Category: Esri
Why You Should Attend Geodesign Summit 2016
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This faced-paced music video from GeoSpatial Stream highlights some of the best moments of the 2015 event, illustrating why you should register for and attend the next event, being held Jan. 27-28, 2016, in Redlands, Calif. For more information and to register, visit www.geodesignsummit.com.
CommunityViz Web App
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Providing users with the ability to open new opportunities for education, citizen engagement, and policy change, the app enables users to quickly share their analysis results—such as energy and greenhouse gas generation and possible energy futures—with their ArcGIS Online organization, select groups, or the general public.
2015 Audubon Medal Awardees: Jack and Laura Dangermond
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Jack and Laura Dangermond launched Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri) in 1969 with a vision of how maps and geographic sciences could promote deeper understanding of our world and enable us to design a better future. The Dangermonds have since donated more than a billion dollars in geo-spatial, analytical, and visualization technology to research institutions, schools, and nonprofit organizations, equipping these groups with the same GIS tools that drive the strategies of Fortune 500 companies.
Save the Rain
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Users are able to make smarter choices and save water when it is available. The next time it rains, users can capture rainwater that lands on their homes and use it again to water plants, trees, and lawns; wash cars; and even flush toilets.
Modeling Community Erosion from Climate Change
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Based on modeling current and future soil erosion with high-resolution scientific data, the app allows users to locate sites that are vulnerable to erosion, predicts soil loss driven by climate change, and enables users to investigate erosion risks for future land covers.
Esri’s Geotrigger Service Explained
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Matt Ball spoke with Amber Case, director of Esri's R&D Center in Portland, at the Local Data Summit in Denver on Feb. 25, 2014. The conversation ranges from accessible geospatial technology, the ubiquity of mobile devices, and the connections that are made with location awareness and location-based alerts.
RideAmigos UNITY
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Uniting entities that create the data needed to provide rich visualizations and insights into commuter habits globally, Unity enables unlimited public and private networks within a region to create behavioral changes and eliminate traffic by allowing users to sync data to Esri ArcGIS software for modal analysis. Users can also explore how each mode contributes to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.
Global Forest Watch Commodities—Geospatial Tools to Help Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Land-Use Change
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This app provides three tools for businesses interested in good forest management: Suitability Mapper, which enables businesses to identify degraded areas best suited for commodity development as an alternative to clearing new forest areas; Forest Analyzer, which provides information on land cover and land use to monitor and evaluate change to forests on commodity concessions; and Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) Support tool, which users can complete for an analysis of forest change on certified areas and use the analysis for the compensation procedure required by RSPO while also enabling commodity buyers to make informed sourcing decisions.
EveryDropLA
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Encouraging water conservation, the app allows users to identify and directly report water waste, view instances of water waste around them, receive alerts to conserve when essential, educate themselves on water conservation, and engage the water community through social media.
Smart Mapping from Esri
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Smart Mapping is an exciting new capability in ArcGIS Online that will change how you make maps.
