NEARC Facts
This organization is popularly referred to by the acronym "NEARC"
What is the Northeast Arc Users Group?
This app integrates maps, text, photos, video and more in one, easy-to-use interface. The original version has a space, the new version doesn't.
What is ArcGIS StoryMaps?
Growing up, Jack would spend time at his parent's nursery located in this city, which is also home to ESRI's headquarters.
What is Redlands
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
This free and open source desktop GIS software platform was launched in 2009 and is supported by a global network of volunteer developers.
What is QGIS?
This type of coordinate system converts a curved representation of the earth into a flat one.
What is a projected coordinate system?
NEARC Fall of 2021 will be hosted in this City.
What is New Haven, CT.
This app was launched in 2020 to combine the capabilities of Collector, Explorer, and Tracker into a single, all-powerful platform.
What is ArcGIS Field Maps?
The Environmental Reasearch Institute, the Brainchild of Jack Dangermond, was founded in this year.
What is 1969?
ArcGIS Notebooks are built on top of this open-source web application in order to create and share documents that contain live Python code.
What is the Jupyter Notebook?
GIS software performs this operation automatically when data needs to be displayed in a different coordinate system temporarily.
What is "on-the-fly" projection?
This past NEARC president reigned from 2018-2020...also currently sits on the NEARC Board
Who is Emily H. Wilson
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
This app streamlines the creation of professional imagery products from drone-captured imagery by implementing our professional photogrammetry suite, powered by Pix4D.
What is Drone2Map?
In 2020, Jack donated $3 million to the Museum of Redlands along with this ESRI Co-Founder (who also happens to be his wife).
Who is Laura Dangermond?
This spectral band of light can't be seen by the human eye, but it is often used in remote sensing analysis to assess vegetation health and delineate water bodies.
What is Near Infrared (NIR)?
This conformal projection preserves angles but distorts the geographical size of objects at the poles and conveys a distorted perception of the overall geometry of the planet - but we still use it in our web maps.
What is Mercator?
This "get together" has been popular amongst the geo-community, with a play on happy hour.
What is Mappy hour?
This app, allows for real-time tracking of vehicles and people.
What is Tracker?
This is the number of ESRI Regional offices throughout the U.S.
What is 10?
This file extension defines the prehistoric ArcInfo interchange file format.
What is a .e00 file?
This alphanumeric version of the Universal Transverse Mercator system is widely used by the military.
What is the Military Grid Reference System (MGRS)
NEARC's current President, works in this City...which was once comprised of four physically separate, rival villages before it became a city in 1846.
What is Cambridge, MA
This app integrates with Navigator and can be used as a mean for creating work orders for field staff.
What is Workforce
The Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve is situated along this section of the U.S. coastline.
What is the Pacific Coastline
In a georeferencing operation, this is the minimum number of ground-control points needed for a Second-Order Polynomial transformation.
What is 6?
In 1985, this organization created a registry of datums, ellipsoids, and coordinate systems that is now known as the EPSG registry.
What is the European Petroleum Survey Group?