Friday, October 8, 2010

ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esri

Started as Environmental Systems Research Institute in 1969 specializing in land-use.  Main product in ArcGIS.  The hold a user's conference in San Diego.  Estimated over 14,500 users world wide.

Thursday, October 7, 2010

GIS (Geographic Information System)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_information_system

A set of tools that captures, stores, analyzes, manages, and presents data that are linked to locations.