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Jack Dangermond (born 1945) is an American billionaire businessman and environmental scientist, who in 1969 co-founded, with Laura Dangermond, the Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri), a privately held geographic information systems (GIS) software company. [1] As of July 2023, his net worth was estimated at US$9.3 billion. [2]
With 40% market share as of 2011, Esri is one of the world's leading supplier of GIS software, web GIS and geodatabase management applications. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Founded in 1969 as a land-use consulting firm, Esri currently has 49 offices worldwide including 11 research and development centers in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Africa ...
Introduced in 2006 to replace the personal geodatabase. This is a proprietary format owned by Esri, although other software developers have reverse-engineered it [40] and Esri provides a read/write library for use in other software. It is not a single file, but a collection of files (roughly one for each data or system table in the relational ...
A GIS software program is a computer program to support the use of a geographic information system, providing the ability to create, store, manage, query, analyze, and visualize geographic data, that is, data representing phenomena for which location is important.
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GIS provides the ability to relate previously unrelated information, through the use of location as the "key index variable". Locations and extents that are found in the Earth's spacetime are able to be recorded through the date and time of occurrence, along with x, y, and z coordinates; representing, longitude (x), latitude (y), and elevation ...
Customers who purchased Deep River brand potato chips labeled “Non-GMO Ingredients” may be eligible for a cash payment from a class action settlement.