WIRED Magazine Looks at Farallon’s Kaho’olawe Project
Wired covers the Farallon GIS solution to help clean up live and spent bombs, rockets, guided missiles, grenades, and artillery shells on Hawai’ian island of Kaho’olawe.
Kaho’olawe Island, located off the western shore of Maui, was used by the US Navy as a weapons training range since World War II.
By the 1990s the federal government began clean-up operations on the island with the intent to return Kaho’olawe to the state of Hawai’i by the fall of 2004.
Meeting the aggressive clean-up deadline without compromising the safety of workers meant streamlining access to maps showing the distribution of unexploded ordnance (UXO), culturally significant sites, and critical habitat areas.
To meet this challenge, Farallon developed an enterprise geodatabase that automatically mapped the location of UXO as coordinates were entered into a tabular database, and dynamically created web maps showing the location of UXO and its authorized disposal method.
Farallon’s geodatabase and web mapping solution reduced UXO disposal processing from several weeks to one day, allowing Parsons-UXB to meet its deadline.