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Geospatial technologies and big data - the growing tool-box for tourism planning and management Simon Hughes, Managing Director, Hatfield Consultants Africa

TOURISM AND CONSERVATION PLANNING: BETTER DATA FOR BETTER MANAGEMENT

Geospatial Technologies & Big Data

The growing tool-box for tourism planning and management

Simon HughesManaging Director

Hatfield Consultants Africa

Geographic Information SystemsLocation

GISLocationProximity

GISLocationProximityNetwork analysisDensity and distributionMultiple-criteria

Network Analysis Routing

Routing / Proximity / Density

Source: V. Jovanović, A. Njeguš

Multi-criteria Analysis

Integrate data and layers to support decision-making

GIS – Tourism Planning

Satellite imageryLow to high resolution

Desktop to server to cloud

More and moresatellites

Tidal wave of data

Purchase to service

Unparalleled access to data and information

IKONOS®.82 meterresolution9 m CE90

QuickBird®.65 meterresolution23 m CE90

WorldView‐4®.30 meterResolution<3.0 m CE90

WorldView‐3®.30 meterresolution<3.0 m CE90

WorldView‐2®.46 meterresolution<3.5 m CE90

GeoEye‐1®.46 meterresolution<3.5 m CE90

WorldView‐1®.50 meterresolution<4 m CE90

AVAILABLE  VIA  DIGITALGLOBE  ARCHIVE

CURRENTLY   IMAGING  IN  ORBIT

The Data Management Challenge

The Data Management Challenge

Geospatial Big Data Platform “GBDX”Extract information from imagery and other sources at scale…

To provide enriched information feeds at mission relevant speeds

Access via GBDX Subscription

Big Data Applications

Object detection and identification

Land use/land cover

Agricultural and vegetative analysis

Land Suitability

Urban and rural infrastructure

Elevation Modeling

Transportation mapping

But….machine learning is hardUse Humans and Machines!

CrowdRankTM

Imagery Crowd

Reliability AlgorithmKey featuresExpert Analysis

Automated Processing

Crowd-Sourcing

Tourism uses other data sources to plan Tourism should be ‘a layer’or set of consistent layersDescribe key, standard tourism indices for planning and management

Data Policy & Open Data AccessEncourage sharing and integrationApplication & use, not hoarding

• Powerful and practical data, tools and analytical methods

• Tourism and land use planning and management

• Support policy implementation, decision-making management and integrated planning

TakeHome

Messages

• Conservation• Tourism • Nexus

Geospatial Technologies & Big DataThe growing tool-box for tourism planning and management