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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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
City of Fairfield Enterprise Geodatabase
Challenge
The City of Fairfield (Fairfield) faced several challenges in building a functional Enterprise GIS. Fairfield had fragmented, disparate technologies and limited communication with potential external GIS partners. Fairfield needed an enterprise-wide strategic GIS to integrate many departmental datasets, including Public Works, Planning, Police, and Economic Development data.
Solution
Farallon recommended that Fairfield develop an enterprise geodatabase using ESRI's ArcSDE software and Microsoft's SQL Server database. From this, Farallon built a variety of GIS applications that support business functions of the city and it various departments, including a geospatial portal that allows all city staff to quickly create notification lists and summary reports for any property within the city. Read more details...
Categories: Web Applications, Notification, Property Review, Geodatabase Design, Planning & Training, GIS Needs Asssessment
Caltrans - Linear Referencing System (LRS) Data Model
Challenge
The California Department of Transportation, (Caltrans) is a large agency that supports numerous departments, business processes, projects and personnel. A subset of Caltrans tasked with the maintenance and analysis of road data, was working to develop map-based asset management and analysis. It needed a way to leverage existing transportation asset data and create a system with the flexibility to withstand future changes in technology and data collection.
Solution
Farallon developed a new data model based on Caltrans' existing linear referencing system (LRS). The new model allows for a multitude of highway system data (road conditions, terrain specifics, surrounding properties) that were measured in disparate methods to be used geospatially for location referencing needs. Read more details...
Categories: GIS/IT Integration, Asset Management Systems, Geodatabase Design, Transportation & Linear Networks
City of Walnut Creek - GIS and General Plan Mapping, Formatting, and Layout Support
Challenge
The City of Walnut Creek was on a tight deadline to update their General Plan and needed to generate a large number of maps from their GIS. They also wanted a solution and the necessary training to allow their non-technical staff to use the GIS as a tool for map production in future analyses.
Solution
Farallon assessed the existing GIS and provided production services for the required maps. Farallon helped create GIS templates, documentation, and workflow training so that the City staff could develop maps without depending upon GIS specialists. Read more details...
Categories: Planning & Training, GIS Needs Asssessment, Training & Technology Transfer
San Mateo County Enterprise GIS
Challenge
The County of San Mateo had developed its GIS capabilities over time, resulting in many departmental GIS implementations that operated autonomously and independently. This organizational approach to GIS led to the duplication of important framework geospatial datasets resulting in undesirable data redundancy, data inconsistency, and unnecessary duplication of effort.
Solution
Farallon developed a GIS Utility and departmental governance structure, as well as an enterprise collaboration model developed through interviews with departments and County management. Once the Enterprise GIS was implemented, Farallon developed a GIS web-based portal as well as other web-based applications requiring GIS data, including notification and asset management. Read more details...
Categories: GIS/IT Integration, Pavement Management, Asset Management Systems, Geodatabase Design, Network GIS, Planning & Training, GIS Needs Asssessment, Training & Technology Transfer
Bureau of Indian Affairs Land Management System
Challenge
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Division of Real Estate Servicesmanages all land held in trust for California Indian Tribes. The Pacific Regional Office needed to develop and deploy a working land management system that would support business needs and leverage partnerships with other Federal Agencies and Indian tribes on a very aggressive timeframe.
Solution
Farallon designed and built an ArcSDE geodatabase on Oracle to support web/map publication of an enterprise GIS to manage the State of California's Indian Lands. The GIS integrates diverse geo-data from a number of federal, state, and local sources to describe the extent, ownership, and use of Indian Nation lands within California and western Nevada. Read more details...
Categories: Web Applications, Property Review, Geodatabase Design
Web-based Seismic Hazards Mapping for the California Department of Conservation
Challenge
The California Division of Mines and Geology (DMG) captures and compiles statewide geologic, and geo-hazard data. They wanted a user-friendly method for cities and counties to access information about and plan for seismic hazard zones.
Solution
Farallon designed and implemented a web-based application, the Seismic Hazards Mapping Program that allows DMG users (county and local governments, consultants, and researchers) to view, manage, and download seismic data presented as maps, images and tabular geospatial information. Read more details...
Categories: Web Applications, Planning & Training, Training & Technology Transfer
San Mateo County Assessor/County Clerk/Recorder Business Process Analysis
Challenge
San Mateo County's Clerk-Assessor-Recorder-Elections department (CARE) processes and records most of the information that is input into the County's system. Since most of the recorded information supports spatial processes, CARE wanted a way to improve the recording procedure and understand how it could be extended to support other County processes using a central Oracle database and the County's spatial data.
Solution
After a thorough needs assessment of the current County processes, Farallon created an implementation plan that when executed would improve the County's revenue collection timeframe and ability to forecast annual revenue streams. Read more details...
Categories: GIS/IT Integration, Planning & Training, GIS Needs Asssessment