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Mobile GIS technology is transforming how organizations collect data, manage field operations, and make decisions in real time. Mobile GIS apps play a critical role in disaster response, community engagement, environmental initiatives, and field data collection. Learning how to use these tools can help you develop practical, in-demand skills that employers are actively seeking.

In this edition of the Esri Tutorials Spotlight series, we are featuring hands-on tutorials and learning paths that introduce you to mobile GIS workflows using ArcGIS.

Esri consistently releases new contents, updates, and resources related to their products, solutions, apps, and applications, as well as best practices, success stories, recorded webinars, and more. Although these resources are posted in various locations, they can be difficult to find.

This blog provides a comprehensive list of all the May 2026 technical highlights and resources from Esri. It is a buffet-style list, so feel free to pick and choose the topics that interest you.

Imagine your students designing their dream playground — not on paper, not in their heads, but on a real interactive map of their actual school grounds. That's exactly what this tool makes possible.

ArcGIS Reality Suite is a collection of photogrammetry software products designed to support reality capture workflows using drone, aerial, and satellite imagery. The suite enables users to process imagery into GIS‑ready outputs such as true orthomosaics, DSM, DTM, point clouds, and textured 3D meshes, including the photorealistic 3D with Gaussian splats—products; which  all are great for visualization, analysis and decision making.  

The good new is ArcGIS Reality licenses is now included in Esri  Education Program Licensing.  

Any day, the zombie apocalypse could start. Are you prepared? 

May is Zombie Awareness Month, a good time to freshen up on your survival skills. We've created a checklist to get you started: Zombie apocalypse preparedness checklist.

Play a game, create a zombie escape trip report, and review the key resources for survival.

Hello! My name is Maja Kucharczyk and I was recently a Visiting Researcher at the University of Calgary, where I evaluated geospatial technologies (including small drones and AI-based damage mapping) as tools to support disaster and emergency management. Last year, my co-authors and I published a GeoAI workflow for automated roof damage delineation using ArcGIS Pro deep learning tools and post-storm aerial imagery from the Caribbean. In addition to publishing the study, we uploaded our data, tools, and trained models for anyone to access. We also wrote step-by-step instructions for reproducing the results and then created a StoryMap to visually summarize our work.

We want to learn about your drone and GIS use in the classroom. Is it in progress, planned, or just a wisp of an idea?

Here are some Esri tutorials to get you started with applying imagery analysis in Living Atlas to help further your skills in your GIS journey. 

Join us on an exciting adventure taking students out of the classroom  and into real-world mapping.

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