{"id":536702,"date":"2022-09-02T17:39:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T00:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=arcuser&#038;p=536702"},"modified":"2022-09-02T20:47:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T03:47:58","slug":"toc-creating-a-sustainable-future-together","status":"publish","type":"arcuser","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/toc-creating-a-sustainable-future-together","title":{"rendered":"TOC \/ Creating a Sustainable Future Together"},"author":1031,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","castos_file_data":"","podmotor_file_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[463771,10932,348072],"tags":[477192,1461],"arcuser_issues":[481302],"class_list":["post-536702","arcuser","type-arcuser","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-esri-user-conference","category-letter","tag-2022-esri-uc","tag-sustainability","arcuser_issues-arcuser-summer-2022"],"acf":{"short_description":"The theme of the 2022 Esri User Conference (Esri UC), GIS\u2014Mapping Common Ground, encapsulates the most pressing task of GIS professionals today.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":536712,"file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"The theme of the 2022 Esri User Conference (Esri UC), GIS\u2014Mapping Common Ground, encapsulates the most pressing task of GIS professionals today: working together to meet the challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss. Doing this will require a far better understanding of the Earth and its processes than we currently possess. However, the real question is can enough be done\u2014fast enough\u2014to make a difference in the end?\r\n\r\nEsri president Jack Dangermond has emphasized that effective action will require scaling up the geographic approach, which \u201cis integrative in nature. It\u2019s science based and holistic, and emphasizes collaboration.\u201d\r\n\r\nRapid advances in IT, such as machine learning, cloud computing, and unstructured data analysis, benefit GIS technology as it becomes more tightly integrated with mainstream IT. These advances have been incorporated into GIS technology and were highlighted at Esri UC.\r\n\r\nWith more powerful tools, GIS is helping to close the gap in our knowledge of the Earth. With the help of machine learning, an abundance of information is being extracted rapidly from imagery captured via satellite, lidar, and aerial photography.\r\nMobile GIS apps, such as ArcGIS Field Maps and ArcGIS Survey123, improve data collection by increasing accuracy and sharply decreasing the interval between data collection and availability.\r\n\r\nSites built with ArcGIS Hub centralize the maintenance of data and the creation of information products such as web maps and apps, which enhance collaboration within and between organizations. The adoption of data standards makes data more discoverable and useful. Creating a geospatial community of practice (CoP) within an organization strengthens its processes, increases collaboration, and supports the use of GIS in that organization.\r\n\r\nThe augmented analysis tools available in ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Engine and ArcGIS Knowledge, both announced at Esri UC, provide new ways to ramp up the conversion of data into knowledge. ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Engine, an independent product, is a Spark-native library that allows organizations to deploy spatial analysis tools alongside data in the cloud. With ArcGIS Knowledge, users can explore and analyze spatial, nonspatial, unstructured, and structured data to perform analyses more quickly and comprehensively.\r\n\r\nHowever, these and other expanding capabilities of ArcGIS won\u2019t be sufficient, according to Dangermond. \u201cBut just the technology aspects or even the data aspects won\u2019t be enough,\" said Dangermond. \"It\u2019s about you and how we can together create effective solutions, learn how to collaborate across some of the dividing lines that separate us and\u2014above all\u2014act with urgency to create a more sustainable future.\u201d"},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Center","content":"<h2>Table of Contents<\/h2>\r\n<h3>Summer 2022<\/h3>\r\n<h3>Focus<\/h3>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/smart-pipeline\/\">Hydrocarbon Transmission Pipelines Managed with GIS Dashboard<\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/oman-addressing\/\">Oman\u2019s Unified Addressing System Will Have Broad Benefits<\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/pavement-management\/\">Dashboard Makes Street Rating Data More Valuable<\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/mapping-past-contamination-helps-cities-plan-for-renewal\/\">Mapping Past Contamination Helps Cities Plan for Renewal<\/a>\r\n<h3>Special Section<\/h3>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/mapping-the-future-we-want\/\">Mapping the Future We Want<\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/challenge-comes-change\/\">From Challenge Comes Change<\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/us-sidebar\/\">Addressing All Our World\u2019s Challenges<\/a>\r\n<h3>End Notes<\/h3>\r\n<a 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Content<\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/captivate-potential-employers-with-storymaps\/\">Captivate Potential Employers with StoryMaps<\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/look-no-hands-use-your-voice-to-run-arcgis-quickcapture-on-an-iphone\/\">Use Your Voice to Run ArcGIS QuickCapture on an iPhone<\/a>\r\n<h2>Bookshelf<\/h2>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/gis-bookshelf-26\/\">Local Voices, Local Choices: The Tacare Approach to Community-Led Conservation<\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/gis-bookshelf-26\/\">Measuring Up: The Business Case for GIS, Volume 3<\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/winnietang\/\">Insight from a Pioneer of GIS and Digital Transformation<\/a>\r\n<h3>Faces of GIS<\/h3>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/deepsea-dawn-dive\/\">Celebrating a Voyage of Discovery<\/a>\r\n<h3>Education<\/h3>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/embassies\/\">Finding the Most Suitable Sites for US Embassies<\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/new-mooc-explores-the-intersection-of-gis-cad-and-bim\/\">New MOOC Explores the Intersection of GIS, CAD, and BIM<\/a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","snippet":""}],"references":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Created Sustainable Future<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The theme of the 2022 Esri User Conference (Esri UC), GIS\u2014Mapping Common Ground, encapsulates the most pressing task of GIS professionals today: working together to meet the challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss. 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