Real-Time Flood Insights: How NLT and ICEYE Partner to Support FEMA
Hurricane Ian, which made landfall in Florida in late September 2022, was the strongest hurricane to hit Florida since Hurricane Michael in 2018 and the first Category 4 hurricane to impact Southwest Florida since 2004. Ian impacted parts of Florida’s western coast with heavy rainfall, and ...
ICEYE's Satellite Data Revolutionizes FEMA's Response to Floods
ICEYE, a world-leading provider of natural catastrophe solutions and insights, has delivered crucial flood insights over the past several months to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Delivered through ICEYE’s partnership with New Light Technologies (NLT) and Bana Solutions (Bana), ...
White House Proposes Executive Branch Reorganization
The White House today announced an interesting proposal to reorganize a number of federal agencies to better meet the economic and business needs of the nation and improve efficiency. The proposal would merge a number of commerce and trade agencies including the Office of the U.S. Trade ...
Upcoming Webinar: QWI and Shift-Share Analysis – Tapping a Powerful Resource
The U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER) welcomes Mr. Grundvig as he shares the potential advantages and caveats when using shift-share analysis with the QWIs. When coupled together there ...
Reduced Opportunity Voters
This study analyzes findings from extant research on voter identification legislation, population growth, and the influence of geography on political participation. Research was conducted to determine the impact of photo ID voting requirements on voter turnout among African Americans in a number of ...
NLT Team Helps U.S. Census Bureau Release OnTheMap for Emergency Management Version
OnTheMap for Emergency Management Version 3 was released June 15 2012.The public data tool provides an easy-to-use web-based interface for accessing U.S. population and workforce statistics, in real time, for areas being affected by natural disasters. The tool allows users to easily retrieve ...
NLT Team provides Enterprise Class Geospatial Technology Software to DC Government GIS Program
New Light Technologies, Inc. (NLT) partners with Arc2Earth to provide enterprise class Geospatial Technology to the Washington, DC GIS Program. The team developed server side KMZ updated KML network link data feeds to provide District users with a more complete and enjoyable user experience through ...
NLT Will be Participating in Upcoming FOSE Conference
New Light Technologies (NLT) will be highlighting its many exciting recent projects at this year’s FOSE Conference, to be held in the District May 13-15.
NLT Presents on Data Integration at ESRI UC 2013
Data Integration Challenges & Strategies for Advanced GeoAnalytics Robert Pitts, Director of Geospatial Services for New Light technologies presented on data integration challenges and strategies at the ESRI UC in San Diego last week. The presentation was part of the Meeting Data ...
FEMA Extends GIS Contract To New Light Technologies
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recently doubled a contract to support geospatial information systems (GIS) for disaster response and recovery operations.