NLT’s ESRI UC 2023 Recap: Partner Collaborations, Big Data Solutions, and Showcasing Disaster Risk Product — IMPACT

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This year Kari, Brooke, and Garret had the opportunity to attend ESRI UC. Conferences are crucial for our remote NLT team to join together, in person, to collaborate, strengthen relationships, learn, present our work, and meet with the geospatial family.

The conference this year allowed us to strengthen our presence with young geospatial professional organizations, meet with ESRI product owners to mitigate technology roadblocks, and meet and collaborate with partners showcasing NLT’s current Disaster Risk Products for extracting, alerting, and monitoring areas at risk. These products are IMPACT and Business Economic Analysis Dashboard — BEAD. At Esri UC’s exposition hall, learning sessions, and plenary, our team was able to take home valuable information and resources to improve these products.

Utilizing ESRI Experts and Sessions: Streamline hosting, utilizing, and visualizing Big Data for Disaster Economic Risk Products

The conference gave us the opportunity to meet with FEMA’s ESRI Account Manager Stuart Rucker and Colin Cat to discuss visualizing public sector data within ESRI web front ends and the flow of this conversation led us crossing the mile-long diagonal of the expo hall to the Living Atlas team Daina Lavery, Lisa Berry, and Paul Dodd. Within 30 minutes the team solved our big data hosting challenges by providing several workflow options, article references, resources to reach out to, and a stimulating conversation on big data.

Some of these article references are below:

Render Millions of Features in Your Maps: https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/js-api-arcgis/mapping/render-millions-of-features-in-your-maps/

Hosting 2020 Census to Living Atlas:
https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-living-atlas/data-management/hosting-2020-census-to-living-atlas/

Update Hosted Tile Layer Using Replace Layer:
https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-online/data-management/update-hosted-tile-layer-using-replace-layer/

Overwrite Feature Service Script Tool for Automating Updates:
https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-living-atlas/data-management/overwrite-feature-services-script-tool-for-automating-updates/

Partner Collaboration and Demonstration of NLT’s Risk Framework: Incident Management, Prioritization, Alerting, and Coordination Tool — IMPACT

At Esri UC, NLT met with partners and friends: Planet, URSA Space Systems, Waldo Air, URISA, and others to demo and discuss collaboration projects with the disaster risk framework IMPACT.

What IMPACT Does:

Through Risk Modeling in IMPACT, we can visualize Live Hazard Data and Live Community Risk Insights.

Automated Alerting Continuous Monitoring

Visual Impacts

IMPACT models real-time hazards, population vulnerability, and critical infrastructure operational status. By aggregating the datasets to a granular and uniform scale, the model can be used to produce risk products at the national scale, of various incident types, and through all time frames of a disaster

Risk Modeling: Connecting dots of past, present, and future

Past: Tests and validates disaster models using historic damaged products.

Present: Continuously monitors disasters and alerts clients through text and social media
Future: Simulation of future climate-related disasters by adjusting aggregated datasets to predicted climate change values and thresholds.

IMPACT is constantly evolving and growing its capabilities to reach the above goals. The team is also dedicated to customer support and partner relationships.

At Esri UC, a list of future improvements was developed and is being integrated into our platform:’

• Provide geospatial data comparisons and evaluations for customers
• Provide a predictive Area Of Impact (AOI) to task satellite collection for clients
• Ingest imagery services to be used in visual damage assessments for Digital Twin applications and the IMPACT platform
• Improve risk models using Planet Variables Data
• Use imagery to curate current nationwide wildfire perimeter live feeds

Strengthing Relationships with Young Geoproffesional Organizations: ESRI Young Professional Network and URISA Vanguard Cabinet

At Esri UC, our NLT team member, Brooke, also took a substantial role as a panelist for a Young Professionals Network (YPN) session.

“I had the opportunity to be a panelist on the YPN Session: Leveraging Social Media to Advance Your Career. This session covered strategies and best practices for using social media as a tool to land your next job opportunity. I am passionate about this topic as I see social media as a binary technology. Although I believe that social media can be a distraction from living in the present and reaching goals- when used correctly for work, its power to help market our geospatial work and team is outstanding

This year I also had the opportunity to meet with my URISA Vanguard Cabinet team in person. I took pleasure in using social media as a creative outlet to inspire young professionals and express, display, my views of what’s important from the conference. Documenting the sessions, new technology, and network interactions gave others my perspective of the conference through URISA’s social media platforms. Writing blogs and social media posts can help first-timers make the most out of their experience. For me, these blogs serve as a way of gratitude and reflection for the many times I have been able to join these conferences- thanks to NLT’s full-on support.”

Thirteen Tips to make the most out of the ESRI UC Conference — Brooke Hatcher, ArcNews, and VC: https://www.esri.com/about/newsroom/arcnews/13-tips-to-make-the-most-of-the-esri-user-conference/