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Skopenow partners with Esri to integrate Grid with ArcGIS. Jake Rubenstein Director of Product Security teams need visibility into emerging threats, but they also need to understand how those threats could impact the people, assets, and operations they protect. Skopenow has partnered with Esri, the leader in spatial analytics and creator of ArcGIS, to help organizations assess this connection more easily. By integrating Skopenow's Grid threat intelligence and situational awareness platform with ArcGIS, organizations can evaluate emerging threats in the context of the geographic and operational data that informs their decisions. For teams responsible for keeping people and assets safe across multiple locations, that added context can shorten the path from identifying a threat to understanding its potential impact. Why Geographic Context Matters A threat rarely has the same significance everywhere. An incident near a corporate office, executive travel destination, critical facility, or operational route may require a different response than one with no connection to the organization. The threat's location helps determine its relevance. That can become difficult for security teams responsible for large numbers of locations and people. Analysts may need to identify a developing threat, establish where it is occurring, compare it against organizational assets, gather more context, and determine whether it warrants escalation. Much of that work can require moving between separate sources of information and disparate tools. Bringing threat intelligence into the geographic environment teams already use gives analysts a clearer view of potential exposure and helps them assess it faster. Connecting Grid and ArcGIS Grid identifies early signals of critical risks and enriches threat data to best help security teams understand emerging threats as they develop. ArcGIS provides organizations with location intelligence that helps them understand their geographic environment, including the facilities, infrastructure, and other locations relevant to their operations. Integrating Grid data into ArcGIS and its existing geographic workflows via webhook lets analysts assess threats against the locations that matter to their organization without manually building the full picture across disconnected systems. Access to Skopenow's Grid is purchased directly from Skopenow. In addition, you will need to add your HTTP endpoint URL to your Grid query in order to push data to ArcGIS, all on a self-service basis. If you have any questions, please reach out to [email protected] or your account representative. Expanding How Organizations Use Threat Intelligence Threat intelligence becomes more useful when teams can understand an emerging threat in the context of the locations, assets, and operations that matter to their organization. By incorporating ArcGIS data into Grid, organizations can bring location intelligence directly into their existing threat intelligence workflows, giving analysts more context to assess potential exposure and determine what requires attention. The integration will help security teams understand the geographic relevance of emerging threats sooner, supporting faster, more informed decisions.

Orbital Advisors joins Esri Partner Network to revolutionize satellite-based asset monitoring with GIS Integration. Satellite monitoring leader partners with the global leader in location intelligence to deliver enhanced PHMSA-compliant analytics and real-time visualization. Partnering with Esri strengthens its mission to deliver high-impact spatial insights." - Ashton Jackson, CTO of Orbital Advisors GOLDEN, CO, UNITED STATES, September 9, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ - Orbital Advisors Inc., a premier provider of satellite-based asset monitoring solutions, today announced that it has officially joined the Esri Partner Network (EPN) as a Member. This strategic partnership integrates Orbital Advisors' advanced satellite analytics with Esri's world-leading ArcGIS System, empowering organizations to make faster, smarter decisions through location intelligence. The partnership marks a significant milestone for Orbital Advisors, headquartered in Golden, Colorado. By joining the EPN, Orbital Advisors gains access to specialized ArcGIS resources, enabling the company to offer seamless GIS-compatible integration with customer platforms. This collaboration directly supports Orbital Advisor's mission to push the bounds of what is possible in asset monitoring. Enhanced Benefits for Customers The synergy between Orbital Advisors' high-frequency satellite intelligence and Esri's location information provides customers with several key benefits: 1. Advanced GIS Integration: Customers can now integrate results from all of Orbital's monitoring practices directly into their preferred Esri-based GIS platforms. 2. Frequent Threat Detection and Release Identification: PHMSA-compliant surface condition monitoring aids operators in resolving surface change, encroachment, ground disturbances, gas leaks and liquid spills. 3. Comprehensive Asset Visibility: Weekly all-weather monitoring for construction and erosion, alongside nightly coverage to detect fires, can now be visualized within the ArcGIS ecosystem. 4. Data-Driven Decision Making: Leveraging Esri's location intelligence helps organizations solve complex business problems by identifying trends and threats across vast asset networks. 5. Specialized Monitoring: Continuous monitoring of river crossings, dredging operations, and forestry health can be better analyzed using Esri's advanced spatial analysis tools. A Shared Vision for Innovation "Partnering with Esri strengthens our mission to deliver high-impact spatial insights," said Ashton Jackson, CTO of Orbital Advisors. "By leveraging the ArcGIS System, we help organizations unlock new opportunities and resolve critical operational challenges." Jesse Hughes, Co-Founder and CEO of Orbital Advisors, added that the company is "excited to continue pushing the bounds of what is possible" as customers push them farther and faster than imagined over the last few years. About Orbital Advisors Inc. Based in Golden, CO, Orbital Advisors Inc is a leader in satellite-based monitoring for critical infrastructure. The company provides GIS-compatible analytics for damage prevention, asset protection and leak detection, as well as PHMSA-compliant ROW monitoring, all-weather erosion monitoring, and nightly fire detection. For more information, visit www.orbitaladvisors.space. About Esri Esri, the global market leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, location intelligence, and mapping, helps customers unlock the full potential of data to improve operational and business results. With the ArcGIS System, Esri supports organizations worldwide in making smarter, faster decisions. Media Contact: Kerry Matre Orbital Advisors Inc 1301 Arapahoe St Golden, CO 80401-1830 [email protected] Kerry Matre Orbital Advisors +1 303-921-1808 email Alternative Energy Reporter here Legal Disclaimer: EIN Presswire provides this news content "as is" without warranty of any kind. Alternative Energy Reporter do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the author above.

A single UAS flight can generate thousands of files. Here's where they all go. A routine drone inspection of a bridge or a stretch of rail line can produce thousands of individual images and video clips in under an hour. Multiply that across a state transportation department running dozens of flights a month, and you end up with a data problem most agencies weren't built to handle - mountains of unlabeled, unsorted footage that's technically valuable but practically unusable. That gap is what pulled PTFS into the geospatial content management business, and it's turned into one of the more distinctive parts of the company's work. Knowvation GS: geography meets search. Knowvation GS is PTFS's geospatial content management system (GeoCMS), built to store, tag, and retrieve imagery, video, and sensor data tied to specific locations. Instead of digging through folders labeled by date or project number, users can pull up a map and search for what happened in a particular area - flood imagery from a specific county, inspection photos along a rail corridor, or surveillance footage from a border sector. The platform is sensor-agnostic too, meaning it can ingest data from satellites, ground cameras, or aerial platforms without requiring a separate system for each. The rise of UAS data. Drones have become a routine tool for infrastructure inspection, agriculture, and emergency response, but they also generate an enormous amount of raw sensor data that's useless without organization. Knowvation was built to solve that specific problem - it automatically parses geospatial tags from Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), then sorts the resulting imagery and video into an intelligent, searchable hierarchy. PTFS has also integrated Knowvation with Esri's mapping capabilities, giving agencies a fully web-based workflow that goes from raw drone footage to orthorectified, mapped imagery with minimal manual stitching. Industries that actually use this. The list of sectors leaning on this technology is broader than people might expect. Highway and transportation departments use it to track pavement conditions and bridge inspections. Homeland security and emergency management teams use it for tracking response efforts and disaster imagery in near real time. Railroads use it to monitor track and right-of-way conditions along thousands of miles of corridor. Parks and recreation departments, along with archaeological and historic preservation offices, use it to document land, wildlife, and cultural sites over time, building a visual record that would be nearly impossible to maintain with folders of loose photographs. PTFS has long supported events like GEOINT, the annual gathering for the geospatial intelligence community, to demonstrate these tools alongside partners like Esri and Amazon Web Services - a sign of how tightly geospatial content management now overlaps with mainstream cloud and AI infrastructure. The practical payoff. What ties all of this together is a fairly simple idea: location-based data is only useful if you can find it again later. A drone can capture thousands of images in a single flight, and a rail line can generate years of inspection footage, but none of it helps anyone unless it's organized to match how people actually search - by place, not by file name. That's the gap PTFS's geospatial tools are built to close, and it's a big part of why agencies dealing with physical infrastructure, land, and emergency response keep coming back. Sources. * PTFS Introduces the Knowvation CSP to the AWS Marketplace _________________________________________________________ ROCKVILLE, Maryland, June 13, 2025 - PTFS, a leading provider of knowledge management, geospatial,... * Webinar Replay: Harnessing Knowvation CSP for Geospatial Advancements & AI Insights Missed the webinar on "Harnessing Knowvation CSP for Geospatial Advancements & AI Insights"? * Knowvation GS: A Brief History of an Incredible Technology Most people who've never worked in federal records management or geospatial intelligence have never heard...