Map Book Gallery

View maps created by fellow GIS praticitioners.

Volume 23: GIS—Geography in Action

Natural Resource Management—Mineral Leases
University Lands is a division within the University of Texas System and is responsible for managing 2.1 million acres in 19 west Texas counties. Oil was discovered here in 1923 with the completion of the Santa Rita well.

Volume 22: GIS—The Geographic Approach

Hopi Ancestral Lands GIS Solutions for Travel, 3D Visualization, and Change through Time
The University of Redlands and the Hopi Tribe have collaborated to identify ancestral sites and to reconstruct clan migration patterns. Professor Wesley Bernardini, Ph.D., defined the primary goals for the project: to develop a GIS database for storage and analysis of spatial data on ancestral Hopi villages.

Volume 21: GIS—Communicating Our World

Geospatial Data and Environmental Science and Management
Naval Undersea Warfare Center and the University of Rhode Island Environmental Data Center in the Department of Natural Resources Science have worked together to develop GIS-based solutions to complex problems faced by the U.S. Navy in environmental and ecological management. The partnership has proven to be extremely valuable for both institutions.

Volume 20: GIS—Helping Manage Our World

Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation
The Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map shows the types of vegetation that occur across the Arctic between the ice-covered Arctic Ocean to the north and the northern limit of forests to the south.

Volume 19: GIS—The Language of Geography

Quantification of Reservoir Potential of the Devonian Limestone East Waddell Ranch Survey, Texas
A series of five maps was produced as part of work done for a GIS course given at the University of Houston, Geoscience Department. Data from two sediment layers was used to quantify reservoir potential. Map 1 used geostatistics to estimate the depth of the oil producing (lower) layer from point samples.

The Map Book Gallery features the ESRI Map Book series dedicated to acknowledging the important and innovative accomplishments of GIS users around the world.

Published annually, each volume of the ESRI Map Book showcases a small portion of the work presented at the Map Gallery Exhibition at the annual ESRI International User Conference.