New centre for intelligence technology

Redlands, California-based Esri has opened its latest research and development center in New Delhi to focus on data science, deep learning, and geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI) solutions.

Esri R&D Center—New Delhi will focus on applying artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning to location intelligence. Additionally, the center will play a significant role in developing the next generation of Esri’s ArcGIS Enterprise based on a microservices architecture.

The company’s efforts will delve deeply into data science through spatial machine learning, visualization and analytics; deep learning through object detection and segmentation using imagery; GeoAI solutions using advanced analytics; and ArcGIS Enterprise server and data store development.

This newly developed R&D team in New Delhi will be comprised of talented data scientists, enterprise developers, product engineers, and GIS analysts working in the areas of deep learning, GeoAI solutions, and ArcGIS Enterprise.

“At Esri, we are continually pushing disruption, and we see our mission and goals as being aligned with those of our customers who are also advancing their use of GIS software,” said Jack Dangermond, Esri founder and president in a release on 28 Mar 2019.

“By locating strategic R&D centers around the globe, we are able to continue to engage talent worldwide to expand the capabilities of Esri Geospatial Cloud.”

Esri currently has 14 R&D centers around the globe from Beijing to Zurich. New Delhi becomes the site of the fifteenth R&D center Esri operates.

Esri said it is committed to advances in location intelligence technology, and the creation of R&D centers worldwide plays a key role in that effort.

Recently, Esri opened an R&D center in Vienna as part of the company’s acquisition of indoor positioning system (IPS) provider indoo.rs—that is focused on developing cutting-edge IPS capabilities. fiinews.com