
ArcGIS Pro provides an ortho mapping workflow for creating orthomosaics from geotagged drone imagery. What are orthomosaics and orthorectification? An orthomosaic is a georeferenced image product mosaicked from an image collection, where the geometric distortion of...
Using raster ArcGIS Pro’s geoprocessing and 3D Scene layer capabilities, raster data can be used to create and visualize Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) and derivatives, such as hillshade rasters and triangular irregular networks (TINs). Creating a TIN with a point...
ArcGIS Pro makes it easy to create and visualize Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) and derivatives from raster data. What are Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) and derivatives? A Digital Elevation Model is a raster whose pixel values represent elevations of a surface,...