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Oil majors including Statoil, Shell and Chevron are experimenting with various technologies, from drones and drill design to data management, to drive down costs and weather a deep downturn.

At the opening of GE’s new oil and gas R&D center in Oklahoma, the multi-business company has also presented its new methane-sniffing helicopter drone called “Raven.” GE started working on the project last year, and it proved that the 20-pound machine can indeed do what it was created for during a test run in July: Raven successfully found gas leaking from a couple of oil wells in Arkansas.

Fuelfix article

Engadget article

This Esri satellite map was built using the JavaScript API for ArcGIS the latest version of which allows you to build full-featured 3D applications powered by web scenes that can include rich information layers such as terrain, basemaps, imagery, features, and 3D objects. Ask us how we can empower your business, organization, or non-profit with spatial visualization.

This image and link below depicts the location of approximately 1,250 Low Earth Orbit, Medium Earth Orbit, and geosynchronous orbit satellites. If you click on one of them it will show you its orbit as well as its 24-hour trajectory shadow.

All satellite data provided by Space-Track.org, an organization that promotes space flight safety, protection of the space environment and the peaceful use of space worldwide by sharing space situational awareness services and information with U.S. and international satellite owners/operators, academia and other entities.

Esri has built a Story Map for venues in the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. Esri Story Maps let you combine authoritative maps with narrative text, images, and multimedia content. They make it easy to harness the power of maps and geography to tell your story.

Click the image below to launch the story map!

Click here for more award winning Story Maps.

Glacier Point, Yosemite (Esri web scene)

Take a look at the web scene demo above created by Esri.

Web scenes are interactive displays of geographic information that are useful when you need to expose 3D data on the web for visualization and analysis.

Hint: This is best viewed on a tablet or laptop. If using a mouse, right click and drag.

Ask us how we can help make your hard earned business, community, or organizational data work for you.

If a new field data capture system were to be designed that leverages modern technology and avoids the historic challenges of field data collection, the wish list of functionality would at least include:

• End to end digital data capture (no more field notebooks or subsequent manual transcription)
• Real-time use of collected data (allows for immediate response or analysis)
• Use existing equipment, but also accommodate enhancements (no new hardware requirements)
• Flexible connectivity for rural or spotty coverage areas (disconnected editing)

Introducing Survey123 for ArcGIS, a new field data gathering product by Esri.

This Esri Insider blog post details steps for your community to Prepare, Plan, and Recover for flooding, one of the most costly natural disasters that government agencies face. The screenshot below as well as those in the article are GIS web mapping applications being consumed by San Bernardino county California citizens, planning agencies, response teams, and field crews on computers, tablets, and smartphones.

With agricultural planning and strategy based on real-time data gathering and processing, Polish company PwC estimates the market for drone-powered solutions in agriculture at $32.4 billion.

The video below shows latest from Delft University of Technology: shrinking disk size to go with ongoing hardware miniaturization. I wonder when instead of “download my area” we can “download latest earth” on our mobile devices?

Here is one of the most recent products by Esri that leverages drone imagery footage. There is also a recent blog post on this technology.