Natural Resources and Land Management

In 1969, ESRI was founded to support intelligent natural resource management. The fledgling consulting services company used geography as a new framework for assessing, monitoring, and managing resources, and it was this concept that ultimately led to the commercialization of GIS.

We continue to support organizations by implementing effective GIS solutions for managing natural resources—whether terrestrial, marine, or atmospheric—to meet the increasing demands placed on them. Our services support encompasses the following:

Environmental Management and Conservation

Success Stories Conservation GeoPortal to Support Worldwide Data Sharing and Discovery—ArcNews, Summer 2006

We can implement GIS solutions to help you collect, integrate, visualize, and analyze the huge amounts of complex data involved in developing sound environmental management strategies. Our goal is to help you apply appropriate technologies at various scales effectively and efficiently to support sound environmental management and conservation. This includes providing solutions that allow greater data sharing across your organization and with partner organizations for an integrated management approach.

For more information regarding GIS services for environmental management and conservation, contact Dick Lawrence at 909-793-2853, extension 1-1700. Outside the United States, please contact your local distributor.

ESRI also offers grants of software and training through the ESRI Conservation Program, a nonprofit support program. Learn more.

Forestry

Success Stories Bark Beetle Infestation Contributes to Hazardous Mountain Conditions—ArcNews, Winter 2003/2004

We can develop GIS solutions to help you analyze and balance the economic, environmental, and social forces involved in forest and land management. We can help you implement GIS for planning, analyzing resource considerations, and making business decisions related to

• Fire ecology, management, and suppression
• Research
• Regulatory compliance
• Timber and stand management
• Urban forestry

For more information regarding forestry GIS services, contact Doug Cribbs at 909-793-2853, extension 1-2439 or Mark Williams at 360-754-4727, ext. 8195. Outside the United States, please contact your local distributor.

Land Management

Success Stories U.S. Forest Service and BLM Collaborate in Land Management—ArcNews, Summer 2004

We support numerous land management projects across the public and private sectors, helping clients

• Manage cadastral records and land parcel information in a GIS environment at the local or national level.
• Publish and maintain digital land-use plans with geographic capabilities.
• Automate and integrate survey management business practices and administrative operations for land records management and fiscal taxation/accounting.
• Support the surface and subsurface ownership and rights on property for Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs).
• Develop an integrated database of ownership and land sales records as well as tools to maintain and update this information.
• Streamline and automate business practices and administrative operations for greater efficiencies across land management organizations.

For more information regarding land management GIS services, contact Carsten Bjornsson at 909-793-2853, extension 1-2799. Outside the United States, contact your local distributor for project support.

Petroleum and Natural Gas

ESRI Professional Services staff have extensive experience in the analysis, planning, design, and implementation of petroleum, natural gas, and pipeline GIS systems. Our industry expertise includes integration of GIS with information systems technology such as electronic document management systems (EDMS) and computer-aided design (CAD), enterprise resource planning (ERP), hydraulic analysis, and Global Positioning Systems (GPS).

From initial exploration through acquisition, development, and production to final divestiture, petroleum companies have leveraged ESRI GIS at every stage to improve their business practices. We have worked hard to develop a cadre of domain specialists who understand and are committed to working with petroleum GIS full time. As such, they have developed a skill set and knowledge base that can be put to immediate use and create maximum value.

We have been and are currently engaged with many oil companies on GIS deployment strategy from technical implementation to future service-oriented architecture (SOA) design and systems advice. ESRI technologies are used by nearly all the top 50 oil companies in the world, and there exists a substantial ESRI-based GIS community of practice numbering more than 4,000 members.

For more information regarding oil/gas/pipeline GIS services, contact Don Carson at 972-664-0457. Outside the United States, please contact your local distributor.

Water Resources

Water resource management involves collecting and integrating a large number of variables and understanding how these variables affect resources over time and space. Such projects are complex, and our specialists have a great deal of experience and scientific expertise to draw from to help you deploy GIS. In addition to our project work, we have collaborated with several government and scientific organizations to develop technology solutions for water resource management including the Arc Hydro data model, StreamStats, and the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science Hydrologic Information System.

For more information regarding water resources GIS services, contact Dean Djokic at 909-793-2853, extension 1-1072. Outside the United States, please contact your local distributor.

Learn More

Learn more about GIS for

• Agriculture
• Archaeology
• Cave and Karst
• Environmental Management
• Forestry
• Marine and Coast
• Mining and Earth Science
• Petroleum
• Water Resources