Esri announced a number of Conda updates with regards to current and upcoming versions of ArcGIS Pro. Also covered in this blog are the functionality of Anaconda Navigator and Anaconda Cloud and how Esri plans to integrate both into upcoming versions of Pro. Conda and...
Articles & Tutorials
Getting Started with NumPy and Spatial Data
This is a short beginners tutorial for ArcGIS users who are interested in learning about basic NumPy functionality. It describes how to create a NumPy array from a shapefile and interact with the attribute table data inside of it, making simple data queries. The goal...
Analyzing Wildfire Activity with Spatial Analytics – Part 4
Part 1 – Analyzing Wildfire Activity with Spatial Analytics Part 2 - Analyzing Wildfire Activity with Spatial Analytics Part 3 - Analyzing Wildfire Activity with Spatial Analytics In part four of our installment on using spatial analytics to examine wildfire activity...
June Sale – Save 20% on Introduction to Spatial Statistics using ArcGIS and R
In June you can save 20% on the self-paced version of our Introduction to Spatial Statistics using ArcGIS and R. Simply enter the discount code: spatialstats when checking out. This applies only to the self paced version. Other Live Classes: August 10th and 11th –...
Google Earth Enterprise and ArcGIS Earth Updates
While Google has announced to open-source its code of Google Earth Enterprise, Esri has released an update of ArcGIS Earth that enhances the on-premises experience. Google made two recent announcements about the future of two of its mapping products. First, they...
Time Lapse of Wildfire Activity in the U.S. – 2002 through 2016
In previous articles I have described the use of spatial analytics in wildfire activity from the year 2002-2015. Using this same dataset and Carto with Torque I have created a time lapse of wildfire activity in the U.S. from 2002 through 2015. Need help with a...
Analyzing Wildfire Activity with Spatial Analytics – Part 3
Read Part 1 Read Part 2 In the third installment of our series on analyzing wildfire activity using spatial analytics we're going to examine the spatial distribution of human induced and naturally occurring wildfires throughout the United States. In the first two...
Getting to Know GeoJSON
GeoJSON is a geospatial data format that has become quite popular in the last few years. This blog post discusses what GeoJSON is, how you can create it and some Esri tools that enable using the format. What is GeoJSON? The GeoJSON data format is a data format based...
Analyzing Wildfire Activity with Spatial Analytics – Part 2
Part 1 - Analyzing Wildfire Activity with Spatial Analytics In this post we'll continue our analysis of wildfire activity using spatial analytics techniques. In part 1, we downloaded historical wildfire information for the years 2002-2016 from a USGS ArcGIS Server...
ArcGIS Pro Tip – Geoprocessing Pane: To Auto-Hide or Not?
ArcGIS Pro is Esri's latest Desktop GIS Application. It will be replacing ArcMap and ArcCatalog at some point (We have heard anywhere between 2 to 7 years). ArcGIS Pro is still very much a work in progress but it has come a long way since first released in 2015. For...