Farallon GIS and Location Technology Case Studies
Nothing shows Farallon's capabilities or commitment to customer satisfaction better than real-life case studies of our projects. Whether in a local government office, an emergency dispatch center, a transportation network, or a marketing and sales department, Farallon solutions are enabling businesses and governments to make better and faster operational decisions.
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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. Read more details...
Categories: Web Applications, Notification, Property Review, GIS/IT Integration, Master Address Database, Geodatabase Design
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. Read more details...
Categories: Web Applications, GIS/IT Integration, Asset Management Systems, Geodatabase Design, GPS Field Data Collection
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.
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Categories: GIS/IT Integration, Pavement Management
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. Read more details...
Categories: Web Applications, Property Review, GIS/IT Integration, Geodatabase Design
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. Read more details...
Categories: Geodatabase Design, Network GIS, Planning & Training, GIS Needs Asssessment, Training & Technology Transfer
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. Read more details...
Categories: Web Applications, Geodatabase Design, Planning & Training, GIS Needs Asssessment
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. Read more details...
Categories: Web Applications, Voter Registration
Fairfield Suisun Sewer District Water Utility Enterprise GIS and RDBMS
Challenge
Fairfield Suisun Sewer District (FSSD) needed to expand their existing GIS for utility pipeline management, to integrate with and be of use to other departments.
Solution
Farallon developed a business case for a complete enterprise GIS, including the development of technology, geodata, workflows, a web portal, and staffing plans. Implementation included a water utility data model, a populated geodatabase (using ArcSDE and ArcGIS), and specific GIS workflows designed to ensure that FSSD's network administrators and GIS staff were comfortable managing the enterprise GIS. A geospatial web portal integrated other District business units, consolidating specific GIS applications (such as property review and notification), metadata, workflows, and standards into a single, web-based environment, available to all staff. Read more details...
Categories: Web Applications, Notification, Property Review, Geodatabase Design, Utility System Data Modeling, Planning & Training, GIS Needs Asssessment
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection for Emergency Response
Challenge
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CDF) is the first responder for incidents within California's wild lands, as well as for many rural counties and cities within California. Yet CDF did not have a computer aided dispatch (CAD) system.
Solution
Farallon implemented a statewide GIS data model for CDF to manage streets, response zones, and other important emergency response information. Farallon worked with CDF and their CAD vendor to create the accurate and valid GIS data necessary to power the e911 CAD system. Read more details...
Categories: Geodatabase Design, Transportation & Linear Networks, Planning & Training, GIS Needs Asssessment
California Highway Patrol E-911 Enterprise GIS
Challenge
The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is the Primary Call Answering Point for all cellular phone emergency 911 calls in the state of California. They needed to define a strategic plan to keep their Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system data up-to-date.
Solution
Farallon developed a GIS Strategic Business Plan that provided CHP with a flexible enterprise GIS structure to support multiple departments and business processes including their CAD 911 emergency response for a portion of California. Read more details...
Categories: Planning & Training, GIS Needs Asssessment