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GITA Quick Notes:
FREE GITA Webinar: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 at 2PM EST
Join GITA and 1Spatial on November 18th where speakers Kevin Sigwart and Travis Schindler will discuss how utility companies are leveraging 1Spatial’s services and COTS (Commercial-Off-The-Shelf) product 1Integrate to prepare their data for the new ArcGIS Utility Network Management extension.
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Water Utilities Reduce Expenses with Mobile GIS
GPS World
Across North America, the use of high-accuracy GNSS technology has proliferated among water and wastewater service providers. Water utilities are saving time, cutting operational expenses, and definitively improving the accuracy of their asset management systems by capturing survey-grade location data.
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Is Geospatial the Next Big Opportunity for Private Equity and Venture Capital?
Geospatial World
You’ve heard it many times before I am sure: “Everything happens somewhere." That is everything happens at a location or locations. Geographers are focused on location. And it was geographers who, back in the late 1960’s, helped spawn a technology sector now valued at around $9 billion. The geospatial sector.
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A Parametric Approach to Pandemic Resilience
Smart Cities Dive
The coronavirus pandemic has upended the operations of cities across the world. While disaster and resilience planning is nothing new to governments, there are typically historical events to inform the response to a disaster, be it a fire, flood or earthquake. This was not the case with COVID-19.
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$50B, 5 Years, Our 5G Network — Our Next Great Infrastructure Project
Forbes
5G is going to be the foundation for global growth, business productivity, business creation, and economic inclusion over the next 10 years. The 5G ecosystem will be an $8 trillion business by 2030. It will drive a new era of productivity growth — including by engaging the urban and rural disenfranchised, as we create a continent-wide backbone 5G network.
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Analysts Predict 26 Smart Cities by 2025 — from Zero Today
Cities Today
Spending on smart city technology is expected to reach $327 billion by 2025, up from $96 billion in 2019, according to a new forecast from Frost & Sullivan.
The analyst company said an uncertain post-pandemic situation will compel cities to focus on developing collaborative, data-driven infrastructure for use in healthcare, public security services and more.
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GIS Powers a Sustainable Development Goal to Prevent Marine Pollution
Esri
Our planet is swimming in data. What we sometimes lack is the information derived from data that can drive decisions.
For example, since the mid-1990s, measurements of global chlorophyll concentration in the ocean have been consistently measured from Earth observing satellites.
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Digital Transformation in Utilities Starts on the Frontlines
Smart Cities Dive
In the utilities sector, as in many others, the road toward digital transformation has been slow. Organizations spent plenty of time discussing technologies that could streamline operations, engage customers and transform service delivery — but few utilities made meaningful progress. Then, the first cases of coronavirus appeared.
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USPS Teams Up with FBI to Provide Biometrics at 100 Post Offices
Federal News Network
The Postal Service is looking to make the most of its massive delivery network by expanding its portfolio of services to include biometrics and geospatial data.
Two years into a pilot with the FBI, USPS now provides digital fingerprinting services at more than 100 post offices across the country, and is looking to provide services that could help agencies onboard and vet trusted employees for their remote workforce.
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