Landscape Analysis Layers

Esri UC2013 . Technical Workshop .

Technical Workshop

2013 Esri International User ConferenceJuly 8–12, 2013 | San Diego, California

Landscape Analysis LayersPete Aniello


Esri ArcGIS Online Content PortfolioLandscape Services are part of the AGOL content portfolio

Landscape Analysis Layers


Landscape in the Living Atlas

Help Us Understand and Analyze our World


PeopleDemographics

Energy

Transportation

Public Safety …

EarthEarth and Land

Climate and Weather

Water and Oceans

Natural Hazards …

LifeEcosystems

Biological Regions

Protected Areas

Species …


What are Landscape Analysis Layers?

• An Esri initiative to acquire, process and publish a collection of data useful for biogeographic analysis, natural resource management, land use planning and conservation

- Initial effort will provide a set of data services for the US

- Ultimately worldwide coverage- Focused on national and regional scales



What’s New?

Esri is modernizing its content offerings by providing a large body of application ready data as services

•Feature Services

•Image Services

•Map Services

Provide content that supports ANALYSIS as well as visualization



Landscape Analysis Layers Product Vision

Publication of useful data for landscape analysis and decision-making that works across the ArcGIS System

ArcGISDesktop

Location Analytics/Viewers

ArcGIS OnLineWeb Map/Services

Other Viewers &

AppsVector Data Raster

DataSummarized

Geographies

Geodesign

Landscape Data Landscape Analysis Layers


Value of Landscape

• Saves time and money

• User does not have to acquire, process, store, maintain essential data themselves

• Esri provides ready to use content- Input to models

• Will support premium data from providers- Storefront- Later in 2013



• Planners

• Policy makers

• Scientists

• Analysts

• Educators

Landscape ContentSupports decision makers across many industries

Modeling the land around us

Physical Geography Layers

Watersheds

Elevation

Slope

Aspect

NHD+

Soils

Landforms

Faults

Wetlands

Evapotranspiration

Land Management Layers

Federal Land

Native Lands

Cultural Geography Layers

Roads

Rail

Flood risk

Historic Sites

Transmission Lines

Pipelines

Oil Shale Basins

Coal Bed Methane Basins

Earthquake Risks

Bio-Geography Layers

Critical Habitat

Ecological Systems

Land cover



Ready to Use


Online Analytics Online GP Tools

Location Analyticsand Data Enrichment


What Data are we Seeking?

• Data that has a proven use case- Support for Key Performance Measurements (KPM) in Government

- Support for Strategic Planning and Policy Development

- Scale ranges that can support regional and national analysis

- Esri would maintain this; larger-scale data would be served/maintained by provider

- Cost and benefits considered for each layer

• Data that is considered authoritative- Measured, summarized, or modeled

- Well documented

- Currency is important

The first question: What data services do you the customer need ?



Organization of Landscape Data Layers

Earth and Atmosphere

•Elevation and Landforms

•Surface and Ground Water

•Geology and Soils

•Climate

People and Places

•Demography

•Heritage and Landmark Sites

•Ethnic and Tribal Areas

•Recreation and Tourism

• Land Use and Subsistence Patterns

Plants and Animals

• Species and Biodiversity

•Ecology and Habitat

Boundaries

•International Boundaries

•National and Subnational Administrative Boundaries

•Special Purpose and Designated Areas

Resources and Infrastructure

•Renewable Resources

•Nonrenewable Resources

•Surface, Water and Air Transportation

•Energy Infrastructure

Hazards and Threats

•Natural Hazards

•Pollution and Contaminants

•Insects and Disease



Esri Evaluates and Documents the Quality and Integrity of Data

- Review data via hardcopy plots, digital overlays

- Identify layers that are likely to be correlated/integrated

- Find the inconsistencies, problems with integrity, problems buried in process lineages

- We employ a subcontractor to provide and independent evaluation of data

- Provide quality assessments and recommendations to original authors

Identify gaps in available data and find opportunities for adding value



What Changes Do We Make to the Original data?

• Minimal corrections to geometry or attributes (quick error fixes)

• Project to Web Mercator or North America Albers Equal Area Conic

• Convert Vector to Raster

• Clip to a Shoreline

• We may parse out a subset of data such as creating a raster for one

soil parameter

• Summarize and aggregate data to useful geographies such as

watershed or county

We are careful to preserve the integrity of the original content



Data Processing and Access

Original

Data

Raster

DataSummarized

Geographies

Services on AGOL Amazon Cloud

Location

Analytics

FeatureImage

Geoenrichment

Web Maps

Desktop/GP Analysis

Concept: No “Throw-Away” DataConcept: No “Throw-Away” Data

Map



Rasterization ExampleSSURGO- Available Water Storage - 0-150 cm weighted average



Location Analytics Within the Decision Process

Landscape Analysis data supports full range of analysis scalesLandscape Analysis data supports full range of analysis scales

Location Analytics Viewers

ArcGISDesktop

TacticalStrategic

Coarse Aggregation Fine Detail

Fast AnalysisSummary Level

Reports

Advanced ModelingSite Design

Summarized Data

Derived Layers &Thematic Maps



Landscape Data in ArcGIS Online

Demo


Landscape Data in ArcGIS Desktop

Demo


Landscape Data in GeoEnrichment Services

Demo


Landscape Data in Landscape Analyst

Demo


Landscape Data in Landscape Modeler

Demo


How do customers get access?

• Requires an ArcGIS Online subscription

• Discoverable through- ArcGIS Online

- Featured groups- Map viewer (Add Esri map layers)- Atlas web pages

- Samples, models published in Resource Center



What’s included in Landscape

• Landscape layers- Vector (Land ownership, geology, habitat, soils, etc)- Raster (Land cover, elevation, rasterized vector layers)

• Geoprocessing tools that work with the elevation services

• Web maps

• Geoenrichment packs for use with Location Analytics

• Sample Apps for Landscape (Damian)- Landscape Analyst- Landscape Modeler

• Supporting material (documentation, sample models, use cases)



• At Beta all subscribers have access at no charge

• Charging in the form of credits may be implemented upon for final release

Public Beta Release (starting now)



Road Ahead – November Release

• End of public beta- All subscribers continue to have access- Credit consumption model in place

• ~25 additional layers for US market

• International expansion underway



Contacts

• Project Manager: Randy Vaughan ([email protected] )

• Technical Manager: Pete Aniello ([email protected] )

• Questions?


Esri UC2013 . Technical Workshop . Landscape Analysis Layers