ESRI has published a list of Featured Session for the User Conference 2009.
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How can we design our future with GIS?
Jack Dangermond President, ESRI
How can we design our future with GIS? UC Opening Plenary Session, Mon, Jul 13, 8:30AM – 3:30PM
This inspiring session is a must-attend event where you’ll celebrate the accomplishments of the ESRI community with thousands of your fellow innovative and pioneering colleagues. ESRI president Jack Dangermond will welcome you and acknowledge the people, projects, and programs making a difference in today’s world. Also, hear him discuss geospatial trends, the direction of ESRI, and his vision for GIS.
Can you protect nature without stifling the local economy?
Willie Smits Biologist and Chairman, Masarang Foundation
Can you protect nature without stifling the local economy? Designs for the Environment: Rebuilding Forests, Mon, Jul 13, During the Plenary Session
Willie Smits will share his inspirational passion for rebuilding forest habitat and orangutan populations. He will talk about a project underway in eastern Borneo that is positively impacting communities by creating a better future for local people, trees, and the orangutan.
How can GIS help alleviate poverty?
Hernando de Soto President, Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD)
How can GIS help alleviate poverty? Designs for Poverty: Formalizing Landownership, Mon, Jul 13, During the Plenary Session
De Soto will share how geographic information system (GIS) technology is being used to formalize landownership—an approach he feels is helping the poor take a crucial first step away from poverty.
Which mobile solution best meets my needs?
Jian Lange ArcPad Product Manager, ESRI
Which mobile solution best meets my needs? ESRI Mobile GIS Solutions Overview, Tue, Jul 14, 8:30AM – 9:45AM (1st offering), Wed, Jul 15, 1:30PM – 2:45PM (2nd offering)
This session will help you select the most suitable ESRI software for your mobile application. Topics will include matching personas with products, demos, and providing a decision-making tree. Furthermore, the session will outline the complete ESRI mobile product line including ArcGIS Mobile, ArcPad, ArcGIS Engine, and Adapx.
What should I be doing now to prepare for ArcGIS 9.4?
Sud Menon ArcGIS Server Lead Architect, ESRI
What should I be doing now to prepare for ArcGIS 9.4? ArcGIS Server GIS 9.4 Plans, Tue, Jul 14, 10:15AM – 11:30AM (1st offering), Wed, Jul 15, 3:15PM – 4:30PM (2nd offering)
This session will discuss and demonstrate the key functionality being planned in the upcoming ArcGIS 9.4 release. ArcGIS 9.4 is the next major release of ArcGIS and will be in Beta later this year. This session will focus on the new improvements in ArcGIS Server at 9.4, including new web services, improved APIs, improved raster support, and much more.
Are there better ways to tell stories with maps?
Clint Brown Director of Software Products, ESRI
Are there better ways to tell stories with maps? Bringing Your Geographic Information to Life, Thu, Jul 16, 8:30AM – 9:45AM
The goal of this presentation will focus on how to turn your data into useful information and on how to bring it to life on the web — making it actionable, consumable, and understandable. We will describe and demonstrate a series of simple approaches that you can leverage to publish your geographic information, make it consumable, and to build effective, informative Web GIS deployments.
Can GIS make government more efficient and transparent?
Martin O’Malley Governor of Maryland
Can GIS make government more efficient and transparent?, Mon, Jul 13, During the Plenary Session
The State of Maryland is leading the way with GIS through years of state and local collaboration, all being brought together under the governor’s vision that geography is the common language and one map must be developed for one Maryland (creating an authoritative basemap of Maryland).
How will we share and collaborate in the cloud?
Scott Morehouse and Dirk Gorter
Director of Software Development and Director of Product Management, Web GIS, Taking Advantage of the Cloud, Tue, Jul 14, 8:30AM – 9:45AM
This session discusses the most recent pattern for GIS, “Web GIS” and how it compliments existing patterns of a GIS like Desktop and Enterprise. Together, these three fundamental patterns provide a more powerful and complete Geographical information eco system. We will review the key aspects of a Web GIS, how it relates to the other components and the latest technologies, including cloud computing, that have enabled this new concept.
How do I justify my GIS budget in this economy?
Victoria Kouyoumjian IT Strategies Architect, ESRI
Getting at the Business Benefits of GIS—An ROI Approach, Sun, Jul 12, 8:30AM – 5:00PM
This preconference seminar sets out to teach a standardized return on investment (ROI)-based enterprise GIS strategy and business case methodology for identifying, prioritizing, and calculating the business value of GIS technology for any organization. This will be relevant for those seeking funding for a new or expanding GIS program or seeking to prioritize their existing budget to realize the most impactful return.
How is GIS being used to track stimulus spending?
Pat Cummens Government Strategist, ESRI
How is GIS being used to track stimulus spending in the US? GIS Delivers Transparency & Accountability: Tracking Stimulus Spending is just the Beginning, Wed, Jul 15, 8:30AM – 9:45AM
Worldwide there is a growing the expectation for improved citizen engagement in government activities. This is promising to open up government; providing transparency into decision making and spending. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), commonly known as the Stimulus Act, designed to infuse $787 billion into the US economy is providing a proofing ground for this transparency. Citizens want to know what’s going on, particularly in their neighborhood, and expect easier ways to hold their government accountable. GIS can help citizens view and understand government information in a meaningful way.
How can image processing improve my GIS work?
Lawrie Jordan Director of Imagery Enterprise Solutions, ESRI
How can image processing improve my GIS work? Imagery Then and Now; Detecting Change, Wed, Jul 15, 8:30AM – 9:45AM
Image change analysis is the key component to updating geospatial data sets and reducing the cost. Permanent cultural changes can be pinpointed using 25 years of Landsat imagery to identify changes, while dramatically reducing production time and costs. Correlated Land Change (CLC) using MDA EarthSat’s patented change detection techniques will show how this can be done.
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Lienzo de Quauhquechollan Participant ESRI User Conference Archaeology Anthropology Conservation GIS Special Display Silverlight ESRI ArcServer API living geography Lienzo’s dynamic web map indigenous track rich Internet applications (RIAs) Universidad Francisco Marroquín (UFM) Geosistec Guatemala restoration conquest route Hernán Cortés
Redlands, California—July 8, 2009— Universidad Francisco Marroquín (UFM), Guatemala’s leading institute for higher learning, together with Geosistec (ESRI’s Guatemalan business partners), has implemented a dynamic web map to merge modern cartographic tools with the Mesoamerican concept of “living geography”. UFM’s digital restoration of the Lienzo has been launched on an ESRI ArcServer platform and developed with the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight, and will be available for viewing and discussion at the 2009 ESRI User Conference.
The Lienzo de Quauhquechollan is the first known map of Guatemala and the only firsthand indigenous account to focus exclusively on the conquest of Guatemala. Painted on cotton cloth circa 1530–1540 by the Quauhquecholteca of central Mexico, it tells the story of how the Quauhquecholteca conquered Guatemala in alliance with Hernán Cortés and the Spanish.
The Lienzo belongs to the genre of historical cartography. For the peoples of Mesoamerica, geography did not exist independently of history. Unlike contemporary European or modern day maps, the Lienzo was not intended to be read in silence. It would be presented during community rituals and “read” by an experienced narrator. As such, it is a distant echo of what Michael Oakeshott refers to as “a conversation, begun in the primeval forests and extended and made more articulate in the course of centuries.” By web-enabling UFM´s work with the Lienzo, with ESRI software, this voice will echo even louder throughout the centuries, for many walks of life.
Five hundred years of wear and tear have made it difficult for the viewer to decipher the Lienzo’s iconography and to follow the conquest route. In 2006, Universidad Francisco Marroquín undertook a project to digitally restore the Lienzo de Quauhquechollan to make it easier for all to understand and to encourage the participant to view, symbol by symbol, route by route, event by event, the conquering of Guatemala in 1530, and to relate the scenes to modern-day geography. The user can connect historic events with geographic places, enriched by information, including a scene-by scene description of the events unfolding in the Lienzo.
DYNAMIC WEB MAP
Geosistec, ESRI’s Guatemalan business partners, developed an interactive web application (www.lienzo.ufm.edu) using the ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight to build cross-browser and cross-platform rich Internet applications (RIAs) on top of ArcGIS Server. ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight allows developers to use any .NET framework supported language (e.g., C#, Visual Basic) to add GIS capabilities and consume services from ArcGIS Server in a Silverlight application. Geosistec developed the swipe tool, the window-flip and the geographic time-line tool using the ArcGIS API to make the user experience rich, fast and easily accessible.
SWIPE TOOL
The innovative web application of a swipe tool lets the user explore, pixel by pixel, UFM’s restoration of the Lienzo. The fast image rasterization, combined with the high resolution and detail of the 1530 Lienzo de Quauhquechollan map is impressive. All the way down to the original fibers of the fabric, viewers can see how the faded organic dyes and colors come to life as the mouse easily navigates the “swipe tool” over the web image to see the changes from the old, deteriorated cloth to the new vibrant, richly animated pixels, giving the story of the Lienzo a new lease on life.
TIMELINE TOOL
The next innovative step was to develop a timeline tool that assumes the role of the “narrator,” and allows the user to relate historic events with geographic places—enriched by information—by navigating throughout the image of the Lienzo. This tool allows the user to explore the timeline and location of the Lienzo events, with reference to a modern ArcServer map of Mexico and Guatemala. By navigating on the timeline, both the modern map and the Lienzo map will zoom, in tandem, to the precise location of the conquest route. The user will be able to navigate and access other mapping elements and locations, as well as descriptive information about them through map tips and context windows. Built into the timeline tool is the eye catching window flip which allows the user to flip the web map application window in order to see additional details and information without having to exit the application or navigate away from the Lienzo page. A scene-by-scene description of the Lienzo’s 1530 cartographic symbology will be of keen interest to cartographers, archaeologists and anthropologists.
IN CONCLUSION
The Lienzo’s dynamic web map, built with ESRI ArcServer, helps us revive stories of indigenous people like the Quauhquecholteca, by providing a space where we can approach geography as they did—where a map communicates the geography of life and combines ancient and modern mapping tools into a type of “living geography” for many generations to come. The Lienzo will be on display in the Virtual Map Gallery and as a Special Map Display throughout the week of the conference. Those interested in Conservation GIS and the Indigenous Track are especially encouraged to attend.
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