Map Book Gallery
Volume 22: GIS—The Geographic Approach
 Assessing the Vulnerability of U.S. Livestock to Agricultural Biological Terrorism —Geographers have helped identify how place, culture, and environment are critical components to better understanding the causes of terrorism and how to best respond. However, less attention has been focused on spatially explicit aspects of homeland security and the susceptibility of rural landscapes threatened by agricultural bioterrorism.
Volume 21: GIS—Communicating Our World
 Geospatial Data and Environmental Science and Management
Naval Undersea Warfare Center and the University of Rhode Island Environmental Data Center in the Department of Natural Resources Science have worked together to develop GIS-based solutions to complex problems faced by the U.S. Navy in environmental and ecological management. The partnership has proven to be extremely valuable for both institutions.
Volume 20: GIS—Helping Manage Our World
Bird Hazard Map
The GeoIntegration Office at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, was tasked with producing a new Bird Hazard map with the goal of decreasing the risk of bird strikes. The air force reports an average of 2,600 bird strikes per year with an annual cost of $38 million.
Volume 19: GIS—The Language of Geography
Naval Aircraft in Hampton Roads, Virginia
In the early 1970s, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) established the Air Installations Compatible Use Zones (AICUZ) Program to balance the need for aircraft operations and community concerns. The goal of the AICUZ Program is to protect the health, safety, and welfare of those living near a military airport while preserving its defense flying mission.
Volume 18: Geography and GIS—Serving Our World
Afghanistan—Terrain and Population
This map served as a tool to bridge the gap in the general knowledge about Afghanistan, its rugged terrain, and some of its cultural issues in the days immediately following September 11, 2001.
Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea
This map displays the various forms of data that have been used to develop and maintain an accurate and effective mapping system.
Volume 17: Geography and GIS—Sustaining Our World
Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Transnational Issues
This map enables analysts to better understand the distribution of HIV cases across Africa by taking into consideration population density.
Volume 16: Geography—Creating Communities
Navy Site Planning—Recruit Training Command Great Lakes
This map is part of a series used in the analysis of the possible site redevelopment at the U.S. Naval Recruit Training Command (RTC) Great Lakes located in northeastern Illinois.
Addtional maps from the Map Book Gallery related to the defense industry include
Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, LIDAR Terrain Mapping
EarthData International of North Carolina —Volume 18
Elmendorf Air Force Base Approach Zone Encroachment Analysis
U.S. Air Force —Volume 18
March Air Reserve Base
CH2M HILL, Inc. —Volume 18
Tactical Pilotage Chart—Volume 16
The Map Book Gallery features the ESRI Map Book series dedicated to acknowledging the important and innovative accomplishments of GIS users around the world.
Published annually, each volume of the ESRI Map Book showcases a small portion of the work presented at the Map Gallery exhibition at the annual ESRI International User Conference.
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