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Selected News from GIS Community
02/24/2019
Selected February 2019 News from GIS Community
Technology changes ways in which professionals and citizen collaborate in geospatial dimension. We picked several February news for you as most interesting ones.
Аutomatic vertical scanning for drones now available. Inspecting vertical surfaces previously required a lot of manual work. and so was a burden for professional drone users. Automatic Facade Scan tool from UgCS changes this.
https://www.geospatialworld.net/news/automatic-vertical-scanning-for-drones-now-available
Peering behind the mapping curtain. Mapbox, a location intelligence startup shares about “live maps” built not from traditional data surveys, but from data collected from hundreds of millions of location-enabled sensors in real time.
http://geospatial-solutions.com/peering-behind-the-mapping-curtain/
Planet’s breadloaf-sized satellites capture Earth surface. Planet Co. now flying 300 12-pound satellites, which transmit 1.2 million images of high-resolution daily. Computer algorithms are being trained to look at new features day to day to identify new roads, buildings, etc.
http://geospatial-solutions.com/planets-breadloaf-sized-satellites-capture-earth-surface/
New ways to add and format text on your ArcGIS Hub sites. Esri continues to empower teams and communities having recently added new features such as text formatting, creating calls-to-action, and customizing pages in ‘code view’.
Esri Press Releases ‘Women and GIS: Mapping Their Stories’. Read about 23 prominent women profiles working in such diverse fields as oceanography, archeology, education, social justice, conservation biology, and government.
https://www.gislounge.com/esri-press-releases-women-and-gis-mapping-their-stories/
Redrawing the Map: How the World’s Climate Zones Are Shifting. This article by Nicola Jones published a while ago on E360 uses maps to tell us how climate has been visibly changing around us redrawing so many lines.
https://e360.yale.edu/features/redrawing-the-map-how-the-worlds-climate-zones-are-shifting
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Drillinginfo & Rextag Join Forces For New Midstream Business Product
Drillinginfo has announced a new strategic collaboration with Hart Energy’s Rextag unit to create a combined midstream business product. The Drillinginfo-Rextag integration provides a cutting-edge solution with all relevant datasets in one platform, which provides powerful context and unprecedented infrastructure siting and mapping.
Rextag: first 2019 GIS Data Update
As promised, the latest Rextag GIS Data Update has been released. Here are some of the highlights and some examples of what you will find in the overhauled first update of 2019.
Kinetik Holdings recently announced a series of transactions in the energy sector. They struck a deal to buy Durango Permian infrastructure for $765 million. At the same time, they're selling their 16% share in the Gulf Coast Express Pipeline to ArcLight Capital Partners for $540 million. The total purchase cost includes $510 million in cash paid immediately and an additional $30 million that will be paid later, depending on whether they decide to expand further.
Recently, the Permian has seen significant acquisitions: Exxon Mobil purchased Pioneer Natural Resources for about $60 billion. Diamondback Energy's $26 billion deal to acquire Endeavor Energy Resources is currently on hold due to requests from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Occidental’s acquisition of CrownRock for $12 billion in the Midland.
EOG Resources is pushing boundaries in Ohio's Utica oil play and now drilling on the Sable pad, also located in Noble County. This site features the 3.7-mile lateral currently under construction. The company's first multi-well pads in the area Timberwolf and Xavier have each produced over 200,000 barrels of oil since their inception—Timberwolf in August and Xavier in October. A third site, the four-well White Rhino pad in Noble County, is also showing promising early results, according to Keith Trasko, EOG’s Senior Vice President of Exploration and Production, who noted the wells are performing as expected in their initial weeks.