ArcGIS Explorer Blog : NOAA

Recent Ed Comm Explorer posts

ArcGIS-Explorer-Team — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:14:00 GMT

Here's a couple of recent posts on the ESRI Education Community site that may be of interest to Explorer users.

Fun with GIS using AGX: prepping for hurricanes is a post by Charlie Fitzpatrick, ESRI education manager, that covers using NOAA's nowCoast services. Those are published using ArcIMS, and are among the many kinds of mapping services that Explorer can use.

Joseph Kerski takes a look at the regional spatial distribution of two businesses in Explorer using business data imported from a spreadsheet.

Ike Update

ArcGIS-Explorer-Team — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:46:00 GMT

In a recent post we showed Explorer with Hurricane Ike data published by NOAA. Here's an update.

The white track to the lower left shows the previously predicted hurricane track as of two days ago. The magenta line is the current predicted course. You can see that things have shifted a bit east since the earlier prediction. The popup shows that Ike is predicted to reach land just southeast of Houston around 1:00 a.m. Saturday morning.

Exploring Hurricane Ike

ArcGIS-Explorer-Team — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:55:00 GMT

Hurricane Ike is expected to grow stronger as it travels across the Gulf of Mexico, and is predicted to head towards the Texas coast. Potentially millions could be impacted and/or evacuated.

ESRI has posted a hurricane support site with information and links to help get needed software or data.

We visited the site and found a link to NOAA'a National Hurricane Center, where we found GIS data that could be downloaded. Here we've used Explorer and the NOAA data to create a map showing the predicted track of the hurricane.

The attributes include information on predicted wind and time at a location. Clicking to view the attributes in the popup window, we can see on the right where the hurricane is predicted to be at 7:00 p.m. this evening, with winds of 90 mph and gusts up to 110 mph. On the left the popup shows where the hurricane is predicted to be at 7:00 a.m. Friday, with winds of 110 mph and gusts of 135 mph.

The data also includes predicted storm surge warnings. Below, the red outlines show areas threatened by the surge.