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Posts by category

• Category: 3D
  • A Look at the Ohio River: Past, Present, and Future
  • ArcGIS Urban: Take City Development Further
  • Using Drones to Advance Turfgrass Science at Green-Wood Cemetery
  • Explore the Indoors with ArcGIS
  • 3D Zoning in Washington D.C.
  • LOOK UP and take a Skyfie
  • A Summer at Blue Raster: Internship Edition
  • ArcGIS Hub: Grow Your Local Economy
  • The Future of 3D Zoning
  • Exploring George Washington’s Mount Vernon in 3D
• Category: Agriculture
  • Mapping America’s Wine Growing Regions
  • Public Gardens on Display in Washington, DC
  • Blue Raster attends the American Public Gardens Association Annual Conference
  • Mapping for a World Without Malnutrition
  • Solving the Water Balance Equation for California
  • Integrating Field GIS at Green-Wood Cemetery
• Category: Amazon Web Services
  • Virtualizing ArcGIS in the Cloud
  • GFW Pro: Managing Deforestation Risk in Commodity Supply Chains
  • Towards Zero Deforestation with GFW Pro
  • Conserve and Protect with The Land Trust Alliance
  • Helping Secure Land Rights With LandMark
  • New Paper Identifying Emerging Hot Spots of Deforestation
  • Building a Prototype for FDA Food Data
  • Blue Raster Presents Emerging Hotspots of Global Tree Cover Loss
• Category: ArcGIS Desktop
  • Maret School: Exploring Inequality through GIS
  • Arlington Democrats: Organizing Volunteers with Accessible Maps
  • ArcGIS Pro & ArcMap Training in Austin, TX
  • See What’s New with the Texas Water Explorer!
  • A New Chapter on Tsunami Design
  • Weaving Together Baltimore’s Culture with GEOLOOM
  • Keeping America’s Infrastructure Safe with ASCE
  • Watersheds New Release for EPA
  • Securing Land Rights for Indigenous Peoples and Communities
  • Appalachia Community Data Portal
  • Three Compelling Story Maps for Agriculture Risk
  • The Hidden Cost of Suspension
  • Future Ready Map Video for White House ConnectED Event
  • Famine Early Warning Systems Network New Website
  • Natural Disaster Hotspots – A Global Risk Analysis
• Category: ArcGIS Enterprise
  • Public Health & GIS: HealthLandscape Addresses Today’s Public Health Challenges
• Category: ArcGIS for Server
  • Clearview Analytics Tool: Accelerating Economic Insight
  • Global Forest Watch Fires: New Fire Monitoring Capabilities
  • Understanding our Students with MapED
  • Protecting Indigenous & Community Lands With LandMark
  • WHO Malaria Threats Map: Tracking challenges of malaria control to 2030
  • Global Fires Analyzed by Country
  • Keeping Trees Green with DDOT
  • Discover Cambodia’s Watersheds and Ecosystems with WESTool
  • Untangling the Food System Web in Maryland
  • STATcompiler et l’Appli Mobile disponibles en français
  • New Release: APTA Industry Footprint
  • Fires in Indonesia Park seen with GFW Fires App
  • Footprint Map of Medical School Graduates
  • Measure DHS
• Category: ArcGIS Hub
  • Tracking Trends of Innovation and Entrepreneurship with The Draper Innovation Index
  • City of Lynnwood ArcGIS Hub Support
• Category: ArcGIS Image Extension for Server
  • Estimating Community GHG Emissions from Land Use Change
  • Bringing Transparency to Transboundary Water Policy in the Mekong River Basin
  • Tracking Grassland Loss in the Great Plains: WWF and Blue Raster Release Plowprint Web Application
  • Visualizing Evolution of Atmospheric Deposition
  • Staying Ahead of the Global Water Supply Shortage
• Category: ArcGIS Indoors
• Category: ArcGIS Online
  • Make Way for Whales (And Environmental Hope)
  • Getting Conservation Efforts On The Map
  • Explore Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the USA with The Draper Innovation Index U.S.
  • Jane’s Green Hope: Blue Raster supports 87 Years of Jane Goodall’s Impact
  • Track Industrial Spaces in the Mekong Region with the Updated Mekong Infrastructure Tracker
  • Enhanced Visualization of DHIS2 Data
  • Mekong Infrastructure Tracker
  • COVID Response Dashboard
  • Esri FedGIS 2020
  • Field Report: Supporting TRACE in Eswatini, Rwanda, and Ethiopia
  • Blue Raster Wins Esri’s StoryMap Challenge
  • Using GIS to Inform Workforce Development
  • ArcGIS Solutions for Emergency Management Workshop
  • The TRACE Initiative: Using real-time data to identify hot spots of current HIV transmission
  • The Magic of Maps: Presenting Esri StoryMap Beta
  • Following the Student Journey: Education to the Workforce
  • Saving Wilderness Areas with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
  • Identifying Connectivity Across US Communities
  • Make Meaningful Policy Maps For Your Community
  • China: Then and Now – A Story Map
  • Workforce Development Through Story Maps
  • Education Data Leaves the Classroom with EDGE Geodata
  • Story Map Delivers #ProtectOurCoast Campaign
  • Data to Decisions with the Jane Goodall Institute
  • DCPS Recycles Right
  • Improving the APTA Industry Footprint
  • Unlocking Data With WRI Open Data Portal
  • Highlights from the 2017 Esri UC
  • Field Trial Success: Farming Sustainability With Esri Collector and ArcGIS Online
  • Local Students Celebrate GIS Day at Blue Raster
  • GFW Map Builder
  • Blue Raster at the White House AAPI Data Challenge
  • Putting Trees on the Map: Adventures at the 2016 Esri UC
  • ArcGIS Online Accelerate Training
  • Easy Data Collection for School Attendance Boundaries
  • Bear Basics – New Portal Into the World of Bears
  • Visualizing Open Data’s Global Reach
• Category: ArcGIS Pro
• Category: ArcGIS StoryMaps
  • Trillion Trees: An Interactive Look at Forest Regeneration
  • Celebrating 60 Years of Discovery with Jane Goodall
  • StoryMaps in the Time of COVID-19: Telling the Story of the Red Cross Response Efforts
  • Using StoryMaps to Celebrate Arlington County’s 1920 Centennial
  • Highlighting Jane Goodall’s Conservation Approach with a New Story Map
• Category: ArcGIS Urban
• Category: Baltimore
• Category: BIM
• Category: Building Information Management
• Category: Cemetery
  • GIS-based Mapping in America’s First Garden Cemetery
  • Green-Wood Mobile App: Celebrating Life in one of America’s Historic Cemeteries
• Category: Cloud
• Category: Community
  • Esri Nonprofit Specialty: Enabling Nonprofits to Use GIS for Greater Impact
  • 2019 Esri Mid-Atlantic User Group Conference: Five Major Takeaways from our GIS Team
  • GIS Day at Blue Raster
  • Highlights from the Esri UC 2018
• Category: Conservation
  • Ensuring Sustainable Forestry Practices
  • SubsidyExplorer Tool: Design for Decisions
  • Emerging Hot Spots and Tracking Global Forest Loss: A New Chapter in GIS for Science
  • Esri Partner Conference 2020
  • Forest Products Without Compromise
  • Sustainable World Conference in Geneva: Collaborating for a better world
  • India Water Tool Helps Turn Water Risks to Water Solutions
  • Habitat and biodiversity in the ‘Urban Century’
  • Blue Raster in Geneva: GIS for a Sustainable World
• Category: Culture
• Category: Design
• Category: Development
  • ArcGIS Maps for Microsoft Power BI: Make Spatially Informed Business Decisions
  • Historic Zoning in DC
  • Cultivating Business Centers by Harvesting Data
  • Blue Raster at Esri UC, June 27–July 1
  • Zoning Washington D.C.’s Future
• Category: Disaster Response
• Category: District of Columbia
• Category: Drone
• Category: Economic Development
  • Keeping Sacramento Moving
  • GIS for Community Engagement with the World Bank
• Category: Education
  • Inspiring Student Innovation with Planet3
  • Geography Added to the Common Core!
  • Finding the Right School with The College Map
  • Looking Forward with MapEd School Feeder Patterns
  • REL Midwest Releases New EdMaps
  • Department of Education Open Data
  • New Release of REL Midwest EdMaps
  • Mapping Education and Demographic Trends with MapED
  • ED Moves ArcGIS Servers to Amazon’s GovCloud
  • National School Boundaries – Attendance Area Maps
  • New Department of Education Profile Viewer: Mapping Our Nation’s School District Demographics
  • Introducing the School Boundaries Geodatabase
  • Geocoding Our Nation’s Schools – NCES Stats-DC 2012
  • School District Demographics System (SDDS) Goes Mobile!
  • WISEmaps Puts New Focus on Wisconsin Education Data
  • National Geographic Fieldscope: Tools for Citizen Science
  • National Parks – Fredericksburg Battlefield
  • Department of Education
• Category: Emergency Management
• Category: Environment
  • World Environment Day: Today and Everyday
  • Open Data and Cool Apps: Blue Raster Presents at IMIA
  • Going Mobile at U.S. National Arboretum!
  • Measuring Conservation with Biodiversity Dashboard
  • Penn State GIS Day
  • London Zoo and Sustainable Palm Oil
  • Ceres Digs Deeper into Water Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing
  • New Analysis Tools for Greenpeace
  • Turning Concept into Reality: Green Infrastructure
  • Development Alert! Awareness of Infrastructure Projects
  • Global Forest Watch Fires Story Map – An Inside Look
  • Global Forest Watch-Fires using High-Resolution Imagery to better respond to Fires
  • Explore Natural Communities On Your Next Hike
  • GFW Commodities – Tools for Greenhouse Gas Emissions
  • Atlas of Forest Landscape Restoration Opportunities
  • Suitability Mapper: Finding Sustainable Palm Oil Sites
  • Ceres Maps Analyze Drought and Ground Water Depletion in Shale Development Areas
  • New WRI map confirms long suspected notions of natural resource rights across sub-Saharan Africa
  • NFWF maps 12K Conservation Grants with ArcGIS
  • WRI: New Agricultural Exposure to Water Stress map
  • Guerrilla Gardening- Baltimore Crowdsourcing Map
  • Rapid Response WebMaps – Indonesia Fires Case Study
  • Phase II of eMammal Project ‘Captures’ Attention
  • Aqueduct – Mapping Water Risk Around the Globe
  • Increasing Forest Transparency in the Congo Basin
  • eMammal – A Citizen Scientist Camera Trapping Project
  • National Arboretum Launches Explorer for Touring and Research
  • Supporting Sustainable Palm Oil in Indonesia
  • Identifying and Understanding Changes to Protected Areas
  • IUCN Threatened Species Now Available via ArcGIS Online
  • New Tools Help Forest Legality Alliance Reduce Illegal Logging
  • Green Belt Movement Maps Progress of Community-Based Tree Planting in Kenya
  • IUCN Maps Threatened Species in Protected Areas
  • Spatial Analysis to Prioritize and Protect Marine Areas
  • WildFinder Advances Knowledge of Species Biodiversity
  • Preserving Rainforests with Project POTICO
  • Aqueduct Atlas Helps Project Water Risks
  • WRI Tracks Nutrient Pollution in Coastal Waters
  • Australia Megafauna
  • World Resources Institute – Forest Atlas of the Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Smithsonian WILD
  • USGS (NBII) launches AmphibiaTrends
  • Smithsonian – North American Mammals
  • Climate Adaptation Knowledge Environment (CAKE)
  • Southern Forests for the Future
  • Forest Carbon Index
  • Adaptation Atlas
  • World Wildlife Fund – Coral Resilience Mapping Application
  • Wildfinder – WWF
  • LandScope America
  • Category: Climate
    • Danger in the Air: UNICEF
    • Thirsting for a Future: UNICEF
    • TNC Story Map: Planting Healthy Air
    • Clear the Air for Children: UNICEF
    • Pinpoint Deforestation with PALM Risk Tool
    • Greenpeace Indonesia
    • Take a Dip in The Texas Water Explorer
    • New Climate and Land Use Tools for EPA
    • Unless We Act Now: UNICEF
  • Category: Hydraulic Fracturing
  • Category: Natural Hazards
• Category: Esri
  • FedGIS 2021
  • Esri UC 2020 is Virtual!
  • Esri User Conference 2019: The Blue Raster Experience
  • Esri UC 2019: Visit the Blue Raster Team
  • Blue Raster Takes on Esri DevSummit 2019
  • Esri FedGIS 2019
  • Come Visit Us! At the Esri FedGIS
  • Highlights From Esri DevSummit 2018
  • Mapping Global Polio Eradication
  • Esri DevSummit 2017: The Science of Where
  • Partner of the Year: Federal Small Business Specialty
  • Blue Raster now an Esri Federal Small Business Specialist
  • Category: User Conference
    • Blue Raster at the Esri User Conference 2020
• Category: Federal
  • Arboretum Botanical Explorer Revitalized at the U.S. National Arboretum
  • Look Good, Feel Good: DHS Program Launches Re-Designed Website
  • Dig deeper with new Topics pages from The DHS Program
  • World AIDS Day 2017: Blue Raster visualizations in PHIA Project Reports
  • DHS Program Mobile App v2.0 Released
  • STATcompiler Redefined: Into the Modern Era
  • DHS Program Indicator Data API Opens Door for Innovative Apps
  • Smithsonian Story Map – Tradition & Art of Living China
  • Smithsonian’s Virtual Field Trip around the Globe‏
  • REL EdMaps Helps Analyze School Data in the Midwest
  • MEASURE DHS Launches the Spatial Data Repository
  • On the Go: USAID MEASURE DHS Data Available in New Mobile App
  • MEASURE DHS Releases New Website, STATcompiler
• Category: Finance
• Category: Forest
• Category: GIS
  • Blue Raster at NC GIS
  • GIS Day 2020
  • Intern Experience at Blue Raster: Summer 2020
  • ArcGIS Training at Blue Raster: Teaching the Fundamentals of Esri ArcGIS
• Category: Greenhouse Gas
• Category: Health
  • Health GIS: From Data Entry to Dashboard in Real Time
  • PHIA Project: A Drop That Counts
  • From Data to Decisions on Global Malnutrition
  • MEASURE DHS Mobile Featured in Adobe PhoneGap Success Story
  • MOBILE APP MODELS HIV PREVENTION STRATEGIES AND OUTCOMES
  • Rethinking Health Mapping with Rich Visualizations
  • UDS Mapper

  • HealthLandscape

  • Costs of Anti-retroviral Therapy – Interactive Flex Application
  • Category: HIV
• Category: Human Rights
  • Story Map for Amnesty International – “Will I Be Next?”
  • Amnesty International – Eyes on Syria
  • Amnesty International – Eyes on Nigeria
• Category: Infrastructure
• Category: JavaScript API
• Category: Land Trust
• Category: Land Use
  • City of Boston Zoning Viewer for Urban Planning
• Category: Media
  • Enhancing Public Access to GIS
  • Mapping the Global Adoption of Digital Media
• Category: Microsoft Azure
• Category: Mobile
• Category: News
  • 2015 Esri Partner Conference Award – Public Web Application
• Category: Nonprofit/NGO
  • Biodiversity Monitoring With Soundburst
  • New Mobile-Friendly Water Risk Atlas
  • India Water Tool Offers Strategies for Water Risk
  • NAPSG Redesigns A Roadmap for Public Safety GIS
  • World Bank Georesults: Interactive Maps for Project Storytelling
• Category: Open Data
• Category: Operations Dashboard
• Category: Parks
• Category: Power BI
  • Build Your First Power BI Report Using the Inbuilt Sample Data
  • Power BI Resource Guide
  • Data Visualization Training
  • Getting Started with Power BI
• Category: Public Gardens
• Category: Public Safety
• Category: Real Estate
• Category: Restoration
• Category: SDG
• Category: Story Map
  • APTA Story Map Amplifies Advocacy Message
  • Enhancing Press Releases with Interactive Story Maps
• Category: Supply Management
• Category: Sustainable Development Goals
• Category: Training
• Category: Transportation
  • APTA Maps American Public Transportation with ArcGIS
• Category: Tsunami
• Category: UI
• Category: Uncategorized
  • 2016 Esri DevSummit: Learning with the Best
• Category: Water
• Category: Women in Science

News

• 2015 Computerworld Data+ Editors' Choice Award - GFW Commodities
• 2015 Esri Award - Special Achievement in GIS (SAG)
• Blue Raster at Esri International User Conference, July 20-24
• The Power of Story Maps, Data, and Analysis
• 2015 Esri Partner Conference Award - Public Web Application
• Blue Raster Celebrates GIS Day with Washington-Lee Students
• Esri Names Blue Raster ArcGIS Online Specialty Partner
• Blue Raster Hosts Young GIS Enthusiasts to Mark GIS Day
• Blue Raster Joins Amazon Partner Network
• 2012 Esri Partner Conference Award - Public Web Application
• UDS Mapper wins first place in Esri UC Application Fair
• Smithsonian Wild featured on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams

Team

• Michael Lippmann
• Stephen Ansari

Presentations

• Creating Apps with Maps in AppStudio
• The Power of Story Maps, Data, and Analysis
• Top Ten Tips for Story Maps
• Total Knockout: Start-to-Finish Development of Suitability Applications Using Image Server, D3.js, and Knockout.js
• Telling Stories with Maps
• GIS Day 2013 Challenge
• GIS for the UN: Online Mapping Patterns in 2013 and Beyond
• Migrating Department of Education to AWS EC2
• Creating a Cloud Based Data Model for Boundary Collection
• Crowdsourcing PADDDs Using the Power of ArcGIS Server
• Harnessing Python at 2013 UC
• Blue Raster at Esri International Dev Summit, March 25 – 28
• Creating GIS Functionality in a Cloud Environment
• Blue Raster at Esri Federal GIS Conference - Monday, Feb 25 - Wednesday, Feb 27
• Innovative Data Collection Techniques for Public School Boundaries
• What's New with the NCES SDDS and Web Mapping Tools - 2013 NCES Winter Forum
• Developing Online / Offline Mapping Applications - Esri Developer Summit 2012
• Geo-Enabling International Development - Esri UC 2011
• Web Mapping Cloud Deployment – Lessons from the Field

News Categories

• Awards

Clients

• Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB)
• American Institutes for Research
• American Red Cross
• Amnesty International
• APTA
• Arlington Democrats
• Arlington Historical Society
• ASCE
• Avenir Health
• Avenu Insights & Analytics
• Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance-Jacob France Institute
• Bear Trust International
• Boston Redevelopment Authority
• Carnegie Institution for Science
• CCCD
• Center for International Media Assistance
• Ceres
• City of Lynnwood
• Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange
• Columbia University
• Conservation International
• DC Department of General Services
• DC Office of Zoning
• DDOT
• Department of Education
• Dorothy Jemison Foundation
• Draper Hero Institute
• Ducks Unlimited
• Education Demographic and Geographic Estimates
• Environmental Protection Agency
• Esri
• Fehr & Peers
• Forest Stewardship Council
• Futures Institute
• GAIN
• Green Belt Movement
• Green-Wood Cemetery
• Greenpeace
• HealthLandscape
• IBTCI
• International Union for Conservation of Nature
• Jane Goodall Institute
• Johns Hopkins University
• Land Trust Alliance
• LearningCurved
• Matthews Asia
• MEASURE DHS
• MIT Media Lab
• Mount Auburn Cemetery
• Mt. Vernon
• National Alliance for Public Safety GIS Foundation
• National Center for Education Statistics
• National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
• National Geographic Society
• National Park Service
• Natural Resource Defense Council
• NatureServe
• New America
• Northern Great Plains Join Venture
• Pew Charitable Trusts
• Planet3
• PublicSource
• Quinn Evans
• REL Midwest
• Resources for the Future
• Sanametrix
• Smithsonian Institute
• Southern Environmental Law Center
• Stimson Center
• Texas State Education Agency (TEA)
• The Center for Open Data Enterprise
• The DHS Program
• The Earth Genome
• The Lenfest Institute for Journalism
• The Nature Conservancy
• The Proforest Iniative
• Town of Chapel Hill
• U.S. Department of Agriculture
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• UNICEF
• United States Department of the Treasury
• USAID
• USGS
• WBCSD
• White House
• Wildlife Conservation Society
• Winrock
• World Bank
• World Health Organization
• World Resources Institute
• World Wildlife Fund
• Zoological Society of London

Presentation Tags

• Amazon EC2
• American Community Survey (ACS)
• ArcGIS for Server
• ArcGIS Online
• BOOST
• demographic
• Esri
• Esri Federal GIS Conference
• Esri International Developer Summit
• Esri International User Conference
• Esri Mid-Atlantic User Conference
• FedGIS
• GovLoop
• HTML5
• JavaScript API
• Lightning Talks
• NCES
• presentation
• Story Map
• U.S. Department of Education
• World Bank