Resources
Make use of our authoritative tools, content, and trainings.
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Accelerate your science and communication.
Lifelong Learning
Update and extend your skills.
Citizen Science
Use ArcGIS to engage and crowdsource
Apps for the community
Web-based applications that support data collection and sharing.
Citizen Science Reporter
This solution can be used by citizen scientists to report science observations from their smartphone, tablet, and desktop computer.
Federal Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science Toolkit
A step-by-step guide for helping you carry out your project.
Open Science
Esri and Open Science
ArcGIS: An Open Platform for Innovation
Washington, DC R&D Center
Esri GeoDev Meetups
Developers.ArcGIS.com (including a host of APIs and ArcGIS Runtime SDKs)
Esri Developer Summit (annually in Palm Springs, CA)
Esri Open Source: A Year On and Growing
Open Source Technology and Esri
Esri Limited Error Raster Compression (LERC)
Try ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap
Python and ArcGIS
ArcGIS and SciPy
ArcGIS and the Python Spatial Analysis Library (PySAL) for geospatial analytical computation
Python Data Analysis Library (pandas)
Beginner's guide to Python in ArcGIS Pro, Part 1: Why?
Beginner's guide to Python in ArcGIS Pro, Part 2: How?
Beginner's guide to Python in ArcGIS Pro, Part 3: Tutorial
Beginner's guide to Python in ArcGIS Pro, Part 4: Tutorial, continued
GIS Panel Discussion at SciPy
Using Python (including GDAL) with ArcGIS
Scientific Data and Python Video
Weather and Climate Science
Esri resources
Esri Water Resources
Esri Government Agriculture
Esri Government National Mapping and Charting
Esri Disaster Response Program
ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World Weather and Climate Content
GIS for Insurance Portfolio Risk
Building a Strong Science Enterprise
Additional Climate and Weather Maps and Apps
Scientific partners
Articles and blogs
Ocean Science
Communities
Tools and resources
Solid Earth Science
Esri resources
Geographic Information Science
Social Science
Articles, blogs, and books
Esri resources
Software Stacks
Core and customized software stacks for science
Esri's Service to the Scientific Community
Esri is well known as a vendor of GIS to research labs, universities, and other places where great science is done. However, Esri continues to work toward contributing as a member of the scientific community as well. This is partly accomplished by our volunteer work on scientific advisory boards, councils, and committees. Current examples include the following:
Events and organizations
52°North Scientific and Technical Advisory Board
American Meteorological Society (AMS) Board on Global Strategies
Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Board
Maritime Alliance Board of Directors
National Geographic Society Board of Trustees
National Water Forecasting Program Advisory Board
Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) Board of Directors
Ocean Discovery XPRIZE Scientific Advisory Board
University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment External Advisory Board
US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation Board of Directors
High-Level Committees
GEBCO Technical Sub-Committee on Ocean Mapping
International Cartographic Association US National Committee
International Hydrographic Organization Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure committee
The National Academy of Sciences Geographic Sciences Committee
NSF EarthCube Liaison Team
Research Data Alliance (RDA) interest group cochair and working groups
UN Expert Group on the Integration of Statistical and Geospatial Information
AGU Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Committee
Special product licenses for scientific organizations
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