A Special Announcement – Expansion of Our Customer Support Team to Better Meet the Needs of Our Clients

With the continued success of our US-wide parcel and tax roll products, we have added an important new member to the eMap team, Alex Diamond. Alex will focus his efforts on improving and expanding core eMap products as well as assisting our current and future clients with comprehensive solutions for accurate and up-to-date land ownership data.

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Imagery For The Nation (IFTN) and Clear30

In September 2005, the National States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC) at their 2005 Annual Conference in Rochester, NY first proposed "Aerial Imagery for the Nation." The Vision: "The Nation will have a sustainable and flexible digital imagery program that meets the needs of local, state, regional, tribal and federal agencies."

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Specifics on the Q1 2010 US-Wide Parcel Layer Release

Officially released last month, the Q1 2010 US-wide ParcelPoint data layer features 16 new counties as well as updates to 8% of the counties currently available. With over 743,000 parcels added in this release, Q1 2010 marks a historic moment in the ParcelPoint dataset as the database is now over 123 million strong and growing.

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Tracking Changes in the US-Wide Tax Roll Dataset – A Focus on the Woodford and Eagle-Ford Shales

In the past month, eMap has released exciting new products that expanded upon our popular US-wide ParcelPoint data layer. Specifically, we have added the ability to append constantly updated tax roll data to the parcel boundary shapefiles (i.e. to the ParcelPoint base product); and for those counties without shapefiles, we can deliver the tax roll data in spreadsheet format which can be queried by parcel address and identification number. We are particularly excited about the geographic extent and update frequency of the tax roll data as this standardized database contains every single county in the US; and ownership details are updated (or added when new parcels are created) on a daily basis!

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In Focus – The Marcellus – An Update on Hydraulic Fracturing and the US EPA

Hydraulic fracturing is a technique used by the oil and gas industry to improve the production efficiency of oil and coalbed methane (CBM) wells. The hydraulic fracturing process uses high hydraulic water pressure to initiate a fracture. The fracture acts as a pathway so the trapped methane and other gases can rise to the surface (EPA 816-R-04-003).

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The U.S. Parcel Layer as a Streaming Data Layer

Do you want to utilize parcel data and work in multiple locations spread across a wide swath of the United States? Perhaps you need the most up-to-date parcel information streamed into a geospatial software package as an OEM solution? Or, maybe you work in the land department and need access to parcel identification numbers, owner’s name and/or parcel address at the click of a button? If you answered yes to either of these questions, then eMap International is proud to offer First American’s OGC-complaint Web Mapping Services (WMS) ParcelPoint® stream as a viable solution to these and many more geospatial data needs.

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SPOT USA – New Equipment Readied for Pleiades

The Pleiades terminal has arrived and is ready to be installed at Esrange in Sweden where it will be connected to the antenna at the receiving station in Kiruna, north of the Arctic Circle. Operated by the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC), the Kiruna station provides excellent responsiveness with its ability to receive data from satellites for up to 10 orbital revolutions a day.

To see the aerial and QuickBird markets released this month as well as several sample images, read more here »

DigitalGlobe Researches WorldView-2 Satellite Imagery and Its Use in Carbon Storage Monitoring

For this month’s Partner Update, I would like to highlight WorldView-2’s use in Carbon Storage Monitoring applications. As carbon offsets and carbon trading has become a hot topic of late, DigitalGlobe Research and Development team has studied the use of WV2 in these arenas. In particular, WV2’s four additional multispectral bands have the ability to differentiate vegetation at the species level; when before, with the traditional four bands of Red-Green-Blue-NIR, we were limited to basic forest classification – i.e. coniferous vs. deciduous stands; mixed hardwoods vs. clear-cuts.

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Newly Released High Resolution Satellite and Aerial Orthomosaics

For this month’s Partner Update, I would like to highlight WorldView-2’s use in Carbon Storage Monitoring applications. As carbon offsets and carbon trading has become a hot topic of late, DigitalGlobe Research and Development team has studied the use of WV2 in these arenas. In particular, WV2’s four additional multispectral bands have the ability to differentiate vegetation at the species level; when before, with the traditional four bands of Red-Green-Blue-NIR, we were limited to basic forest classification – i.e. coniferous vs. deciduous stands; mixed hardwoods vs. clear-cuts.

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Word of the Month – Web Map Services (WMS)

For the May edition of Word of the Month, we focus on a term featured in the most popular article from last month’s GeoView, Web Map Services (WMS). A WMS is a term used for any geospatial dataset – i.e. one with a XY coordinate tied to it such as imagery, parcels and soil data – that is being served up to a WMS-compliant viewer at a remote location. This remotely hosted data is streamed either from an external internet URL or from your organizations’ internally-maintained server(s); and is then integrated with a WMS-enabled software application or website API (Application Programming Interface). A WMS is streamed to the end user in a georeferenced picture format such as a TIFF or JPEG.

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Geospatial Freebie of the Month – FastStone Capture

For this month’s Geospatial Freebie we feature a handy tool that everyone here at eMap uses on a daily basis, FastStone Capture. Perhaps you need to grab a quick preview of a map you are working on in ArcGIS; or maybe you want to scroll through a long website and copy the contents to a JPEG. Either way, you are set with FastStone for all your screengrab needs as these (and many more) actions can be programmed into instantly accessible keyboard hot keys. This tool has too many great features to list them all in this article, so check out a few of our favorites.

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