Esri ArcGIS

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Vol. 11, Issue 1
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COVER STORY:
LOCATION IS ALL PERVASIVE
CASE STUDY
DFS Strives for larger coverage of financial services using Esri ArcGIS
Airtel delivers a truly transparent network using Esri ArcGIS Server based
platform
PARTNER SHOWCASE
Esri India and Asman Software Solutions join hands to enhance electoral
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PRESIDENT’S
DESK
Agendra Kumar
President, Esri India
eographic information system (GIS) technology helps in unlocking the full potential of data to
improve operational and business results. We call this “The Science of Where”. With ‘location’
being the center of almost every technological development taking place today, the need for
seeing GIS as ‘The Science of Where’ has become a necessity.
The role of ‘The Science of Where’ in the Indian context is already established. GIS technology is
a key component of many government initiatives including the most talked about Smart City programme
where the country will have 100 smart cities coming up in the next few years. GIS is helping in driving social
schemes like ‘Direct Benefit Transfer’ and ‘Slum Rehabilitation’, and helping the governments in improving
citizen services and engagement.
India is home to the third largest number of technology driven startups in the world; many of them have
‘Location’ as the basis of their business ideas. Esri India currently supports over 50 startups in integrating
ArcGIS into their development. Setting an example of Public-Private-Partnership, Esri India and the Depart-
ment of Science and Technology have recently launched GeoInnovation Challenge under the ‘Make in
India’ movement. This platform provides startups with an industry recognition and an opportunity to show
case their products to potential customers in India and across the globe.
Web GIS implementations are gaining popularity in India. Web GIS connects people, organisations
and communities through web maps and apps, and enables working with all types of data — imagery,
tabular, vector, LiDAR, real time, 3D, Big Data etc. Apart from being a strong WebGIS platform for data
management, mapping and geo processing, ArcGIS Enterprise also offers real time data integration and
processing, through GeoEvent Server, image management and raster analytics through Image Server, and
Big Data analytics through GeoAnalytics Server. Its modular architecture enables independent scalability
of each of these functions, which means most optimised investments.
With ‘The Science of Where’, we are excited to come up with a common visual language that has the
potential to enable organisations make more informed decisions. We are glad to provide the next gener-
ation of GIS for our users.
Agendra Kumar
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CONTENT
PRESIDENT’S DESK 3
NEWS
Esri and Autodesk collaborate to advance infrastructure planning and design 5
ArcGIS Pro 2.1 is almost here 5
Esri’s CityEngine 2017 makes urban planning efficient 6
Esri & UrtheCast bring imagery to life inA rcGIS 6
Esri introduces global demographics and other features to Microsoft Power BI 6
Esri finds mention in report forecasting growth in location intelligence market 7
Esri receives over 30 OGC compliance certificates for ArcGIS 10.5 Platform 7
HERE map data to be available for ArcGIS users 7
Imagery & GIS: Best practices for extracting information from imagery 8
GeoInnovation: A challenge for startupreneurs 8
NIC gets SAG award at Esri UC, San Diego for innovative technology application 8
PARTNER SHOWCASE
Asman Software Solutions enhances Electoral experience 9
PRODUCT REVIEW
Insights for ArcGIS: Discover the secrets of your data quickly and efficiently 10
TECHNOLOGY UPDATE
Geocoding using ArcGIS 12
Bilingual apps powered by Esri 14
RESEARCH PAPER
Identification of sites for small hydel using remote sensing and GIS 15
COVER STORY
The Science of Where: Location is all pervasive 18
CASE STUDY
DFS strives for larger coverage of financial services using Esri ArcGIS 26
Airtel delivers a truly transparent network using Esri ArcGIS platform 29
INTERVIEW
In conversation with… Lajpat Rai, AGM (Cartography), Airport Authority of India 32
GLOBAL VIEW
Esri equips rescue agencies with GIS tools against Hurricane Harvey 34
Esri apps go on the road with the Oklahoma Highway patrol 36
TIPS & TRICKS
How to get started with ArcGIS Pro 40
TRANSFORMING GIS EDUCATION
Centre of Geospatial Excellence with IIEST 42
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NEWS
Esri and Autodesk collaborate to advance infrastructure planning and design
Esri and Autodesk have Autodesk will include securing software to more seamlessly work
announced the start of a sustainable resources for the together will optimise their ability
new relationship to build a growing population, a responsible to plan, design, build and operate
bridge between GIS mapping and human footprint on our natural envi- infrastructure assets saving precious
BIM technologies. “It is important ronment, better use of our planet’s time and money. Improving the inte-
to consider the needs of future resources and more resilient cities.” gration of Esri and Autodesk soft-
generations during the design and ware has the potential to dramati-
building of projects today,” said For infrastructure owners around cally decrease workflow times.
Jack Dangermond, President, Esri. the world, both public and private,
“The benefits of partnering with enabling BIM and GIS mapping “Partnering with Esri is intended
to combine the power of BIM and
GIS mapping which will enable our
shared customers to build anything,
anywhere,” said Andrew Anagnost,
CEO, Autodesk. “Our goals are
to provide industry and city plan-
ners the ability to design in the
context of the real world. This will
allow communities to build more
connected, resilient cities, and infra-
structure with a focused eye on
sustainability.”
ArcGIS Pro 2.1 is almost here
Esri is all set to release the next Enhance Your Work in 3D sum, mean, median, minimum,
version of its flagship 64-bit maximum, and standard deviation
desktop GIS application, ArcGIS Pro 2.1 brings you many new of those values. A histogram is also
ArcGIS Pro 2.1. It continues Esri’s features to enhance how you work created showing the distribution of
mission to provide new and user-re- with and analyse 3D data. the field’s values.
quested functionality, the latest
innovations for working with 2D and • Using the new 3D editing grid, Do More with New Extensions
3D spatial data, tools for performing you can precisely edit, snap, and
advanced analytics and enhanced work with your data. With the ArcGIS Pro 2.1 release, comes
support across the ArcGIS platform. some new extensions designed to
• There are now three modes of enhance your workflows and analysis.
interactive 3D exploratory anal-
ysis for quick visibility analysis • B usiness Analyst for ArcGIS Pro helps
using Line of Sight, Viewshed, you gather a variety of marketing
and View Dome tools. analytics, including customer and
competitor analysis, and site eval-
• The new stereoscopic mode and uation to give your business the
isometric views give you new geographic intelligence edge.
ways of looking at your 3D data.
• ArcGISImageAnalyst lets you do
Generate Table Statistics for Your more to visualise and analyse
Attributes imagery in ArcGIS Pro, including
stereo mapping, advanced
When exploring an attribute table, image segmentation and clas-
you can get Statistics describing sification, image space analysis,
the values in numeric attribute and building custom image
fields. Statistics include the processing algorithms.
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NEWS
Esri’s CityEngine 2017 makes urban planning efficient Esri introduces global
demographics and
to understand the consequences other features to
of a proposed building’s design Microsoft Power BI
variations.
Esri has announced its new ArcGIS
The new CityEngine also introduces Maps for Power BI capabilities.
procedurally generated 3D city Those who avail Plus subscrip-
content. This means that planners tion will have access to global demo-
Esri announces the release of can automatically create unique graphics, expanded data mapping,
Esri CityEngine 2017. The soft- design features on buildings without and more content from Esri’s Living
ware is the latest version of manually rendering them. Atlas of the World, which is a collec-
Esri’s 3D modeling software that tion of ready-to-use geographic infor-
offers new features and let planners “With this release of CityEngine, we mation.
and architects compare different focused on the needs of urban plan-
scenarios and visualise them with ners, designers, and architects,” said Power BI is a set of business analytics
dashboards to view how each would Pascal Mueller, Director of Esri R&D tools that allow enterprise users to
affect the same geographic area—all Center Zurich AG, where CityEngine create dashboard reports and data
in real time. is developed. Further, we imple- visualisations through a cloud-based
mented many long-awaited user server. With the help of integrated
With the updates available in the requests such as measurement tools data and location intelligence from
new version of CityEngine, users can and computer generated architec- Esri’s ArcGIS platform, Power BI
make changes to specific features— ture (CGA) neighborhood queries. enables business and data analysts to
such as adjusting the size of windows Last but not the least, we completely identify patterns that are revealed by
or adding a balcony—in a model revamped the graphical user inter- geography.
without affecting the entire structure. face, resulting in the fresh, modern
Before this, planners would have to look of CityEngine and a much Dirk Gorter, Esri director of product
create two entirely different projects improved ease of use.” management, says “80 percent of
the data that businesses deal with
on a day-to-day basis has a location
Esri & UrtheCast bring imagery to life in ArcGIS component. The new Plus subscrip-
tion to ArcGIS Maps for Microsoft
“We are very excited about the Power BI looks to shine a light on that
broad partnership with UrtheCast location data with new spatial analytics
and for our users to explore the capabilities”
potential of Kanvas using ArcGIS.
Allowing users to create simple, “The interactive data visualisation
quick, insightful apps, based on possible with Power BI, combined with
timely and qualified imagery, will Esri’s collection of geographic data,
inspire new solutions in GIS,” said provides our mutual customers the
UrtheCast and its subsidiary, Lawrie Jordan, Director of Imagery, benefit of being able to make more
Deimos Imaging, announced Esri. informed, location-based decisions.”
to start a new UrtheCast says John Doyle, Senior Director of
imagery service which is powered “The goal of Kanvas is to bring Product Marketing, Microsoft Corp.
by Esri Kanvas. The service will imagery to life by leveraging
enable all Esri users to access machine learning algorithms in an
timely, reliable and quality assured integrated environment. By part-
imagery, directly into their apps and nering with Esri, we are delighted
desktops. Hosted in Amazon Web to make available our imagery in
Services using ArcGIS, Esri users can ArcGIS, to significantly accelerate
utilise the multi-temporal imagery decision making in a wide range of
service and start building valuable fields,”said Jamie Ritchie, Business
apps for monitoring, change detec- Development Director, UrtheCast
tion, precision insights and more. and Deimos Imaging.
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Esri finds mention in report forecasting growth in
location intelligence market
Leading global geospatial plat- “Everything in business happens
form provider Esri has been somewhere, and when you tap into
mentioned in Gartner’s May the integrative and analytical power
2017 Forecast Snapshot: Location of location, you can boost customer
Intelligence Software, Worldwide, loyalty, improve real estate portfo-
2017 report. Esri was cited among lios, slash operational costs, and build
five location intelligence specialist a better supply chain,” offered Jack
platform vendors. The report projects Dangermond, Founder and President,
global enterprise spending on loca- Esri. “We believe a location strategy
tion intelligence software to increase will help any business find profitable
from $1.337 bn in 2016 to $2.563 bn growth.” HERE map data to
by 2021, resulting in a compound
be available for
annual growth rate of 13.9%. The Gartner report also states, “Loca-
ArcGIS users
tion Intelligence provides a way to
According to the report, “The Internet reveal relationships between datasets In a bid to improve its mapping
of Things (IoT) and digital business will that might not have otherwise been and spatial analytics platform,
produce an unprecedented amount obvious or easy to ascertain and, Esri has turned to HERE with
of location-referenced data, partic- through location analytics, arrive at the a new licensing agreement
ularly as 20 billion devices become kind of insights that get reflected in that will give Esri the access to
connected by 2020. Location is one the bottomline… In the combination a complete range of map data
of the most important pieces of infor- of geographic and dynamic data, visu- from HERE.
mation for understanding context in alised on a map, location intelligence
sync with transactional, social, mobile, reveals characteristics that may have Providing in-depth analysis
user and sensor data.” been otherwise obscured in a spread- and visualisations, it’s easy for
sheet environment.” ArcGIS users to access and,
perhaps more importantly, to
Esri is the worldwide standard for understand location-based
digital mapping and analytics. The data. And now the platform has
company’s ArcGIS platform helps even greater access to HERE
organisations of all sizes reveal deeper maps and data, that process
insights embedded within their is even easier, including a
geospatial data. broader, more comprehensive
set of features.
Esri receives over 30 OGC Compliance Certificates
The partnership will also give
for ArcGIS 10.5 platform
Esri access to real-time and
Esri has received over 30 compli- “The purpose of the OGC Compli- predictive traffic data from
ance certificates from the Open ance Program is to increase interop- HERE, which can then be used
Geospatial Consortium (OGC), erability of system components with the ArcGIS platform to
for its ArcGIS 10.5 platform. These while reducing technology risks. give users the information
certificates of compliance cover a Buyers gain confidence that a needed to decide everything
wide variety of OGC implementation compliant product will work with from whether building a new
standards, which allow customers, another compliant product based road is viable, to developing
especially within the geospatial intel- on the same OGC standard—regard- services where precise ETA
ligence (GEOINT) community, to less of the provider. Esri has been a times are critical.
work more collaboratively. longtime active member of the OGC
and is committed to open standards With ArcGIS, Esri aims to give
compliance. This is evident in their clients access to the highest
current product release, which has quality commercial map data
received over 30 OGC compliance available, and the partnership
certifications.” said Mark Reichardt, with HERE will help Esri realise
President of OGC. that target.
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NEWS
Imagery & GIS: Best practices for extracting Information from imagery
The latest in print vation, as well as proven advice. agencies, and academia. He has
from Esri shows The book is authored by Kass Green, authored/coauthored more than
how imagery Dr. Russell G. Congalton and Mark 150 papers, 10 book chapters, and
can be integrated Tukman. four books on geospatial analysis,
successfully into GIS including  Assessing the Accuracy
maps and analysis. It Kass Green has more than 30-years of Remotely Sensed Data: Princi-
helps in discovering of experience in remote sensing ples and Practices (CRC Press, 2008
how imagery brings and GIS spanning over innovative and upcoming),  Meeting Environ-
value to GIS and how research, multiscale and multisensor mental Challenges with Remote
GIS can be used to derive value mapping projects, strategic plan- Sensing (American Geosciences Insti-
from imagery. One can learn from ning, policy analysis, and develop- tute, 2013), and Quantifying Spatial
case studies and in-depth expla- ment of decision support tools for Uncertainty in Natural Resources(Am-
nations about selecting the ‘right’ NGOs, public agencies, and private azon Digital Services, 2007).
imagery, image analysis, how to effi- companies throughout the world.
ciently manage and serve imagery Mark Tukman is the owner of Tukman
datasets, and how to accurately Dr. Russell G. Congalton is a Geospatial based in Santa Rosa, Cali-
extract information from imagery. professor of remote sensing and GIS fornia. He has more than 20 years of
The authors’ experience working at the University of New Hampshire. experience using imagery and other
together on numerous research, He has more than 35 years of expe- datasets to help public and private
teaching, and operational remote rience in teaching and researching organisations map land cover, make
sensing and GIS applications bestow geospatial technologies working for decisions using spatial data, and
the book with both the newest inno- private industry, federal and state support land conservation efforts.
GeoInnovation — A challenge for NIC gets SAG award at Esri UC,
startupreneurs San Diego for innovative technology
application
Esri India rolled out GeoInnovation - A Challenge for
Startupreneurs, in association with Department of At the annual Esri User Conference, the National
Science and Technology (DST), Ministry of Science Informatics Centre (NIC) of the Ministry of Elec-
and Technology. GeoInnovation Challenge is an exciting tronics & IT was presented with Special Achieve-
programme for entrepreneurs who are building GIS tech- ment in GIS (SAG) Award by Esri.
nology-enabled start ups. The aim of the challenge was
to provide the start ups with a platform to showcase their The NIC received the award for its innovative applica-
GIS based business ideas and build a strong network with tion of technology, data collection, geospatial informa-
industry experts whilst also providing startups with an tion visualisation, and thought leadership through GIS
industry recognition. Esri India currently supports more in the field of e-Government/e-Governance Applica-
than 50 start ups in integrating ArcGIS in their solutions. tions using Information & Communication Technology.
This is GIS industry’s first of its kind Public Private Partner- The award was presented by Jack Dangermond, Pres-
ship (PPP) initiative in India with an objective to support ident and Founder, Esri to Vishnu Chandra, Deputy
start-ups building new businesses based on GIS tech- Director General and HOG, RS & GIS Division and Utility
nology. With the association between Department of Mapping Division, on 12th July, 2017 at San Diego,
Science and Technology (DST) and Esri India, the platform California, USA.
has been set-up for start ups to be a part of the ‘Make
in India’ movement. This platform would also provide “The SAG Awards provide a great opportunity to
startups with an industry recognition and an opportunity showcase all the outstanding achievements of our
to show case their products to potential customers in India users,” said Dangermond. “The Special Achievement
and across the globe. GIS start ups is a segment, that has in GIS Award recognises exemplary organisations
not been explored much in India but has a huge business implementing spatial analytics technology to change the
potential. With many venture firms showing interest and world. Highlighting the good work of users—in industries
joining this program, GIS led startups now have an oppor- ranging from commerce to government—benefits the
tunity to pitch and raise money for their businesses. entire GIS community, and that’s very valuable.”
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PARTNER
SHOWCASE
Esri India and Asman Software
Solutions join hands to
enhance electoral experience
T
he general elections in India is a landmark
event, however, the process involved is
usually laced with the following challenges:
£ Identifying the most sensitive areas from a
polling perspective.
£ Lower voter registration.
£ Over-registration when compared to the population
figures in the area.
£ Mismatch in gender demographics when compared
to the actual population ratio within the polling
constituency.
£ Identification of strategic locations for the polling
stations. Election Management and Monitoring
£ Inability to identify correct polling stations by
registered voters and physically locating the polling Features
premises.
£ A GIS-based dashboard for CEO, District Officers
The state election commission of Andhra Pradesh and Mobile App for Officers, Booth Level Officers,
recognised these challenges early and realised a GIS Staff and for Voters.
solution can resolve the issues. £ Routes to the polling station can be created on maps
and stored for future reference.
The solution £ Map-based view of key elements such as district
boundaries, locations of polling booths etc. is
Asman Software Solutions, a leading Hyderabad-based available.
web technologies and GIS solutions company collabo- £ Functionality of the ArcGIS application leads to easy
rated with Esri India to develop a GIS-based Electoral management of election logistics.
Management solution. The solution, using Esri ArcGIS £ Webcasting feature with live video enables polling
API for Java Script 4.x, WCF services, ArcGIS server 10.5, officers to monitor the voting process and identify
enables all voters and election officers to visualise rela- discrepancies more efficiently.
tionships, patterns, and trends to deeply understand
their constituency and manage electoral processes Benefits
effectively.
£ A comprehensive GIS based analytics & reporting
“The main idea was to build a portal for the district solution used at every stage of the election process.
collectors to use to analyse the historical data and also £ Instant access to polling logistics information to
the polling registration.” Swaroop Dunna, CEO, Asman voters through mobile app.
Software Solutions Pvt Ltd. £ Registered voters can claim their voter records and
correct discrepancies directly.
£ Multiple language support allows ease of communi-
cation for voters from remote villages.
£ Better coordination among booth level officers
through the virtual space and data sharing.
£ Reduced cost of managing the election logistics.
£ Easy deployment of polling personnel to manage
the election process efficiently.
£ Easy creation of travel plans for observers as they can
connect the polling booths they have to visit on the
maps and create a route.
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PRODUCT
REVIEW
Insights for ArcGIS:
Discover the secrets of your data
quickly and efficiently
for ArcGIS enables you to gain
new discoveries about your data.
Linked cards allow you to click on
a chart and see related data light
up on another card. For instance,
using Insights we can explore crime
by type, volume and density, and
also analyse if patterns have been
changing over time. Needless to
say, with Insights for ArcGIS, analysis
crosses ‘dashboard thinking’. Iter-
ations happen faster and analysis
becomes more powerful as the tool
allows you to visualise and analyse
E
sri’s latest innovation, in an amazingly unique way. As maps, data simultaneously and that too in
‘Insights for ArcGIS’ is a charts and tables appear alongside such a visually enchanting way.
web-based, data analytics each other as cards, the story gains
workbench that allows life. Each card provides a live snap- Visualise easy with
you to explore spatial shot of the analysis, and interestingly, drag-and-drop
and non-spatial data. Using it, you you can apply a different style to each
can get answers to questions that card, and continue iterating. Who Analysis of data gains speed with
seemed impossible to ask and get knew analysing data could be such Insights for ArcGIS, as visual data
powerful results delivered fast. an exciting experience! Thanks to discovery becomes a simple drag-
Insights for ArcGIS. and-drop process. With drag
Explore, analyse, iterate and drop facility, you can quickly
Visualise and analyse analyse and refine results, ask ques-
With Insights for ArcGIS, you can simultaneously tions, get answers, and get quick
quickly discover the secrets your outcomes. There is more! Using
data holds. Insights enables you to The magic doesn’t seem to stop. By spatial aggregation, Insights for
visualise, analyse, and tell your story allowing card interactivity, Insights ArcGIS allows you to quickly visu-
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