{"id":67121,"date":"2015-04-01T19:19:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T19:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/esri-and-the-science-community-the-year-ahead\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T21:04:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T21:04:59","slug":"esri-and-the-science-community-the-year-ahead","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/3d-gis\/3d-gis\/esri-and-the-science-community-the-year-ahead","title":{"rendered":"Esri and the Science Community: The Year Ahead"},"author":5471,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23771,23341,22851,22931,22771,22871,23051],"tags":[25311,25591,25601,25611,24981,25621,25331,22901,22821,24341,25631,23391],"industry":[],"product":[36561],"class_list":["post-67121","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-gis","category-analytics","category-national-government","category-imagery","category-natural-resources","category-state-government","category-water","tag-arcgis-10","tag-arcgis-desktop","tag-escience","tag-higher-education","tag-hydro","tag-isciences","tag-marine-science-and-conservation","tag-national-government","tag-oceans-and-maritime","tag-python","tag-spatial-analysis","tag-spatial-analytics","product-arcgis-pro"],"acf":{"short_description":"From the Esri Insider blog post\n\n\n\nScience at Esri continues to be an exciting initiative where we are concerned with supporting both bas...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

From the Esri Insider<\/a> blog post<\/em><\/p>\n

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Science at Esri continues to be an exciting initiative where we are concerned with supporting both basic and applied science, while also recognizing that there are many major themes of compelling interest to society that will drive scientific research for the next two decades. Thus we view science as helping us to understand not only how the Earth works<\/em>, but also how the Earth should look<\/em> (e.g., by way of geodesign<\/a>), and how we should look at<\/em> the Earth (i.e., by way of Earth observation in varying forms and the accompanying data science issues of analysis, modeling, developing and documenting useful datasets for science, interoperating between these datasets and between various approaches). In addition to supporting the science community, we seek to do good science at Esri ourselves, as it underpins much of what we do as an organization. This is helping us to evolve ArcGIS into a comprehensive geospatial platform for science; a platform that supports research project management and collaboration, spatial analysis, visualization, open data, and communication of science, all at multiple scales (i.e., from individual researcher to lab workgroup, to multi-department, multi-university, university-to-agency collaboration, to citizen engagement).<\/p>\n

You can always track the totality of the Esri science initiative at esriurl.com\/scicomm<\/a><\/strong>, but as we near the end of 2015’s first quarter, here are some highlights of the immediate road ahead.<\/p>\n