GIS – Creating a Sustainable Future
Summary
TLDRThe speaker emphasizes the importance of GIS in creating a sustainable future, inspired by Mario Palma's insights on societal risks due to a lack of understanding of our reality. He advocates for a geographic approach that integrates science, technology, and creative thinking to address challenges like climate change and biodiversity loss. The rapid advancement of geospatial technology, including cloud computing and AI, is highlighted as crucial for scaling up collective efforts towards sustainability.
Takeaways
- 🌐 GIS plays a critical role in creating a sustainable future by understanding our complex and interdependent world.
- 📚 The lack of understanding of our reality is one of the greatest risks our society faces, as highlighted by Mario Palma.
- 🌱 Our world is facing challenges due to human-induced climate change, overpopulation, and the rapid disappearance of biodiversity.
- 🔄 The concept of the 'Anthropocene' reflects a period where human activities dominate Earth's life and history.
- 👥 Collective responsibility is emphasized for the future of our world, with a call for dramatic changes in priorities.
- 🌿 Sustainability requires a holistic approach, integrating environmental, economic, and social factors spatially.
- 🗺️ Geographic thinking is essential for organizing and integrating factors to illuminate patterns and relationships.
- 💡 The geographic approach integrates geographic science and information for understanding and managing our planet.
- 🚀 Geospatial infrastructure is expanding rapidly, creating a nervous system for sustainability by integrating data and providing powerful apps.
- 🌟 Advanced GIS analytics, geo-visualization, geodesign, and geo-accounting are methodologies that support a sustainable future.
- 🌐 Geospatial hubs and collaboration are fostering new types of geo collaboration, essential for making geospatial infrastructure work.
Q & A
What is the main theme of the conference discussed in the script?
-The main theme of the conference is 'GIS: Creating a Sustainable Future', which emphasizes the role of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in addressing the challenges of sustainability.
Who is Mario Palma and what is his contribution mentioned in the script?
-Mario Palma is one of the founders of ENAHI, a large statistical and science and mapping organization in Mexico. He wrote a book that inspired the speaker, highlighting the lack of understanding of our reality as one of the greatest risks society faces.
What does the term 'Anthropocene' refer to as used in the script?
-The 'Anthropocene' refers to the current geological epoch where human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment.
What are some of the human-induced challenges mentioned in the script that threaten our future?
-Some of the human-induced challenges mentioned are climate change, overpopulation, interconnected patterns of change, steep declines in biodiversity, and unsustainable living practices.
What does the speaker suggest is necessary to create a sustainable future?
-The speaker suggests that creating a sustainable future requires a dramatic change in priorities, a major commitment to life and future, and immediate action. This includes restoring nature, improving business efficiencies, reducing pollution, consuming less, and implementing sustainable land use patterns.
What is the 'geographic approach' as described in the script?
-The 'geographic approach' is a way of thinking and problem-solving that integrates geographic science and information into how we understand and manage our planet. It is holistic, collaborative, and supports multi-disciplinary solutions.
How does the speaker believe GIS can help in achieving sustainability?
-The speaker believes GIS can help achieve sustainability by enabling the geographic approach, providing tools for measuring, visualizing, analyzing, and making predictions, and by integrating knowledge widely.
What is 'geospatial infrastructure' and how does it relate to the script's discussion?
-Geospatial infrastructure is an interconnected system that organizes and shares geospatial data and services. It is seen as a nervous system for sustainability, integrating various types of data and supporting collaboration and decision-making at different scales.
What technological advancements are mentioned in the script that can help scale up collective efforts towards sustainability?
-Technological advancements mentioned include cloud computing, advanced analytics, integration of imagery and remote sensing, interactive mapping, 3D visualization, and the use of apps for data collection and dissemination.
What role does 'geoAI' or 'geospatial artificial intelligence' play according to the script?
-GeoAI, or geospatial artificial intelligence, plays a role in enriching GIS by allowing for advanced raster analytics, machine learning, and the extraction of feature information from imagery, which enhances our understanding and management of the planet.
How does the speaker view the current state of geospatial technology and its potential impact on society?
-The speaker views the current state of geospatial technology as exciting and rapidly expanding, with the potential to transform organizations and create a new kind of global information system that can support sustainability and collaboration across sectors.
Outlines
🌿 Sustainability and the Role of GIS
The speaker introduces the theme of the conference as creating a sustainable future, inspired by Mario Palma's book. Palma emphasizes the lack of understanding of our reality as a significant risk, and the necessity of creating and applying that understanding for our future. The speaker highlights the world's complexity and the rapid changes it's undergoing, including human-induced climate change and overpopulation. They stress the collective responsibility of humans and GIS users to shape a sustainable future by changing priorities and acting now. The geographic approach is presented as a holistic method integrating geographic science and information to understand and manage the planet, with GIS playing a crucial role in this endeavor.
🌐 Geospatial Infrastructure and Its Impact
The speaker discusses the impact of the geographic approach and geospatial infrastructure on society. They mention the integration of methodologies such as geoanalytics, geo-visualization, geodesign, collaboration, and geo-accounting. The speaker appreciates the audience's work in applying the geographic approach and creating solutions for a sustainable future. They also emphasize the need to scale up efforts and the role of technology in achieving this scale. The rapid advancement of GIS, including cloud computing, advanced analytics, and interactive mapping, is highlighted as essential for this scaling. The speaker also talks about the creation of a 'nervous system for sustainability' through geospatial infrastructure, which integrates various types of data and supports both local and global applications.
📈 Geospatial Capabilities and Big Data Integration
The speaker delves into the details of geospatial infrastructure, explaining how it integrates different types of data and delivers powerful applications for various users. They discuss the pervasiveness of web apps and the hope for continued expansion of geospatial capabilities. The speaker also touches on how geospatial capabilities are being embedded in large IT enterprise systems by companies like Microsoft, IBM, Salesforce, and Amazon. They highlight the enrichment brought about by advanced GIS analytics, real-time information ingestion, and the integration of big data sets. The potential of imagery and remote sensing in enriching GIS is also discussed, along with the role of geo AI and machine learning in pulling off image feature information.
🤝 Collaboration and Leadership for a Sustainable Future
In the final paragraph, the speaker calls for leadership and problem-solving within organizations, thinking holistically about one's place in the world and promoting the best tools and methods. They emphasize the importance of informal communication and collaboration with other organizations. The speaker expresses their personal commitment and urges the audience to act with urgency, highlighting the need to work at different scales to address the challenges facing the world.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Sustainable Future
💡Anthropocene
💡Biodiversity
💡Geographic Information System (GIS)
💡Geoanalytics
💡Geo-visualization
💡Geodesign
💡Geospatial Infrastructure
💡Remote Sensing
💡GeoAI
💡Big Data
Highlights
The theme of the conference focuses on GIS creating a sustainable future.
Lack of understanding of our reality is one of the greatest risks our society is facing.
Our future depends on creating and applying understanding of our world.
The world is a complex and highly interdependent ecosystem that is rapidly changing.
Human-induced climate change and overpopulation are resulting in interconnected patterns of change.
We are collectively responsible for the future of our world.
Creating a sustainable future requires a dramatic change in our priorities.
Sustainability requires seeing the world as one single ecosystem.
Geographic thinking is essential for sustainability.
The geographic approach integrates geographic science and information for understanding and managing our planet.
Geoanalytics, geo-visualization, geodesign, and geo-accounting are methodologies for creating sustainable futures.
GIS enables the geographic approach by providing tools for measuring, visualizing, analyzing, and planning.
Examples of sustainable solutions include protecting biodiversity, reducing resource use, and optimizing logistics.
We need to scale up our collective efforts exponentially.
Technological advancements like cloud computing, advanced analytics, and 3D visualization can help scale up efforts.
Geospatial infrastructure is creating a nervous system for sustainability.
Geospatial infrastructure integrates all kinds of data and delivers powerful apps.
Geospatial capabilities are becoming embedded in large IT enterprise systems.
Advanced GIS analytics allows us to see new things and create new insights.
Big data integration will open our eyes to new relationships and understanding.
Geo collaboration is essential for making geospatial infrastructure work.
We need to act with urgency and move at many different scales to create a sustainable future.
Transcripts
[Music]
i'd next like to move on to
the theme of this year's conference gis
creating a sustainable future this is a
strong vision
and part of the vision was inspired by a
recent book that i read
by mario palma who is one of the
founders of
enahi which is the large statistical and
science and mapping organizations in
mexico
he said the following in his book
lack of understanding of our reality is
one of the greatest
risks our society is facing and i think
all of us in the gis community all of us
in the
in the world community can understand
this
he also later said in his book our
future depends upon
creating and applying that understanding
and these were the beacons that started
an ahi
but they're also for me they speak to me
these words speak to me
because they really are a purposeful way
of describing
our work creating
and applying understanding
our world is a complex and highly
interdependent ecosystem
that's rapidly changing and evolving
the world we live in is actually not
well known
it's fragile it's rich in biodiversity
which is
disappearing at an alarming rate it's
also increasingly dominated by human
activities
geologists are beginning to call this
the anthropocene
epic that epic where humans absolutely
dominate
the life and his history the life the
future of our world
today our world is being challenged
because
us as humans are living recklessly
and unsustainably and this is
threatening our future
human-induced climate changes and
overpopulation
are resulting in interconnected patterns
of change
steep declines in biodiversity and many
other factors
we read about them scientists tell us
about them
almost every day clearly for me
personally for me it speaks
that we collectively we as a
general human population but also we as
gis users
are collectively responsible for its
future
and it could go many ways
creating a sustainable future which i
believe is possible
will require that we dramatically change
our priorities
i believe in this strongly about making
a major commitment
to life and our future
and we must act now in order to achieve
this
there are many things to do like
restoring nature
improving business efficiencies reducing
pollution
consuming less implementing sustainable
land use patterns and many many more
applying our best science and our best
technology and our best creative
thinking
will clearly be necessary and i can't
help but
think and know that geographic thinking
is going to be essential in this
sustainability requires that we see the
world as one single
ecosystem geography the science of our
world provides the science and
the language to be able to do this it
helps us
organize and integrate all the factors
environmental factors
like biodiversity and ecosystem services
and integrate them with economic systems
spatially
seeing their connections it allows us to
integrate them with social factors and
the maps that you shared that i shared
about your work a few minutes ago
are the evidence of this it not only
organizes and integrates all the factors
it also illuminates patterns and
relationships
and helps us discover things it provides
us a framework for
understanding and applying our knowledge
i like to call this the geographic
approach
the geographic approach is a way of
thinking and problem solving
that integrates geographic science and
information
into how we understand and manage our
planet
and mario palmer would clearly
understand that
it's a holistic approach it brings
sciences together
it's integrated it supports and is
enriched by
spatial understanding and it is
also collaborative the idea is
supporting multiple
objective solution creating inclusive
and multi-disciplinary in its nature
and the great hope the great vision
is that this will impact virtually every
sector of our society going forward
this approach integrates and supports
powerful methodologies familiar to many
of you here in the audience
geoanalytics creating insights and
understanding
geo-visualization a language like
through maps and visualization
for communicating the content of our
world and the context of our world
geo design designing sustainable and
inclusive
futures dual collaboration engaging all
the stakeholders on geo accounting
being able to account for all the
factors
setting up measures that are not just
economic driven but
are driven in a mixed way balanced way
and this geoscience and understanding
can support
our future it can support our planning
our decision making
our engineering our operations how we
manage our individual organizations
and how we manage the world these are
all critical
and i appreciate the good work that you
are already doing
clearly gis enables the geographic
approach
the very tools that you use for
measuring and
and visualizing and analyzing and making
predictions
doing planning making decision makings
all that work that you do
is a kind of framework and a process for
applying
geographic knowledge this integrative
knowledge widely
and as i already said you're already
doing this
you are applying the geographic approach
and creating
so many solutions for a sustainable
future
you are protecting biodiversity you are
reducing the use of
precious resources you're optimizing
logistics
you're managing sustainable agriculture
and forests the examples from
for example the great coffee growers are
proof of this however
clearly we need to scale up our
collective efforts
exponentially
just technology can help us it's not the
only thing but it can help us
and it is advancing rapidly it's
integrating many
new innovations helping us reach this
kind of scale
this will be essential things like cloud
computing
advanced analytics the integration of
imagery and remote sensing
interactive mapping 3d visualization
remote sensing is just a piece of it but
it's a major and significant part
opening up
access to this through the multitude of
apps all of this will help us
scale up our collective efforts
gis is also increasingly becoming
interconnected
creating what i like to refer to as
geospatial infrastructure
we're connecting our systems and this in
turn
is helping us collaborate it's helping
us
share it's transforming workflows and
decision-making
at many scales geospatial infrastructure
actually is and i'm seeing this alive
in different organizations like
louisville for example
it's actually transforming organizations
it's creating a whole new
kind of intelligent infrastructure not
just digital infrastructure
not just water infrastructure sewer
infrastructure or
road infrastructure it's creating a new
a new kind of infrastructure for
organizing
and making distributed data that we
collect
available as a basis for this
it's shared geospatial services
organized through
portals for discovery and access by apps
apps that now support all types of users
this is an exciting time because this
infrastructure and i'm watching it
closely and so are you
is expanding really quickly it's
supporting not only
local applications shared information
and so on but also
global applications with millions of
users and ten
tens of millions of shared data sets and
services
that are being made available in this
way it's making billions of maps every
day
and these billions of maps are reaching
millions of people
they're changing how they think it's
creating a whole new kind of global
information system you've heard me
before
talk about a nervous system for our
planet
my sense is this infrastructure is
creating a nervous system for
sustainability
i'd like to talk about some of the
details of this nervous system
first geospatial infrastructure is
integrating all kinds of data
it can now integrate all types of of
tabular data and map data and imagery
data
it can integrate real-time data and
abstract them into these
web maps and layers and scenes that
we're finding so
dramatically useful so that apps of many
types can use them
geospatial infrastructure delivers
powerful apps not just for gis users in
desktops and so on
but these apps are going to scale with
massive mobile deployments
for collecting data and also
disseminating data
and also the pervasiveness of web apps
is just
unbelievable literally trillions of maps
being looked at
around the world and my big hope is that
this will continue to expand
as it has in the last couple of years
enveloping
and bringing us together as a society
some more details this geospatial
environment these geospatial
capabilities are becoming embedded
in other large it enterprise systems
our colleagues and other companies like
microsoft and ibm and salesforce
and amazon and on and on autodesk are
putting
maps and geospatial information into
their apps and that is in turn changing
how they do engineering and crm
and yeah well you can just look at it
it's
it's really integrating geospatial
thinking and geographic thinking
into the apps that non-gis professionals
use across the organizations
and complementing this is the enrichment
that's happening as a result of advanced
gis analytics
this is allowing us to see new things
create new insights with predictive
modeling or
the ability to analyze spatial temporal
information together
the ingestion of real-time information
and the
simple tools to be able to interactively
do visual
spatial analytics these are powerful and
then enriching it further is geoai
machine learning and so on and the
ability now to
store imagery in the cloud and perform
advanced raster analytics
and finally big data the ability to
integrate
and pull on and create understanding
from these massive data sets
i want to talk about a couple of these
big data integration is going to open
our eyes
it's going to let us see new things
relationships we never understood before
the ability to access these massive data
collections
from transactional systems and imagery
and link them to the very same tools
that you are using
will create new forms of understanding
imagery and remote sensing is one
category of that big data
and it is enriching gis as we already
saw
in the examples that you shared all the
way from
simple image base maps for thematic
underlays
to oriented imagery
integration of motion imagery dynamic
image processing
point cloud visualization and as i
mentioned before geo ai
and machine learning which is allowing
us to pull off the image
feature information that enriches our
gis
all of this imagery data is increasingly
being
used in raster analytics and modeling
and increasingly that's being put into
the cloud
we'll talk more about that together
bringing
all of these sources of data together
and being able to
integrate into your work these timely
timeless
information sets many of you are
implementing
this concept of geospatial hubs and
engaging with other communities
this trend and the technology associated
with it
first started with engaging citizens and
cities
it's all about organizing initiatives
and then organizing the teams and
organizing their activities
but this is now especially in the last
year expanded to organizing professional
relationships between users of different
types
this is this technology and the
organizational
strength of the people behind it is
fostering many to
new types of geo collaboration and i
love that concept because it's essential
to make the concepts of geospatial
infrastructure
work i'll summarize what i've been
talking about
our world is being challenged on many
fronts
and we will increasingly need to be
responsible for its future part of this
presentation is about getting us
even conscious about it among ourselves
the geographic approach and geospatial
infrastructure this rapidly
expanding new pattern is going to
provide us with the science
and also the practical means the
essential means to be able to make this
uh work but they're not going to be
enough
you you and your work are going to be
essential
providing leadership in your own
organization
carrying out problem solving the kind of
things you already do
but thinking larger thinking
holistically
my place in my organization my
organization's place
in the world promoting our best tools
and methods
and thinking being able to communicate
clearly and effectively
and most of all collaborating with other
kinds of organizations
exchanging ideas which i really wish we
could be doing
here together physically this is this
informal
communication is so very important
also for me personally i feel like i'm
all in i'm going all in and i really
want to encourage you to go all in
act with urgency these are the times
where we really have to get it together
and move at many different scales
you
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