00:01I'm Jeff Donze with Esri's federal sciences team joined by my colleagues Dan Zimble and Bonnie Stayer.

00:07And the ArcGIS for National Government is a collection of online resources…

00:13…organized through some various user communities that leverage our ArcGIS system.

00:19These resources are geared towards any level of user who may be working in your agencies to support specific missions.

00:30This morning, we have two of these communities we'll be introducing.

00:34First, the ArcGIS for Ocean Use Planning that Dan and Bonnie and I will be presenting.

00:41And then secondly, another group of colleagues will be presenting the ArcGIS for Aid Transparency…

00:47…and there'll be a short gap between the two.

00:49So there'll be a little bit of time for questions for the first one for Bonnie, Dan, and I.

00:57We recognize that GIS is not really your specific mission.

01:01Rather, within your organizations, you manage facilities or you do health research or support coastal zone management…

01:11…or perhaps emergency response.

01:13In support of these missions, you want to utilize GIS to help you tackle your problems.

01:23And when you address these problems, you look at the solutions to sort of solve these problems on various projects you're working on.

01:30And then, perhaps, look for where's the data that's going to support these particular problems you're trying to address.

01:37And where's the, what perhaps are other examples of somebody working with similar data and analysis in the type of work that I'm doing?

01:49That's what ArcGIS for National Government is intended to bring to you, these kinds of maps, configurable applications, and solutions.

02:04A bit of a delay there between slides, sorry.

02:06We'll deliver these solutions through our ArcGIS Resource Center.

02:12Perhaps you've already looked at the resource center and seen these areas in the past…

02:17…where there's local government ones that we've had up for a while.

02:22Now you'll see the new national government area that we're going to be introducing today.

02:29So one of the first ones we'll drill into here is the ArcGIS for Ocean Use Planning.

02:34Why is planning in our oceans important?

02:37Because we increasingly have activities in our ocean that potentially conflict with each other.

02:43For example, off-shore oil drilling or siting new renewable energy in the form of wind energy, sustaining our fisheries…

02:54…which is, of course, a critical food source, and maintaining our recreational pursuits as well as the age-old shipping and trade industry,…

03:06…which is very vital to our commerce.

03:09All these activities potentially conflict with our sensitive marine habitats.

03:15So we have to plan properly for the use of these various resources in our ocean space.

03:25So how can ArcGIS for Ocean Use Planning help?

03:29By providing you the resources that help you accelerate your experience.

03:34So maps that are already configured for your particular disciplines or applications.

03:40They're all ready to work with, rather than have to start from scratch.

03:45So let me turn it over to Dan. Dan's going to give you a quick tour of the ArcGIS Resource Center for Ocean Use Planning.

03:53Thanks, Jeff. Can everybody hear me okay?

03:57So like Jeff mentioned, we've been working on a number of…you're good, okay.

04:03So like Jeff mentioned, we've been working on a number of these communities, and you can see how we have a launching page…

04:09…to get into each of the communities that all of you choose to look into.

04:14This is our starting page.

04:16We'll have a number of featured stories.

04:18Here you can cycle through the different stories that are relevant to that community…

04:23…and have articles about each one of those featured stories as well as quick links into areas that are related…

04:29…the marine cadastre, examples of the [unintelligible] ocean data portal, things like other related sites…

04:36…and also have a gallery that's linked to some content that we've going to go through in a few minutes…

04:42…as well as other access to other blog posts, things that are relevant to those specific communities including videos.

04:49So that's one example of the ArcGIS for Ocean Needs Planning community site.

04:56What now I want to do is take you through a tour of some of the content.

05:00And some of you may recognize the configuration of this site.

05:04We're using ArcGIS Online for Organizations as a launching page for us internally…

05:10…to work with this new content that we're trying to create and provide user examples for.

05:16And the main thing we're trying to do now is, you know, over the last several years, 10 years or so…

05:23…we've been pushing all this data online and making it more and more available.

05:27And what we want to do now is evolve it to that next step where we want to make it not just more available but more usable.

05:33And what do we mean by that?

05:35So let's take a couple…let's take a look at a couple of examples.

05:38We'll go into the conservation protection group that we have within our ocean use planning site.

05:43And you see a number of different items here, thumbnails, descriptions.

05:48I'm going to go through a couple of different things.

05:50One, we have these web maps. These are these intelligent web maps. That's one type of content.

05:55We have map services, that's another type of content as well as map packages.

06:00So let's look at this map service of usSeaBed grain-size data.

06:06Anyone familiar with the usSeaBed dataset?

06:09It's pretty vast. It's over a hundred years' worth of data and extends quite a bit collection of samples that have been taken over time.

06:18So here you can see in the description, and this is what I mean by more usable, the description is really well written and laid out.

06:26It gives you human readable content. You know exactly what you're looking at.

06:33But it also gives references to the much more richer, fuller, detailed information that's being hosted from the original site.

06:40In this map service we want to portray what that looks like in the description.

06:45So why don't you put the legend in the description.

06:47So here, before you even look at the map, you can see what the map is telling you.

06:53Also other information here, you could put in other graphics and things that help describe what that is before you access it.

07:01So let's go ahead and look at this map service.

07:04So this is a single map service of that particular dataset from the usSeaBed data.

07:10Now note, it's grain size, and the seabed covers a wide variety of different attributes, and that's just one of them.

07:16So we're telling that story here with this map of grain-size data, and we're also configuring pop-ups.

07:24So pop-ups are another way of having us be able to interrogate the map that we're looking at…

07:30…and we all now expect that kind of behavior.

07:32So I click on a point or a feature on the map, and I get a nice description of what I'm looking at for that feature.

07:38So there are ways and best practices for you to help portray those products and services in that manner.

07:46We're also enabling time on this dataset.

07:48Like I mentioned, it's over a hundred years' worth of data, so time is relevant to what you may or may not be looking at.

07:54So we can represent that entire amount of data through that type of capability.

08:00Let's take a look at another example real quick.

08:02So that was a map service which was a single data published with cartography…

08:07…and symbolized and you have the legends and you have the full description.

08:11But oftentimes we still need to do some more analytics, so you want to be able to provide the data to then be accessed.

08:19So here is a map package, but in that map package you can download it right into your desktop application.

08:25Again, you have a full description of what's in there.

08:28This is not the grain size. This is everything.

08:30So we provide geodatabase along with a schema along with the legends and the layers and other information, you know…

08:39…portrayed in our best practices for how best to deliver that content.

08:45And then, let's look at another example.

08:47This is an example of an intelligent web map.

08:51And what we mean by that is we're building in some of that logic, and this is a very simplistic case.

08:56We're building in some of that logic for a mashup, a smart map that you can portray and share online.

09:02So this is not just one map service. It's several map services that are related to each other to tell a story.

09:08In this case, the story is US offshore protected habitats, and there are several different types of layers that can help portray that story…

09:16…and we've combined all those and represented those as a single map product that's also enabled for pop-ups and other those kinds of things.

09:26So you can start immediately using this for that purpose.

09:30So here you can see, the legend tells you the different types of layers that are in this map…

09:36…but it's portrayed as one story, one piece, one product and then as you click into the different features…

09:42…you get that nice format and information with descriptions, images, graphs, things like that…

09:49…that you want to enable others to have access to to that content.

09:53So this is just a quick example through some of the different types of content that we're working on…

09:57…building out for the ocean use planning site, and with that, I'm going to turn it back over the Jeff.

10:03Thanks, Dan, and hopefully you're getting an introduction to some of the intelligent maps and…

10:09…applications that we're starting to develop in these resources.

10:12And sort of imagine that if you're also working in the marine conservation area…

10:17…being able to utilize some of those same map services for the work you're doing…

10:22…or perhaps one of the other areas we're going to drill into.

10:25So right now, for the ArcGIS for Ocean Use Planning, we have a few groups that we organize within it

10:32…fisheries, Dan was just showing you conservation and protection, energy, shipping and trade…

10:38…and those are a few of the areas that we've considered that are important sectors in the ocean use environment.

10:46But now imagine in this in…we're going to drill into one of the areas that we've spent a fair bit of time on…

10:51…particularly with contributions from our friends at the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and NOAA…

10:59…a couple who I see sitting here, and they were very instrumental in helping teach us…

11:03…about some of the best practices in the process of siting wind energy.

11:08So we're going to look at this particular area first.

11:12And just as Dan was showing, the sediment layers that were used in conservation protection…

11:19…those could also be used in energy sector in siting offshore wind.

11:24So what are some of the things that you want to consider in offshore wind?

11:27Well you want to know what the depth is. The turbines can be located at only certain maximum depths.

11:33Or, of course, you don't want to try to situate wind farms in the middle of active shipping lanes.

11:39And, of course, wind speed. That's key, right?

11:42So these are all important layers in maps.

11:45So what if those maps were really already available to work with?

11:50And that's the purpose of ArcGIS for National Government is to have those types of map services…

11:55…and map packages like Dan was just showing that you could work with.

11:59Yesterday, the deputy of the Department of Interior mentioned, and I was really appreciative that he already introduced this.

12:07We had this slide ready ourselves.

12:10The Smart from the Start program…this is a new initiative from Department of Interior…

12:16…to really accelerate the leasing of offshore wind to energy companies that want to participate and potentially develop this.

12:26So the way that some of these offshore wind areas are being implemented is through regional task forces that are reviewing the allocation…

12:39…of wind energy areas that can developed for wind energy.

12:43And the task forces are made up of the federal government, state agencies, and also, of course…

12:50…the public and some of the meetings they hold are allowed to sit in on and listen to some of the proposals from the wind energy companies…

13:00…that are the ones that are interested in developing the resource.

13:04And so this sort of provides us an end-user community look at…

13:09…and next we're going to have Bonnie assume one of the roles of one of these folks in this community to show you an example…

13:16…of how you'd use ArcGIS for Ocean Use Planning for the energy sector.

13:21Thanks, Jeff. Can everyone hear me okay in the back? Good? Right.

13:26So as Jeff said, I'm going to assume one of the roles in this wind energy development process…

13:30…and that role's going to be that of an engineer that might work for an energy company…

13:34…and so I'm interested in looking for resources that will help me get started setting a new wind energy development project.

13:41So I'm going to use the ocean use planning resource page, and I'm going to go into the energy group…

13:46…and I'm just going to search for content related to wind development.

13:50I've got a list of results back, and as Dan walked through, there's, you know, different types of content here...

13:55…there's map services, there's packages, but I want something that's really ready to use right now.

14:00So the first result that I see listed here is an intelligent map for the developable potential for offshore wind energy.

14:08So that sounds like a good place for me to start.

14:11So I'll read more about this resource and, again, we get a great description here.

14:16This tells me where this data is coming from using wind velocities from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory…

14:22…as well as other datasets for marinecadastre.gov, and I can continue reading to find out how this data was processed into this final product.

14:31So specifically, I see the equation that was used to calculate the energy potential in each offshore lease block.

14:38So this is really great because now I don't have to do all these calculations myself.

14:42It's already built in for me into this final product.

14:44So I'm going to go ahead and open this map in my viewer, and I see I have three main layers in my map.

14:54I have marine jurisdictions, the outer continental shelf lease blocks or OCS blocks, and the developable potential layer.

15:01So I'm just going to turn off the jurisdictions for clarity right now and zoom into my area of interest…

15:06…which we're looking around sort of New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland area.

15:10So now I can see those individual OCS blocks.

15:14And if I look at my legend, it tells me that these areas that are in darker green represent areas of higher energy potential.

15:22So that's good to know in exploring this map.

15:25If I go back to my content and expand my developable potential layer, I see there's actually three sublayers in here…

15:31…so I can drill into each of these individually to see what they mean.

15:34The first one is the raw NREL wind velocity data.

15:38So I can see what that data looks like at the start.

15:42The next one is the developable areas where we subtracted out areas such as shipping lands, military practice areas, dumping grounds…

15:52…things like that that are considered sort of unusable.

15:55And then finally the developable energy layer represents where those wind velocities were joined to the OCS blocks.

16:05So now if I click on a block in my area of interest, I get a nice readable pop-up, again echoing what Dan said.

16:11This tells me what the potential power out of this OCS block might be.

16:15So for a standard turbine, I could get 53.93 megawatts of power.

16:20And if I scroll down and continue reading, it also quotes a wattage for the largest turbine in production…

16:27…and in that case, I could 148.24 megawatts.

16:30This is really useful information to help me get started.

16:33So now I want to go back and see if there's any other resources to help me dive a little bit deeper and do…search and do my own analysis.

16:40So I'm going to go back to my results list from my search, and if I keep reading through the different types of content…

16:46…I find one down here that's a web mapping application for doing site suitability for wind energy.

16:51So I'm going to go ahead and open this application, and I will see my same OCS blocks and same shoreline information on my map…

17:02…but I can see instead that…instead of the previous map that was, you know, sort of precalculated for me…

17:09…I have more tools available in this application that allow me to dig a little bit deeper and create my own analysis.

17:17There's our OCS block, and my tools along the top allow me to adjust criteria, such as the depth, the distance from shipping lanes…

17:27…excluding areas such as these DoD boundaries and dumping grounds and also adjusts what my wind speed is.

17:36So then I can execute this query to return areas that meet my criteria.

17:41So those areas are shown in red and I get a summary of my criteria over here on the right.

17:47Furthermore, I can also choose to select one of these resulting areas and create a report that gives me even more detailed information…

17:55…such as the average depth, the sediment types present, and whether there's any intersection with protected areas.

18:04So, again, you know, this gave me more flexibility to site-specific areas.

18:09Now I might want to go back and start to build my own intelligent web map product.

18:13I'm going to go back and see if the federal agencies that maintain these datasets have provided the individual map services…

18:21…for these layers so I can start to build my own products.

18:24So I see one here as a map service for ocean depth thresholds for energy development.

18:30So maybe I want to examine sort of the geophysical criteria that go into siting wind farms.

18:35So depth is a very important consideration.

18:37So I'm going to open this map service again in my map viewer, and if I look at my legend…

18:45…it shows me that the area with the crosshatching is places where it's shallow enough for wind energy development.

18:52Then maybe I want to add in another service, so I want to add in from my energy group maybe that sediment layer that Dan was looking at.

19:00So I'll search for sediment. Here's the usSeaBed Grain Size service, and I can start to build my own intelligent map product.

19:11And then finally if I want to even, you know, go further with this, I can always go back to my resource page…

19:17…and see if there's any local content that I can download and do my own offline analysis with in my desktop environment.

19:24So just to summarize, I started with a sort of pregenerated intelligent web map that helped me get started in my siting of a wind farm.

19:33Then I used a more robust web application with more tools to allow me to create filters based on specific criteria.

19:41Then I used well authored map services from authoritative federal data to create my own intelligent map products…

19:49…and then I can, again, go even more detailed with local content for an offline analysis.

19:56So these are just a few examples of the types of reusable templates and applications and map products…

20:02…that we want to try and provide you guys through this ocean use planning community.

20:06So now I'm going to turn it over to Dan who's going to assume another role in the wind energy development process. Dan.

20:11Thanks, Bonnie. So carrying on with Bonnie's example, we want to also take note of a lot of other users out there that aren't GIS professionals.

20:21So we saw another…those examples that if as a GIS professional or a professional that's using GIS for a variety of purposes…

20:29…there's a lot of resources here for me to use.

20:31But I'm also a concerned citizen, and I've learned that there is this effort to develop offshore wind energy around the country…

20:40…and, you know, I have some concerns over where those are going to be and how that might impact me.

20:46So one thing that we want to look at is all this content can be used and geared towards the generic user, the public user, the concerned citizen…

20:54…someone who isn't really that familiar with all the nuances of geographic information systems and all the data and analyses…

21:01…but they do read articles in the news, for example, and they do see things that interest them…

21:06…or what if they ran across this idea that there was going to be an offshore wind energy site somewhere near where they live…

21:15…or vacation, so we want to try to take a stab at that.

21:18So this is an example of something worth exploring as a type of application to reach out to the generic user.

21:26Here, again, you could find it through the same resource center and launch that as a web application, whether it's, you know…

21:34…in a computer in a web browser or possibly tablet, of course, those things.

21:39So right away we're presented with enough information to get us started on what we're looking at and what this is about.

21:46We start immediately exploring a map.

21:48We tailor it so that we see that these are the potential areas where their first candidates for where offshore wind energy can be listed…

21:59…or sited within this particular area of the country, and we see a description of what those areas are.

22:07But right away we can go ahead and look into this area in more detail.

22:13We have presented to us a more intuitive interface for selecting the scenario, and, in this case…

22:21…I'm someone who has an interest in seeing from shore what areas will be visible to me.

22:28And you also have controls over, you know, how high the…the height of the wind turbines are going to be within that farm.

22:35So once I've selected that criteria, I can select a location on the land, and then I can run.

22:43And, of course, it's leveraging all of the ArcGIS Server capabilities and providing us back output.

22:49So these are the areas that are visible.

22:51Now I have to caveat this by saying that, again, this is our first stab at this type of an application.

22:56What we haven't done yet is look into describing is that feature that we see offshore one inch on the horizon, a hundred feet on the horizon…

23:07…what does it really look like to the user? So that's something to consider.

23:10But you get the general idea.

23:12And then we can also go the other route which is selecting from a location offshore, say, for example…

23:18…I know that this particular OCS block here has been selected and approved for doing wind energy farm.

23:26So I know for a fact that there's going to be something there, and I can then reverse and see what communities might be impacted by that area.

23:33So you can see, again, the idea here is to be a highly focused, very tailored application that's highly intuitive for concerned citizens…

23:43…or the general public that's not familiar with all the nuances of geographic information systems.

23:49So with that, I'll turn it back over to Jeff.

23:54Thank you Dan and Bonnie.

23:59I think what we're going to talk about next is just really what are the next steps in our work on developing out these…

24:05…ArcGIS for Ocean Use Planning areas and community areas.

24:09And, of course, we've gotten started with some assistance from our friends at NOAA and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management…

24:16…to help teach us about some of the aspects of wind energy development, but we want to continue.

24:23This is a collaborative environment we're working on, so we want to continue getting your inputs, your contributions to these sites.

24:30These are collaborative sites as well as fashion some smart maps and applications ourselves like you've just seen…

24:39…so we can make those available to broad communities.

24:43But, you know, think about what else this could be used for.

24:46So we mentioned that there's another group that will be working on in the fisheries area, so aquaculture site analysis as an example.

24:53I mean, wouldn't it be great if and maybe perhaps today when somebody's working in the fisheries area…

24:59…they start developing some of the same maps but for different uses.

25:03What if there's the same…the same maps that could be used for wind energy, for example, like, again…

25:10…you're probably concerned with depth and may not be as far offshore that you're siting aquaculture, for example…

25:15…but maybe closer to shore as well as, again, you don't want in active recreational boating areas or shipping lanes.

25:25So some of the same considerations. Some of the same maps could be reused.

25:28That's sort of the beauty of having one central location to go to no matter who you are and what sector you're working in…

25:35…if you're doing some things related.

25:38Another really interesting sort of success story in the marine spatial planning arena is that of the…

25:46…Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuaries program.

25:49They have a challenge up in the waters off Massachusetts of a very active whale feeding area that also happens to be in a…

26:00…right in the entrance to the Port of Boston so there's a lot of active shipping.

26:05And so you'll see, they've developed a series of maps to help them analyze, is there a better way to avoid whale strike…

26:14…because, really, any whale strike is unacceptable in an endangered species.

26:20So what you're looking at is first a map they developed of the shipping traffic.

26:26Then this is sort of a spatial analysis of the hot spots of where whales are feeding, and whales feed off of the sand lance…

26:36…that's one of their main food supplies, and you'll see that the current shipping lane goes through some fairly sandy areas…

26:42…where it coincides with the active…of whale feeding.

26:47So the resulting map was to propose a new shipping lane that was six nautical miles to the north…

26:54…that goes through a gap of where the whales are feeding.

26:57So this is a wonderful example of applying GIS to marine spatial planning.

27:05But what if they had some of these maps already available?

27:09They could have been focused on the analytics that they wanted to do and not have to go out…

27:15…and find the sediment maps and the shipping maps had those already available.

27:21So the ArcGIS for Ocean Use Planning will be that kind of resource center that we'll be working on.

27:27We're really interested in your contributions.

27:30Again, this is a collaborative site, and we're really excited to be working in this area.