Geocove News

  • September 15, 2011 - Esri's Federal Writes newsletter features Geocove;"GIS, GPS and Wireless for Better Damage Assessment". Esri's Federal GIS Connections Spring newsletter discusses how Geocove uses GIS, GPS and wireless technologies to make the damage assessment process more accurate and efficient.


  • September 1, 2011 - Lee County / Geocove releases Lee Evac to the Apple App Store! This free app for residents allows them to quickly identify if they or their house is in an evacuation zone. Read the Lee County press release here!


  • August 31, 2011 - Cumberland County, North Carolina rolls out ARM360 in time for Hurricane Irene! Read more about Cumberland's rollout.


  • July 7, 2011 - Geocove's CEO, Karyn Tareen, is featured in the Gulf Coast Review, a business journal on the West Coast of Florida. Read the article here. Go to the Gulf Coast Review Article.


  • June 14, 2011 - ARM360 was showcased at FEMA's first Mitigation Assessment Team's Tool Summit. The purpose of the summit was to share what tools exist for field data collection. Read more about the Summit here.


  • May 11, 2011 - Tom Patterson, from Esri, took this video while out supporting the Tuscaloosa, Alabama Recovery Effort. Firefighters and Building Inspectors are running ARM360 to collect the data and the ARM360 Web Application to view the assessments and build reports that include structure and estimated loss totals. Check out Tom's video here!


  • May3,4 2011 - Karyn Tareen from Geocove was invited to participate in FEMA's Tool Summit. The purpose of the summit was to share what tools exist for field data collection.


  • April 12, 2011 - Geocove will present at the National Hurricane Conference! Karyn Tareen, Geocove's CEO, was invited to speak during the session “Extending the Capabilities of Emergency Management with GIS" on Wednesday, April 20 from 3:30-5pm. Ms. Tareen will co-present with Richard Halquist from Osceola County, FL. Read more about the NHC Session here.


  • April 8, 2011 - Geocove holds User Group Meeting at Osceola County Office of Emergency Management. Version 5 of our newly renamed damage assessment solution, ARM360, was hightlighted. Highlights included the new reporting capabilities from our overhauled flex application, a new even more user-friendly field interface, and upgrades to ArcGIS 10! See pictures from the meeting here.


  • April 1, 2011 - Geocove moves office to the UCF Technology Corridor. Read more about our new office here.


  • February 11, 2011 - Geocove was invited to attend Redlands GIS Week. The theme of this year's seminar was "Volunteered Geographic Information: Real-Time and Emergency" and emergency management, social media and geography experts from around the world converged on Redlands to discuss considerations for using social media as an emergency management tool. Read more about the seminar here!


  • March 1, 2010 - GeoCove is pleased to announce our newest team member, Jim Hunt! Jim will be joining our team as a Sales and Marketing Consultant and will address the sales and marketing of the I2C product line and assist in business development. Read more about Jim here.


  • October 12, 2009 - Lee County releases Exercise Summary of Live Exercise! After the County and City wide exercise, a post event debriefing was held. Read the summary of the debriefing, as created by Amy Hoyt, GIS Manager of Lee County. Read Lee County Exercise Summary here.


  • August 6, 2009 - GeoCove partners with Geo-Visus, Inc. to provide I2C in a hosted environment! The partnership with Geo-Visus will allow government agencies not previously able to run the I2C Enterprise software, due to ESRI software licensing, the ability to use it in a simple to access hosted model. Read more here.


  • July 14, 2009 - Lee County, FL presents GeoCove damage assessment applications at ESRI User Conference. Amy Hoyt, GIS Manager for Lee County Florida, will present "Lee County Florida ArcGIS Mobile Damage Assessment Tools" at the ESRI User Conference in San Diego, CA. The presentation will be held at 1:30pm on Tuesday, July 14th in room 17B of the San Diego Convention Center. Go to the ESRI UC Agenda description


  • June 30, 2009 - I2C makes local community better prepared, as quoted in "The News-Press". "Cape Coral hurricane damage assessment teams better prepared, officals say". Read the full article here!


  • June 2, 2009 - GeoCove participates with Lee County in Live Exercise. 104 Field personnel use I2C and DASI for mock hurricane damage assessments. Listen here.  Read press release here.


  • May 28, 2009 - GeoCove's Karyn Tareen speaks at the Broward County, FL GIS user group meeting. Her topic is "Going Mobile with Damage Assessments" and details developing custom applications using the new ESRI ArcGIS Mobile framework.


  • May 12-15, 2009 - GeoCove exhibits at the Florida Governor's Hurricane Conference. GeoCove will be showing the latest in damage assessments for PDA's, full damage assessments and Human Services data collection. GeoCove is sharing booth #621 this year with ESRI.


  • May 9, 2009 - GeoCove's Karyn Tareen invited to speak at the 2009 State University of Buffalo's Geography Department Commencement Ceremony.


  • April 27-29, 2009 - GeoCove exhibits at ESRI's SERUG conference in Jacksonville, FL. Come visit us at booth #203!


  • March 26, 2009 - GeoCove developer takes 2nd place in ESRI's 2009 Mobile Code Challenge. Read press release here.


  • February 9-12 - Karyn Tareen attends FEPA conference and training sessions at the Rosen Plaza hotel in Orlando.


  • January 28, 2009 - Osceola County Emergency Management rolls out newest version of I2C Standard.


  • January 9, 2009 - ESRI releases GeoCove Podcast Interview! Karyn Tareen, president of GeoCove, discusses ArcGIS Mobile based field data collection applications to improve damage assessment workflows and quickly provide decision makers with a common operational picture. Listen here.  Read press release here.


  • November 18-20, 2008 - Karyn Tareen presents "Mobile" damage assessments at the Rocket City Geo-Spatial 2008 Conference in Huntsville, Alabama.


  • July 22, 2008 - GeoCove moves to Central Florida! GeoCove has relocated its main office to Orlando, Florida. The move places GeoCove in a more convenient location for easier access from throughout the state and the southeast. Read press release here.