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ArcGIS Software Deployment Using External Hard Drives

Since June 2001 the U.S. Geological Survey USGS has deployed five major releases of ESRI software under various Enterprise License Agreements with ESRI. Until recently, ESRI has provided USGS with a limited number of CD/DVD media kits, which were then replicated and distributed to approximately 200 physical sites. The last...

Tags: Hard Drive, Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc., U.S. Geological Survey

White papers 2006-07-12

Best Practices in Web Management

How Web activities are managed touches the heart of an organization's culture. The organizing of Web activities emerges as a common theme from most of the recommendations in this paper. Best-in-Web organizations have developed various approaches to organizing their Web activities, all of which involve some degree of centralization. (Centralization,...

Tags: Centralization, Web, Best Practice, U.S. Geological Survey, Strategic Planning, Channel Management, Strategy, Management, Marketing

White papers 2005-01-04

Additional Resources

Geological Survey of Western Australia: Innovative Use of Mobile Computing and GPS Significantly Improves Productivity for Field Data Collection Program

The inventory of abandoned mine sites, conducted by the Geological Survey of Western Australia GSWA, has focused on mapping sites of historic production, mostly for mines that closed prior to 1990. To make the project a success, GSWA needed to meet three requirements: a software solution that offered robust mobile...

Tags: Mobile Computer, Mobile, Mobile Computing, Survey, GPS, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Hardware

Case studies

GeoMaker (exe)

Create the GeoDatabase for the entire world. This program create the geographical location latitude, longitude, and altitude elevation for every city, village, region, state, county in the world. The program crawls the data collected from US Geological Survey for the USA and dependencies and The National Imaging and Mapping Agency...

Tags: Program, Marketing Research, Marketing

Software downloads 2007-03-06

eQuake Alert (1-fx)

eQuake alert is a handy add-on, which alerts you with the basic information (date, location, and magnitude) of each earthquake. By default your browser will shake proportional to the earthquake magnitude. You can configure the alert methods and even you can limit the alerts by the earth quake magnitude. The...

Tags: Magnitude, Web Site Development, Web Browsers, Web Technology, Marketing Research, Internet, Marketing

Software downloads 2007-10-01

Terrabrowser (5beta)

Terrabrowser is an internet browser for satellite photos and topographical maps which are obtained from the Microsoft Terra Server web site. The map data is provided by the U.S. Geological Survey USGS and therefore only covers the United States at this time (although expansion to other map servers may occur...

Tags: Terrabrowser, Map Data, GPS, Web Site Development, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Hardware

Software downloads 2006-11-01

Informatica-Built Data Warehouses Provide Critical Information on Nation's Water Quality

Created by an act of Congress in 1879, the United States Geological Survey USGS has evolved over the ensuing 120 years, matching its talent and knowledge to the progress of science and technology. The company wanted to integrate data from four major legacy data source systems to consolidate water quality...

Tags: Data Source, Informatica, Decision-making, Tools & Techniques, Management

Case studies

Survey by postmasterdirect.com

I received an email asking me to take a survey, but the link was not in plain English. . .Does Tech Republic sponsor such a survey, or is this a hoax or scam? ? ?

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Discussion threads 2006-12-29

USGS Pools Interagency Water Quality Projects Onto an Enterprise Grid

Formed in the mid-1990s U.S Geological Survey Wisconsin District Data Center manages approximately 40% of the USGS internal and external Web servers, plus several inter-agency water quality projects. Its growing list includes projects that are local, regional, and national in scope and come from inside and outside the USGS. Oracle...

Tags: Data Center, Oracle Corp., Oracle Application Server 10g, Data Centers, Web Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet

Case studies

Petrel Workflow Tools and Data & Consulting Services Help TOTAL Improve Its Geosteering of Horizontal Wells

TOTAL Exploration and Production, Balikpapan, has operating fields in the Mahakam delta on the east coast of Kalimatan Borneo Island, Indonesia. TOTAL wanted to improve its preparation of the horizontal well in the Tambora field and develop alternative geosteering scenarios in this highly uncertain geological area. One of the main...

Tags: Schlumberger Ltd., Consulting Service, Consulting, Workflow, Tool, Process Improvement, Productivity, Quality, Business Operations

Case studies

VisiWave Site Survey SO (exe)

VisiWave Site Survey SO is a complete 802.11a/b/g site surveying solution. You collect survey data using a standard wireless adapter while walking around the survey area clicking on a floor plan image or using a GPS receiver to track your location. The survey data is mapped using the included reporting...

Tags: Survey, Survey Data, Marketing Research, Marketing

Software downloads 2007-09-21

One data center to go please

Disaster Recovery Processes HelpHello,I am a candidate for a Masters Degree in Management and Systems at New York University. I am currently working on my master thesis on the subject of improving the process of disaster recovery in IT. As part of this thesis I am conducting a survey...

Tags: Marketing research, buildingitup@..., data center, survey, thesis, disaster recovery

Discussion threads 2007-06-11

RepleteSurveys (zip)

RepleteSurveys allows you to create and manage many surveys with many questions and allows you and the respondents to view the results graphically. This Web-based system records the survey responses automatically in any SQL database Easy. Friendly. Safe. Features include: Secure Admin login; Surveys can be self-contained Webpages, or include...

Tags: Survey, RepleteSurveys, Marketing Research, Marketing

Software downloads 2007-11-20

Mediata Survey (exe)

Create slick, professional, multipage surveys on your Web site which you can use for market research or any other activity that could benefit from more user input, without any programming knowledge to implement them. Surveys are created in PHP and hosted in your Web site. They can handle question types:...

Tags: Survey, Marketing Research, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-01-03

Survey Annex (exe)

Download Survey Annex today and start getting paid for filling out surveys online, Survey-Annex has a database of over 500 companies and Focus groups that will pay you up to $ 40 an hour for your opinions.

Tags: Survey, Marketing Research, Marketing

Software downloads 2006-03-24

Download our Training Needs Analysis Survey to determine your organization's training needs

Looking for a way to evaluate your organization's previous training sessions and plan your training for the near future? Download our Training Needs Analysis Survey and use it to get the information you need to measure the effectiveness of your company's training.Is your organization experiencing employee performance issues? Is it...

Tags: Workforce management, Susanne Krivanek, training, Training Needs Analysis Survey

Technical articles 2000-01-13

good company responsiveness....

about 4 years ago this one company made a change to thier website, making it entirely a flash website. what prompted my survey on flash and javascript actually I used the facilities on another website to conduct this survey. my base for the survey was / is thier customer base.(...

Tags: Web site, mandatory tagging sucks, corporate relationships, survey, Jaqui, off-topic

Discussion threads 2005-07-21

Customer Satisfaction Survey

I am trying to put together an online CS survey.Has anyone used a canned system? If so which ones and how did you like it?What are some things that I should make sure to ask when I put it together?ChrisSystemsIf you have a Windows 2003 server, you probably have a...

Tags: customer satisfaction, Customer Satisfaction Survey, dacook@..., it management, survey

Discussion threads 2005-05-02

The Great Kentucky Seismo-Hole

From Physorg via Digg: "Workers in Kentucky are drilling a 2,000-foot hole that will become the deepest seismic observatory in the Midwest. The project, located at the edge of a soybean field near Sassafras Ridge, will monitor the New Madrid Seismic Zone where three jumbo earthquakes shook...

Tags: Hole, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, Jay Garmon

Blog posts 2006-10-04

RSVME (exe)

RSVME is a free survey tool that integrates with Outlook and other email packages, and makes obtaining feedback from people a snap. You can quickly and easily put together a survey on any subject, from the best time for soccer practice to who's bringing what food to a party. Then...

Tags: Survey, RSVME, Marketing Research, E-mail, Marketing, Online Communications

Software downloads 2005-06-01