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Bringing GIS into Everyday Forestry Workflows with ArcGIS and Microsoft 365
On April 30, 2026, Esri hosted the webinar GIS Where You Work: Forestry Insights in Microsoft 365, featuring Sarah Eshpeter, Harry Mathur, Lakshay Sood, and Henrietta Krellenstein. The session explored how forestry organizations can bring spatial context into familiar tools like Excel, SharePoint, and Teams as part of…
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ArcGIS for Microsoft: Bringing Location Intelligence Into Your Everyday Forestry Workflows
Here’s a challenge most forestry organizations know well: The spatial data exists, the technology exists, but the people who need location insight most (operations leaders, analysts, land administrators) can’t access it because it lives in GIS systems they don’t use day-to-day. They’re working in Excel, SharePoint, and…
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Join Esri at the 2026 Remsoft Global Forestry Conference
Esri will be participating as a sponsor at the 2026 Remsoft Global Forestry Conference, a gathering that brings together forestry professionals and technology leaders focused on the future of forest management. Members of the Esri team, including Sarah Eshpeter, Luke Kelleher, and Adam Pittman, will be attending the event…
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On-Demand Webinar: Get Started with GIS for Forest Management
Are you exploring GIS and how it could support forest management? Our “Get Started with ArcGIS in Forest Management” webinar is now available on demand. This session introduces foundational GIS concepts and shows how forestry organizations can begin connecting office and field operations using ArcGIS. The webinar focuses…
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Driving Innovation in Forestry: Luke Kelleher Headlines SOFOR GIS Conference
Exciting news for the forestry and natural resources community! We are proud to share that Luke Kelleher will serve as a Keynote Speaker at the 15th SOFOR GIS Conference, hosted by the University of Georgia on December 8 and 9, 2025. Luke is an Account Manager with Esri based in the Charlotte, NC area. With more than 20…
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What We Learned From You: Poll Insights, Q&A, and Key Takeaways from the Advanced Analytics in Forestry Webinar
On Thursday, November 13, forestry professionals joined us for an interactive webinar exploring advanced analytics, GeoAI, imagery, and operational workflows. To better understand where organizations are today and what challenges they are navigating, we invited attendees to participate in live polls throughout the session.…
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Time Is Running Out: Register Now for Our Forestry Analytics Webinar
Advanced analytics is reshaping forestry operations by enabling organizations to detect patterns, forecast risk, and optimize resources at scale. This webinar explores how ArcGIS and GeoAI can help you integrate spatial models, AI tools, and real-time data into your workflows. With less than 10 days to go, now is the time…
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Upcoming Webinar: How Advanced Analytics Are Powering Smarter Forestry Operations
Join Esri experts Luke Kelleher, Chris Sheil, and Yomi Olufowoshe on November 13 at 1:00 p.m. ET for Unlocking Strategic Efficiency: Embedding Advanced Analytics across Business Operations in Forestry with ArcGIS, a one-hour webinar exploring how advanced analytics and spatial intelligence are driving smarter…
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Share Your Forestry Story at the 2026 Esri User Conference
Forestry professionals are using GIS in groundbreaking ways, and now it is time to share those stories on a global stage. The Call for Presentations for the 2026 Esri User Conference is officially open. Each year, the forestry community comes together at UC to exchange ideas, demonstrate innovation, and celebrate how…
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Get Started with ArcGIS in Forest Management Webinar: Your Questions Answered
Thank you to everyone who attended our recent webinar, Get Started with ArcGIS in Forest Management. We had an engaged audience, with many thoughtful questions being asked during the session. Below, we’ve highlighted some of the most relevant questions along with answers and additional insights to help you apply GIS more…
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Get Started with ArcGIS in Forest Management: Key Takeaways from Our Webinar
Forestry professionals face a unique set of challenges such as climate change, regulatory complexity, workforce shortages, and operational inefficiencies. Our recent webinar, Get Started with ArcGIS in Forest Management, explored how GIS can help organizations streamline workflows from office to field and make smarter,…
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Have You Registered for Our Webinar?
Reminder: Get Started with ArcGIS in Forest Management Webinar We’ve shared before how GIS is transforming forestry workflows and now the event is less than two weeks away! Join us for Get Started with ArcGIS in Forest Management on Wednesday, Sept 10, 2025, 12–1:00 p.m. CT to see how ArcGIS can help you: * Save time and…
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Webinar: Get Started with ArcGIS in Forest Management
Get Started with ArcGIS in Forest Management: Streamlining Office-to-Field Operations What if you could monitor forest health, optimize timber cruising, and connect your field crews with your office — all in near real-time? 🌲 Forests are complex, dynamic systems, and managing them requires more than traditional tools. From…
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Esri UC 2025: A Night of Connection and Innovation in Agriculture and Forestry
As the sun set over the San Diego Bay, the Esri UC 2025 Agriculture and Forestry Social brought together professionals to reconnect, talk shop, and look ahead to what’s next in our industries. Forestry attendees reflected on insights from an earlier session, while those in agriculture eagerly anticipated the start of the…
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2025 UC Forestry Industry Guide
Get ready to be inspired at the 2025 Esri UC! This year’s conference is a hub of innovation, featuring hundreds of presentations and events that cover a vast spectrum of topics. To help you navigate this wealth of content and find the most relevant sessions for the forestry sector, we’ve crafted a focused agenda just for…
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Esri Forestry Group Virtual Town Hall
Join the Esri Forestry Group Virtual Town Hall! Mark your calendars for Thursday, June 26, from 1:00–1:45 p.m. EST, as the Esri Forestry Group hosts a virtual Town Hall. This event promises to be an exciting opportunity to stay updated on the latest developments in forestry technology and community insights. Esri Forestry…
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Esri Forestry Group Townhall 6/26 1 - 1:45 EST
Join us next Thursday June 26 from 1:00 - 1:45 EST for an Esri Forestry Group virtual Town Hall! Signup link: Forestry User Group - New Member Survey - Live demo of The Content Store from our friends at Skywatch - Sneak peek at some of the new tasking capabilities coming to ArcGIS Field Maps very soon. - Top tips from…
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Content Store for ArcGIS
Say farewell to the headache of managing multiple provider portals and navigating intricate procurement processes for purchasing imagery. Content Store for ArcGIS presents a single, comprehensive solution with an extensive array of current, top-tier commercial satellite imagery from numerous providers. This centralized…
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Exploring the Future of Forestry with Location Intelligence at Esri's Inaugural Forestry Symposium
Earlier this month, the Esri Foresty Team hosted the inaugural Forestry Symposium at Esri’s campus in Redlands, CA, bringing together senior leaders, GIS experts, industry thought leaders, and passionate educators from across the US and Canada to explore how location intelligence is shaping the future of forestry. Despite…
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ArcGIS AppStudio Retirement
The retirement of ArcGIS AppStudio is coming up on March 1st, 2025. After this date, the product will no longer be supported. Developer edition licenses will be taken away from all accounts, which means you won't be able to use the cloud make servers to make apps. While you can still work on your apps with Esri's help…
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Forest road planning in steep terrain
I work with forest road-planning in steep terrain in western Norway. Often the question is to find a sufficient gradient line for the road. An old method to do this is to use a paper contour map and a geometric compass with the opening fixed to the distance between contours equaling a suitable road gradient, for example…
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Relationship between tree species composition and NDVI values
Hi, I am seeking advice on a forestry-related data analysis problem. Specifically, I have data on the tree species composition of various mixed forest compartments in a given region, as well as an NDVI image of the study area. My goal is to determine whether there is a correlation between the abundance of certain tree…
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polylines and curves counter clockwise
Hi everyone, This is my first time in this community, I would be so thankful If I could get support from you guys. I'm using ArcGIS pro 3.0 and this is the issue: I have a polyline type layer that represent 3000 plot. any solution to make all the lines and curve direction counter clockwise regards
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2022 User Conference Event Highlights for the Forestry Community
This year, San Diego was once again taken over by GIS users from around the world as we congregated at the 2022 Esri User Conference. Enthusiasm was shining brightly as we all enjoyed reconnecting. This was apparent in the restaurants of the Gaslamp District, across train cars and congregating at the convention center…
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Validating Forest Restoration with Open Forest Protocol
Hi Everyone, My name is Nigel Barford, I'm part of a climate tech startup called Open Forest Protocol (OFP) at the intersection of blockchain and carbon finance. OFP is developing a open source platform to accelerate forest restoration and conservation around the world. Part of the success of this project depends on…
