SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- 100 Resilient
Cities - Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation (100RC) is
partnering with Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB), which will offer a critical
resilience building tool to 100RC's network cities. Using Trimble®
eCognition® Essentials software, cities can leverage readily
available satellite and aerial imagery from manned or unmanned
aerial systems (UAS) to produce timely, accurate land use and
mapping information that can be used with a Geographic Information
System (GIS). The software enables cities to transform images into
quantifiable, actionable information about land use that can be
applied to enhance a city's resilience building efforts.
100RC network cities can use Trimble eCognition Essentials to
help design and implement the cities' long-term resilience strategy
to better plan for and respond to stresses and shocks such as heat
island effect, air quality and stormwater runoff, flooding,
landslides, fire prevention and recovery and more. This
out-of-the-box solution enables city staff to import, fuse,
interpret and analyze data to achieve a greater understanding of
their environments while expending minimal resources or time.
"In order to build resilience, cities need accurate,
authoritative data to assess and understand their built and natural
environment," said Bryn Fosburgh,
vice president at Trimble. "A key part of the process is managing
and processing massive amounts of data in a timely manner.
eCognition Essentials produces the information needed for
prioritizing planning and response efforts."
"Cities can't just build resilience out of thin air – they need
the right tools to do it," said Michael
Berkowitz, president of 100 Resilient Cities. "By providing
eCognition Essentials software to our city network, Trimble is
transforming the work of city planners, analysts and decision teams
by providing an analytic tool that turns imagery and GIS data into
real, useful information for better decision making. For example,
many cities are focusing on reducing their carbon footprint by
increasing their urban forest. To track their success, eCognition
Essentials can allow cities to establish a baseline to measure
their future progress."
Trimble joins a prestigious group of other "Platform Partners"
that are committed to helping cities around the world become more
resilient to the shocks and stresses that are an increasingly large
aspect of urban life. The platform partners are a vital component
of 100RC's efforts, both helping provide cities with tools they
need to build resilience, and also influencing the market as other
resilience tools are developed.
100RC is dedicated to helping cities become more resilient to
the 'shocks' – catastrophic events like hurricanes, fires,
earthquakes and floods – and 'stresses' – slow-moving disasters
like water shortages, homelessness, and unemployment – they
increasingly face in the 21st century. Each city in
the 100RC network receives four concrete types of support:
- Financial and logistical guidance for establishing an
innovative new position in city government, a Chief Resilience
Officer, who will lead the city's resilience efforts;
- Technical support for development of a robust resilience
strategy;
- Access to solutions, service providers, and partners from the
private, public, academic and non-governmental organization (NGO)
sectors who can help them develop and implement their resilience
strategies; and
- Membership of a global network of member cities who can learn
from and help each other.
For more information about eCognition Essentials and 100
Resilient Cities, visit: ecognition and 100 resilent cities.
About 100 Resilient Cities
100 Resilient Cities - Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation
(100RC) is dedicated to helping cities become more resilient to
social, economic and physical challenges they are increasingly
facing in the 21st century. 100RC provides this
assistance through: funding for a Chief Resilience Officer who will
lead the resilience efforts; resources for drafting a resilience
building strategy; access to private sector, public sector, and NGO
created resilience tools; and membership in a global network of
peer cities to share best practices and challenges. 100RC
currently has sixty-seven member cities.
For more information,
visit: www.100resilientcities.org.
About Trimble
Trimble applies technology to make field and mobile workers in
businesses and government significantly more productive. Solutions
are focused on applications requiring position or
location—including surveying, construction, agriculture, fleet and
asset management, public safety and mapping. In addition to
utilizing positioning technologies, such as GPS, lasers and optics,
Trimble solutions may include software content specific to the
needs of the user. Wireless technologies are utilized to deliver
the solution to the user and to ensure a tight coupling of the
field and the back office. Founded in 1978, Trimble is
headquartered in Sunnyvale,
Calif.
For more information, visit: www.trimble.com.
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