The Wave Fall 2009

Welcome to the ESRI marine GIS e-newsletter, The Wave, a guide to interesting marine GIS current events, publications, and opportunities. Each issue provides a quick glimpse of industry news, upcoming events, and resources for the GIS community.

In This Issue

• 2009 ESRI UC Review
• ESRI Resource
• Product News
• GIS Day
• Meet the Environment, Marine & Coast Industry Manager
• Calendar: Key Events

2009 ESRI UC Review

Marine and Coastal GIS Special Interest Group Meeting
This year was the 9th meeting of the Marine and Coastal GIS Special Interest Group The meeting was well attended with about 40 participants. We had very interesting presentations from the following speakers:

• Timothy Kearns, ESRI Maritime Team Manager, discussed ESRI Maritime activities. [PDF]
• Witold Fraczek, ESRI Applications Prototype Lab, demonstrated his interesting Ocean Currents application.
• Kim Jenkins, NOAA, shared her work on Implementation of Portal Toolkit for NOAA’s Regional Collaboration Efforts.[PDF]

If you are interested in presenting your work at next year’s meeting, please contact Katsura Iizuka.

Technical Briefing Sessions
Based on previous discussions about an ArcMarine data model training opportunity at the UC, we had our first Technical Briefing session titled, ArcMarine–Managing and Analyzing Ocean and Coastal Data in ArcGIS [PDF], presented by Dawn Wright, Oregon State University, and Katsura Iizuka, ESRI. We also had a session on Managing and Modeling Bathymetry data in ArcGIS presented by Rafael Ponce and Timothy Kearns, ESRI.

If there is enough interest in a one-day or half-a-day course to learn how to use and implement ArcMarine (by going through the ArcMarine Tutorial together with your own datasets), we might be able to host an ArcMarine pre-conference seminar before or during the 2010 UC. If you are interested, please contact Katsura Iizuka.

Save the Date
The 2010 ESRI International User Conference will be July 10-12, in San Diego, California. Once again there will be informative sessions, intriguing speakers, and ample networking opportunities. The Call for Presentations is underway. Abstracts are due October 16, 2009.

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ESRI Resources

Resource Centers

There are a variety of helpful tools, templates, and more in the ArcGIS Resource Centers.

Blogs

The GIS and Science blog offers exciting news, resources, commentary, and interviews on the use of GIS technology by the scientific community and for scientific applications on this blog. Read more ESRI blogs.

Articles

City Turns to GIS to Model Flooding of Mighty Mississippi

The City of Davenport, Iowa, used ArcGIS 3D Analyst and the extension's ArcScene application to create a 3D flood model. The model showed how high water levels would rise and where flooding would occur if the Mississippi River overflowed in Davenport. Read the article.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Uses GIS for Complete Analysis of Category 5 Hurricane Protection: One Hundred Ways for Fending Off Hurricane Impacts

How does a civilization save lives and buttress its cities against an unrelenting assault of natural disaster? Read the article and find out the best strategies being implemented for defense against hurricanes.

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Product News

New Version of ArcGIS Explorer Just Released

ESRI's newest release of ArcGIS Explorer became available for free download on August 14, 2009, providing a visual and intuitive way to explore, share, and present your geographic information. It is an ideal means of making your authoritative GIS data available to people who are not GIS experts. See what's new in this demo. ArcGIS Explorer is available for download. Users outside the United States should contact their ESRI international distributor.

Manage Information More Efficiently with New ArcPad 8

ArcPad 8, ESRI’s field mapping and data collection software designed for use with ArcGIS Desktop and a variety of mobile devices, is now available. This major release includes new usability and performance enhancements to increase field productivity and help you manage your GIS projects more efficiently. Read how ArcPad 8 is being used in the field.

ArcGIS Server Geoportal Extension Now Available

See what the ArcGIS Server Geoportal extension, formerly the GIS Portal Toolkit, offers at version 9.3.1. The geoportals that you create enable users to publish information about their geospatial resources to the Internet or a private intranet or search for information that they can integrate into their projects.

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GIS Day

Take Part in GIS Day

GIS Day, November 18, 2009, provides the perfect opportunity for your organization to showcase its work, and teach others about the significant contribution GIS is making in our lives and communities each day. Participation is easy and can be as simple as making a presentation at a local school, hosting an open house event, informational meeting, or proclaiming GIS Day in your city, town, or organization. Register your GIS Day event.

Meet the Environment, Marine & Coast Industry Manager

Robin D. Smith holds a Ph.D. in toxicology and a Bachelor of Science degree in evolutionary ecology. Throughout his career, he has worked with representatives from industry, national and local governments, and nongovernmental organizations, providing him with useful experiences for his new position at ESRI. With his lead, we hope to support you better. We are currently accepting case studies that you could publish to our GIS for Marine and Coast web site.

Contact Katsura Iizuka for sending any comments or new ideas on how we can improve our web site.