The system offers an optional interactive mapping module provided by Esri.
In 1969, he co-founded with his wife Laura the Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri), a privately held Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software company.
In 2010, Esri Canada was named into the Diamond Legacy League of Ducks Unlimited Canada for contributing more than $1,000,000 in technology and services in support of wetland conservation.
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Power Stream, the second largest municipally-owned electricity distribution company in Ontario, integrated numerous disparate enterprise systems following several mergers and acquisitions, and established a central repository of network asset data using the Esri-based ArcFM solution by Telvent.
The last 3 days of the conference included three Keynote Speakers which were: Dr. William B. Gail of Microsoft Virtual Earth; Michael T. Jones of Google; and Alex Miller of ESRI Canada Ltd.
GHN features an online community for networking and discussion of possible solutions, while critical support and software for the platform have been donated by Google, DigitalGlobe, Autodesk, Ashtech, Exelis Visual Information Solutions and ESRI.
Today Esri is the largest GIS software developer in the world and its flagship product, ArcGIS, traces its heritage to Dangermond's initial efforts in developing ARC/INFO.
Programs to manipulate LiDAR data include ENVI, ERDAS IMAGINE, ArcInfo, and ESRI ArcView (with 3D analyst ext.) One useful derivation of LiDAR data is the DEM (Digital Elevation Model).
In 2005, an ESRI ArcGIS version of the software, inspired by Tobler, was developed by Alan Glennon and Michael Goodchild at UCSB.