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News, events, and announcements for the UD GIS community, May 2013

Apr 29th, 2013 by

News, events, and announcements for the UD GIS community, May 2013

News

  • The Delaware DataMIL will no longer be available after June 30, 2013.  You can read the complete announcement at the DataMIL.  Users can still access Delaware Spatial Data Framework layers through the Delaware Geospatial Data Exchange, and aerial photography tiles through UD’s Delaware Environmental Monitoring and Analysis Center (DEMAC).
  • The newest version of Maptiler now has a Mac OS GUI/Installer.  This should be great news for Mac users, as previous installation and use steps were difficult.  Maptiler was recently featured in our Digital Humanities GIS workshop.
  • As has been noted on the UD GIS email list,  Bing Maps use in ArcGIS has changed.  Complimentary Use of Microsoft’s Bing Maps with ArcGIS to be phased by year’s end.  ArcGIS will continue to be usable with Bing Maps, but you will have to obtain your own Bing Maps key directly from Microsoft and then input the key into ArcGIS products.  I would recommend using one of the other (free) basemaps available through ArcGIS … the World Topographic Map is my favorite.

Recent UD GIS Blog Posts

Software Updates

Other New Webinars

Events

Past Events and Webinars

  • As a follow up to the Spatial Digital Humanities Workshop (for which we posted opening remarks on the last UD GIS Update), we now have a narrated screencast of the material, posted
  • I attended FME World Tour 2013′s stop in Washington, DC.  I was impressed by FME’s workflow automation capabilities, which I think should be considered for anyone currently using the ArcGIS model builder.  FME is made available for free to UD by the developer, SAFE Software, via the UD GIS software page.  In particular, the capabilties for publishing regularly updated datasets in a variety of formats (e.g., to email, ftp, web services, feeds, KMLs) were impressive.  As well as parsing/writing verbose and multidimensional output (LIDAR, NetCDF,etc.), and processing real-time inputs.
  • I attended a Philly Python User’s Group meeting on machine learning and natural language processing.  The conversation mostly focused on algorithms for intelligently parsing text (using scikit-learn and the Natural Language Tool Kit), but there may be applications for geospatial analysis in feature extraction and classification.

Other Opportunities

Area/Forwarded Job Postings (if no link, email me mearns@udel.edu, and I’ll forward the email announcements)

 

As always, please let me know if you have any questions or ideas that you’d like to discuss.

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News, events, and announcements for the UD GIS community, Febuary-March 2013

Feb 22nd, 2013 by

News, events, and announcements for the UD GIS community, Febuary-March 2013

News

  • NASA launches Landsat 8
  • Agent Analyst, an open source/non-Esri product for Agent-based modeling, has been released for ArcGIS 10.0 along with a tutorial style book on how to use the extension. Both the software and the book are free at:http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/agent-analyst/
  • The State of Delaware is continuing to look for funds to complete their LULC dataset.  Currently they have $25,000 of the estimated $80,000-$120,000 cost.  Please contact Miriam Pomilio (Miriam.Pomilio@state.de.us) if this dataset is important to you and you know of a funding source.
  • Another open geospatial lab has opened, this one in the UK, as part of the effort to create a global network of open source geospatial research and education centers.

Software Updates

  • ENVI 5 SP2 (ENVI 5.0.2) is now available from the UD GIS software site.  This version primarily fixes bugs, adds some new format read/write capabilies, and interface improvements.  One big new feature/interface improvement is a radiometric calibration tool that “calibrates image data to spectral radiance, top-of-atmosphere reflectance, or at-sensor brightness temperatures by reading the relevant metadata from the satellite vendor”, rather than relying on separate idiosyncratic radiometric by-sensor calibration operations.
  • FME 2013 is now available from the UD GIS software site.  This new version adds 28 new formats, some new LIDAR point cloud functionality, and workflow process features.

Other New Webinars

Events

Past Events and Webinars

  • We collaborated with Prof. Heidi Kaufman (English) and the Library to hold a Spatial Digital Humanities Workshop on 2/15.  We will be posting a companion screencast with narration, shortly.  The opening remarks have already been posted.
  • Sandy Shenck (DGS) and I captured Sandy’s use of ArcGIS online.  I have a higher-quality .wmv that I can dropbox for you if you can play .wmv (which should be the case on all Windows machines).
  • The Delaware Geospatial Data Committee met on 2/13/13.  The most notable topic was discussion about how the long term data collection effort outcome (Aerials, LIDAR, LULC) — including the potential for short-term failure — will be discussed in executive committee meetings targeting state department secretaries.  Actual ($) costs and benefits will probably need to be brought to that discussion.  There was also discussion about the next geospatial data system, which will be essentially a marriage between DataMil and Geospatial Data Exchange, providing web maps and map services, and how data collection efforts are tied to that system.  I will include the minutes in the next update.
  • Deep Dive into FME Desktop 2013

Other Opportunities

  • 2013 IT Innovation Grant, Pre-Proposals due 4/1/13.   This is a great opportunity for UD Faculty who have been wanting to get consulting help on a GIS project, but don’t have the needed funds.
  • The 1/2/13 deadline for complimentary Esri passes has come and gone, and we still have a few left.  Please let me know if you are interested.  The remaining passes will be granted on a first-come-first-served basis.
  • We would appreciate it if you us (i.e., me: mearns@udel.edu) know if you are running any kind of geospatial server or database (e.g., ArcGIS Server, ArcSDE, Geoserver), and if you are interested in hosting data (you would be paid for the service), or having your data hosted.  IT is thinking about resources on campus, whether we might look into providing a service, if cloud services could be promoted, or if we should look into third-party options.  If you are also able to let us know what services and interfaces you provide with your system — that would also be helpful.
  • Is anybody using the GEPHI network visualization tool?  A group on campus is going to start using this shortly, and there may be opportunities for collaboration.
  • GE is sponsoring the Geospatial Grid Contest (award: $5000), which is open to US graduate or undergraduate students with ideas on geospatial applications for the electrical grid.
  • 2013 Cartography and Geographic Information Society Distinguished Career Award, nominations By March 1, 2013, completed packages should be sent to: Terry Slocum,    t-slocum@ku.edu

Area/Forwarded Job Postings (if no link, email me mearns@udel.edu, and I’ll forward the email announcements)

  • Esri is seeking summer interns.  The deadline to apply is March 15th, but positions are filled when outstanding candidates are found.
  • Solution Engineer, Water Utility, Esri, Philadelphia, PA
  • GIS Specialist, DVRPC, Philadelphia, PA
  • Assistant/Associate Professor, Physical Geography, James Madison University
  • Full- and Part-Time Non-Tenure-Track Teaching Positions, The University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIST) Graduate Programs

 

 

As always, please let me know if you have any questions or ideas that you’d like to discuss.

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News, events, and announcements for the UD GIS community, Dec 2012/Jan 2013

Dec 21st, 2012 by

News, events, and announcements for the UD GIS community, Dec 2012/Jan 2013

News

  • Happy Holidays, our gift to you: 2012 Delaware Imagery from the USGS and DGDC!  (must be downloaded from a UD connection, on campus or VPN).  Downloading at “off-peak” times is highly encouraged.
  • In the end, Google did not grant our campus use of Google Earth Pro, but rather asked that individuals (faculty, staff, and students) who wish to use the software should directly submit a request here.  However, we are still planning on obtaining licenses for our two workstations in Smith.

Recent UD GIS Blog posts

Software Updates

Events

Past Events and Webinars

  • DGDC Meeting DRAFT minutes from the November 8th meeting are now available.

Other Opportunities

  • The Cartography and Geographic Information Society has opened nominations for the 2013 Distinguished Career Award
  • UCGIS Awards, nominations for both due 2/1/13
    • The UCGIS Research Award recognizes an outstanding work or accomplishment of a member of the UCGIS community. UCGIS seeks nominations for scholars who have made specific, significant contributions to the field.
    • The UCGIS Education Award recognizes scholars with an outstanding track record of contributions to GIS&T education. Education Award winners are generally recognized for broad contributions and a record of leadership in GIScience education.
  •  Funded PhD Assistantship Opportunities
    • The School of Geography and Development at the University of Arizona is seeking to fill one Graduate Teaching Assistant position for the Masters of Science in Geographic Information Systems Technology (MS-GIST) program beginning August 26, 2013.
    • Funded PhD Studentship in Remote Sensing and Forest Landscape Modeling at UNC Charlotte expected to start in August 2013
    • 2 Funded PhD RA (GIS, Remote Sensing) Positions at Texas A&M

Area/Forwarded Job Postings (if no link, email me mearns@udel.edu, and I’ll forward the email announcements)

 

As always, please let me know if you have any questions or ideas that you’d like to discuss

 

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News, events, and announcements for the UD GIS community, November 2012

Nov 12th, 2012 by

News, events, and announcements for the UD GIS community, November 2012

News

  • We’ve installed ArcGIS Server on the Mills HPC Community Cluster, for large geoprocessing jobs.  Utilizing this kind of multi-core, multi-node hardware does require some additional work, though.  Please fill out this form to help us learn what kinds of geoprocessing jobs you run most frequently and take the longest to complete; this will help us gauge how to best direct our effects on HPC GIS.  Though we will be gearing this towards Mills, the work we do will also help you run these jobs faster on your own computer, by utilizing the multiple cores that are now common in PCs.  This is your opportunity to get some free consulting on your most time consuming tasks!
  • Updates from the Delaware Geographic Data Committee
    • The DGDC has drafted a 10-year collection timeline proposal for collection/processing of aerials, LIDAR, and LULC.  They will be gathering use cases from stakeholders, in support of the proposal.
    •  DE Public Schools (K-12) have obtained an Esri site license.
    • The 5th annual GIS Day fieldtrip for grade school children will take place on November 14, 2012 at the Air Mobility Command Museum in Dover, Delaware. This field trip consists of 16 various stations created and taught by volunteers from the GIS community of Delaware. All stations are designed to create awareness and enhance the students’ GIS knowledge and how GIS affects everyday life.

Software Updates

Data Updates

  • New 2012 aerial imagery is now available from the State of Delaware.  We will be obtaining this data via mail, on hard drive, as it is not yet available for transfer via the internet.  Please let us know if you are interested in using this data.
  • The USGS has posted new pre/post-Sandy imagery and DEM on their Hazards Distribution System .  I believe this is over a 30 day period (pre-Hurricane) and over a 600 meter swath focused on barrier islands.  They’ve also recently posted imagery from the earthquake in Guatamala, and the Gulf oil spill.
  • USDA has updated its NRCS soils data which you can obtain here http://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app/HomePage.htm.  They have also developed a new app that allows the user to find detailed soil information on their current location within 100 ft precision.
  • The US Census has released its American Community Survey 2011 1-year and 3-year estimates.  The 5-year estimates are due out in December.  Visit this page for more information on the ACS estimates.

New and Updated Esri Virtual Campus Courses (contact gis-info@udel.edu for free access)

  • Updates to existing virtual campus courses have been posted for ArcGIS 10.1

Other New Webinars

Events

  • 11/16-11/18/12: GIS & Spatial Thinking in the Undergraduate Curriculum, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
  • 12/13-12/14/12: NHD Training, Maryland DOE
  • 2/15/13 10a-4p: Digital Humanities Workshop Series: Getting Humanities Research “on the Map”
  • 6/4-6/7/13: Spatial Statistics 2013 Ohio State Columbus, OH

Other Opportunities

  • N/A

Area/Forwarded Job Postings (if no link, email me mearns@udel.edu, and I’ll forward the email announcements)

  • GIS/Software Development Intern DELASOFT Newark, DE

 

As always, please let me know if you have any questions or ideas that you’d like to discuss

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News, events, and announcements for the UD GIS community, October 2012

Oct 1st, 2012 by

News, events, and announcements for the UD GIS community, October 2012

News

  • Sea Grant demonstrates weTable for GIS
  • “Delaware Geological Survey discovers evidence of past earthquakes.”  The data behind the discovery was compiled as part of the ongoing Delaware Groundwater Monitoring Network, which appears to be GIS-based.  http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2013/aug/delaware-earthquakes-083012.html
  • Ever wondered if GIS can be used for very large scale spatial analysis?  Check out this article on how it’s been used to map and analyze features inside bones.
  • After more than a year of study of the risks posed by sea level rise, Delaware’s Sea Level Rise Advisory Committee has completed its statewide Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Assessment report. http://de.gov/slrva

Software Updates

  • ArcGIS Online Subscription service is now available.  This long awaited upgrade to our ArcGIS Online capabilities extends AGO’s capabilities to cover many things that used to only be possible with a standalone ArcGIS Server instance and a Desktop client.  We already have one class using the AGO subscription, but our credits are limited, so please contact us if you’re interested in integrating this into your teaching or research.
  • Esri had reported a bug for those using Business Analyst Desktop on ArcGIS 10.0 after the 10.1 license upgrade (which UD did in August).  They’ve posted a patch, here.

Data Updates

  • Esri announced that it has further improved support for Landsat imagery, including simplified workflows for ArcGIS 10.1 for Desktop and improvements in the World Landsat Services on ArcGIS Online. In addition, Esri and the Department of the Interior (DOI) worked closely to make all Landsat Global Land Survey (GLS) imagery, including the latest—GLS2010—available through dynamic, multispectral, multitemporal image services on ArcGIS Online.

New and Updated Esri Virtual Campus Courses (contact gis-info@udel.edu for free access)

  • Esri Virtual Campus courses for 10.1 will begin coming out in the 3rd quarter of this year

Other New Webinars

Events

  • 10/22-10/24/12: MAC URISA 2012, Atlantic City, NJ
  • 11/16-11/18/12: GIS & Spatial Thinking in the Undergraduate Curriculum, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
  • 6/4-6/7/13: Spatial Statistics 2013 Ohio State Columbus, OH

Past Events and Archived Webinars

 

Other Opportunities

  • CFP for 2013 GIScience sessions at the annual Esri User Conference.  Papers need not be based on Esri technologies.  Accepted abstracts and papers will be published in the peer-reviewed Transactions in GIS (now ISI indexed).  See last years published papers (abstracts at least) at Wiley Online.
  • $2 Million in Grants Available for Natural Resource Imagery Projects for use of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), and RASARSAT-2 and RapidEye imagery
  • I met a representative from DELASOFT at the Delaware GIS Conference.  DELASOFT is a Newark-based IT firm that does a significant amount of geospatial software development and implementation.  They would like to hire an intern for potential full-time employment upon graduation and would also welcome any opportunities to present.  Qualifications: a student in GIS or Computer Science to work up to 15-20 hours per week.  Delasoft Inc. is a certified woman owned minority corporation with 186 employees in software consulting and development.  Among recent projects have been many custom software applications for the State of Delaware.  I can provide contact information upon request.

 

Area/Forwarded Job Postings (if no link, email me mearns@udel.edu, and I’ll forward the email announcements)

 

As always, please let me know if you have any questions or ideas that you’d like to discuss.

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News, events, and announcements for the UD GIS community, August 2012

Aug 3rd, 2012 by

News, events, and announcements for the UD GIS community, August 2012

News

  • We’re applying for a Google Earth Pro grant.  We’re hoping to get permission to use a few licenses to support use across campus.  The advanced features of GE Pro include: Premium movie making, GIS data import tools, spreadsheet importer, Google Earth Pro Datasets, high-resolution printing capability and area and radius measurement.  If any of these features are useful to your teaching or research, please let me know, and I’ll include that on the application.  Go here to try GE Pro for 7 days.
  • Our Python study group has begun meeting on Tuesdays.  Here’s a link to our group page.  Python is the main language for doing workflow scripting in ArcGIS, and writing add-ons for ArcGIS and QGIS, the open source equivalent.
  • The renewal time for all of our centrally licensed software is this time of the year.  If you’d like to start using ArcGIS, ENVI, IDL, or ERDAS IMAGINE, please let us know.
  • We’ve updated all geospatial software in our research computing lab.

 

Software Updates

  • ArcGIS Online Subscriptions were added to our site license.  I’ve been waiting for this for awhile, these are hugely powerful – allowing things like map services based on free cloud hosting of data.  Here’s a comparison between the personal and subscription levels of the service.
  • In case you missed it last month, ArcGIS 10.1 is now available on UD GIS Downloads.  There’s a quick tour of what’s new, that you should check out.  My experience so far has been very good – it seems quite stable – though I haven’t really had time to get into some of the big new features.  The buzz at the Esri User Conference (which I didn’t attend this year) is integration with Microsoft Office.  Apparently you can now do some basic map-making in Office without even opening ArcGIS.
  • Service Pack 5 for ArcGIS 10 (not 10.1) is now available on UD GIS Downloads, for those who don’t wish to upgrade to 10.1 yet.

 

Data Updates

 

New and Updated Esri Virtual Campus Courses (contact gis-info@udel.edu for free access)

  • Esri Virtual Campus courses for 10.1 will begin coming out in the 3rd quarter of this year

 

Other New Webinars

 

Events

  • 8/6-8/9/12: CyberGIS ’12, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL
  • 10/22-10/24/12: MAC URISA 2012, Atlantic City, NJ … early-bird registration has been extended, but not for long
  • 11/16-11/18/12: GIS & Spatial Thinking in the Undergraduate Curriculum, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA

 

Past Events and Webinars

  • I attended Computing for Geospatial Research Institute on 7/1-7/3.  The conference was billed as being focused on big data computing and sensor networks, but was honestly a bit of a disappointment.  I have slides on DVD if you would like to check them out.
  • Visualize 2012 (ENVI/IDL) slides and abstracts have been posted here.

 

Other Opportunities

  • N/A

 

Area/Forwarded/Interesting Job Postings (if no link, email us at gis-info@udel.edu, and we’ll forward the email announcements)

 

As always, please let us know if you have any questions or ideas that you’d like to discuss

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QGIS

Jun 26th, 2012 by

Quantum GIS is our recommendation for an open source GIS package.  It wraps Grass functionality and includes many native tools and plugins as well.  Here is our writeup on the topic.

.. and in the appendix are GIS functions with their associated plugins and installation profiles. This is helpful for seeing the QGIS equivalents to ArcGIS functions.  This is best downloaded/viewed in Microsoft Excel.

 

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News, events, and announcements for the UD GIS community, June-July 2012

Jun 22nd, 2012 by

News, events, and announcements for the UD GIS community, June-July 2012

News

  • Our Python study group is meeting on 7/24.  We’ll be starting off covering some fundamental topics and then moving into topics of general research interests and maybe into geospatial topics (if there’s enough interest).  Please let me know if you would like more information

Software Updates

  • ArcGIS 10.1 is now available on UD GIS Downloads
    • I’ll touch on some benefits of 10.1 in a Research Express webinar, but for now check out the new naming, which I know always creates a little confusion

Data Updates

  • N/A

New and Updated Esri Virtual Campus Courses (contact gis-info@udel.edu for free access)

  • Esri Virtual Campus courses for 10.1 will begin coming out in the 3rd quarter of this year
  • Not a virtual  campus course per se, but there are some new videos to walk you through ArcGIS 10.1 for Server

Other New Webinars

Events

  • 7/1-7/3: Computing for Geospatial Research Institute, Washington, DC
  • 7/24 10:30-11:30a: First UD Python study group meetup Smith Hall 015
  • 10/22-10/24/12: MAC URISA 2012, Atlantic City, NJ
  • 11/16-11/18/12: GIS & Spatial Thinking in the Undergraduate Curriculum, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA

Past Events and Webinars

  • Using IDL on Mills Research Express webinar is available on the archives page
  • I attended the Visualize 2012 conference on IDL and ENVI on 6/18-6/19.  Besides learning about the newly released ENVI 5.0 (which has a hugely improved GUI, IMO) and IDL 8.2, I heard about a bunch of interesting topics: lots of remote sensing topics (multi-year sea ice melt –we’re in trouble, the mountain pine beetle, carbon storage, etc.), GPU processing, the new VIIRS satellite, reading scientific formats like hdf5 and netcdf4, and using OPeNDAP to get access to access live data subsets.

Other Opportunities

  • N/A

Area/Forwarded Job Postings (if no link, email me mearns@udel.edu, and I’ll forward the email announcements)

  • N/A

 

As always, please let me know if you have any questions or ideas that you’d like to discuss

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News, events, and announcements for the UD GIS community, May 2012

May 17th, 2012 by

News, events, and announcements for the UD GIS community, May 2012

News

  • IDL has been installed on the Mills Cluster.  A 15-minute “Research Express” webinar is scheduled for 6/1/12 at 12:30p.  You can watch our live session here, Archived sessions are available here
  • A UD Postgres email list has formed.  You can subscribe to that list here.  Postgres (with PostGIS) is the premier open source spatial database.  Direct connection to Postgres/PostGIS from ArcGIS will be supported in 10.1.  PostGIS has also now added raster storage and spatial querying capabilities.
  • We are forming a Python study group, which will probably meet in June.  Please let me know if you are interested in participating.

Software Updates

Data Updates

  • The TeleAtlas data included with ArcLogistics is now permitted to be used for research.  This is very high quality international transportation network data.  A separate license is available for administrative use.  For more information.

New and Updated Esri Virtual Campus Courses (contact gis-info@udel.edu for free access)

  • N/A

Other New Webinars

Events

  • 5/30/12-6/1: UCGIS 2012 Symposium  Doubletree Hotel, Washington, D.C. Abstract due 2/29/12
  • 6/12/12, MAC URISA Spring Meeting, Rutgers EcoComplex, Bordentown Twnshp, NJ
  • 6/18-6/19/12, VISualize 2012: Climate Change and Environmental Monitoring, Washington, DC
  • 10/22-10/24/12: MAC URISA 2012, Atlantic City, NJ
  • 11/16-11/18/12: GIS & Spatial Thinking in the Undergraduate Curriculum, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA

Past Events and Webinars

  • Our 15-minute Research Express Webinar on geospatial visualization (and other topics) with Google Fusion Tables is available here
  • DGDC Meeting: We covered phasing out of DataMIL, Status of 2012 Ortho-Imagery, Land Use Land Cover 2012 and LIDAR projects.  Minutes are here.

Other Opportunities

  • N/A

Area/Forwarded Job Postings (if no link, email me mearns@udel.edu, and I’ll forward the email announcements)

 

As always, please let me know if you have any questions or ideas that you’d like to discuss

 

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Community Analyst and Business Analyst Now Available

Apr 30th, 2012 by

Esri Community Analyst (CA) and Business Analyst (BA) are now available through UD-IT.  Portions of CA and BA are almost identical, but overall BA is a much more robust offering.  Though CA is targeted to general use and BA for business use, portions of BA can be leveraged for non-business uses.  I gave a talk on GIS Tools and Resources for Location-based questions in Business, focusing on BA, to the Lerner College of Business & Economics in February as part of their college seminar series, and got the chance to spend some time exploring it; more recently I’ve been checking out CA, as well.  In this article, I briefly describe CA and BA components, functionality, and data.

The principal manifestation of CA is Community Analyst Online (CAO).  CAO provides access to the CA data principally through reporting tools, which can be quickly used for initial investigations, site selection and comparison using extensive demographic (current and 5-year projections) and some business data.  All 8755 variables are available to us through CA, with our “Standard Plus” subscription.  The CA APIs, for Flex, REST, and Silverlight provide the ability to interact programmatically with essentially the same capabilities as CAO, but with the additional capability to get XML-formatted publicly available CA datasets. Finally, CA can also be used through a desktop add-in (reporting toolbar), which provides reporting through ArcGIS Desktop and the ability to aggregate reports to custom boundary files.

Business Analyst Online provides essentially the same capabilities as CAO.  However, the data set, with over 11,000 variables, covers more ground, including: additional consumer spending, business locations, market potential, crime, banking, major shopping centers, traffic counts, and lifestyle segmentation data.  Like the CA API, the BA API provides hooks to interact with the BAO capabilities programmatically.  The similarities between CA and BA end there.  BA Desktop offers a robust set of tools that can be used for more sophisticated analysis – such as Huff Gravity modeling.  BA Desktop analysis can provide even more valuable insights when integrated with in-house data.  The bundled data itself is unencumbered and relatively “raw”, so it can be used in any kind of analysis, even outside of GIS.  Finally, BA Server makes it possible to integrate BA dynamic analysis enterprise IT workflows and systems.

To use CAO and BAO, you should first register your Esri Global Account with our BAO subscription.  If you don’t already have a Esri global account, create one.  Next, register your global account with the BAO subscription at using our custom link (please contact gis-info@udel.edu for that).  Note our BAO subscription has a maximum of 2500 users; distribute this URL with discretion (no non-UD use).   Once you’ve registered your account, you can login to CAO or BAO with your Esri global account.

If you already have ArcGIS Desktop installed, you can install the BA Desktop software and data by downloading it from our GIS software page (UD CAS login required), doubling-clicking to extract, and then running Esri.exe from inside the extracted folder.  The CA desktop add-in can also be downloaded from the Esri site, but you must first register for an Esri global account.
To learn more, you view the virtual campus courses on CA or view demonstration videos on BA.

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