The City of Oklahoma City adopted its first bike and pedestrian master plan, bikewalkokc, in 2018 and completed the plan's first update in 2024. Effective planning begins with analysis, and the pedestrian chapter of bikewalkokc included four types of citywide pedestrian analysis: Pedestrian Level of Service (PLOS), Intersection Analysis, Pedestrian Demand Generation, and Demographics Analysis. Each analysis type is presented in a map. The bikewalkokc pedestrian analysis identifies the areas with the greatest need of pedestrian facilities and helps prioritize the use of available local funding, as well as justify the procurement of future funding from competitive federal programs.

Agriculture in semi-arid regions is fraught with perils due to variable precipitation, cyclic drought, and land degradation. Irrigation is one method employed throughout the world’s drylands to decrease vulnerability while increasing agriculture productivity. To wit, agriculture comprises approximately 70% of global freshwater use. Within the U.S. High Plains Aquifer (HPA) region, the increase in irrigated farmlands began in the 1950s with the introduction of center pivot irrigation (CPI). While CPI helped drought-proof agriculture operations, numerous adverse ecological effects accompanied these technological and subsequent land use/land cover changes (LULCC). Understanding these LULCC dynamics is paramount to fostering socio-ecological resilience. We present a mapping approach to analyze LULCC in the HPA that uses Esri’s deep learning libraries and Google Earth Engine imagery to detect changes in CPI from 2001 to 2023.