The Belmont Forum participated in the Esri Community Users Event, a gathering for Geographic Information System (GIS) professionals and enthusiasts. Esri brought together an audience to explore innovations, applications, and trends in geospatial science.
This event, which encouraged collaboration and knowledge sharing, centered on areas such as environmental monitoring, urban planning, disaster response, and resource management, with geospatial intelligence serving as the foundation. Participants included GIS analysts, developers, data scientists, researchers, educators, and decision-makers from government, academia, and industry.
Hilario Espinosa, Membership Relations and Open Science Officer at the Belmont Forum, engaged with attendees, discussed the Forum’s strategic initiatives, and explored collaboration possibilities. Belmont Forum’s involvement exemplifies the link between geospatial science and our mission: promoting international environmental research for global change. Our goal is to advance global environmental research that generates knowledge for action. Geospatial data and tools are crucial for understanding environmental systems, tracking changes, modeling future scenarios, and developing solutions to global challenges. These are the technologies that support our research communities. Geospatial tools enable researchers to collect, analyze, and visualize data more efficiently, leading to scientific discoveries and actionable insights. The Belmont Forum promotes open science, seeking broader access to data and tools.