The 2025 AGIC ArcGIS Online Student Competition is now open. Visit the competition webpage for more details, including deadlines, rules & guidelines, and the adult sponsor compeitition registration form. This year, adults may sponsor one or more students in grades Kindergarten through 12th grade. Prizes include a chance to win a $100 gift card, free registration to the annual AGIC Education and Training Symposium in the Fall, and more. Adult sponsors must register their student(s) by April 18, 2025 and submit their student's entries no later than May 5, 2025.
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Wednesday, May 1, 2024 - 9:23am
The Civil Air Patrol and FEMA are using publicly available imagery and artificial intelligence technology to assess damaged or destroyed structures during emergencies.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024 - 10:55am
PostGIS is an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) compliant software used as a spatial database extender for PostgreSQL, which is a form of object-relational database. While PostGIS is free and open source, it is used in both commercial (e.g., ArcGIS) and open source GIS software (e.g., QGIS).
Tuesday, April 23, 2024 - 10:55am
Whether you are new to the field of GIS or a decades-long veteran, continuously working to improve your geospatial skills should be a lifelong pursuit. Listed here are five practical strategies that GIS users can adopt to further develop their capabilities and grow with the geospatial industry.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024 - 10:53am
The American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing is revising the ASPRS Positional Accuracy Standards for Digital Geospatial Data for publication as v2 of the 2nd Edition and we are seeking public opinion on the proposed changes. Revising the standard is an important and necessary process, as technologies and practices are evolving. The updating of these standards will impact geospatial capabilities and all who benefit from these services worldwide for years to come, so please participate in this historical event that only comes every 20 years by reviewing the draft and providing feedback.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024 - 10:48am
Artificial intelligence (AI) is dominating discussions everywhere. Specifically, the rapid rise of generative AI—AI that can create new data, such as text, images, videos, audio, and 3D models—from platforms such as ChatGPT has led to a lot of debate about the ethics and quality of information used to train AI models.
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