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3D Mapping Forum
Explore how the science, entertainment and defense industries are utilizing GIS to solve their organizational challenges. ArcGIS users will present how they manage remotely sensed data, such as Lidar and imagery, extend 2D into 3D GIS, create 3D visualizations and analytics, as well as share their 3D information. In addition, Esri technical experts and industry leaders will be covering topics that will give your organization the competitive advantage needed to move from 2D into 3D GIS.
During the morning plenary, hear from Lawrie Jordan, Esri's Director of Imagery and Esri product engineers. Main topics during the day will include Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Mobile Mapping, Smart 3D Cities, and Military Installation 3D Management, to be covered in the afternoon breakout sessions.
You'll take away key concepts of using the ArcGIS platform, and learn how to inform decision makers by providing simple and timely access to their 3D and remotely sensed data.
Level: Intermediate
Prerequisites: Prior knowledge of Lidar and GIS
Audience: GIS practitioners of education, science, defense, and entertainment
Fee: $100
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Esri staff, ArcGIS users |
Sunday |
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ArcGIS Enterprise Systems: Performance and Scalability
This workshop will present a process of performance tuning, testing, and monitoring. We will discuss methodology and tools for analyzing the key performance factors and the root cause of typical performance problems. We’ll discuss the role of performance testing and benchmarks in the capacity planning. Users will have access to all exercises and tools covered, e.g. System Designer, Test, Monitor.
Fee: $395
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Andrew Sakowicz |
Saturday |
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ArcGIS Enterprise Systems: System Architecture Design Strategies
This seminar provides attendees with a strategy for successful ArcGIS system Architecture design. The focus is on best practices and real world examples of lessons learned; including guidelines for identifying business requirements, selecting the right software, using properly configured data sources, getting the product architecture right, selecting the right hardware, and defining solution strategies that satisfy user productivity needs. Design theory is matched with practical experience shared by our top Enterprise design architects demonstrating the value of implementing IT design standards.
Prerequisites: No prerequisites. A good reference is Dave Peters’ book Building a GIS, available through Esri Press (Second Edition published in January 2012). Content is also shared in the System Design Strategies wiki site on wiki.GIS.com and Enterprise GIS Resource Center.
Audience: Current or potential GIS managers, GIS analysts, Project managers, GIS technical architects, IT managers, and software developers interested in understanding how to build successful GIS operations.
Fee: $395
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Dave Peters |
Sunday |
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Building the Basemap for the Community Maps Program
Get an introduction to the benefits of participating in the Community Maps Program: a cooperative effort by the ArcGIS user community to build multiscale basemaps of the world using the best available data sources from GIS organizations in cities, counties, countries, and private companies. You will learn how the program is structured, best practices for preparing authoritative content to be published in Community Maps online maps services, and how to leverage published content to create dynamic and useful web mapping applications. This interactive session includes group activities, discussions about current updates and enhancements, and software demonstrations.
Level: Beginner
Prerequisites: None
Audience: Users from organizations that are interested in contributing authoritative data content to the Esri Community Maps Program
Fee: Free
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Seth Sarakaitis, Mark Stewart, Tamara Yoder |
Sunday |
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Designing Great Maps with ArcGIS
This seminar teaches how to create attractive maps that are easy to interpret and properly designed for their audience and delivery medium, with an emphasis on applying fundamental cartographic design principles. You will learn how to follow a standard cartographic workflow to efficiently produce high-quality maps for print and online use.
Level: Intermediate
Prerequisites: Attendees should have experience using ArcGIS for Desktop, including symbolizing layers, labeling features, and familiarity with geodatabases.
Audience: Cartographers and GIS analysts, specialists, mapping technicians, and others who need to produce maps using ArcGIS software
Fee: $645
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Carl Byers, Eric Gillett |
Saturday–Sunday |
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Esri Technical Certification: Skills Review for ArcGIS Desktop Associate
This seminar helps prepare you to take the ArcGIS Desktop Associate certification exam. You will review and apply your ArcGIS skills in the areas of GIS data management, editing, visualization, and analysis. Hands-on practice with ArcGIS for Desktop software is emphasized.
This seminar is designed as an exam preparation resource. You are not required to take this course to earn the certification, and completing this course does not guarantee you will pass the exam.
Level: Intermediate
Prerequisites: Two or more years of experience using ArcGIS Desktop software (versions 9 and 10) to create and edit data, design and publish maps, and perform common GIS analysis operations are required.
Audience: Individuals planning to take the ArcGIS Desktop Associate certification exam, including GIS managers, analysts, specialists, and technicians
Fee: $645
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Miriam Schmidts, Alyson Smith |
Saturday–Sunday |
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Esri Technical Certification: Skills Review for ArcGIS Desktop Professional
This seminar helps prepare you to take the ArcGIS Desktop Professional certification exam. In a fast-paced class environment that emphasizes group discussion and hands-on practice, you will review and apply your ArcGIS skills in the following areas: -Vector and raster data management -Data visualization -GIS analysis -Modeling and Python scripting -Map production and sharing.
This seminar assumes proficiency with ArcGIS software, including ArcMap, ArcCatalog, and the ArcGIS Network Analyst and Spatial Analyst extensions.
This seminar is designed as an exam-preparation resource. You are not required to take this course to earn the certification, and completing this course does not guarantee you will pass the exam.
Level: Advanced
Prerequisites: Two or more years of experience using ArcGIS software (versions 9 and 10) to accomplish a variety of GIS tasks and analyses are required.
Audience: Individuals planning to take the ArcGIS Desktop Professional certification exam, including GIS managers, analysts, specialists, and consultants
Fee: $645
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Jorge Ruiz-Valdepeña, Ryan Otto |
Saturday–Sunday |
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A Framework for GeoDesign
Dr. Steinitz provides an in-depth overview of GeoDesign processes, looking at both rural and urban environments. He describes a framework for doing GeoDesign (design in geographic space) using six model types for assessing the geographic context, for proposing changes and for evaluating the consequences of those changes. He then shows how this framework and these models can be used to understand, plan and manage a variety of landuse/management projects. He presents nine different strategies for proposing change and shows how they can be applied to different problem types at different scales, discussing the pros and cons of each in different situations. The seminar provides the participants with the equivalent of a graduate level seminar on GeoDesign.
Audience: Land Use Managers, Environmental Planners, Urban & Regional Planners, Natural Resource Managers
Fee: $100
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Carl Steinitz |
Sunday |
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Image Management
Over time, your organization has likely collected or created large collections of imagery in the form of orthoimage tiles, satellite imagery, aerial imagery, scanned maps, historical photos, and categorical data, as well as elevation rasters and lidar. This information has value only if it is accessible to a wide range of users within your organizations who need quick access to measure change, identify assets, and perform analysis. This workshop will provide details on how to use the extensive capabilities of ArcGIS to structure and manage this imagery so as to transform it into multiple imagery products that can be directly used in different applications, as well as served to multiple devices. Utilizing collections of typical imagery datasets, the seminar will provide interactive examples and discussions on best practice workflows to quickly turn your imagery assets into accessible information for decision makers.
Level: Beginner
Prerequisites: Attendees should have at least one year of experience using ArcGIS analysis tools and models to conduct GIS analysis projects.
Audience: GIS analysts, specialists, and other professionals who want to broaden their knowledge of ArcGIS analysis methods and learn a recommended, repeatable workflow to solve spatial problems.
Fee: $295
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Peter Becker |
Sunday |
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Implementing an Enterprise GIS Project
This seminar will focus on defining and implementing an enterprise ArcGIS project from an operational and technical management perspective. Presenters will discuss best practices for each key project stage and present illustrative case studies. Project management-related topics will include defining the project vision; understanding and defining requirements; designing, developing, and configuring ArcGIS project components; identifying project resource requirements; identifying and managing risks; and planning for deployment and ongoing support. Technical implementation topics will include enterprise solution design considerations, security planning, database design and migration, infrastructure design and implementation, and configuration management.
Level: Beginner
Prerequisites: None
Audience: GIS managers, project managers, and managers in charge of GIS implementations
Fee:
$395
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Gerry Clancy, Mirjam Stadelmann |
Sunday |
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Introduction to Geoprocessing Scripts Using Python
Python scripts can reduce the time spent on complex or repetitive tasks, enabling GIS staff to be more productive. This seminar teaches how to create Python scripts to automate tasks related to data management, feature editing, geoprocessing and analysis. You will also learn how to share your Python scripts so your key GIS workflows are accessible to others.
Level: Intermediate
Prerequisites: Attendees should have at least one year of experience working with ArcGIS geoprocessing tools and models. Attendees should also have basic python programming skills, including using loops and conditional statements.
Audience: GIS analysts, specialists, data processors, and others who want to automate ArcGIS tasks and workflows.
Fee: $645
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Alan Coyle, Stephanie McNamara |
Saturday–Sunday |
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Performing Geospatial Analysis
Advance your foundational ArcGIS skills by learning how to obtain reliable results from different types of GIS analysis. You will apply a standard workflow to efficiently solve spatial problems using a variety of ArcGIS tools and vector, raster, and temporal data. Techniques to effectively share your analysis workflows and results are covered. This seminar is taught using ArcGIS for Desktop Advanced and some course exercises use tools provided in the ArcGIS Spatial Analyst extension.
Level: Intermediate
Prerequisites: Attendees should have at least one year of experience using ArcGIS analysis tools and models to conduct GIS analysis projects.
Audience: GIS analysts, specialists, and other professionals who want to broaden their knowledge of ArcGIS analysis methods and learn a recommended, repeatable workflow to solve spatial problems.
Fee: $645
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Gregory Emmanual, David Davis |
Saturday–Sunday |
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Planning and Managing a GIS
Does your organization need a consistent methodology for planning and managing a GIS? Presenters will focus on the practical aspects of planning and implementing a GIS that integrates with your business strategy and workflows. You'll learn business practices to achieve organization-wide coordination and information sharing as well as a proven approach to cost-benefit analysis and return on investment. Further discussions include the day-to-day details of GIS management, creating the personnel and technical environments for hardware acquisition and deployment, system migration, legal issues, risk analysis, and more.
Level: All
Prerequisites: None.
Audience: Land Use Managers, Environmental Planners, Urban & Regional Planners, Natural Resource Managers
Fee: $295
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Dave Peters, Roger Tomlinson |
Saturday |
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Sharing GIS Resources Online Using ArcGIS for Server
This seminar teaches how to deliver geographic information so that it can be effectively used by colleagues, decision-makers, and non-GIS audiences. You will learn how to share your professional maps, data, and workflows by creating and publishing high-performing GIS services that can be accessed from desktop computers, web browsers, and mobile devices.
Level: Intermediate
Prerequisites: Experience with ArcGIS for Desktop to create maps using a variety of data types and sources is required. Familiarity with geoprocessing tools and models is recommended.
Audience: GIS analysts, specialists, and other experienced ArcGIS users who want to share GIS resources in web maps and web mapping applications; developers who want to incorporate GIS services and web maps into custom applications
Fee: $645
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John Thieling, James Gough |
Saturday–Sunday |
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Understanding Imagery Science for GIS Professionals
This seminar will introduce you to image processing using the Image Analysis Window. You will learn how to manage and visualize imagery through the mosaic dataset. Learn how to share your imagery through cached and dynamic Image Services. You will also be introduced to Lidar basics.
Level: Intermediate
Prerequisites: Attendees should have at least one year of experience using ArcGIS and a general understanding of GIS concepts.
Audience: GIS analysts, specialists, and other professionals who want to broaden their knowledge of Imagery. You will learn how to manage and leverage new ArcGIS Imagery functionality.
Fee: $645
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Tom Shippee, Travis Saladino |
Saturday–Sunday |