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Back in January 2014, Esri held the first Western Agriculture GIS Meeting in a small conference room in Esri\u2019s regional Sacramento o\ufb03ce. Attended by about a dozen permanent crop GIS analysts and managers, this was the first time this group had the opportunity to gather and discuss spatial approaches to the unique challenges facing western agriculture.
\nFast Forward, by January 25th, 2016, the Esri Western Agriculture GIS Meeting <\/a>has grown, attracting over seventy growers, solution providers, and academics to the Citizen Hotel in Sacramento, CA. The group came together to gather, learn from one another, and discuss the latest trends in spatial technologies for agriculture.
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\nThe agenda <\/a>was designed to reflect common patterns of adopting spatial technologies in the agriculture industry. The morning began with an ArcGIS platform overview<\/a>, given by Esri Agriculture Lead Charlie Magruder, followed by a discussion and demo illustrating several ways to get started, map, and visualize your agricultural data.
\nBy mid-morning, the focus shifted to how to extend spatial awareness into the field, and how to collect field-based observations with Collector for ArcGIS<\/a>. Attendees were each given access to a \u2018Western Agriculture GIS Meeting\u2019 portal populated with the templates that allowed them to participate in a \u2018crop scouting\u2019 Collector demonstration themselves.
\nAfter lunch, the discussion opened with a presentation entitled, Mapping the Future of Agriculture <\/a>by Susana Crespo. Specifically, the discussion focused on the opportunities imagery, modeling, and real-time monitoring would afford the industry. Cody Benkelman then presented on the ArcGIS Imagery Platform<\/a>, as well as on new and exciting developments in ArcGIS Support for UAS<\/a>.
\nOne of the biggest hits of the day was the presentation given by Elvis Takow, Esri\u2019s resident \u2018geo – viticulture – ographer\u2019, entitled Analyzing Spatial Data Using Regression<\/a>. Elvis illustrated the power of regression analysis to predict grape yield based on a number of environmental factors and conditions.
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\nThe Speakers<\/strong>
\nGIS leaders from the industry <\/a>presented on a range of topics, focused mostly on applying geography to viticulture operations.
\nDoug Wood<\/strong>, Viticulture Technology Coordinator at Scheid Vineyards, o\ufb00ered an insider\u2019s view of how GIS is used to integrate and synthesize existing systems of record with various status updates from the field. Doug outlined the steps to successful GIS implementation, and discussed Scheid\u2019s journey from making its first maps, to where they are today with mobile app development. Download his presentation, Viticultural Technologies: Mobile & Web GIS in Action, here<\/a>.
\nTony Vertolli<\/strong>, Viticulture Technician at Constellation Brands, shared how he uses \u201chigh – revisit\u201d aerial imagery from Esri Partner TerrAvion <\/a>to monitor and analyze the spatial variability of vine health and growth throughout the season. Together with Adam Metz, Terravion Vice President, they discussed innovative ways of distilling volumes of spatially and temporally explicit data into actionable metrics, specifically through visualizing stress through NDVI, and overlaying with leaf water potential to understand patterns of problem areas. Download Tony and Adam\u2019s presentation, Integrating Technologies in Vineyards, here<\/a>.
\nBrent Sams<\/strong>, Research Viticulturist at E&J Gallo Winery, shared the latest results in an on-going precision irrigation project, where mapping outcomes is helping to understand dynamics between water quantity and grape quality profiles. Download Brent\u2019s presentation, Variable Rate Irrigation, here<\/a>.
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Brent Sams presenting on Precision Irrigation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nEdward Pultar<\/strong>, Geographic Information Scientist \/ President at Valarm spoke to the role of remote monitoring in e\ufb00ective water and fluid resource management. Download Edward\u2019s presentation, Water Fluid Tank Monitoring, here<\/a>.
\nStay Connected<\/strong>
\nStay connected and join the conversation at the LinkedIn Esri Agriculture Group <\/a>page. Here you will see announcements about our upcoming Mid West Agriculture GIS Meeting in St. Louis, MO, August 1, 2016, the day before InfoAg 2016<\/a>.
\nSpeaking of the summer\u2026 you can also meet up with the Esri Agriculture Team and Community in San Diego at the Esri User Conference<\/a>, June 27th – July 1st.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[275862],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6373","insider","type-insider","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-focus"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nEsri\u2019s Growing Agriculture Community<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/esris-growing-agriculture-community\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Esri\u2019s Growing Agriculture Community\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Back in January 2014, Esri held the first Western Agriculture GIS Meeting in a small conference room in Esri\u2019s regional Sacramento o\ufb03ce. 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