Energy and Infrastructure

In this 30-second pitch, ShaleNavigator provides details about its online mapping tool for to find current permits, well results, lease offers, available property, and pipelines in US Shale oil and gas plays.

The White House issued an Open Data during the first week of May. Last year the FCC detailed how valuable its open data policy had been to the country in a case study of broadband mapping put together by the Woodrow WIlson Center. The executive summary and a video provide an introduction to what the agency learned.

The devastation of Hurricane Sandy and the western wildfires in 2012 are sobering reminders that utilities always need to be prepared to respond to large-scale natural disasters. When faced with incidents of that size, a utility is forced to look at all of its resources in preparation, including those it doesn’t typically utilize under normal conditions. Danny Petrecca, director of Product Management Enterprise GIS at Schneider Electric, explains how a typical implementation for an enterprise-wide GIS system can be used to better prepare utilities for disasters.

Pitney Bowes, Autodesk and TomTom have teamed up to offer a solution that helps analyze and manage capital assets. Pitney Bowes' global director of product management, Ahmed Abukhater, answered our questions about the partnership and their integrated technology solutions.

In this 30-second pitch, GeoBrand describes how it creates branded maps that visualize complex transportation solutions for customers.

Space-Time Insight offers situational intelligence solutions, tools to predict, and thus better prepare for and respond to, the future. The fourth release of the company’s software suite offers tools for enterprises in business and government. 

The term sustainability is commonly used in the environmental field.  In general, it is defined as the capacity to utilize resources and goods in perpetuity without adverse impacts to our environment, economy, or social settings.  However in practice, sustainability has hundreds of definitions rendering it rather ambiguous. The U.S. EPA's Neftali Hernandez provides insights on that one, common factor that influences civilizations both past and present.

Azerbaijan, the largest country in the Caucasus region, and, due to increasing oil revenues, has one of the fastest growing economies in the world.  As such, the country was able to make substantial investments in their infrastructure. This two part article, written by Dr. Deniz Aydin of 

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