Yearly Archives: 2020

Four Reasons to Jump into ArcGIS Pro

It’s been five years since Esri first released ArcGIS Pro, its next generation desktop GIS application. As ArcGIS Pro has matured and gradually reached feature parity with ArcMap, more and more energy companies we work with are migrating to ArcGIS Pro.   This requires effort – understanding what and how to deploy, redeveloping and testing existing ArcMap customisations, reimagining workflows, migrating data, and managing and training staff.   For these reasons, and with budgets and workloads…

My Top 5 Features in v2 of Unconventionals Analyst for ArcGIS Pro

As we have just released version 2.0 of Unconventionals Analyst for ArcGIS Pro, I’d like to highlight some of my favourite new features so you can check them out when you install the latest software…   1. Create Pads for Well Sticks tool Have you modeled a set of wells and you’d now like to…

Building a Digital Twin within the ArcGIS Platform – Part VI

In the next of our blogs on Building a Digital Twin within the ArcGIS Platform, we look at extracting architectural detail and assets from the point cloud data of our offices we collected using a drone and a laser scanner.   Missed the early instalments of the series? Check out Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5 first.   Introduction In the last blog…

Mapping climate change for Kent County Council

  Our changing climate is already affecting us all. Eighteen of the warmest years on record have occurred during the last twenty years. Today’s average temperatures are 1°C higher than they were in the 1960s. Kent County Council commissioned Exprodat to produce a series of map-based data visualisations to show how climate change will affect…

Building a Digital Twin within the ArcGIS Platform – Part V

In the next of our blogs on Building a Digital Twin within the ArcGIS Platform, we start to look at options for creating 3D models using point cloud data. The data we used was a point cloud of our offices that we collected using a Drone and a Laser scanner.   Missed the early instalments…

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Building a Digital Twin within the ArcGIS Platform – Part IV

In the next of our blogs on Building a Digital Twin within the ArcGIS Platform, we look at how we processed the point cloud data of our offices we collected using a Drone and a Laser scanner. Missed the early instalments of the series? Check out Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 first. Introduction…

Building a Digital Twin within the ArcGIS Platform – Part III

In the next of our blogs on Building a Digital Twin within the ArcGIS Platform, we look at the execution of the laser scan surveys of our offices and the initial processing of the data acquired. Missed the early instalments of the series? Check out Part 1 and Part 2 first.   Introduction We hired a Leica…