Latest Contributions by KelleyArroyo

  Read the Volume 2, Issue 1 of the Caribbean Geography Specialty Group Newsletter from the American Association of Geographers with the following content:  Featured article "Barbados Has Rid Itself of the Queen But Not Neocolonialism" by Branko Marcetic Member spotlight Dr. Mayra Román-Rivera, Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Graduate Student Corner article on "Black Womanhood and Colonial Body Memory" CARIGEO Student Competition information  by Esri's Linda Peters 2022 Courtney Russell Award Recipients   Download the issue below   ... View more

  2022 CARIGEO Student Competition - Your Caribbean Story   We are pleased to announce the winners of our 2022 CARGIGEO Student Competition. The 2022 contest was organized in partnership with UN-GGIM Americas, CARGEO, and Esri with prizes sponsored by RIEGL USA, GEO1, Trimble, University of the West Indies, Govt. of Jamaica, GeoTechVision, and Esri.  Congratulations to the following students:  Women in GIS: Laura Logan | Dartmouth College | Jamaica Climate Change: Josef Paty | University of West Indies | Trinidad and Tobago Sustainability: Jerald John | University of West Indies | Trinidad and Tobago Development: Bryan Jordan | University of West Indies | Trinidad and Tobagou Best Story Map: Afia Boney | Okayama University | Trinidad and Tobago Best App: Elton Sampson | JAIN Online | Guyana Best Research: Shaughna-Lee Steele | University of West Indies | Jamaica You can view all of the winning StoryMaps and App here.  The competition was open to university students in the independent English-speaking countries of the Caribbean and the citizens/students of those countries studying abroad. Students were given the opportunity to tell their story with GIS while encouraging spatial thinking and promoting research. This competition was designed to increase awareness and improve geospatial capacity toward sustainable development. Students were instructed to focus on topics surrounding the economy, society, or the environment with a special encouragement around submissions dealing with the topics of urban planning, sustainable development, health, agriculture, culture, climate, and disasters of all kinds.  Entries were submitted in StoryMap format and judged by a diverse panel of GIS industry, government, and educational professionals.  To learn more about the competition, please visit the Your Caribbean Story contest site and stayed tuned for the next contest!  ... View more

  Joining us at the 2022 Esri User Conference in July? Esri has prepared a focused agenda for ArcGIS Maritime and ArcGIS Bathymetry products to help you navigate the hundreds of sessions and activities being offered.  ArcGIS Maritime allows you to produce and maintain IHO S-57, S-100, and S-4 standards-compliant nautical products through fully automated desktop tools. ArcGIS Bathymetry is a geospatially enabled bathymetric data management, visualization, and dissemination solution that supports a broad range of data types and provides tools for streamlined data access and quick generation of custom bathymetric surfaces.   Who should be interested in these products?    Read the full article here ... View more

  Joining us at the 2022 Esri User Conference? Esri provides focused solutions that extend ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Enterprise for advanced data and map production needs. ArcGIS Production Mapping and ArcGIS Defense Mapping enable national civilian mapping and defense agencies to produce specification-driven, authoritative data and information products through out-of-the-box data models, templates, configurations rules, enterprise workflows, and tools for data creation, management, validation, visualization, cartography, generalization, and Web GIS integration.   What benefits are offered by these products? Read the full article ... View more

Esri is exhibiting at the upcoming World Air Traffic Management (ATM) Congress in-person event to be held June 21-23, 2022, in Spain. Visit our booth #131 to learn how GIS can help organizations make data driven decisions to improve efficiency and increase safety. Find out how ArcGIS can be used for flight tracking and analysis, airspace visualization, obstacle analysis, airfield operations, and drone mapping. We will be showcasing ArcGIS Aviation Charting and ArcGIS Aviation Airports in addition to Esri's Web GIS capabilities.   Learn more about ArcGIS Aviation Charting and ArcGIS Aviation Airports Or download the PDFs below ... View more

    National Mapping and Geospatial Authorities Custom Agenda   2022 Esri User Conference   The Esri User Conference (Esri UC) has many presentations and events with hundreds of topics covered. To help you find your way to the National Mapping and Geospatial Authorities sessions and events, we have prepared a more focused agenda.   Download the agenda below ... View more

    The launch of the Africa GeoPortal in 2019 gave GIS users who live in or work on topics related to Africa a robust platform connecting the geospatial community. The platform, powered by Esri technology, comes with content from ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World that is specially curated so it relates directly to Africa, this is in addition to valuable community-contributed data. The idea behind this community portal is to inspire its diverse set of users to build and expand on each other's work.    Read more on the Africa Geoportal   ... View more

  Organizations Look to Connect Technology, Authoritative Data, and People   The people of the Caribbean are all too familiar with environmental threats; volcanic eruptions, seasonal hurricanes and tropical storms, and earthquakes  to list a few. Governments and organizations are now turning to the Caribbean GeoPortal, a comprehensive, cloud-based platform that combines GIS technology with geospatial data to build local capacity. Their aim is to better support work across the region and to prepare for a more resilient and sustainable future, all while focused on advancing three main goals for the region: Increasing organizations’ GIS capacity through training and education Improving collaboration and information sharing among organizations Providing organizations with the necessary GIS capabilities to support their work Read the Full Article ... View more

  Join us for the 2022 Esri User Conference and make sure to visit our team at the National Mapping and Official Statistics Showcase!   This year's conference has many presentations and events with hundreds of topics covered. To help you find your way to the Official Statistics & Census sessions and events, we have prepared a more focused agenda. Download the custom agenda PDF below.  ... View more

  A Digital Twin For Grenada   A Satellite Event For DITTO     This event is a satellite event to the International Digital Twins of the Ocean Summit.   Digital Twins are virtual representations of the real world and provide greater context to solve many challenges. GIS helps us create digital twins of the natural and built environments. In this session, we will examine the Digital Twin recently built for the Country of Grenada. This Digital Twin is now serving as the foundation for the country and is being used to improve decision making in many areas, from economic development to sustainability and resilience to disaster planning, preparedness, and response. Join us as we take an in depth look at the digital twin in the Country of Grenada. We will explore several areas including how to model data, extract and create features, and visualize information for decision making. We will look at various types of data used to help build the model including imagery and lidar, share deep learning models applied and look at simulation modeling including sea level rise.   Questions? Post your questions and comments below in the "Reply" area and our team will be happy to answer.      Download the slide presentation below     Additional Resources: Digital Twins at Esri  ArcNews A Foundation for Digital Twins Raster Analytics and Deep Learning in ArcGIS Blog Video ArcGIS Image for ArcGIS Online Learn Lessons  Deep Learning models in Living Atlas Lidar Magazine article on Digital Twin for Grenada Tree Point Classification - Deep Learning Model Introduction to 3D Basemaps Share A Scene Layer Package Shipwreck Detection       ... View more

  United Nations Statistical Commission 53rd Session Better Data. Better Lives Side Event | GIS and Official Statistics: Population Estimation PART 2     PART 2 Presenter Ms. Laure Bayala - Burkina Faso National Institute of Statistics and Demography Discussant Mr. Juan Daniel Oviedo Arango - Departmento Administrativo Nacional de Estadistica (DANE) Colombia   This is a continuation of PART 1 of the UN Statistical Commission Side Event. You can view PART 1 of this presentation here.  Presenters for PART 1 Dr. Rachel Snow - UNFPA Mr. Andy Tatem - WorldPop Mr. Charlie Frye - Esri Hon Isaiah Chol - South Sudan Bureau of Statistics RESOURCES View the full Slide Deck ... View more

  United Nations Statistical Commission 53rd Session Better Data. Better Lives   Side Event | GIS and Official Statistics: Population Estimation PART 1   Presenters for PART 1 Dr. Rachel Snow - UNFPA Mr. Andy Tatem - WorldPop Mr. Charlie Frye - Esri Hon Isaiah Chol - South Sudan Bureau of Statistics   Please view PART 2 of this event to continue with the following presentations and closing discussion.   Presenter Ms. Laure Bayala - Burkina Faso National Institute of Statistics and Demography Discussant Mr. Juan Daniel Oviedo Arango - Departmento Administrativo Nacional de Estadistica (DANE) Colombia   RESOURCES View the full Slide Deck ... View more

  Automated Bathymetry for Nautical Charting in ArcGIS Pro   2021 National Maritime Webinar Series   Learn how you can leverage tools in ArcGIS Pro to automate the generation of bathymetric features for use in navigational charts. In this webinar, we show the complete workflow, starting with survey points, from which we will create IHO S-57 and S-101 compliant depth areas, depth contours, and soundings. We finish with publishing the updated electronic chart information as a web service.   Questions? Use the "Reply" below to leave your questions/comments.    Additional Resources:  Maritime Webpages Maritime ArcGIS Online Organization ArcGIS Maritime Community Page ... View more

  Managing Business Rules for Automated Aeronautical Cartography   In the previous Building Aeronautical Cartography webinar, we introduced tools and techniques for creating an aviation chart with ArcGIS Aviation Charting.  In this webinar, we examine how those techniques can be scaled up to support a large volume of charts and multiple chart specifications while maintaining the data-driven nature of the system.  We provide an overview of the Aviation Charting automation capabilities using Python to streamline initialization and maintenance of charts. We'll also look at how the tools in Aviation Charting have been designed to support configuration for a variety of chart specifications.   Questions? Use the "Reply" area below and leave any comments or questions you may have and our Aviation Team will get back to you with a reply.    Additional Resources:  Aviation Industry Webpages Esri ArcGIS Aviation Community Linked-In Group Esri UC 2022  Training ... View more