Chief scientist Dawn Wright spent some time during the plenary session to explain Esri’s ocean GIS initiative. The initiative will equip ocean resource managers and scientists with knowledge and tools for implementing sustainable ocean practices. The initiative includes expansion of the Ocean Basemap, the launch of the Esri Ocean Resource Center, and the development of marine application tools such as the University of Santa Barbara SeaSketch tool for geodesign planning.
Esri Awards for 2012 Recognize Excellence
The following 2012 Esri awards were presented at the UC plenary:
- Esri Lifetime Achievement Award—Stephen Ervin
- Esri’s President’s Award—U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, received by Malcom Jackson
- Esri Making a Difference Award—The Trust for Public Land, received by Breece Robertson and Will Rogers
- Esri Making a Difference Award—Peter Carlisle, City of Honolulu
Breece Robertson and Will Rogers of The Trust for Public Land received the Making a Difference Award.
Top 10 Productivity Improvements in ArcGIS 10.1
An Esri UC plenary tradition is the presentation of the top 10 advancements in ArcGIS. This year, Esri’s Ismael Chivite shared developers’ favorites at ArcGIS 10.1.
Geoprocessing tools are four to five times faster at ArcGIS 10.1
ArcGIS for Local Government at the City of Fort Lauderdale
Staff from the City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida showed how Esri’s ArcGIS for Local Government helped them save the city money and provide information and tools to the city’s active citizens. ArcGIS for Local Government provides agencies with work specific resources. The Resource Center offers local government users a knowledge center, community forum, maps, applications, and templates that are easy to use and will help them save time.
Monitoring Change with the Landsat Imagery Service
Landsat imagery is essential for studying land use change over time. Esri’s Peter Becker explained how the Esri Landsat imagery service showed changes in Dubai, UAE, from the sleepy village in 1975, to the mega-modern metropolis of 2012. Vinay Viswambharan demonstrated ArcGIS imagery tools that analyze data at the neighborhood level.
Washington-Lee High School
Every year, Esri highlights students who use GIS in the classroom. This year, four students and their teacher from the GIS and environment class at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia presented their senior projects.
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Honolulu Mayor Uses Geodesign for Rail Plan
Peter Carlisle, Mayor of Honolulu, Hawaii, described the role GIS has played for many years in the city’s government. Honolulu has the highest level of traffic congestion in the United States. The mayor sees rail as a plausible solution and GIS as the technology needed for planning the project. He looked to the city’s GIS department to perform analysis and geospatial modeling, and create visualizations of how different transit scenarios would affect development and urban sprawl. In recognition of his progressive thinking and use of goedesign in city planning, Mayor Carlisle was awarded Esri’s Making a Difference Award.
The City of Honolulu used GIS to assess the potential impacts of a rail line.
Dive into Spatial Analytics
Spatial analysis plays a critical role in every work process. Lauren Rosenshein Bennett, Esri product engineer, gave the plenary audience a crash course in spatial analysis by running through six techniques for spatial analytics.
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The Bear Went Over the Mountain and through the GaaP
During the plenary session, Esri presented GIS as a Platform—GaaP. In this amusing story, Esri staff demonstrated new tools and capabilities applied within a complete GIS system to manage a rogue bear problem.
Esri experts Pat Dolan and Jo Fraley take on the role of park managers who have the problem of a rascally bear on their hands. They use GIS as a Platform to access data, build applications, perform analysis, and add to a web application from many devices throughout the day.
Esri Maps for Office
During the plenary technical sessions, Nathan Bennett used data from the Utah Department of Transportation to introduce Esri Maps for Office, a new solution that integrates ArcGIS and Microsoft Office. Users can use the familiar tools in Excel and PowerPoint to create a GIS map.
Esri Maps for Office brings GIS into Microsoft Office tools.
