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Case Studies
Nothing shows Farallon's capabilities or commitment to customer satisfaction better than real-life case studies of our projects.
Virgin River Watershed Habitat Conservation Plan
Challenge
Rapid population growth and development near the Virgin River Watershed area of Nevada required the city of Mesquite to develop a habitat conservation plan. They needed a way to visualize and plan around endangered species locations and ecological communities.
Solution
Farallon is creating a GIS web application using ArcIMS, .NET and custom web services to track and manage species' data including population and habitat location for the area's endangered species. Developers and planners can use the web interface to map out and work around threatened habitats.
Army Corp of Engineers projects analyzed by congressional district
Challenge
The Army Corp of Engineers is the nation's primary federal engineering agency responsible for tasks ranging from hazardous waste clean-ups to reservoir and dam maintenance. The ACOE needed an accessible way to track and manage project budgets in CA, NV and AZ by geography and congressional district.
Solution
Farallon created a web-based application that lets a user select a geographic area, congressional district, or watershed region and retrieve a list of all current projects in that selected area. Click on a project name and a popup window provides full project details.
San Francisco street sweeping maps let residents avoid parking citations
Challenge
The complexity of street sweeping schedules in San Francisco makes it all too common for a resident to park in the wrong spot, at the wrong time, and receive a parking citation. A local entrepreneur sought a cartographic solution to this urban inconvenience.
Solution
Farallon developed neighborhood maps for public use that display street sweeping schedules by day and time. Because of the sheer volume of maps and frequently changing schedules, Farallon used ArcObjects and a geodatabase to automate the creation and easy update of these maps.
Oakland uses orthophotography & enterprise GIS for parcel management and economic analysis
Challenge
The City of Oakland wanted to improve the usefulness and accuracy of its existing parcel data and integrate it with an enterprise geodatabase to expand city services across multiple departments.
Solution
Farallon and its team built an enterprise-scale parcel database using spatially accurate orthophotographs and integrated it with a new master address database, which was created in just six months. That high level of integration meant that any City information with a spatial or property component could be spatially enhanced, including property review, permit tracking, land-use planning and notification, and E-911 dispatch.
San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District Brings Enterprise GIS to the Fire Truck
Challenge
The San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District provides fire and ambulance service to a rapidly growing population from two cities. New land development meant that the District's GIS maps, CAD system, and records management system had to be integrated to allow fire fighters to quickly find homes in new subdivisions and confirm that nearby fire hydrants were connected to functional pressure zones.
Solution
Farallon helped the district implement a web-based system that links GIS with CAD and records management databases, providing dispatchers and fire fighters with a consolidated and near real-time view of dispatch, hydrant, and logistics (best access to remote rescue areas). The geodata can be forwarded directly to the responding units via the onboard mobile data computers in the vehicles.
Sonoma County’s GIS Pavement Management System with Real-Time Scenario and Maintenance Analysis
Challenge
Sonoma County Public Works is responsible for maintaining 1,400 miles of roads. To display road maintenance conditions, County managers printed out hard copy maps from their GIS and then manually highlighted problem areas that were identified using MTC's Streetsaver pavement management software.
Solution
Farallon worked with the County to implement an integrated GIS pavement management system (PMS) that dynamically segments street data into pavement sections. Visual displays are now always in sync with the PMS data and can be used for real-time scenario and maintenance analysis.
Davis County, Utah Enterprise Parcel Database and Web Application Development
Challenge
Davis County wanted to transform their existing GIS system by developing an enterprise geodatabase and website capable of delivering dynamic spatial information for property review.
Solution
Farallon designed a Land Information System (LIS) database and web portal that supports the county's property management workflows and converts the county's legacy file-based data to a SQL Server geodatabase. The web-based property review application consolidates property ownership, taxation, and jurisdiction information from several county databases.
Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) Oracle Spatial Technical Support
Challenge
PG&E needed to develop robust GIS applications and tools for identifying and analyzing its power pole transmission line data. They also wanted training for their internal staff in how to develop custom GIS applications while still maintaining data validation and business rules.
Solution
Farallon worked with the PG&E team using Oracle Spatial 9i with PL/SQL database programming to develop several custom applications, including a Java JSP-based map viewer for analyzing transmission line data. Technology transfer and training was an integral aspect of the project.
Parsons-UXB Joint Venture on Kaho’olawe Island Reserve Demilitarization GIS
Challenge
Farallon worked with Parsons-UXB to develop an online mapping system that managed the cleanup of unexploded ordnance (UXO) on the small Hawaiian island of Kaho'olawe.
Solution
Using a web interface, users who click on a grid square get a summary of information at a glance, while those who click on a piece of UXO get information and photographs about that item including GPS coordinates and images depicting everything from vegetation to the destruction date, as well as proximity to historically signficant Hawaiian sites and artifacts.
San Mateo County Voter Registration
Challenge
The County's Clerk-Assessor-Recorder-Election Departments (CARE) were required to implement and monitor a countywide voter outreach program to target underrepresented communities in the county. CARE needed a quick and accurate visual representation of the disenfranchised Latino and Chinese-American communities in order to appropriately plan voter outreach activities.
Solution
Farallon Geographics integrated precinct information from the existing enterprise GIS with Census information to visually identify communities that had high ethnic concentrations with low voter registration.