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Growing a Digital Twin at Arizona\u2019s Desert Botanical Garden<\/h2>\r\nLocated in Phoenix, Arizona, Desert Botanical Garden is a 140-acre living museum with more than 50,000 specimens of 4,500 native and nonnative plant varieties. With more than 500 rare and endangered species and an estimated 870,000 visitors per year, the nonprofit garden is a hub of education, research, exhibition, and conservation for desert plants, especially those of the Sonoran Desert."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":642902,"image_position":"right","orientation":"vertical","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Until recently, staff at the garden managed the property and its specimens by using paper-based mapping workflows. Garden staff reached out to Esri partner Bad Elf<\/strong><\/a>, initially seeking survey-grade Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers to help manage the botanical collection.\r\n\r\nNow, the garden has gone digital, improving efficiency and helping keep the collection healthy. Assisted by Bad Elf, Desert Botanical Garden has migrated from its paper systems to a GIS-based digital twin<\/a>.\r\n\r\nGarden staff wanted to increase their digital collection of plants and assets. Previously, the collection was only partly digitally mapped, and the goal was to digitally map the entire garden. By going digital, staff hoped Desert Botanical Garden would improve efficiency, particularly by mapping facility infrastructure such as water lines and similar assets for maintenance purposes.\r\n\r\nThe Bad Elf team went on-site to demonstrate how Bad Elf GNSS receivers could work in the garden\u2019s high-density planting conditions, unique to species in the US Southwest. Using ArcGIS Field Maps, the team demonstrated practical data collection techniques that met all of the staff\u2019s requirements. Bad Elf also trained the staff in high-accuracy geospatial field data collection, emphasizing workflows and helping ensure that all the data collected uses GNSS metadata.\r\n\r\nIn addition, the Bad Elf team taught garden staff how to construct field layers using appropriate projections to ensure that all data would be properly referenced. Staff learned how to deploy field data collection layers and web maps in Field Maps and how to use ArcGIS Pro as their primary geodesign management tool. Combining Field Maps and Bad Elf Flex GNSS receivers, training concluded with staff constructing and deploying Field Maps layers designed for individual duties such as maintenance, planning, and research."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":642892,"image_position":"left","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Moving away from paper maps enabled garden staff to have a complete digital twin of Desert Botanical Garden\u2019s plants. Now staff can run plant health reports; assign maintenance and monitoring tasks to high-density plantings; and keep track of plant species\u2019 health, location, and quantities.\r\n\r\nThe garden\u2019s geodatabase also supports data collaboration with the US National Seed Strategy, a Bureau of Land Management program that guides the development, availability, and use of seeds needed for restoration efforts. Participation in this program gives the botanical garden access to federal funding to create and manage a national revegetation plan for federal and nonfederal land.\r\n\r\nIn the future, the garden\u2019s Esri-based digital twin will not only help staff keep the garden healthy but also provide data that could aid conservation efforts in desert areas far from Arizona."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Closing the Distance Between Small Communities and Fiber Backbones<\/h2>\r\nInfrastructure company Arcadian Infracom builds and operates long-haul fiber routes through rural and tribal lands in the United States, enabling improved broadband access and economic development in underserved communities. Developing unique routes that support Arcadian\u2019s broadband access and diversity objectives is complex and requires considering many location-based elements."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":642912,"image_position":"right","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Enterprise GIS became critical for staff at Arcadian to analyze, create, and manage rights-of-way. But implementing and administering ArcGIS Enterprise was complex from resource and cost perspectives. So Arcadian management reached out to CyberTech Systems and Software<\/strong><\/a> to help get ArcGIS Enterprise up and running and ensure that its use met the infrastructure company\u2019s key business objectives.\r\n\r\nThe CyberTech team acted quickly, first engaging with the Arcadian Esri account representative. Esri approved Arcadian\u2019s application to join the ArcGIS Telecom Management enterprise agreement program, which provides the organization with key GIS capabilities, plus discounts on training and additional licensing.\r\n\r\nCyberTech also set Arcadian up with the CyberTech Managed ArcGIS Cloud Services offering. This security-first managed service subscription for ArcGIS Enterprise provided Arcadian with a cloud computing environment, ArcGIS Enterprise implementation, and end-to-end service-level agreement-based administration. From start to finish, CyberTech completed Arcadian\u2019s ArcGIS Enterprise implementation and setup in just six weeks.\r\n\r\nWith an ArcGIS Enterprise environment fully functional and accessible, Arcadian\u2019s broadband planners use the power of location for right-of-way analysis, creation, and management. Now that Arcadian employs the power of integrated information about areas under consideration from a location perspective, staff are able to analyze the geographic elements of each project and how they might impact routes, which saves the company time and resources.\r\n\r\nCyberTech continues to provide Managed ArcGIS Cloud Services to Arcadian, ensuring that the company\u2019s spatial resources are fully functional, up-to-date, and available. In addition, CyberTech\u2019s engineers assist with streamlining processes and automating right-of-way-related functions. Today, the partnership between CyberTech and Arcadian remains mutually beneficial, driving success for both companies."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Improving Internet Connectivity with Ookla Speedtest Data and ArcGIS Survey123<\/h2>\r\nInternet connectivity is necessary for education, economic growth, and quality of life, so ensuring universal access to fast and reliable internet is a priority for state governments. In 2021, West Virginia governor Jim Justice announced the Billion-Dollar Broadband Strategy, a plan to invest more than $1 billion in public and private funding to improve broadband connectivity to homes and businesses throughout the state."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":642922,"image_position":"left","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"In 2023, the cost of this plan\u2014the largest broadband investment in the state\u2019s history\u2014exceeded $1 billion and prompted the West Virginia Department of Economic Development and the West Virginia Broadband Enhancement Council to prioritize funding allocation. However, a lack of network performance data, along with West Virginia\u2019s varied Appalachia mountain topography, interfered with determining where to focus connectivity improvements.\r\n\r\nWhile federally published maps such as the Federal Communications Commission\u2019s National Broadband Map<\/em> help visualize connectivity needs, their data does not always reflect constituents\u2019 true, everyday internet experience. With a need for comprehensive, unbiased network performance data, project managers leveraged Ookla<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s crowdsourced Speedtest data to better understand the state\u2019s broadband availability and performance. They based their research on the many West Virginia residents who use Speedtest to monitor their internet performance."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":642932,"image_position":"right","orientation":"vertical","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Using ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Pro, the department conducted a multicriteria spatial analysis using hundreds of thousands of Speedtest results, Federal Communications Commission data, and related layers. This enabled the department to accurately visualize statewide connectivity while analyzing quality-of-service measurements such as upload and download speeds. The department was able to identify more than 271,000 underserved and unserved locations that had not previously been reported, helping target funding where it was most needed.\r\n\r\nTo enhance crowdsourced Speedtest measurements, the department and the council now encourage residents to continue testing their broadband performance using an integrated Speedtest and ArcGIS Survey123 questionnaire<\/a>. This allows the state to associate Speedtest measurements with ISPs, location type, and service affordability to understand gaps in broadband adoption.\r\n\r\nWest Virginia continues to use Ookla crowdsourced data and ArcGIS tools to track network buildouts, monitor adoption and speeds in focus areas, and make informed funding decisions as more grants are awarded. Now, Ookla\u2019s ArcGIS technology-hosted layers allow government offices nationwide to rapidly map broadband and mobile network performance datasets, analyzing crucial speed and quality-of-experience metrics to help ensure equitable connectivity development."},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Center","content":"Esri partners represent the rich ecosystem of organizations around the world that work together to amplify The Science of Where by extending the ArcGIS system and implementing it in distinct ways to solve specific problems. 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