CIESIN staff introduce SEDAC products and services to visitors to the Nonprofit Showcase of the 2015 Esri User Conference, July 20–24 in San Diego, California. From left to right, geographic information specialists Olena Borkovska, Jane Mills, and Tricia Chai-Onn, and associate director for geospatial applications, Greg Yetman.
CIESIN was well represented at two San Diego events organized by Esri: the National GIS Executive Forum (NGEF) July 18–19 and the 2015 Esri User Conference July 20–24. CIESIN deputy director Marc Levy participated in the NGEF, an invitation-only meeting at which senior geospatial industry executives discuss major trends shaping national mapping and geospatial data activities. He served on a panel exploring the themes of the meeting and gave a talk, “Data Needs for the Sustainable Development Goals: Implications for National Mapping.″
Following NGEF, an estimated 16,000 attendees from 132 countries gathered for the 2015 Esri User Conference, including Greg Yetman, CIESIN associate director for geospatial applications, and geographic information specialists Tricia Chai-Onn, Olena Borkovska, and Jane Mills. CIESIN was one of 45 aid, development, and conservation organizations invited to exhibit in the Nonprofit Showcase at the conference. The booth featured the new SEDAC Hazard Mapper, which visualizes data and map layers related to the exposure of population and infrastructure to selected natural hazards, as well as other data and services available from the NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) operated by CIESIN. In the demo theatre, Yetman gave a presentation on using SEDAC data and services in ArcGIS. He also presented a poster, “Spatial Disaggregation of Gridded Population Density Using Stable Night Light Brightness,” created with Lamont scientist Chris Small, Chris Elvidge and Kim Baugh of the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), and CIESIN GIS programmer Kytt MacManus. Chai-Onn also presented a poster, co-authored with geographic information specialist Malanding Jaiteh, “Using GIS to Support Public Policy and Natural Resource Protection,” which was displayed in the Map Gallery on the opening day of the conference.
CIESIN has long used Esri software for the development and integration of SEDAC and other data sets. For Esri’s Landscape for Contributors group in ArcGIS Online, which has more than two million GIS data users, CIESIN has just published six new data layers on hazardous waste sites, global human footprint, emissions, roads, population, and the world's remaining wild areas. Additional layers will be added in coming months. Through its GIS Service Center, CIESIN hosts the Esri Columbia University Site License Program, which supplies Esri software, licenses, data, and technical support to schools, departments, and individuals at Columbia.
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