Esri Canada NewsFlash - September 2012

September 2012

Features
	Edmonton International Airport GIS Takes Flight Edmonton International Airport (EIA) is Canada's largest airport by land area. It is expected that passenger traffic at the busy airport will increase to nine million by 2020. To accommodate this rapid growth, the airport embarked on a large-scale facility expansion project and developed a GIS-based utility locator application. GIS was also used to cut costs and coordinate construction activities across the vast area. >>Learn more
	City of Barrie Optimizes Infrastructure Management using Cityworks Municipalities must implement increasingly complex and sophisticated infrastructure management processes that demand an enormous volume of information to be generated and reported. The award-winning City of Barrie met this challenge head on by adopting Cityworks. >>Learn more
	Reduce Risk & Cut Costs - The 411 on Geographic Analysis Tools Vegetation that comes into contact with power lines accounts for more than 50% of the power outages in Canada. As such, many utilities are turning to GIS to optimize their vegetation management programs and ensure compliance with reliability targets. >>Learn more

Community Maps Program News

The City of Regina leveraged the Community Maps Program to foster cultural awareness and sustainability with an interactive Web map. Learn more

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Esri Canada News

Esri Canada Fall User Conferences Kick Off on September 18

British Columbia Receives Special Achievement Award for Exceptional Application of Geospatial Technology

Calgary Co-op to Leverage Location Analytics for Better Decision-Making

New 2012 Data in Esri Business Analyst Desktop (Canadian Edition) Increases Accuracy of Marketing Analysis

Canadian Tire Integrates Spatial Intelligence into Business Analysis Using Esri Technology

Esri Canada Partner PCI Geomatics Wins YTA Technology Leadership Award

TIROne Technologies Geo-Enables Oil & Gas Exploration Services Using Esri Technology

Esri Canada Recognizes Manitoba Hydro for Seamless, Province-Wide Property Parcel Fabric

Calgary Firm Wins Esri Canada Award of Excellence for Advancing Geodesign

Alberta Improves Land Inventory with DigitalGlobe Imagery

Esri Canada Named One of CDN's Top 100 IT Solution Providers in Canada

Esri Canada to Bring Together Public-Private Collaboration to Build a Geospatial Data Exchange Infrastructure for Canada

Tolko Industries Promotes Sustainable & Safe Forest Operations with Esri Mobile Mapping Solution

Esri News

ArcGIS for AutoCAD Offers Advanced CAD and GIS Interoperability

Improved Support for Landsat Imagery in ArcGIS 10.1

MapSAR Website Provides Online Resources to Search and Rescue Personnel

SAG Awards at Esri UC Honor Outstanding Applications of Geospatial Technology

Esri and Microsoft to Provide Online Maps and Applications during Disasters

Esri Maps for Office Extends Location Analytics throughout Organizations

GIS Tutorial for Health Essential Book for Health Care Analysts

Third Book in Esri Guide to GIS Analysis Series Details Modeling

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In this issue

NEWS

Edmonton International Airport GIS Takes Flight
City of Barrie Optimizes Infrastructure Management using Cityworks
Reduce Risk & Cut Costs - The 411 on Geographic Analysis Tools
Community Maps
Esri Canada News
Esri News

EVENTS & TRAINING

Featured Training Course
Upcoming Web Seminars
Events Calendar


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UPCOMING WEB SEMINARS

Getting Started with an Emergency Management Common Operating Picture
September 18, 1-2 pm EPT

Leveraging Imagery and Lidar Data in ArcGIS 10.1
September 27, 1-2 pm EPT

What's New in Esri Canada Training
October 2, 1-2 pm EPT

Getting Started with Esri Maps for IBM Cognos
November 8, 1-2 pm EPT

Working with Labels, Maplex and Annotation in ArcGIS for Desktop
November 22, 1-2 pm EPT

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EVENTS CALENDAR

MISA BC 2012 Fall Conference and Tradeshow
September 18-21, Harrison Hot Springs BC

Manitoba GIS User Group 2012 Fall Conference
September 25, Winnipeg MB

Canadian Red Cross Conference on Disaster Management
October 3-5, Halifax NS

AQEUS 2012 (Association qu�b�coise pour l'enseignement en univers social)
October 12-13, Beaupr� QC

SmartGrid Canada
October 15-17, Toronto ON

L'Association de G�omatique Municipale du Qu�bec (AGMQ)/ Vision G�OMATIQUE
October 17-18, Saguenay QC

Manitoba Social Science Teachers' Association Conference
October 19, Winnipeg MB

SecureTech 2012
October 30-31, Ottawa ON

2012 Real Property National Workshop
November 6-8, Montreal QC

Pacific Northwest Emergency Preparedness Conference
November 6-8, Vancouver BC

STAO 2012 Conference (Science Teachers' Association of Ontario)
November 15-7, Toronto ON

Canadian Military Engineers Association National Conference
November 20-21, Ottawa ON

Qu�bec Mines
November 26-29, Qu�bec QC

CITIG
December 2-5, Toronto ON

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