Data-Driven GIS Environmental Analysis

Make better decisions with location intelligence

Strengthen environmental analysis

Effectively assess environmental impacts on natural resources. Gain insight and clarity through mapping and spatial analysis. Also use GIS to:

Support critical decisions regarding threatened habitats with science-based environmental analysis.
Transform complex datasets into manageable questions through exploratory analysis to quickly uncover patterns, trends, correlations, and relationships.
Seamlessly integrate location data with your central business systems to reveal new visually obtained insight.

Use data to drive decisions

Make analysis-based decisions

Today's agencies put aside politics and preconceptions in favor of using data-driven GIS environmental analysis to make decisions. Using location as the standard analytical approach allows staff to achieve new insight to formulate better decisions regarding our threatened habitats, endangered species, and other critical natural resources.

Discover enlightening trends

Using GIS to explore complex datasets allows natural resources agencies to easily uncover significant patterns, trends, correlations, and relationships. Using gauges and sensors, environmental professionals collect data on the locations of people, nature, and infrastructure and then analyze it to better understand migration patterns, disease distribution, and environmental impacts.

Integrate with business systems

Geoenabling enterprise systems allows natural resources organizations to bring about complete business intelligence, establish more efficient workflows, improve communication, and tackle an issue in its entirety as opposed to its individual parts.

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Los Angeles County pinpoints park deficits

County officials used GIS to assess and understand the current state of local parklands and identify a plan for improvement.

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Visualizing crop disease outbreak

Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services used mapping analysis to understand the spread of one of the most threatening plant diseases.

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Apps help agricultural stakeholders digest data

A cloud-based portal helps people use agricultural data to create interactive web maps and apps for colleagues, food producers, and the public.

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Restoring the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

Creating consistent high-resolution land-cover data enabled Chesapeake Conservancy to pinpoint high-priority restoration and conservation areas.

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Protecting New York City's water supply

The Watershed Agricultural Council visualized and analyzed the extent of logging and its water quality impacts in the New York City Watershed.

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Revealing the rhythms of American agriculture

Esri publishes time-series USA Cropland service to enable users to analyze cultivated land cover.

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Solution templates for agencies

These collections of maps and apps leverage your existing ArcGIS software to help you make data-driven decisions to improve your work.

Analyze environmental impact

Access a collection of maps and apps to understand the impact of development on the natural environment and solicit feedback from the public.

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Protect water quality

Program managers and field staff can use maps and apps to enroll producers in best management practice (BMP) programs and monitor performance.

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Assess infestation impact

Identify the impact of a suspected pest infestation on agricultural commodities and human populations.

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