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GIS and Gardens Symposium
. . . Building a Community of GIS users in
Botanical and Zoological Gardens
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This Meeting is About GIS, GPS, Geography and
Sharing Our Knowledge about its Application in
Gardens

• Technology
• Methods
• Organization
• Data
• Processes
• And About You

Visualization
Mapping
Data Model
Data Compilation
Image Processing
Systems
Web Service
. . . And Your Work
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Your Work is Creating a New Approach
. . . Improving How We Create and Manage Our
Future
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Gardens are Special Places . . . .With Many
Missions

• A Physical Institution
• Facilities Design and Planning, Construction,
  Managing Utilities, Roads, Trails, Irrigation
  Systems . . .
• Landscape Management Plants, Soils,
  Fertilizers, Pests, Disasters
• Visitor Management Education, Exhibits,
  Services, Programs
• Development Membership Demographics, Endowments,
  Events
• A Scientific Institution
• Taxonomic Research
• Species Informatics Data Models, Standards and
  Interchange
• Field Ecology Species Distribution and Natural
  History
• A Place for Conservation
• Preservation of Species
• Conservation Research
• (Sustainable Development, Species Survival,
  Climate Change)
• Educational Institution
• Self Learning
• Classes

California Academy of Sciences
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GIS is Helping Make Garden Institutions More
Successful

• Better Management of Living Collections and
  Related Facilities
• Digital Inventory of Complete Collections
• Location
• History
• Environmental Conditions Greater Efficiency,
  Lower Costs,
• Better Communication Visualization, Mapping ,
  Reports. . .
• Framework For Planning
• Lower Costs / Efficiencies
• Better Science
• Mapping Patterns
• Modeling Ecology
• Improving Services
• Conservation
• Web Communication

Rancho Santa Ana Botanical GardensSan Diego
Zoological Society
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Design Planning
San Diego Zoological Society

• Using GIS, the Morrison Woodland Garden
• was redeveloped to add a wheelchair accessible
• boardwalk and a series of viewing decks.

Santa Ana Zoo
Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Gardens
Royal Botanical Garden, Canada
Many of our projects would have been much more
time-consuming, and some may not have been
possible, without the incorporation of
GIS. -Margaret WaltonGIS Coordinator, RBG
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Facilities management

• Missouri
• Botanical
• Garden

San Diego Zoological Society
,San Diego Zoo
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Landscape Management

• Plant Records
• Facility Base Map
• Data Capture Tools
• Analysis
• Reports Information Products
• Usefulness for Facility Planning and Exhibit
  Development

National Tropical Botanical Garden
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Horticulture Management
Tree Canopy Cover, Royal Botanical Gardens
Melbourne
Missouri Botanical Garden
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Disaster Management Damage Assessment
High-impact Wind Areas Florida
Fire Los Angeles
Fire History San Diego
Missouri Botanical Garden
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Visitor Services
Huntington Botanical Gardens
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Visitor Materials
UC Davis ArboretumOTS La Selva
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Endowment Planning

• RBG maintains a database of memorialized trees,
  rocks, and benches dedicated by donor, and GIS
  has been used to map the existing memorials and
  potential new sites.

Royal Botanical Garden, Canada
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Zoological Horticulture
San Diego Zoological Society
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Biodiversity Conservation
American Museum of Natural History
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Species information Networks
University of California Berkeley REBIOMA
Madagascar Wildlife Conservation Society
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Species Distribution Mapping
Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Andes to
Amazon Biodiversity Project
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Research - Estimating The Geographic Distribution
of SpeciesBased on Herbarium Specimens
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Species Range Mapping
Missouri Botanical Garden
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Species Conservation Samburu Reserve
Save the Elephants, Kenya
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GIS Modeling / Conservation Planning Elephant
Corridors and Streaking
Species Survival
Jake Wall, Save the Elephants
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GIS Modeling / Conservation Planning Tree
kangaroo Conservation Program
Species Survival
Woodland Park Zoo, Tree kangaroo Project
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Sustainable Communities
Woodland Park Zoo, Tree kangaroo ProjectLimbe
Botanic Garden CameroonMt. Cameroon Project
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Zoological Science
San Diego Zoological Society
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Visualization
MaNIS Project
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Biodiversity AtlasesVegetation Atlas for
Madagascar

• Atlas will help Madagascar plan a more
  sustainable future.
• Map-based vegetation information system within
  ArcGIS

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Biodiversity AtlasesVegetation Atlas for
Madagascar
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Collaborative ScienceVegetation Atlas for
Madagascar
What can we see from imagery
Expert Knowledge input
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Our World Has Many Problems to Solve
2050

• Growing Population
• Global Warming
• Social Conflicts
• Resource Shortages
• Loss of Biodiversity
• Security

Land Cover
2002
Population Density

• We Need
• Greater Knowledge Awareness
• Comprehensive Planning
• Collaborative Action

UNEP
We Need to Change We Need a New Approach
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The World Needs an Approach That Changes How We
See Things . . .
. . . And the Way We Do Things
Patterns
Relationships
Deciding
Significance
Designing
Our Understanding
Managing
Restoring
Consequences
Our Behavior
Implications
Human
Nature
Helping
Protecting
Developing
Regulating
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Geography Is the Science of Our WorldHelping Us
See the World
As a Living Whole
And How We Are Part of Its Evolution
As a Network Of Interrelated Systems
. . . Providing a Context for Understanding
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The Geographic ApproachA Framework for
Understanding and Managing Our Earth
Geographic Knowledge
Creating Measuring Organizing Analyzing Modeling
Holistic Comprehensive Systematic Analytic Visual
Applying Planning Designing Deciding Managing Acti
ng
Integrating Geography Into How We Behave
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GIS Applies the Geographic ApproachProviding
Tools, Methods, and Workflows That Support
Collaboration and Action
Work Flow
Storing
Analyzing
Measuring
Visualizing
Integration
Acting
Spatial Analysis

• Better Decisions
• Greater Efficiency
• (Money/Time/Resources)
• More EffectiveCommunication

Collaboration
. . . Improving the Way We Do Things
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GIS is Being Applied Across Many Disciplines,
Professions and Organizations
Becoming an Instrument of Evolution . . .
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What is a GIS?Software Technology for Managing
and Applying Geographic Information

• Supporting
• Rich Data Model
• Data Management
• Strong Tools
• Data Compilation
• Data Integration
• Analysis / Modeling
• Mapping / Visualization
• Applications and Workflows

. . . And Knowledgeable Users
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GIS Organizes and Manages Geographic
KnowledgeSix Basic Types
Geoprocessing Models
Maps Visualization
Geographic Data
Geospatial Work flows
Data Models
Meta Data
Geodatabase
. . . Useful Building Blocks that Can Be Shared
and Applied
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GIS Implementations Follow Common Patterns
Multi-User
Desktop
Federated

• Shared Database
• Fixed Applications
• Transactions

Work-Groups

• Ad Hoc Projects
• Analysis/Modeling/Mapping

• Integration
• Sharing
• Collaboration

Professional
Organizations
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The Web Provides a New Pattern for Sharing GIS
Information

• Supporting
• Collaborative Efforts
• Mashups
• User Contributed Content

GeoWeb
Distributed Collaboration
Map Services

• Many Participants
• Interconnected
• Interoperable
• Integrative
• Dynamic

Web 2.0
Web 1.0
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GIS Professionals are Also Using The Web
PlatformContributing Rich Content and Building
Powerful Applications

• Publishing Authoritative Knowledge
• Building Professional Systems

Use
Web Users
Sensor Network (GRSS)
GIS Users
Georeferenced Content
Author
Base Maps Globes

• Content
• Maps
• Data
• Models

Integrating Professional GIS with Everything on
the Web
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Many ImprovementsProviding Many New Capabilities
Innovations

• Making Users More Productive
• Mapping
• Visualization
• Animation
• Charting
• Integrating Time
• Modeling
• Spatial Analysis
• Data Management
• Interoperability
• Web Services
• Server Architecture

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GIS Servers are Providing A New PlatformServing
Geographic Knowledge as Web Services
Rich Functionality
Data Management Mapping Visualization Geoprocessin
g Applications Development Mobile
Making GIS Knowledge Available To Anyone . . .
. . . Integrates With Other Systems Via
Standards
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Supporting Mobile Applications A Lightweight
Client for the Field/Use

• Runs On Many Devices
• Phones
• PDAs
• Laptops

• Supports
• Mapping
• Editing
• Query
• GPS

Application
Includes development kit forcustom applications
. . . Synchronized with Geodatabase
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GIS Servers Supports MashupsIntegrating GIS
Services with Consumer Mapping and Visualization
Services
Helping Users Tell Stories in Internet Map Sites
. . . . . . And Integrating Web Content
into GIS
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Successful ImplementationRequires More Than
Technology

• Vision and Leadership
• Management Support
• Organizational Model
• Planning
• Technical Architecture
• Data Models
• Organization
• Implementation Work
• Good People
• . . . And a Spirit of Collaboration

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Other Thoughts about Gardens and GIS
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Gardens and GIS in the FutureOur World is
Changing Rapidly
Population Density

• Climate Change is a major threat to Plants. . .
  
• Habitat and ecosystem sustainability
• Disturbance Regimes (flood, fire, estuarine)
• Terrestrial habitats will shift northward and
  upslope
• Protected area boundaries cannot shift
• Human settlement surrounding natural areas also
  cannot shift
• We need knowledge about managing native species
  in climates outside their normal survivability.
• When plants can no longer survive in their native
  locations unaided . . .
• . . . conservation shifts from being an
  ecological Protection effort one to being a
  horticultural one.
• This knowledge will come from biologists and
  horticulturalists, aided by spatial analysis
  tools.

CO2 Emissions
. . . Gardens Will Be Centers of This Knowledge
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Future GIS Climate Driven Extinction Modeling
. . .And Planning for Translocation
Agrostis baccillata
Salix bebbiana
Future predicted distribution
Future predicted distribution
Current predicted distribution
California Academy of Sciences
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. . . Gardens will be Conservation
Advocates and Models For How We Manage Our Planet
Gardens and GIS in the FutureConservation of
Nature will Be Increasingly Needed

• Humans are Impacting terrestrial Landscapes -
  dams, development, pollution and fire
  suppression.
• Humans can decide what will happen to natural
  communities in the future
• The will to act for nature will depend on the
  success of institutions teaching citizens and
  voters about biology, nature and climate change.
• As the world urbanizes, there is less connection
  to nature, biology and evolution.
• The role of public gardens will be to Provide
  knowledge and understanding of the natural world
  in the context of orderly scientific inquiry.
• GIS will Help

Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Garden
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Gardens and GIS in the FutureWe Need New Social
Communities

• GIS users have spontaneously formed communities
  with remarkably consistent values
• Public Service oriented, helping one another
• Sharing data, innovation and Ideas
• Engaged in helping teach the public support
  special projects
• GIS Corp., The Society for Conservation GIS, PUG,
  EGUG and hundreds of geo- user groups
• Supporting
• Community projects, grants, scholarships,
  conferences and training
• Annual Scientific Professional Meetings
• Publications and Initiatives
• ... All without any staff or offices, just
  relying on volunteers.
• The Gardens GIS User is a Beginning

Gardens will create Centers of Community action
California Academy of SciencesFairchild Tropical
Garden
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Your Work With GIS is Already Helping

• Supporting
• Systematic Inventories
• Improved Facilities Management
• Scientific Research
• Educational Outreach
• Better Horticulture Practices
• Better Programs

. . . Improving Best Practices With More
Comprehensive Information
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What More Can Be Done?

• Create A Community of Professionals Focused
  Application of GIS in Gardens
• Sharing Best Practices
• Approaches
• Data Models
• Applications
• Collaborations
• Research
• Outreach / Education
• Annual Meetings

. . . . Evolving and Sharing New Methods and
Best Practices

• ESRI Will Support You . . .
• . . . Software Grants, Training And Technical
  Support

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Our World Has Many Problems . . .
Gardens Will Increasingly Play a Role in
Societies Understanding of Nature The
geographic approach is important . . . For
Organizing, Understanding and Managing GIS
technology is beginning to make a difference . .
. changing the way we see and do things But,
more than technology is required . . . it will
take vision, dedication and hard
work Garden professionals working together
. . . can implement this new approach . .
. and create a more sustainable future for
everyone
"Never doubt that a small group of committed
people can change history. Indeed it's the only
thing that ever has" -Margaret Mead
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Application Ideas For Discussion

• GIS as the Back office System Managing Work
• Facilities Management
• Work Orders
• Strategic Decision Making and Cost Analysis

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Application Ideas For Discussion

• The Visitor Centered Garden
• Community Mapping Projects
• K-12 or 4-H GIS programs
• Web-based GIS permits citizens to give you
  feedback
• GIS as a gateway to real world conservation

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Application Ideas For Discussion

• Raising Funds and Capital Campaigns (Major
  Facility Improvements)
• Donor Stewardship
• Membership and Event Marketing
• Event Management
• Construction Management

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Benefits of GISSharing of Scientific Data

• The Scientific Analysis Using GIS
• Tracking Research Use and Published Work
• Collaborative Data Sharing
• Potential links between in situ and ex situ
  managers

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Benefits of GISFunding a GIS

• Key Issues for Decision Makers
• Wheres the Sweet Spot?
• Leveraging Your Investment
• Finding the Money
• Lowering the Cost
• A Staffing Plan
• Fast, Flexible, Friendly, Focused Project
  Management
• Future directions for GIS in a Where 2.0 (and Web
  2.0) world