The world’s first GeoDesign Summit will be held 06-08 January 2010 at ESRI in Redlands, California. The summit will be a gathering of pioneering professionals and academics involved in transforming technology, engineering, and planning in a rapidly changing world.  The presentation schedule below is preliminary and is subject to change.  For more information on the GeoDesign Summit, visit www.GeoDesignSummit.com.

Day 1 (Wednesday, 06 January 2010):

Opening statement by Jack Dangermond

Tom Fisher: What is GeoDesign and Why Its Time has Come

Will Rogers: GeoDesign in Conservation Planning: Stakeholder Driven Geoprocessing through Greenprinting

Mike Goodchild: Spatial by Design: Understanding the Special Role of GIS

Kim Tanzer, Visualizing complex systems: The role the National Academy of Environmental Design in advancing evidence-based design research

Lightning Talks:

• Geodesign: Fundamental Principals and Routes Forward
• Participatory GeoDesign
• Site Selection for Solar-Electrical Powerplants from a regional level to a Community location using GIS processing – and scetching tools
• GeoDesign in environmental analysis and planning: an example
• GeoWeb 2.0
• 3D Visualizations of Cyber Security Events
• GeoGames – Board Game Metaphors for GIS
• Landscape Design with Tangible GIS
• Lessons learn from geodesign applications by communities and farmers employing GIS and relational databases in landscape planning and management
• GeoDesign Utilization in a Participatory Land Use Planning Process
• Ge@Design: a multimedia design studio for geospatial collaboration

Day 2 (Thursday, 07 January 2010):

Carl Steinitz: Complexity, collaboration and scale in geographic design and planning

Ron Stoltz; Karen Hanna: Conceptualizing Geo-Design in the University Curriculum

Chris Overdorf and Grant Jones: Private Stewardship Networks: GIS Tools that Promote Conservation Corridors

Lightning Talks:

• Geospatial Campaign Design for COIN Civil Affairs
• Real-time, sketch-based GIS database updates to support crisis command and mobile resource deployment.
• Object-Oriented Diagrams in Geo-Design
• Practical Considerations for Integrating BIM and GIS
• Building Interior Space Optimization and GIS/RDBMS Space Management tools
• Site Engineering Design – Live start to finish using ArcPad
• Using GIS to Facilitate the Design of a Sustainable City
• Building high fidelity 3D landscapes in a design charrette setting with participants using GIS, CityScape, and Augmented Reality
• Open Exchange for Semantically Rich City Models

…from the ESRI Mapping Center blog…

“Tree symbols are a great way to enhance the appearance of a large scale, detailed map. To make attractive point symbols for trees, you need a good place to start from and thankfully all of us ArcGIS users have that. Using multi-layer character marker symbols, the variety of tree symbols you can create is endless. This blog is meant to introduce (or reintroduce) you to the ESRI US Forestry 2 font. It is also meant to give you some tips for creating a variety of tree symbols to use on your maps.

“The most important part of the process to understand is the Symbol Property Editor and the capabilities/functionalities that are available to you in this dialog. If you aren’t familiar with the Symbol Property Editor dialog, a good starting point to learn more about it is a previous Mapping Center blog post: Customizing Multi-Layer Symbols.”

• Read the blog post

…from V1 Magazine…

“The growing amount of plastic debris in the world’s oceans and waterways has many scientists and anti pollution activists very concerned. The Great Pacific Garbage patch, a gyre in the Pacific Ocean that is capturing plastic debris and is growing in size has provided a rallying cry for activists that is gaining momentum. Drew Stephens, the founder of the GIS Institute, has long been involved in the application of GIS for conservation, and that work has led to his participation on the Think Beyond Plastic expedition in California that recently took place. V1 editor Matt Ball spoke with Stephens about the purpose and outcome of this trip as well as the benefits of applying more geospatial analysis to this problem.”

• Read the interview

…from the ESRI Mapping Center blog…

“On large scale maps, you will often see that the symbols used to represent trees are all one size. As we know from our own real-world experience, tree crowns (i.e., the tops of trees formed by their leaves and branches) are different sizes, so a more realistic representation would be to vary the tree symbol size slightly to account for this natural variation.

“Although we know that the height, trunk diameter, and crown diameter all vary depending on the amount of sunlight and water a tree gets, what age it is, and where it is planted (to name a few variables), what if none of this information is available to create variation in your tree symbols? What can you do in ArcMap to at least show cartographically varying crown sizes for your symbolized trees? This blog entry describes a method to symbolize trees using point symbols that give the impression of varied tree crown sizes.”

• Read the blog post

A brand new module for Master Data Management (MDM) called DataVera Master-Set™ has been introduced as part of DataVera Release 8.18. Developed in collaboration with clients who are using DataVera to implement MDM, this new Master-Set module combines existing features from HealthCheck, Clean and Match modules into a single module with improved functionality.

MasterSet can provide data quality governance across the entire enterprise, helping organizations manage the quality, consistency, usability and availability of data.

            The new module has advanced MDM rules to help users consolidate individual HealthCheck metrics across multiple data stores. In addition, it has more matching algorithms and E&P specific rules. Version 8.18 includes 700+ additional standards reference tables – based on the PPDM 3.8 reference tables – that a company can use to store their naming conventions. This version can also support International geodetic conversions. DataVera has integrated with ESRI’s ArcGIS Engine, which means that users can transform geospatial data into a common datum for geospatial data cleaning and matching.

            A challenge in managing multiple datasets is that the same attributes may follow different naming conventions (USA in one system, United States of America in another). Manage Alias Set allows users to group these inconsistencies and link them to a single standard value (USA = United States of America). With this feature, users can apply the new MasterSet HealthCheck to validate naming conventions across different systems and identify the ones that fall out of this alias set.

            In the past, DataVera could only support column-based units of measure (UOM). The latest version has a new interface and support for row-by-row conversions. When configured to look by row level, DataVera will look at the value and its corresponding UOM and complete the conversion at that row. DataVera comes with its own set of pre-established conversion algorithms, but similar to the rules repository, users are able to add their own UOM algorithms at any time.

            In addition, DataVera can now handle French and Italian datasets with Release 8.18.

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…from the ESRI Mapping Center blog…

“If you have used any raster data to make maps you may have at one time or another asked yourself, “What is the appropriate resolution of raster data for the map I am making?” This question is tied closely to a basic principle of map compilation that you may have learned in your beginning cartography course: “Always compile your map from source materials of the same or larger map scales”. In our age of digital elevation models and other raster datasets, this basic principle of map compilation can be restated as: “Always create your raster map from data at the same or higher spatial resolution than the ground resolution of your map display grid cells”. The ground resolution of your map display grid cells will depend on the scale of your map. …”

• Read the blog post

O projecto SNIG do Instituto Geográfico Português, desenvolvido pela ESRI Portugal e baseado em tecnologia ESRI, foi um dos 12 premiados com o exemplo de boas práticas a nível europeu em Infra Estruturas de Dados Espaciais, entre mais de 135 candidaturas de 26 países europeus.

fonte: http://www.esriportugal.pt/noticias-esri/403-projecto-snig-do-igp-e-exemplo-para-a-europa.html

“Allowing earth’s forests to thrive and do their job of carbon sequestration is essential to reducing the threat of climate change. Technology offers hope to the greenhouse phenomenon caused by industrial society. One such technology is ESRI’s ArcGIS, which offers scientists, decision makers, and policy implementers a critical tool for obtaining information they need to heal our planet. GIS allows temporal climate data to be visualized, contrasted, and forecasted. Use ArcGIS to study current land use, land-use change, and what-if scenarios for responsible planning.”

• Read the e-book

Archaeology and Landscape in the Mongolian Altai: An Atlas is a chronicle of 15 years of research and documentation in northwest Mongolia, and it is now available from ESRI Press. With its extensive maps and outstanding photographs, the atlas presents the 12,000-year history and cultural heritage of the people living in the rugged landscape found along Mongolia’s borders with Russia and China. The book will appeal to both specialists and general readers interested in travel, ecotourism, preservation, geography, and ancient human cultures.

“This is the first book-length examination of the archaeology and landscape in the Mongolian Altai in any language,” says Dr. Jalbuu Choinkhor, former Mongolian ambassador to the United States.

Esther Jacobson-Tepfer provides a well-researched survey of the history and culture of this little-known area in Mongolia, while Gary Tepfer, her photographer husband, documents the surface monuments and burial mounds found throughout the region, as well as other natural and human-made features. What differentiates this from other archaeological books, however, are the geographic information system (GIS)-based maps by James Meacham. They provide the precise views and context needed to understand the geographic relationship between various architectural sites, settlements, migratory routes, and places of ceremony and worship.

“When people long ago constructed those monuments,” says Jacobson-Tepfer, “they did so with a conscious sense of the mountain ridges, rivers, directionality, and viewsheds around them, reflecting a deep sense of the significance of natural elements, of a natural order in the world and in the cosmos.”

Archaeology and Landscape in the Mongolian Altai: An Atlas (ISBN: 9781589482326, 225 pages, $79.95) is available at online retailers worldwide, at www.esri.com/esripress, or by calling 1-800-447-9778. Outside the United States, visit www.esri.com/esripressorders for complete ordering options, or contact your local ESRI distributor. For a current distributor list, visit www.esri.com/distributors. Interested retailers can contact ESRI Press book distributor Ingram Publisher Services.

[Source: ESRI Press Release]

GIS Technology for Carbon Accounting and Tropical Forest Management

In an effort to mitigate the effects of climate change, the South American nation of Guyana is developing the world’s first national Low-Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) using enterprise geographic information system (GIS) technology and expertise from ESRI. The environmental technology company will provide Guyana with software for use in national carbon accounting and sustainable management of forests.

In a national announcement, Guyana’s President Bharrat Jagdeo, described the goal of LCDS: “Our low-carbon strategy combats deforestation, a factor contributing to climate change, without slowing down national development or compromising our people’s sovereignty over the forest. The emerging carbon market provides us with a unique opportunity to use the global economy to save the world’s rain forests by putting a value on them.”

ESRI President Jack Dangermond met with President Jagdeo at the Office of Guyana’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations and committed ESRI to support the country’s LCDS initiative.

“ESRI’s commitment brings vital technology for studying the effects of the forest on the planet,” said President Jagdeo. “The combination of GIS software, training, and other capacity-building efforts will provide Guyana with the tools it needs to scientifically measure and analyze our natural resources effectively. With GIS, we can support responsible resource management decisions that benefit generations to follow.”

“ESRI’s support stems from a longtime goal to advance sustainable environments and economies,” noted Dangermond. “GIS has become an integral component in the development of new carbon accounting methodologies. It adds the rigor of science to a decision support system that validates a credible carbon exchange mechanism.”

The government of Norway, the World Bank, the Clinton Climate Initiative, and McKinsey and Company are working with Guyana to implement the LCDS. Norway is one of the key countries backing Guyana’s move to use its forests for carbon financing and payment for forest conservation now. This arrangement allows future innovations, including an eventual forest carbon credit system as such a market evolves. This strategy aligns with the United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (UN-REDD), a climate change mitigation scheme created to pay developing countries for conserving their tropical forests.

GIS is the core technology of Guyana’s monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) system. Building on work done in country, the MRV will integrate field observations with satellite imagery and other geographic data using methodologies consistent with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) guidelines for measuring, reporting, and verification. Guyana’s MRV will be a system for data sharing and the cross-sector analysis that is essential for effective climate change research, mitigation, and adaptation planning. This enterprise approach enables the transparent disclosure of land-use dynamics and the status of natural resources for Guyana’s citizens, indigenous communities, investors, partners, and the international carbon science community.

ESRI continues to work with countries around the world, such as New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and the United States of America, to design solution models that offer a credible scientific approach to measuring, reporting, and verifying carbon emissions and sequestration. These systems incorporate ESRI’s robust imagery management, integrated workflows, spatial modeling, and analysis capabilities to help countries use reliable data and consider scientific evidence in their decision-making processes.

President Jagdeo intends to present Guyana’s LCDS at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, this December. Representatives of participating nations will discuss establishing emissions targets for industrialized countries and a method for financing mitigation and adaptation actions by developing countries.

[Source:  ESRI press release]

Conversation Coincides with COP15 in Copenhagen, Denmark

On December 9, 2009, ESRI president Jack Dangermond opened an online discussion about the value of geographic information systems (GIS) to develop programs for carbon accounting and environmental sustainability. The conversation runs concurrently with the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen, Denmark. ESRI’s hosted Spatial Roundtable will provide an engaging online venue for environmental professionals to weigh in on their vision for geospatial technologies’ role in meeting the climate change crisis.

“GIS has the robust capacity and capability to design the building blocks for carbon accounting systems including data, models, and delivery systems,” said Dangermond. “It provides the tools needed for analyzing environmental practices as well as developing and monitoring sustainable greenhouse gas reduction plans. GIS users represent a vast reservoir of knowledge, expertise, and best practices for applying this cornerstone technology to the science of climate change and understanding its impact on natural and human systems. I look forward to a lively online discussion at the Spatial Roundtable.”

Dangermond, an environmentalist who is a strong advocate of sustainable environmental management, has demonstrated a lifelong commitment to developing technology for monitoring and managing sustainable systems. In so doing, his company, ESRI, or Environmental Systems Research Institute, has become the world’s leader in GIS technology.

“I invite environmental professionals who use GIS in their work to visit the Spatial Roundtable to discuss how organizations and businesses use this technology to help us understand and respond to climate change,” Dangermond said.

Dangermond kicked off the climate change conversation by asking, “What do you think are the benefits of using GIS technology to advance climate change science?” He has invited special contributors to join the discussion and invites site visitors to add their comments. The climate change topic discussion will be active from December 13, 2009, through January 31, 2010, and will remain accessible for review in the Spatial Roundtable archive through 2011.

Visit www.spatialroundtable.com and join the conversation.

[Source: ESRI press release]

I guess with the development and maturing of ESRI’s ArcGIS Online services, it’s no huge surprise that the Geographynetwork is no longer necessary… as a result, ESRI has announced the popular Geo Data and information portal is no longer necessary (I have to wonder if this will also be a pre-cursor to the death of such commercial data serving sites like the datadepot (sorry but I can’t bear to bring myself to offer a link to them!) and a few others that attempt to sustain a business model by selling data that is easily accessible via web services, FTP sites and other open resources.

The ESRI blog offered up the following explanation… With lots of changes over time to online GIS and geographic information and the technologies used to serve them, the Geography Network has been replaced by better alternatives to publish and find data (like ArcGIS Online). Much of the same exact content, and much more content that has been updated, can now be found and used in easier and better ways. So ESRI is planning to retire the Geography Network in late December 2009… so long Geographynetwork!

INT announced today the general availability of INTViewer™ 4.0, the latest version of its innovative data visualization and development platform for seismic analysis and QC in the upstream exploration and production (E&P) industry. INTViewer 4.0 is designed to be easy to learn, support large data sets, and reduce the preparation time to share data and analysis results with peers, management and partners.

            INTViewer 4.0 was redesigned using the Netbeans Rich Client Platform, which provides a standards-based environment for creating and managing plug-in functionality.  Featuring a comprehensive API for access and control of menus, data and custom displays, INTViewer can be used as a framework for customized seismic analysis and quality control workflows

            The new release includes:

• Extensive programming API for plug-in development;
• GIS functionality including support for ESRI shape files and EPSG projections;
• New FK display;
• Support for GOCAD data format;
• Ability to save selected subset in seismic data (SEGY) format; and
• Improved user interface.

            INTViewer is a visualization solution for use on virtually any Windows, Mac, Linux or UNIX operating system and is designed for multiple environments including laptops, workstations and visualization centers. INTViewer also provides an open, extendable architecture that makes it possible for geoscientists, asset management teams and companies to customize the visualization framework to match specific workflow needs through proprietary plug-ins and utilities.

www.int.com/intviewer

The purpose of this video is to explain the importance of the decisions that you make when running a density analysis, such as the neighborhood radius and the classification method that you choose for rendering your results.

Part 1

Part 2

…in Climate Action 2009…

Climate Change Is a Geographic Problem That Requires a Geographic Solution

By Jack Dangermond, Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.

“Geography is a fundamental science that helps us describe the natural and human systems of our planet. Geography is central to studying systems that contribute to and are influenced by climate change. Geographic information systems (GIS) technology gives you a comprehensive understanding of complex systems so that you can make informed, actionable decisions. People use GIS to view and manage information about geographic places, analyze geographic relationships, and model geographic processes. GIS is the foundational technology that lets local, regional, and global organizations collect, manage, and analyze a myriad of physical, biological, and cultural data describing the Earth. It is proving to be very useful for climate change modeling, decision support, policymaking, prediction, response, and adaptation.”

• Read Dangermond’s article in Climate Action

“Data Basin is an innovative, online system that connects users with spatial datasets, tools, and expertise. Individuals and organization can explore and download a vast library of datasets, upload their own data, create and publish projects, form working groups, and produce customized maps that can be easily shared. The building blocks of Data Basin are datasets, maps, projects, people, groups, and centers.

“Data Basin’s tools are designed to meet the specific needs of scientists, practitioners, managers and policy-makers, yet Data Basin does not require any technical skills. Data Basin is designed for people interested in integrating spatial data into their daily work (i.e., inquiry, problem-solving, communicating messages, etc.).

“Data Basin contains geospatial information that resides in datasets. Data Basin contains four searchable categories of datasets: biological, physical, socio-economic, and imagery.  A dataset could be coordinates where a bird species has been observed, boundaries of land managed in various ways (e.g., US Forest Service), a thematic image of vegetation types, or the results of a model that shows changes in the habitat distribution of a species under different climate change scenarios. Data Basin is populated with a large and continually growing body of datasets, including both raw data (e.g., monitoring data on temperature and precipitation, road networks) and analytical results (e.g., projected changes in suitability for a species or ecosystem, interpretations, or recommendations).”

• More information

ESRI and Loma Linda Announce Collaboration for Designing Healthy Communities

Loma Linda University (LLU) today inaugurated a center with two new computer laboratories that will be used to teach students in the health professions how to use geographic information system (GIS) technology to better understand and improve human health across the world. The Health Geoinformatics Laboratory center will provide undergraduate and graduate students with hands-on experience in applying modern information system technologies that combine maps and satellite imagery with data about the geographic locations of diseases, health care resources, and sociodemographic characteristics of communities. ESRI was represented by Jack Dangermond, founder and CEO of ESRI in the ribbon-cutting ceremony in front of the state-of-the-art Health Geoinformatics Laboratory. The center is located in the university’s new Centennial Complex that was recently completed at a cost of approximately $85 million.

The Health Geoinformatics Laboratory is equipped with modern GIS software including ESRI’s spatial statistical tools for public health epidemiology, specialized logistical software for optimizing health care delivery, and geographic digital dashboards that enhance health informatics. LLU undergraduate students can pursue a bachelor of science degree in public health, health geographics, and biomedical data management, and graduate students can obtain certificates in health geoinformatics and specialized offerings in areas such as environmental health, global health and development, and spatial epidemiology.

University president Richard Hart, M.D., DrPH, spoke of the University’s long-standing vision to produce a skilled and educated health workforce that will contribute to the enhancement of community and global health. He noted that the inclusion of the Health Geoinformatics Laboratory within this new global learning hub is a critical part of the university’s objective to connect with the world and think about problems in a different way.. He went on to say, “I am deeply appreciative of ESRI and their partnership with us. We are moving into a new age of information sharing, health planning, and of connecting with the world. This technology and the lab will help prepare us for that future.”

ESRI president Jack Dangermond, noting that he was born at the Loma Linda Medical Center, thanked Loma Linda for assisting him over the years, especially when he first established ESRI. He said, “This new lab will combine great talent in health science education with emerging talent in technology in the geospatial field. We are moving from the position of using geographic information systems to describe the world to help us take responsibility for the future of our world. This center will participate in that evolution of designing our future and participating in building a healthier world.”

Hart and Dangermond also announced that ESRI and LLU will jointly host the first Designing the Healthy Community international invitational symposium. The meetings are intended to bring together the best minds in public health to share new ideas about using GIS to make the world a healthier place. The inaugural event is planned for 2010 and will be held at both the Loma Linda University campus and ESRI’s Redlands headquarters.

The purpose of this video is to walk through a hot spot analysis, with a specific focus on choosing the right parameters for your analysis. Part 1 helps you choose a conceptualization of spatial relationships. Part 2 helps you choose an appropriate distance band by allowing your data to guide the process.

Part 1: Choosing a Conceptualization of Spatial Relationships

Part 2: Choosing an Appropriate Distance Band

Part 3: Understanding Your Results

…from the ESRI Map Book, Volume 24…

“This map shows the risk for mass removal and the susceptibility level for trees. It contains city blocks and shadow relief created on the Bogotá digital elevation model (DEM). Mass removal occurs when large quantities of ground slide and shift after earthquakes, tremors, or heavy rains. Mass removal seriously damages urban infrastructures and, in many cases, threatens human life.

“The map indicates trees located in zones of risk for mass removal as well as the relief of the zone. The map is a valuable tool for the entities responsible for preventing and responding to mass removal. It shows the places where they have to intervene.

“Courtesy of Jardín Botánico José Celestino Mutis.”

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Innovators in the use of geographic information system (GIS) technology in the health and human services fields received recognition from GIS software company ESRI recently. The Service, Vision, and Communication awards are announced annually during the ESRI Health GIS Conference, which was held September 21–23 this year in Nashville, Tennessee.

The Service Award was presented to Stephanie Bailey, M.D., M.S., chief of the Office of Public Health Practice, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The award recognizes individuals who do an outstanding job of advocating GIS technology and helping others understand its value and purpose in their everyday work.

“Stephanie Bailey is currently helping set public health practice standards and is a great friend of GIS,” said Bill Davenhall, global marketing manager for health and human services solutions, ESRI, as he presented the award. He added, “Behind every good leader are loyal followers—people who trust where the leader is heading—and she has a long history of public health competence at all levels, from the local to the state to the federal.”

Health InfoTechnics, LLC, of Brentwood, Tennessee, received the Vision Award, which honors organizations that use GIS in innovative ways. Health InfoTechnics supports health planning initiatives by providing market intelligence and support to hospitals, hospital systems, consultants, and investors. The company recently developed EnvisionHIT, a platform based on ESRI’s ArcGIS Server software, which delivers a robust, interactive, and intuitive visual environment for researching and viewing market data.

“Health InfoTechnics has taken a leap forward in meeting the community health information needs of the customers and, in doing so, has improved the spatial literacy of America’s health care system,” said Davenhall.

The Communication Award for excellence in map presentation, visualization, and communication went to three public health services professionals in Saskatoon Health Region, Canada. They are Tracy Creighton, GIS analyst, Public Health Observatory; Daphne Goodman-Eifler, supervisor of Tobacco Reduction Strategies; and Tanya Dunn-Pierce, manager, Health Promotion Department. The poster, Mapping the Availability of Tobacco Products to Youth in the City of Saskatoon, tells the story of using GIS to convert school health survey results into information that will help health officials develop policies for reducing tobacco use among middle school students. The study examined the locations of tobacco retailers near schools and used statistical analysis to identify potential correlations with student-reported smoking initiation rates. Maps displayed an overall view of the results.

For more information on GIS in health and human services and the ESRI Health GIS Conference, visit www.esri.com/health.

[Source:  ESRI news release]

Alborino, G.  2003.  Halton Region’s West Nile Virus Information System.  ESRI International User Conference Proceedings 2003. 

http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc03/abstracts/a1107.pdf

Bangs, C. 2003.  GIS-enabled Surveillance System for West Nile Virus Neurological Syndromes.  ESRI Health Conference Proceedings 2003. 

http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/health03/papers/pap3035/p3035.htm

Bauer, C., and Gallagher, T.  2003.  The Incorporation of GIS Into a Local Mosquito Control Program.  ESRI International User Conference Proceedings 2003. 

http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc03/p0371.pdf

Clennon, J., Kitron, U., Lippold, A., McTighe, T., Norris, D., and Ruiz, M.  2004.  West Nile Virus in Illinois—2001 and 2002.  ESRI Map Book Volume 19. 

http://www.esri.com/mapmuseum/mapbook_gallery/volume19/health1.html

Conrad, E.  2001.  Tracking Mosquitoes Technology.  ESRI International User Conference Proceedings 2001. 

http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc01/professional/abstracts/a563.html

Conrad, E.  2001.  Tracking Diseases with GIS.  ArcUser July – September 2001. 

http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0701/wnvirus.html

Egbert, M.  2004.  Web-Based Disease Tracking: A West Nile Virus Example.  ESRI International User Conference Proceedings 2004. 

http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc04/docs/pap1131.pdf

ESRI.  2005.  Mobile GIS Enhances Prevention and Response for Texas County.  ArcUser April – June 2005. 

http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0405/wnv.html

ESRI.  2009.  HL7 and Spatial Interoperability Standards for Public Health and Health Care Delivery.  ESRI White Paper January 2009. 

http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/hl7-spatial-interoperability.pdf

Fraser, M., Mak, S., Furnell, A., and Henry, B.  2008.  Using Surveillance of Mosquito Populations to Assess Larval Mosquito Control.  ESRI International User Conference Proceedings 2008. 

http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc08/papers/abstracts/a1284.html

Gibbs, K.  2004.  Comprehensive GIS Application for West Nile Virus Surveillance.  ESRI Health Conference Proceedings 2004. 

http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/health04/papers/pap3018.pdf

Hailey, C.  2005.  GIS for Integrated Pest Management.  ESRI Health Conference Proceedings 2005. 

http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/health05/docs/hailey_harriscountytexas_hug_2005.pdf

Hamer, G., Kitron, U., Goldberg, T., Brawn, J., Loss, S., Ruiz, M., Hayes, D., and Walker, E. 2009.  Host Selection by Culex pipiens Mosquitoes and West Nile Virus Amplification.  Am J Trop Med Hyg, Feb 2009. 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19190226

Harten, H., and Piaskoski, A.  2008.  West Nile Virus Surveillance.  ESRI Health Conference Proceedings 2008. 

http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/health08/docs/mapgallery/c0000515.pdf

Henriques, W., and Raziano, T.  2004.  Using Geospatial Technology for Public Health Preparedness.  ESRI International User Conference Proceedings 2004.

http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc04/abstracts/a2112.html

Leblond, A., Sandoz, A., Lefebvre, G., Zellerc, H., and Bicout, D.J. 2007.  Remote sensing based identification of environmental risk factors associated with West Nile disease in horses in Camargue, France .  Preventive Veterinary Medicine Volume 79, Issue 1, 16 April 2007. 

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TBK-4MKTXMW-3&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=82c667eeb6d509101865c4248b646f19

Minter, M.  2005.  Developing a GIS-Based West Nile Virus Infection Model.  ArcUser January – March 2005. 

http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0205/west_nile1of2.html

Nielsen, C., Armijos, M., Wheeler, S., Carpenter, T., Boyce, W., Kelley, K., Brown, D., Scott,  T., and Reisen, W.  2008.  Risk Factors Associated with Human Infection during the 2006 West Nile Virus Outbreak in Davis, a Residential Community in Northern California.  Am J Trop Med Hyg, Jan 2008. 

http://www.ajtmh.org/cgi/content/full/78/1/53

Rochlin, I., Ginsberg, H., and Campbell, S.  2009.  Distribution and Abundance of Host-seeking Culex Species at Three Proximate Locations with Different Levels of West Nile Virus Activity.  Am J Trop Med Hyg, Apr 2009. 

http://www.ajtmh.org/cgi/content/abstract/80/4/661

Ruiz, M., Brown, W., and Clennon, J.  2006.  Weather Conditions and West Nile Virus in Illinois.  ESRI International User Conference Proceedings 2006. 

http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc06/papers/abstracts/a1458.html

Shuai, J.  2006.  Integrated Real-Time West Nile Virus Surveillance Pilot in Canada.  ESRI International User Conference Proceedings 2006. 

http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc06/papers/abstracts/a1075.html

Stoto, M., Cheung, I., Estrada, L., Foster, V., Mele, L., and Smith, M.  2001.  Coordinated Regional Surveillance for West Nile Virus in Metropolitan Washington.  ESRI Health Conference Proceedings 2001. 

http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/health01/papers/hc01_p02d/hc01_p02d.ppt

Villa, P.  2004.  Fight the Bite With GIS.  ESRI International User Conference Proceedings 2004. 

http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc04/docs/pap2021.pdf

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…from the ESRI Map Book, Volume 24…

“This map is part of a series of community maps of the town of Georgina produced by residents. Its purpose is to showcase what residents think is important about their neighborhoods and to help protect and enhance what is special. The map points out a nature reserve and a local stream, both important habitats for conservation.

“The Deer Park Road area is an important mature mixed forest providing habitat for a wide range of animals, birds, and amphibians. Private landowners in the area worked together with the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority to create the Arnold C. Matthews Nature Reserve in order to preserve and steward the land in perpetuity.

“Boyer’s Stream connects protected core lands and Lake Simcoe, providing habitat for waterfowl, amphibians, and marsh birds and a potential upstream fish spawning route.

“Courtesy of the Alliance for a Better Georgina.”

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