What is GIS?

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TLDRThe video provides a comprehensive overview of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and its broad applications across various fields. It discusses how GIS aids in visualizing and analyzing spatial data, such as assessing flood risks and optimizing supply chains. The significance of GIS is highlighted in community planning, disaster response, and sustainable development, emphasizing its role in addressing global challenges like poverty and climate change. The speaker notes that GIS technology is becoming increasingly vital and powerful, offering new opportunities to tackle complex issues with data-driven insights.

Conclusões

  • 🌍 GIS stands for Geographic Information Systems, crucial for understanding spatial data.
  • 📊 GIS helps assess risks, like flood exposure, by analyzing various data layers.
  • 🏢 It is utilized by businesses to optimize supply chains and select store locations.
  • 🌱 GIS supports sustainable development and conservation efforts globally.
  • 🚨 In emergencies, GIS enables real-time collaboration among response teams.
  • 📈 The GIS industry is set to double by 2027, highlighting its growing importance.
  • 🌿 GIS helps visualize complex relationships, aiding problem-solving in communities.
  • 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Understanding socio-economic factors is crucial for neighborhood planning with GIS.
  • 🌐 GIS plays a vital role in achieving the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
  • 📈 With rich data layers, GIS empowers decision-making across various sectors.

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    GIS, or Geographic Information Systems, is a tool used for analyzing spatial data, exemplified by assessing flood risks in areas like San Diego. It integrates various data sources, facilitating detailed insights into geographical relationships and risks, which is crucial for both individual homeowners and corporations alike. Despite its widespread application across industries, from insurance to agriculture to urban planning, public awareness remains low. The technology enables communities, enhances decision-making in business expansions, and aids governmental bodies in managing resources effectively, thus becoming indispensable in contemporary planning and management. Moreover, GIS proves transformative in fostering collaboration among different sectors, greatly improving the capacity to address emergencies and land use planning, emphasizing its role in sustainable development and community welfare.

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  • What does GIS stand for?

    GIS stands for Geographic Information Systems.

  • How can GIS help in flood risk assessment?

    GIS helps visualize and analyze spatial data to determine floodplain risks and drainage issues.

  • Where is GIS commonly used?

    GIS is used in various sectors including agriculture, retail, transportation, utilities, and governmental planning.

  • What are some benefits of using GIS for businesses?

    GIS helps businesses optimize supply chains, determine store locations, and enhance operational efficiency.

  • Why is GIS important for sustainable development?

    GIS is essential for analyzing and addressing issues related to poverty, hunger, health care, and environmental sustainability.

  • How does GIS aid in disaster management?

    GIS allows for real-time data sharing among different departments to make informed decisions during emergencies.

  • What is the projected growth of the GIS industry?

    The GIS industry is estimated to double in size by 2027.

  • Can GIS be used for conservation efforts?

    Yes, GIS is a crucial tool for planning and implementing conservation actions.

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  • 00:00:09
    What is GIS?
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    Great question.
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    Let's start with just one of probably countless examples we could choose
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    from.
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    So, suppose you live somewhere like I do here in San Diego where we
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    are getting more and more floods and you want to know if your home's
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    at risk.
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    You would want to know, are you in a floodplain?
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    What about drainage?
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    How much rain did you get?
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    How might that change in the future?
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    When you start to combine and layer all this data with GIS,
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    you can actually see how at risk your home is to floods.
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    It's very often said that data is the new oil
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    and GIS is a confluence of all of the different data sources that we
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    have now.
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    Whether it's from the sky or from the ground
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    or from mobile devices, anytime it matters spatially how two
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    things are related and that's just about everything in this world.
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    You need GIS.
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    Whether you've heard of GIS or not, it's all around us.
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    It's used by every major corporation to manage their supply chains
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    and to pick where to build stores.
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    It's used by utilities, it's used by transportation companies,
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    it's used by every governmental body.
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    But it's also about what's happening in your neighborhood, what's
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    happening in your community, which is why it's kind
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    of remarkable that so few people know about it.
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    A community occupies a space in the globe, right?
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    For a city, the city is responsible for that
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    space.
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    From land parcels to where are our utilities
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    located, to the conditions of the roads or the transportation
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    system.
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    All of that occupies the space.
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    And so I really can't see a way to manage all that without GIS.
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    With GIS mapping, we can work much more closely
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    with communities that have been marginalized for so long.
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    It gives you this ability to problem solve with so much more information.
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    If you think about people are living on this much money,
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    and they have this size of household, and they tend to be working
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    multiple jobs, low-wage jobs.
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    jobs.
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    Being able to see those layers gives you a different view
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    so we can create a different future in those spaces.
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    In the GIS industry, some estimates are that it's going to double
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    between now and 2027.
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    Our clients use GIS in insurance to help understand risk.
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    In agriculture, it's used to help farmers make better decisions
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    about what to plan.
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    We also see a lot of businesses looking at how they
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    optimize their supply chains.
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    You can look across your entire network of suppliers and make
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    different choices to meet whatever your goals are.
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    And it could be about saving money, it could be about efficiency,
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    but it may also be about sustainability.
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    And those things don't contradict each other, they
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    can all come together.
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    GIS has been absolutely transformative.
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    It's the ability to bring the art and the science of decision-making
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    to the table.
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    Let's say you're a retailer and you're thinking about expanding
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    into new markets, you can look at where do my customers
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    live?
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    Where do they shop?
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    Where are my competitors?
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    Combine all this data, and you start to see great options
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    for store locations.
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    So we can use GIS to look at how their business decisions
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    might impact their bottom line.
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    CalGas has 20 million customers who depend on us day in and day
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    out to provide them with gas safely.
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    Authorities say more than a hundred homes have serious damage.
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    There's real concern that neighbors could be trapped.
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    Montecito was a major, major event.
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    We brought our GIS team actually on site to Santa Barbara,
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    and they were working directly with first responders,
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    and we could manage it together as a collaborative team.
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    By having all of our data on GIS, it allows different departments to go
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    to the same portal.
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    They can look at, are there environmental layers?
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    Are there urban planning layers?
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    Are there safety risk layers?
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    So we can make much more holistic decisions in real time.
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    That's what GIS has done for us.
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    HDR is a global engineering firm.
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    We do a lot of infrastructure, smartly designed,
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    with the environment in mind.
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    Bridge design, water treatment facilities, architecture.
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    Our clients wanted to see data in a way that was easy for everyone
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    to understand.
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    Taking the GIS that's typically seen in a horizontal space
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    into the vertical space, They can see project alternatives.
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    It's really fun.
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    We can make hundreds, thousands of iterations.
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    Would there be more trees?
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    How would that look?
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    What about the volumes of the buildings, etc.?
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    The decision makers can see how their money is spent,
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    and the municipalities can see how their environment is developed.
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    I think everybody wins.
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    IUCN is the international union for the conservation of nature.
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    One of the key roles of IUCN is to convene all the necessary voices
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    making the decision about what they can protect and where they
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    can protect it.
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    And it neutralizes the conversation.
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    It does not become, I am arguing with you about this
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    point.
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    It's about using the map as the neutral space to share
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    perspectives.
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    So GIS is really one of the most important tools that's going to help
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    the world to implement the appropriate conservation actions.
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    We have a lot of working landscapes that could also be conservation
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    landscapes as long as we work with landowners to make
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    sure that their needs are met.
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    GIS can help us spatially organize and visualize what's
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    important for people, what's important for animals.
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    So coexistence is really what we're fighting for here.
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    GIS allows us to get ahead of planning so that we can have that
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    coexistence.
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    So much of what people in developing countries face, whether it
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    is the need for basic services or getting your children to school
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    or getting goods to market, it's all geographic.
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    The Sustainable Development Goals are the objectives adopted by all 193
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    UN member states to make a better future.
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    Every Every one of the 17 goals needs GIS.
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    You cannot fight poverty without knowing where poor people
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    are.
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    You can't fight hunger without understanding crop yields.
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    You can't have universal health coverage without knowing where
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    the clinics are.
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    With thousands and thousands of layers of data,
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    it's unimaginable to be thinking about these issues without GIS.
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    I think a reason that GIS is used more and more is because it has
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    to be.
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    Many of the biggest challenges we're facing, economic, social,
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    climate change and biodiversity loss, have to be understood
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    in a geographic context.
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    And the good news, given all these challenges,
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    is that GIS is more powerful than ever.
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    And that means that all the things that maps have helped us to solve
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    over millennia, We now have an even more
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    powerful tool to do those things with GIS.
Etiquetas
  • GIS
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Flood Risk
  • Data Visualization
  • Urban Planning
  • Sustainability
  • Conservation
  • Disaster Management
  • Supply Chain Optimization
  • Community Engagement