Sustainability:

A Geographic Perspective

Mr. Terrence D. Martin

Esri Defense Team

Rochester, New York

Urban Planning and Design

Urban Forestry

Holland, Michigan

Greetings From Jack Dangermond,

Dawn Wright,

Lawrie Jordan

Thank you for your work!

Corporate Headquarters, President: Jack

The Scientific Community, Chief Scientist, Director: Dawn

And the Imagery Community, Director of Imagery: Lawrie

Chris Thomas and Shannon McElvaney

We at Esri are working hard to create the tools that you need to plan, design,

And build the world of tomorrow.

Your work is essential and indispensable if we are to plan a sustainable

future for our communities, our states, our nation, and the planet

Alberta, Canada

Natural Resources

Assessment

Land Use Management

Singapore

France

Demographic Segmentation

Predicting Storm Surge Web-Based Community Planning

Norway

Illinois

Flood Assessment

Dependence on non-renewable resources

Population Growth

Climate Disruption

Sea Level Rise

Inequities in Resource Distribution

Socially Destructive Development Patterns

Today Growing Instability

In 2000 APA defined

Global Indicators of

Unsustainability

We saw something else at the UC this summer…

something’s changed…

there is a sense of urgency,

things need to happen

August 16, 2000

Policy Guide on Planning for Sustainability

Sustainable Communities Division of APA • A place to tackle deep sustainability

challenges through planning by connecting

with peers to discuss, organize, and

collaborate

• Something is happening here…

• Only you can do this.

• You are the Architects of the Future.

APA is a leader:

Standards (Data Models)

Quantitative Reporting (Verifiable)

Temporal Integration (3D and 4D)

Comparable Plans (Compatible)

Scalable (Community-Global)

Collaborative (Cloud and Role Based)

Policy Considerations

Today (its not 2000)

You couldn’t do this in 2000

Information is now available

Tools you need are coming out now

Collaboration is more important, and easier

Geography Is Now

More Important Than Ever

Providing the Content and Context

for Understanding Everything

The Problem Planning a sustainable future

Sustainability APA Policy Guide on Planning for Sustainability

Sustainability is the capability to equitably meet the vital human needs of the present without

compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs by preserving and

protecting the area’s ecosystems and natural resources.

Creating Our Future

Sustainability as a Policy Problem

• Compliance with Policy directives (Policy Guide on Planning For Sustainability)

• Compliance w/Executive Orders (13423, 13514, EISA, and 13653), Sate and Local Guidance

• General Requirements:

30% reduction in energy density by 2015

16% reduction in water consumption by 2015

Increased use of renewable energy

Net zero energy consumption by 2025

Design and operate sustainable buildings

GHG tracking

Develop Environmental Management Systems

Supply and Waste Stream analysis

Invest in Climate preparedness and resilience

Assess

Reduce GHG

Increase Renewables

Adapt

Sustain

Sustainability from a geographic perspective:

Geography determines:

• Energy Requirements

• Energy Alternatives

• Effects of Climate Change

• Requirements for Adaptation

• Patterns for persistence

Geography organizes the content and provides

context for understanding and action

Details: Geography drives energy

requirements and costs…everywhere…

Cooling

Heating

Lighting

Water

Transportation

80% of facilities energy

costs are in these areas

Details: Geography drives site

suitability for alternative energy Geographic information:

• solar density

• land ownership

• ecosystem fragility

• proximity to grid

• grid ownership

Geography helps

to determine

site suitability for

alternative energy:

…solar

…wind

…geothermal

…tidal

…even green roofs

Details: Geography determines Climate

induced change and adaptation

Sea Level Rise Honolulu

Frequency and Intensity

Of Storms

What you have to adapt to

depends on where you are…

United States

Polar Vortex Impact

Amazon

Fire Prediction Wildfire Progression

Oregon

San Diego

Fire Incident Reporting

Social Impact of

Sea Level Rise

Details:

Geography Drives

sustainable design

Repatable process

The Approach Geographically defined problems

Geographic Approach

For Geographically Organized Problems

A Geographic Approach: A Framework for Understanding and Planning

Integrating Geographic Knowledge Into How We Behave

Holistic

Comprehensive

Systematic

Analytic

Visual

Creating, Measuring, Organizing, Analyzing, Modeling

Applying

Planning

Designing

Deciding

Managing

Acting

Geographic

Knowledge Data

Maps

Models

Facilities, Sites, Assets

Policy Guide on Planning for Sustainability Gives us Direction Geographic Information Systems give us tools to model and choose

the reality we need…

Imagery, panchromatic, IR,

Oblique Groundwater Land and Water Features

Terrain and natural resources

Parcels and Zoning

Transit Plan

Current

Historical

Modeled

Predicted

Comparative Planning actions toward sustainability

Indicators of unsustainability

… and store the geographic information in a database, locally or cloud based, and accessible from any device

Feature Classes representing Global and US Indicators of Unsustainability,

Policy Positions for Sustainability (Renewables, Adaptations, Alternatives)

Actions taken (plannned, projected, accomplished, effects)

Organized and integrated thematic layers of spatial data to model the world as it is, or was, or could be…

On a computer

On a network

Or in a cloud

Modern and practical system for problem solving

Facilitating

communication

and collaboration

Breaking down barriers

between institutions,

disciplines, and cultures

Integrating and

synthesizing information

from many sources

Supporting individuals, groups, and organizations

GIS is a toolset for managing anything

distributed in space and time

organized by geography

displayed to support communication

and collaboration:

tools for solving global problems

Now: A Platform for planning for Climate Change

Online

Cloud

Enterprise Mobile

Desktop

Web

Scales locally to globally

Intelligent maps

Services

and data

• Scalable

• Easier access to information.

• Multiple platforms.

• Easier to create and share intelligent maps.

• Less expensive.

• Integration of location and spatial analysis into

workflows.

• Better decisions.

- Decision justification.

Not your old GIS!

Big capabilities looking for BIG problems

Your problems…

Desktop

Tablets

Smartphones

Websites

Browsers

Social

media

Share Data, Maps, Apps

Continuing a long tradition that started with Environmental

data and Planning Now Communicating Geographic Information in 4 dimensions

. . . Creating Greater Understanding

Vision A Platform for Sustainability Planning

Tools that didn’t Exist in 2000

When you wrote the

Policy Guide on Planning for Sustainability

Sustainability Planning

Tools

...

Energy Atlas

Example:http://atlas.esri.com/Atlas/Energy_Atlas.html

Planned Sustainability

is geographic

systems analysis to

support decisions

Sustainable systems

are designed for their

geographic location

GeoDesign is a

Process

Example: Joint Base Marianas

AECOM Sustainable Systems

Integration Model (SSIM)

Matt Palavido and Vishal Bhargava

Esri GeoDesign Summit

26

Sustainability is

a Lifecycle Planning

Process

Interpretation

Creation

Assess Present Energy & Water Use

Evaluate Alternatives

Plan for an Uncertain Future

Adapt and Maintain

Collaborate, Manage & Report

Decision

GIS Technology

Reprocessing tools

& Model Builder

Collection Geographic

Database

GeoPlanner Sketch/design

EIS/EIR Mitigation/Adaptation

Audit/report

Eco-accounting

We can apply a GIS Sustainability

Toolkit everywhere in the life cycle…

Sustainability Planning with Geographic

Information Systems (uniquely) offers:

• Scaleable data models, data management, and security

• Standards and quality assurance tools

• Quantitative query and analysis

• Comparative interoperable geospatial knowledge for decision support

• Audit and reporting capabilities

• Collaborative Visualization (in 2D, 3D, and 4D) dashboards and portals

• Temporal analysis, real time reporting and tracking, intervention, lessons learned

• Alternatives analysis (iterative modeling), site suitability, site vulnerability, comparison

• All within a cloud based architecture providing mapping and analysis across the organization.

Desktop, mobile, enterprise, cloud…

Sustainability and Geography go together

Mapping Base Energy

Monitoring

Sea Ice

Tidal Energy

Planning

Conservation Management

Coastal Zone

Management

Snowfall and Wind

NOAA

NOAA

National Ice Center Space and Energy

Management

Sustainability Planner’s Toolset

Geographic sustainability tools

• Planning Tools • Data Models • Assessment/Analysis Tools • Site Suitability Modeling • Alternative Scenario Modeling • Collaboration Tools (work/public) • 4D Visualization Tools

• Operational View Dashboards • A “cockpit” view of Virtual Earths • Management/Reporting Tools

Assessment Tools Core tools for planning

Assessment: Current Energy Requirements and use

• Rapid start “road map”

• Integrate with other data models

• Energy sources, sinks, and meters

• Imagery

• Extensible

CEQA/NEPA/EPA

Energy Star Portfolio

Thermal Imagery Plus Building Footprint = Energy Audit

and Carbon Footprint

UAV, aerial, oblique, and

Ground level thermal IR

imagery yields insulation,

glazing, doors, and leaks.

Building footprint (and the

GIS) tie them together for

analysis, budgeting, work

orders, results,

assessment, and reporting.

Thermal IR yields

Vegetative Index and

calculated Carbon

Sequestration.

Collectively this equals a

rapid Carbon Footprint

assessment.

Analysis, Collaboration, Coordination, Adaptation for buildings

• Average Net Primary

• Productivity for site is

653 gC/m2/year

• Total carbon sink is

21,527 tons of carbon

per year (78,932 CO2

equivalents)

• CO2 emissions for 2005

were 170,818 tons per

year

Carbon footprint calculations from thermal IR imagery (Woolpert)

Analysis and understanding

Carbon Footprint from imagery Normalized Difference Vegetation Index

Really…Geospatial Accounting

Sustainability

Management

Individual

features

Vegetation

Cities

Analysis A Platform for Sustainability Planning

Leaking Steam

Leaking Steam Signature on Road

Crossing

Leaking Steam

Leaking Steam

Analysis and Understanding

What can you do with analyzed data?

Visualize and compare, relate, understand!

Comparing total carbon footprint of

Long Beach vs Torrance

Spatial and temporal comparison Emerging tools for better

Comparison and understanding

Configurable

Dashboards

• Web Scenes

• Lidar Analysis

• Rule-Based Symbology

• Editing and Designing

CityEngine

Enabling Visualization and Analysis

on Desktops, Browsers, and Devices 3D

Visualizing 3D Geographic Information with Animation

means: Understanding Geographic Information in 4 dimensions

Iterative model building

Lessons Learned

. . . Creating Greater Understanding

• New York

• Katrina

• Sea Ice

Alternatives

Planning Platform for Sustainable Decisions

Planning for Alternative Energy

Wind Generation Site Suitability Analysis

Suitability analysis

for Solar Collectors

Solar Intensity

Analysis

Wind Modeling

Site suitability analysis for solar panels

Photovoltaic site suitability

a Model Builder application disseminated as a web service

housed in a discoverable Portal or Online

ModelBuilder

GIS incorporates model building capabilities

Model workflows are

iterative and shareable!

Models and sub-models break up big problems

Helps to clarify relationships, simplifies problems

Terrain

Sub-model

Input Data

(many)

Development

Cost Sub-model

Input Data

(many)

Accessibility

Sub-model

Solar Suitability

Model

Best Solar

Sites

Input Data

(many)

Process Mapping and understanding

Transformation

Example: Wind Turbine Site Suitability

analysis, an air operations perspective:

Available across the Platform

Data for over 120 Countries

An Online Service for

Appending Map Data to Your Data

Adding depth to your site suitability analysis… GeoEnrichment

Economic Data

Landscape Data

Demographics

Your Data

Adaptation and

Resilience

Planning Platform for Sustainable Decisions

Resilient Adaptive Planning Key requirement

What is viable, what is lost, what are the options…

MacDill AFB

Adaptation and Resilience Planning Natural Services Impact Assessment

Bhutan (ICIMOD)

Receding Glaciers and Permafrost Melt

Amazon

Increased Wildfire Frequency Prediction

Wildfire Progression

Oregon

San Diego

Fire Incident Reporting

Philippines

South Carolina

Predicting Storm Surge

Illinois

Predicting Tornado Intensity

Drought Prediction

Increased Frequency and Intensity of Severe Storms

Innovation

GeoPAT

Developed for IC, perfect for planning

Innovation

Big Data Analytics and Visualization

GeoPlanner

Better Planning

Tools

Platform for Sustainable Planning

Feedback GeoPlanner

Geographic Planning

Data Analysis Design

(Sketch) Evaluate Decision

Urban Design

CityEngine

. . . Discipline-Independent Tools and Methods

Integrating the Planning and Design

Process into GIS Geodesign

Really…new 4D approach to resilient planning/design

• GeoDesign, GeoPlanner, 3D, Pro,

• GeoEvent Server

GeoPlanner for ArcGIS

Enabling informed decision making through geodesign

…create, analyze, and report on design alternatives.

Project

Data

Assess

Create

Evaluate

Compare

Report

Spatial

Analysis

User

Content

Landscape

Content

Imagery &

Basemaps

Weighted

Overlay

Geo-

Enrichment

GeoPlanner

Urban Observatory

Rapid Evaluation

Key Performance Indicators

Scenario Management 3D Design Summary Reports

Import Features

Esri Maps for Office

On-Premises Deployment

Precision Edit Tools

Industry Configurations

Weighted Raster Overlay Collaboration Tools

Spatial Analysis Tools

Dashboards

The Road Ahead GeoPlanner for ArcGIS

Innovation Platform

Portal for ArcGIS with Single Sign On

(CAC Authentication)

The Urban Observatory

Compare Cities,

views of the same city,

change over time

…same data, symbology,

scale

Sal Wurman (TED)

“You can only understand

Something new in relationship

To something you already know.”

Innovation:

Storymaps to tell

Sustainability Stories

Bran Ferren: better ways to tell

stories preceed major evolutionary

steps for civilization

Energy Story Map

Requirements

Options for Energy supply

Change over time

Situational

Awareness and

Reporting A Platform for Sustainability Planning

Innovation

Full Motion Video and UAV platforms

Innovation

Real Time Interactive GIS

Integration: plans, field reporting, situational awareness, and decision support

• GIS can link everyone for better coordination

Web linked, Living plans Situational Awareness Dashboard

3D in a web browser

Dissemination: many more ways to present sustainability information Federal GIS Conference, UC, Portal, MS Office, Stories

Summary

A Platform for Sustainability Planning

New Policy Development

Policy Guide on Planning for Sustainability

Sustainable Communities Division of APA • The place to tackle deep sustainability

challenges through planning by connecting

with peers to discuss, organize, and

collaborate

• Only you can do this…but we can help.

• You are the Architects of the Future.

• Workshops? How can we help you?

APA leadership is

needed:

A Planner’s “Cockpit”

Geographic

Sustainability Tools

• Data Models • Analysis Tools • Planning Tools • Site Suitability Modeling • Alternative Scenario Modeling • Collaboration Tools • 4D Visualization Tools • Operational View Dashboards • A “cockpit” view of virtual Earths • Management/Reporting Tools

Summary:

• Geography as a framework for content, context, and understanding of sustainability issues

• Climate Change is a geographically defined problem

• Policy is critical

• Geographic Information Systems are a platform and a toolset Assessment tools

Alternatives Analysis (Model Builder)

Situational Awareness/Decision Support (Dashboards and Maps), planning/adaptation

Public Awareness: Story Maps to Portals

Leverages existing technology already in your organization

• A chance to make a difference

Geospatial Platform as A Solution Framework Supporting Integration, Collaboration and Efficiency

. . . Becoming a Common Language

Facilitating

Communication

and Collaboration

Integrating and

Synthesizing Information

from Many Sources

Breaking Down Barriers

Between Institutions,

Disciplines and Cultures

A Geospatial platform to support Sustainability Planning

Thanks

• Terry Martin

• tmartin@esri.com

• Esri Defense Team, Installations and Environment

• Serving those who serve