Clients
Planning & Training Case Studies
Cal EMA Enterprise GIS and CAL-SABER Web Application
Challenge
The California Emergency Management Agency (Cal EMA) needed an Enterprise GIS integrated with it core IT and business workflows that would offer it in-house capability to quickly disseminate critical geospatial datasets and applications in support of its mission of statewide emergency mitigation, response, and recovery.
Solution
Farallon developed an Enterprise GIS and data model for the thousands of GIS layers that the Cal EMA warehouses, along with a web-based GIS viewer to visualize the location and extent of incident data such as wild fires, accidents or swine flu outbreaks. Farallon also developed a prototype Android-based mobile application for collection of real-time field data during an emergency training exercise.
Moulton Niguel Water District Strategic Plan
Challenge
Moulton Niguel Water District needed a plan for creating an integrated enterprise GIS to simplify office functions related to operating its water, recycled water and wastewater services.
Solution
Farallon's GIS Strategic Plan provides the District with comprehensive and flexible enterprise GIS architecture, governance structure, data development and maintenance plan, staff training plan, and overall budget forecast for implementation of the system. The plan details the return on investment and specific deployment steps necessary.
Kern County Master Address Database Needs Assessment
Challenge
Kern County had no single complete, accurate, and current address list that could be used as the authoritative list of business and residential locations for providing essential services. This limited the ability for Count departments to coordinate efforts and integrate information across business systems.
Solution
Farallon Geographics completed a Master Address Database needs assessment and budget plan for a single, centralized address source or MAD to solve the problem of duplicated and error-prone addresses.
Getty Conservation Institute Web-Based GIS for Managing Jordanian Antiquities
Challenge
The Getty Conservation Institute working with the World Monuments Fund and the Jordanian Department of Antiquities wanted to develop a new national GIS to assist in inventorying, monitoring, and managing the thousands of archaeological sites in Jordan
Solution
Farallon is developing a Web-based, bilingual (Arabic-English) system that will be used by inspectors, archaeologists, scholars, and government planners involved in cultural heritage management and research. The scalable solution using open source software, will subsequently be adapted for use in Iraq and possibly other countries in the region.
Caltrans PEAR-STEVE Systems Evaluation
Challenge
The California Department of Transportation, Division of Environmental Analysis required a comprehensive system requirements evaluation for two projects: the Preliminary Environmental Analysis Report (PEAR) tool and the Standard Tracking and Exchange Vehicle for Environmental System (STEVE) project.
Solution
Farallon performed a comprehensive system requirements evaluation of the PEAR-Tool and STEVE projects and prepared a detailed System Requirements Specification report that documents the programs' functional and non-functional system requirements, use studies, interview data, and the perceived limitations of the program.
San Mateo County ArcSDE/Oracle Spatial Implementation
Challenge
San Mateo County wanted to wanted to deploy the map production and geocoding tools available in ArcGIS on top of their existing Oracle Spatial and Intergraph Geomedia Enterprise GIS.
Solution
Farallon configured and performance-tuned Oracle to integrate with ArcSDE and geodata access via ESRI software. Farallon also provided County staff with training and useful tools such as scripts, tips, and common troubleshooting techniques.
Integrating MDOT’s business data with its geographic data using Oracle Spatial
Challenge
The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) is responsible for planning, designing, building and operating the state's transportation network. MDOT's existing LRS implementation was not geographically referenced . This limited their ability to automate data validation or perform real-time spatial analyses of their network.
Solution
Farallon developed a data model to support MDOT's transportation system workflows and integrated the data with Oracle Spatial. Farallon also developed dynamic segmentation procedures to link tabular data (e.g. traffic reports) to on-the-fly to visualization of road segments. MDOT can now access mapping and business data dynamically.
Town of Hillsborough Enterprise Geodatabase Development
Challenge
The Town of Hillsborough had devoted time and resources to initiating a GIS on a departmental desktop-level basis. To minimize data duplicities, increase data accessibility, and make data manageable by Town staff, they needed an enterprise GIS implementation.
Solution
Farallon devised a three-part solution that included building a RDBMS- based enterprise GIS, developing two web-based GIS applications (property review and notification) and training Town staff to manage their data and applications.
San Mateo County Department of Health - GIS, Epidemiology, Disease Control & Prevention
Challenge
San Mateo Disease Control & Prevention investigates infectious diseases in the County. This group of epidemiologists, community workers and health professionals needed to understand GIS tools in order to monitor, track and help prevent the spread of disease threats.
Solution
Farallon customized a two-day course on the fundamentals of GIS including hands-on software experience. Using West Nile Virus tracking as an example, Farallon taught staff how to synthesize their existing epidemiology data (i.e. patient addresses) with enterprise data (i.e. storm drains and address points) to perform a spatial and visual analysis.
Bay Area Air Quality Management District ESRI-based Enterprise GIS
Challenge
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District assesses the health risks associated with exposure to high concentrations of toxic air contaminants and comes up with a strategies to reduce risk to residents. They needed an efficient means of analyzing large volumes of data and a way to visually explain these results to policymakers and the public.
Solution
Farallon developed and implemented an enterprise-class GIS that provides BAAQMD with a central data repository to store and share data across the organization as well as perform targeted and visual analyses.