Location data is critical to nearly all state and local government work — whether it’s responding to a public safety call, supporting community planning and development, or maintaining critical ...

In this class, students will learn how to use GIS (geographic information system) tools to calculate distances between two features, road and river lengths within administrative units, the percentage ...

Susan L. Cutter is a Carolina Distinguished professor of geography at the University of South Carolina where she directs the Hazards and Vulnerability Research ...

GIS, or Geographic Information Science is a powerful tool used to capture, store, analyze, and display spatial and geographic data. In combining layers of information about a place, GIS helps us ...

It has been said many times that information is power. This is never truer than when providing fire and rescue protection to a community. Many of today’s fire service leaders, both in uniform and in ...

It’s one thing to feel there are too few parks or crosswalks in a community, and another to back up that assertion with data. This past summer, high school students participating in the GRACE project ...

No audio available for this content. A new book published by Esri teaches how to use GIS software to analyze and visualize lidar data. Lidar is an optical remote-sensing system that uses a laser to ...

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Standard 1710 established minimum time standards for the first-due engine out of a career department for a residential fire. Some departments, however, ...

Interested in learning how spatial data can be used to support emergency planning, help design transportation systems, or track the progress of diseases? Geographic Information Science (GIS) is a ...