Esri Press

Discover the stories behind Jane Goodall’s visionary approach to community-led conservation.

You know of Jane Goodall’s work with wild chimpanzees and her lifelong career advocating for environmental justice. But just as transformative is her work empowering local communities that live on the edge of human settlement to act to protect their natural resources—or to risk losing them forever.

Local Voices, Local Choices: The Tacare Approach to Community-Led Conservation is the story of the Jane Goodall Institute’s holistic approach to conservation, which puts the local people in charge of preserving their surrounding ecosystems. Rather than conservationists leading the effort and imposing their solutions, local communities that live in the affected regions make their own decisions. Working with science and technology and with the support of conservationists, these communities grow to understand their human impact on the environment. By choosing to adopt sustainable livelihoods, they decide their own path into the future, finding ways to balance their environmental impact with their communities’ needs.

Story by story, Local Voices, Local Choices brings readers into the diverse perspectives behind this approach to community-driven conservation—not only those of JGI staff and program partners but also, and equally, those of the local people who lead these initiatives.

Read about:

• The origins of the Tacare approach, originally designed as a 1994 reforestation project with an abbreviation pronounced “ta-CAR-reh”
• A retired village member keeping the knowledge of medicinal plants alive in his community
• Spiritual and cultural story-holders who are vital to the recording and preservation of their traditional ecological knowledge
• Local people participating as forest monitors, village health workers, beekeepers, small-business owners, and educators of the next generation
• Former poachers turned advocates for sustainable land management

Written for conservationists, fans of Jane Goodall, and readers interested in environmental issues, Local Voices, Local Choices is a vibrant expression of Jane Goodall’s vision and her hope that the Tacare approach will be understood and adopted wherever there is a need for genuine community-driven conservation.

Local voices matter, and their choices can make all the difference for generations to come.

Bring data to life with this essential guide to storytelling with maps. 

From scraping patterns in sand to drawing intricate lines on vellum and paper, to charting every place on the planet, humans have used maps as a powerful storytelling medium. The advent of the digital age has revolutionized the creation, distribution, and consumption of maps. The web created enormous opportunities for storytelling, enabling maps to dance and weave, partnering with other multimedia elements—photos, video, audio, text—to tell countless tales about our world. 

Featuring a foreword by renowned travel writer and cofounder of Lonely Planet Tony Wheeler, Telling Stories with Maps: Lessons from a Lifetime of Creating Place-Based Narratives bridges both the analog and digital realms, showcasing how maps themselves tell stories and enrich narratives by providing context and insight. Richly illustrated with examples from traditional maps to the latest digital visualizations, this book is an essential guide for anyone interested in the powerful storytelling potential of maps. 

Topics covered include: 

• How storytelling is fundamental to our humanity  
• Comparing and contrasting the use of words, images, and maps in storytelling 
• How maps help us tackle the who, what, when, where, why, and how  
• Considerations for the deep connection between maps and memory 
• How cartography and location-based storytelling have changed during the digital age  
• How the author and his collaborators refined storytelling techniques to create printed wall maps and atlas plates 
• The roles that maps play in narrative context 

Readers will learn: 

•  15 approaches to storytelling and place-based topics 
• How exposure to maps and geography can change how we think 
• Storytelling approaches suited for digital media yet honoring the centuries-old conventions of cartography 
• How to develop multimedia stories with the ability to employ motion and interactivity for your audience 
• Practical features and functions of ArcGIS StoryMaps, Esri’s storytelling platform, with insight and inspiration you can apply to your stories. 

Author Allen Carroll brings his experience from both the National Geographic Society and Esri into his writing. Carroll spent more than a decade of his 27-year career at National Geographic Society as chief cartographer. In 2010, Caroll joined Esri and founded its ArcGIS StoryMaps team, which developed web tools that enabled hundreds of thousands of individuals and organizations to tell place-based stories combining interactive maps and multimedia content. 

Telling Stories with Maps is a winding journey, from thoughts on how our brains process spatial information to practical tips on creating stories, that will guide and inspire you to create place-based narratives that intrigue readers. 

The must-have desk reference to terminology in geographic information systems (GIS).

As GIS technology has evolved and grown, so has the language of this powerful tool. Elevate your understanding of GIS with the newly updated and expanded third edition of A to Z GIS: An Illustrated Dictionary of Geographic Information Systems. With more than 1,400 new terms and nearly 400 high-quality illustrations, this popular comprehensive dictionary is essential for managers, programmers, users, writers, editors, and students discovering the interdisciplinary nature of GIS.

Written, developed, and reviewed by more than 200 subject matter experts, the fully cross-referenced dictionary is packed with nearly 3,000 terms. With clear definitions and helpful illustrations, A to Z GIS: An Illustrated Dictionary of Geographic Information Systems is a crucial resource for anyone in GIS.

Map Use: Reading, Analysis, Interpretation, eighth edition is a comprehensive, foundational textbook designed for the college curriculum. With a section on map interpretation, Map Use provides students with the knowledge and skills to read and understand maps, and offers professional cartographers a thorough reference resource.

Nearly 600 full-color maps, photographs, and graphs illustrate the concepts behind communicating with maps, while PowerPoint slides (available through the book resource page at https://links.esri.com/MapUseSlides) further support use of the text in the classroom.

The book renders basic cartographic principles accessible to all, from students of cartography and map design to those without a formal education in geography. Accommodating new developments in GPS and geographic information system technology, Map Use: Reading, Analysis, Interpretation, eighth edition can serve as an excellent introductory GIS text.

Tackle complex spatial data tasks effortlessly with this easy-to-follow guide to writing specialized Python scripts and developing tools for spatial data in ArcGIS® Pro.

Advanced Python Scripting for ArcGIS Pro follows up on the topics explained in Python Scripting for ArcGIS Pro (Esri Press, 2024) and is now updated for ArcGIS Pro 3.2.

Intended for users who have a good foundation in Python, this book explores how to develop scripts into tools and notebooks to share with others, use third-party packages, and learn other more specialized tasks. By the end of this book, you’ll be confident in writing more advanced scripts, developing them into tools and notebooks, and sharing them with others.

The key topics you will learn include:

• Creating custom functions and classes
• Writing specialized scripts using ArcPy™
• Creating Python script tools and Python toolboxes
• Sharing scripts and tools
• Managing Python packages and environments
• Migrating scripts from Python 2 to 3
• NumPy, Pandas, and Matplotlib
• Creating and using notebooks
• ArcGIS API for Python and Jupyter Notebook

Helpful points to remember, key terms, and review questions are included at the end of each chapter to reinforce your understanding of Python. Companion data and tutorials are available online.

Packed with advanced techniques and practical examples, Advanced Python Scripting for ArcGIS Pro is perfect for more experienced ArcGIS Pro users who are looking to upgrade their Python skills and enhance their workflows.

“GeoAI—the integration of spatial analysis, AI, and big data—is creating new insights that promise to transform our understanding of the world.”  

Jack Dangermond, president of Esri 

Discover how organizations are powering greater automation, prediction, and optimization with GeoAI. 

Organizations across the globe have long relied on geographic information system (GIS) technology to manage and analyze data through the powerful lens of location, helping them tackle some of the toughest business and societal challenges. The emergence of AI-enhanced GIS has opened new opportunities to these groups to automate complex spatial analyses and harness the full breadth of spatial analysis. This democratization of GIS can help everyone make better decisions faster, from city planners and policymakers to businesses, research groups, and constituents.  

GeoAI: Artificial Intelligence in GIS explores a collection of real-life stories about public- and private-sector organizations as well as NGOs and nonprofits successfully using GeoAI and ArcGIS® to manage processes, workflows, policies, and communication. The book also includes a technology overview that provides ideas, strategies, tools, and actions to help jump-start your own use of GeoAI. 

Few of us ponder the mechanisms behind our eyes. We simply expect them to capture the world around us. But for many people, injuries, illnesses, aging, and other health issues can hinder their ability to see and navigate their world. When it comes to maps, assistive technology can only do so much, often lacking the subtle nuances of a landscape, changes in elevation, or the presence of nearby bodies of water. This lack of a geographical overview impedes not only exploration of unfamiliar neighborhoods but also a more general geospatial understanding of local, regional, and international phenomena. 

Tactile maps can be life-changing for people with visual impairments, offering them greater independence and inclusion. Yet much of the research done in the field of education for the blind has remained inaccessible to a broader audience. Tactile Mapping: Cartography for People with Visual Impairments aims to bridge this gap by exploring the subject from a multidisciplinary perspective, illustrating cartographic theory with real-life case studies and user stories. 

A collaboration by skilled professionals, domain experts, and people with visual impairments, Tactile Mapping offers fresh insights from three perspectives: user experience, scientific research, and practical implementation. Through this collection of expert-written chapters, case studies, and user stories, cartographers and other geographic practitioners can gain new insights into the foundations and methods of presenting geographic information for greater accessibility. 

Topics include: 

• The role of maps in shaping our perception of the world 

• Best practices in tactile map design, including an understanding of tactile perception 

• Complex geographic data and the importance of abstraction, generalization, and content selection 
• The need for map design processes to be user centered 
  
• Different output media for tangible maps and geographic models 
  

Cartography not only helps us better understand the world but also helps us convey that knowledge to others. Tactile Mapping: Cartography for People with Visual Impairments explains and demonstrates how mapmakers can and are being intentional and inclusive with their designs. 

Transform your spatial analysis capabilities with the power of GeoAI. 

Learn the latest geospatial AI models and tools with Exploring GeoAI: Tools and Workflows. Use comprehensive, hands-on tutorials for implementing cutting-edge deep learning models and workflows—perfect for anyone ready to apply the transformative potential of GeoAI in their organizational operations. 

Start by learning how to install deep learning frameworks, confirm hardware capabilities, and optimize system settings for peak performance. Then, progress through the complete GeoAI workflow: determining project needs, reviewing available data types and formats, assessing and training models, and evaluating performance with confidence. 

  Work through chapters that reinforce learning through carefully crafted tutorials featuring real-world datasets and step-by-step guidance. This approach enables you to quickly build the expertise to address complex spatial challenges. The tutorials demonstrate workflows for a variety of ready-to-use, pretrained deep learning models in ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, showcasing an evolving platform using powerful geospatial tools.

Key topics include: 

• Installing and configuring deep learning frameworks 
• Troubleshooting common technical challenges 
• Selecting and evaluating models
• Detecting and classifying objects
• Transfer learning 
• Classifying lidar point clouds
• Using predictive spatial analysis   

This essential guide will empower readers with the practical skills to implement GeoAI and efficiently automate, predict, and optimize their geospatial work. 

Learn the most critical concepts for map comprehension and creation with the updated ninth edition of this authoritative text. 

Maps are sophisticated conceptual creations. They convey as much about how people think and communicate as they do about the mapped environment. So how do we create maps that convey essential information correctly? 

Map Use: Map Reading and Design, Volume 1, ninth edition, distills content from the classic textbook Map Use: Reading, Analysis, Interpretation, eighth edition. This refined edition is a comprehensive primer that provides readers with the knowledge and skills to read and understand maps, design and make maps, and recognize the limitations and inaccuracies of maps. 

Combining authoritative text with hundreds of stunning visuals to describe foundational cartographic concepts in the context of the industry’s latest innovations, Map Use: Map Reading and Design, Volume 1 takes the reader beyond visual representations and into the decision-making processes of cartographers. 

Changes for the ninth edition include reindexing; revised datums, maps, and images; an updated map projection guide; a new state plane coordinate system; and updated text to reflect new concepts, practices, and technology. An online glossary is also available. 

Topics include:

• map scale,
• map projections,
• map design,
• map organization and layout,
• qualitative and quantitative thematic maps,
• relief representation,
• imagery and maps, and
• maps and reality.

The book makes basic cartographic principles accessible to all, from students of cartography and GIS to motivated self-learners and seasoned mapping practitioners. It is also an invaluable companion for college-level instructors, with a thoughtful structure designed for college curricula. 

Get ready to improve your understanding and creation of maps. 

 With the world facing immense challenges, how do we create a safer and more equitable world? 

Geospatial intelligence offers valuable insights to help organizations and governments protect communities. By using technology to obtain location-based data, these groups can make spatially informed decisions about how best to help people who are most at risk. Learning the technical skills needed to use geographic information systems (GIS) to visualize and interpret this data has never been more essential for working to find resolutions for the numerous challenges humanity faces today. 

Security First: Geospatial Workflows for a Safe and Equitable World guides readers through specific exercises and examples to show how GIS can be used to address significant world issues while building the technical skills required to work in the field of human security and geospatial intelligence. 

Through 20 geospatial workflows, Security First covers a breadth of topics found in geospatial security, such as: 

• human rights violations,  
• vulnerability to flooding,  
• concerns around illegal fishing, 
• quantifying and mapping land use and land cover change, 
• monitoring environmental justice, and 
• emergency response and disaster management. 

Each chapter is organized with learning objectives, technical requirements, prerequisite knowledge, a geospatial workflow, an analysis, and additional resources. All detailed exercises use ArcGIS software and downloadable data, helping to establish and reinforce the technical skills of readers. Users will also interpret their results and write an intelligence brief, requiring them to think critically about the result of their work. In helping to guide strategic decision-making, this manual will get readers on their way to incorporating GIS into their work for improved analysis and results.

Written for professors, students, and professionals, Security First is the first crowdsourced workbook in the growing field of human security and geospatial intelligence. Contributors and editors include academics teaching or studying human security and geospatial intelligence.  

Get the technical and critical-thinking skills you need to work in human security and geospatial intelligence. 

App-building has never been easier.

Top 20 Essential Skills for ArcGIS Experience Builder guides readers step by step through the process of creating visually stunning and highly functional apps. Whether you are a beginner or experienced GIS user, this comprehensive guide will equip you with the skills needed.

These bite-sized chapters demonstrate how to create various types of apps to visualize data, perform analysis, explore 3D environments, and more.

Top 20 Essential Skills for ArcGIS Experience Builder includes

• Easy-to-understand, step-by-step tutorials,
• Simple instructions with plenty of screenshots showing what to do, and
• Resources that provide readers with self-paced learning opportunities.

By the end of this book, you’ll know

• ArcGIS Experience Builder interface and how to create layouts,
• Best practices from a design perspective,
• How to create simple apps that allow you to perform a number of useful activities,
• How to set up powerful tools for conducting analysis and gaining valuable insights from your data, and
• How to share your app and optimize it for mobile use.

Top 20 Essential Skills for ArcGIS Experience Builder is perfect for ArcGIS users who want to understand ArcGIS Experience Builder, what kind of apps they can make, and how to make them look good.

Gain the essential imagery skills you need for data preparation, data exploration, and advanced imagery analysis workflows.

Top 20 Essential Skills for Imagery and Remote Sensing guides readers step-by-step through the essential techniques needed to visualize, process, analyze, and manage imagery and raster products. In just a few clicks, you’ll learn the skills necessary to interpret imagery, create imagery products, and perform various imagery analysis workflows.

These concise chapters are designed for quick learning, with each chapter taking about 45 minutes to complete. Clear, easy-to-follow tutorials with practical examples consisting of instructions and screenshots make Top 20 Essential Skills for Imagery and Remote Sensing an approachable resource for users of all skill levels.

By the end of this book, you’ll be proficient in:

• Enhancing imagery, managing image collections, and performing advanced analyses
• Using the ArcGIS Image Analyst extension for enhanced image processing
• Applying real-world skills to support decision-making and solve complex problems

Top 20 Essential Skills for Imagery and Remote Sensing is ideal for GIS professionals who want to deepen their understanding of imagery, as well as students eager to learn about remote sensing.

Empower yourself to use imagery and raster data effectively in your GIS projects with this comprehensive resource.

Learn how to use ArcGIS Utility Network, the powerful software that handles the complexity of modern utility systems now and into the future.

Top 20 Essential Skills for ArcGIS Utility Network is a practical guide for GIS technicians and analysts, whether you are already using ArcGIS Utility Network in your organization or are migrating to Utility Network. ArcGIS Utility Network is an advanced network information model within ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Enterprise that handles the complexity of modern utility systems now and into the future. ArcGIS Utility Network allows you to manage a connected network with a single unified model and visualize your infrastructure in 2D and 3D to unlock detailed insights and analytics.

Top 20 Essential Skills for ArcGIS Utility Network focuses on 20 skills that were chosen based on existing user input, suggestions, and troubleshooting over the last few years. Using short, to-the-point chapters with step-by-step tutorials that simplify important tasks and descriptions, readers will build a solid foundation of skills.

Users will learn how to:

• Create feature templates;
• Apply network rules and validate data;
• Use the error inspector to resolve error features;
• Use a basic connective trace;
• Use directional traces;
• Create a network diagram;
• Manage subnetworks, and more.
  

Written by experts at Esri, Top 20 Essential Skills for ArcGIS Utility Network is perfect for anyone who wants a single, reliable, comprehensive resource for learning how to use or optimize their current use of Utility Network.

Human geography, taught with live, interactive maps and data for a unique geographic perspective.

The essential concepts and theories of human geography are brought to life thanks to the innovative integration of modern web maps.

Introduction to Human Geography Using ArcGIS Online, second edition, explains topics such as migration, race and ethnicity, food and agriculture, manufacturing and services, urban geography, and cultural geography. Unlike traditional textbooks, this book approaches geography through the use of ArcGIS® Online and provides exercises for interacting with, analyzing, and creating maps. ArcGIS Online is a browser-based geographic information system (GIS) that allows users to explore thousands of geographic datasets and interactive maps.

Students using this book use live data and maps to ground their understanding of how the world is organized and how human and physical features interact to create unique places and regions. Each chapter includes ArcGIS Online exercises that reinforce geographic concepts.

This second edition features updated maps, figures, and charts reflecting the latest data and includes new text on contemporary issues, from race, ethnicity, and political geography to pollution and climate change.

Designed for undergraduate college and AP high school students, Introduction to Human Geography Using ArcGIS Online, second edition, uses the latest geospatial data and web-based technology to teach critical thinking and evaluate the diversity of people within their environments and their global impact.

Spatial statistics empowers you to go beyond visual analysis to answer questions confidently and make data-driven decisions.

Thanks to the data and computational power now at our fingertips, data science is in every aspect of our lives. But with so many algorithms and buzzwords floating around, where do you start to solve complex problems or figure out where to go next?

There has never been a more exciting time to learn about spatial statistics. Spatial statistics uses an aspect of geography that helps you quantify patterns and relationships so that you can feel confident in your analysis.

Spatial Statistics Illustrated is an introductory book for learning the concepts behind the powerful spatial statistics tools in ArcGIS.

With approachable explanations and uncomplicated drawings, Spatial Statistics Illustrated gives readers an accessible understanding of some of the most widely used spatial statistics methods, including how they work and when to use them. In a friendly, conversational tone, the authors share techniques that can help you explore your data in meaningful ways; quantify patterns and relationships; understand trends, and make informed, impactful decisions.

This book has something for everyone analyzing data, including:

• seasoned data scientists looking to explore the value that spatial analysis offers
• GIS analysts looking to expand their spatial statistics skill set
• new GIS users discovering the value of spatial statistics

Spatial Statistics Illustrated is a perfect complement to more traditional, technical statistics and spatial statistics texts and is also ideal as supplemental reading for academic courses.

Based on the popular series of Spatial Statistics workshops presented by the authors at the annual Esri User Conference, Spatial Statistics Illustrated welcomes readers into the unparalleled world of spatial statistics.

The first book from Esri Press about ArcGIS Enterprise, one of Esri’s most important technologies for keeping your organization agile, collaborative, and responsive.

ArcGIS Enterprise is the foundational software system for GIS, powering mapping and visualization, analytics, and data management. Collaboration and flexibility are central to ArcGIS Enterprise, allowing you to organize and share your work on any device, anywhere, at any time. A thorough knowledge and understanding of ArcGIS Enterprise is essential to increasing the ability to work with others and remain responsive and resilient in today’s increasingly demanding and changing business environment.

Getting to Know ArcGIS Enterprise covers the essential skills of planning, deploying, administering, using, and maintaining ArcGIS Enterprise. It addresses the most common and vital workflows ArcGIS Enterprise administrators need to understand.

Topics include:

• understanding prerequisites and base deployment,
• security settings basics,
• managing users and content,
• publishing ArcGIS manager and user-managed data,
• maintaining data flows between the source geodatabase and clients,
• consuming web layers for editing and spatial analysis,
• sharing your work,
• collaborating with other organizations,
• troubleshooting,
• backups and restoration,
• and more.

This book is a great choice for professionals, educators, and students who want to learn or teach modern GIS skills or who may be working to become certified as an ArcGIS Enterprise Administrator through the Esri certification program. Written by experts at Esri, Getting to Know ArcGIS Enterprise provides essential information for modern GIS administrators.

Learn how to get better answers in map analysis when you use spatial measurements and statistics. 

Spatial measurements and statistics give you a powerful way to analyze geospatial data, but you don't need to understand complex mathematical theories to apply statistical tools and get meaningful results in your projects. 

The Esri Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 2: Spatial Measurements and Statistics, second edition, builds on Volume 1 by taking you to the next step of GIS analysis. Learn to answer such questions as, how are features distributed? What is the pattern created by a set of features? Where can clusters be found?

This book introduces readers to basic statistical concepts and some of the most common spatial statistics tasks: measuring distributions, identifying patterns and clusters, and analyzing relationships. 

Updated with the latest and most useful software tools and revised explanations, each chapter in The Esri Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 2 is organized to answer basic questions about the topic. Explore how spatial statistical tools can be applied in a range of disciplines, from public health to habitat conservation. Learn how to quantify patterns beyond visualizing them in maps. Examine spatial clusters through an updated chapter on identifying clusters.

Use The Esri Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 2, second edition, to understand the statistical methods and tools that can move your work past mapping and visualization to more quantitative statistical assessment.

Do more with your GIS and understand the foundation of spatial analysis: geographic patterns and relationships.

A geographic information system (GIS) enables so much more than mapping. A GIS inherently enables spatial analysis that can give you a better understanding of your geographic data. GIS analysis reveals answers to questions like:

• Where is it?
• Where’s the most and least?
• How much is where?
• What’s inside?
• What’s nearby?
• What’s changed?

But how do you get started? The second edition of The Esri Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 1 shows you how and more.

With easier to read maps and text, The Esri Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 1, second edition, updates a classic text and teaches foundational spatial analysis patterns that provides geographic insights. Learn the basic concepts of spatial analysis and GIS. Build on that understanding with essential map-building skills to unveil and display patterns and relationships. The Esri Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 1, second edition, also includes a guide to online lessons that reinforce the concepts and demonstrate GIS application.

Written for both new and experienced GIS users using an easy to follow format, the second edition of The Esri Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 1 helps you build a foundation of the basic tasks needed to handle a wide range of analysis applications and prepares you for more advanced GIS skills.

Unlock the power of Python in ArcGIS® Pro with this definitive, easy-to-follow guide designed for users with limited programming or scripting experience.

Get started learning to write Python scripts to automate tasks in ArcGIS Pro with Python Scripting for ArcGIS Pro. This book begins with the fundamentals of Python programming and then dives into how to write useful Python scripts that work with spatial data in ArcGIS Pro. You’ll learn how to use geoprocessing tools; describe, create, and update data; and execute specialized tasks. With step-by-step instructions, practical examples, and insightful guidance, you’ll be able to write scripts that will automate and improve your ArcGIS Pro workflows.

This third edition has been revised for ArcGIS Pro 3.2 and Python 3.9.18 and includes updated images; a fully updated chapter 2; and expanded chapters 4, 8, 9, and 10.

The key topics you will learn include:

• Python fundamentals
• Setting up a Python editor
• Automating geoprocessing tasks using ArcPy™
• Exploring and manipulating spatial and tabular data
• Working with geometries using cursors
• Working with rasters and map algebra
• Map scripting
• Debugging and error handling

Helpful points to remember, key terms, and review questions are included at the end of each chapter to reinforce your understanding of Python. Corresponding data and tutorials are available online.

Whether you’re new to Python or already have some experience, Python Scripting for ArcGIS Pro is the go-to resource for learning the versatility of Python coding to solve problems and enhance productivity and efficiency in ArcGIS Pro.