June 2019CIOAPPLICATIONS.COM9Could you elaborate on some interesting and impactful project/initiatives that you're currently overseeing?One among many of our projects that we are working on is with Grand Teton National Park.We are helping them publish all of their core data into ArcGIS Online. They are then integrating their field data collection workflows with ArcGIS Online such that when data is updated in the field, it's immediately updated on the ArcGIS Online platform and within their Park Atlas. The Park Atlas is an interactive online version of park geospatial data and reference layers which we have worked with Grand Teton to build using Esri's Web App Builder application. So we are working with park staff to integrate Grand Teton's data across Arc GIS Online, Web App Builder, field data collection workflows using Esri's Collector for Arc GIS application as well as publishing that data to Open Data for the public. What would be the single piece of advice that you could impart to a fellow or aspiring professional in your field?We're in the federal government sector and have an enterprise license agreement with Esri which enables us to leverage most of the Esri core platform. That level of license has given us access to all of the features that we can use to do our jobs without having programming knowledge or needing to design and develop custom applications which eventually acts as a huge time saver for us.Esri has a robust platform and their desktop software has some of the most advanced and comprehensive spatial-analytical capabilities. So for the GIS professional who is looking at performing geospatial analysis to inform decision-making, Esri provides out-of-the-box tools and good support for those tools. How would you see the evolution a few years from now with regard to disruptions and transformations within the arena? We are expecting more developments in field data collection technology, support for 3D data analysis, and increased remote sensing functionality (including more support for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) data processing). These are the areas that we see Esri putting more of development effort into. In response to increasing availability and flexibility of open source platforms Esri is providing better access to their APIs so that developers can extend Esri tools for more customized GIS applications. Also, they have developed products where you're able to ingest a lot of data that they've already produced and organized and explore that data using online platforms. So they have products out there where people that don't have a lot of GIS experience can leverage authoritative GIS information for their own projects without having to do a lot of the GIS data prepwork on the back end. People that don't have a lot of GIS experience can leverage authoritative GIS information for their own projects without having to do a lot of the GIS data prep work on the back end
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