There is a webinar today at 10am PDT about the ArcGIS Utility Network Management Options. There is also another webinar next month on Implementation Considerations. For more info and to register, follow this link.
As wildfire season heads into its peak in late summer and early fall along the west coast, web cartographers at ESRI have created a new Wildfire Aware interactive mapping app. The app tracks wildfires across the country and reports on their impact to people, property, and the natural world. The app includes data from different agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), NASA, the National Weather Service, the U.S. Census, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. For each fire, you can scroll through data that shows how long the fire has been burning, how much acreage it has burned, how many personnel have been deployed, and what percent contained it is, as well as other data including what type of landform it covers, how much biodiversity is present, and how much carbon could be lost. Check it out!
If you have a need to quickly collect data while out in the field, check out this webinar about ESRI’s QuickCapture software product. See how easy it is to incorporate rapid data collection at your organization.
For more info and to requester, click here. The webinar is on September 14 at 9am PDT.
ESRI has a webinar that explores addressing challenges associated with gathering, filtering, and leveraging a myriad of threat and risk data feeds and then disseminating threat information and alert stakeholders of issues.
Click here for more info and to register. The webinar is on September 7 at 11am-12pm PDT.
The USGS National Geospatial Program is again updating the US Interagency Elevation Inventory. If you have elevation data, they would like you to give them information so that your data is discoverable by others. Your data need not be in the public domain, and the entry will provide a link to inquire about the data, or to a download site if available. This is not a repository for data; it is a way to make data findable.
Click here for more information and links on the CGIA website.
Wildfires can be sparked by a number of sources, including naturally via lightning strikes or simply by heat from the sun, but experts say most are caused by humans.
Many Earth-observing satellites can detect the heat signatures associated with wildfires. NOAA’s N-20 satellite passes over every spot on Earth at least twice a day and can detect fires with 375-meter accuracy.
Check out this wildfire app that displays hotspots and fire activity in real time in the US and Canada, and within 3 hours for the rest of the planet.
Date: August 24, 2022
Time: 9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. (PDT)
In this webinar you will hear from planning staff at regional groups (counties, councils of government [COG], and others) on how they are applying GIS-enabled tools to meet these challenges:
If you just can’t get enough GIS conferences, here are a few more in California that you can attend near the end of the year.
ESRI Infrastructure Management & GIS Conference – Oct 31-Nov 2 2022, Palm Springs
ESRI Ocean, Weather, and Climate GIS Forum – Nov 9-10 2022, Redlands
ESRI Pacific User Conference – Nov 15-16 2022, Sacramento
Here is a webinar about the benefits of moving your local government GIS to the Cloud, specifically to Amazon Web Services (AWS). It is today at 11am PDT. To register, click here.
Also, here is more info about ESRI and AWS.
Join us for a new Fall semester of 2022. GIS Courses are scheduled for both online, and hybrid (one evening a week with the option to attend virtually) including frequent optional field exercises. The semester starts on August 20th.
Interested in a new course? GIS for Public Works (GIS 222) with instructor Sean Christian PE with 30 years of GIS experience with Los Angeles County Sanitation. Other course offerings include Introduction to GIS (GIS120), Intermediate GIS (GIS220), Surveying w/ Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (GIS150), Cartography (GIS221), Crime Mapping (GIS 281), and Geospatial Programming (Python / GIS280). The campus GIS labs are open on campus and field trips are scheduled for Fridays and weekends.
For more information, visit https://lnkd.in/gANNbQ7W . Also a short video about the Rio Hondo GIS Program: https://vimeo.com/735655623/140979d5ce
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