Recent Advances in GIS Application Development

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Recent Advances in GIS Application Development
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Bakers Tradition of Innovation

• Early adoption and diffusion of innovative
  technologies
• Creation and enhancement of innovative
  technologies
• Application of innovative technologies to solve
  real world problems

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Early Adoption

• Surveying and mapping since 1940
• CAD and automated mapping since 1979
• Geographic Information Systems since 1983
• GeoLink field GIS software acquired 1999
• 5,000 employees in more than 40 offices around
  the world

http//www.mbakercorp.com/gis
1. Early adoption and diffusion
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Rapid Diffusion
Anchorage, AK Cleveland, OH Phoenix, AZ Columbus,
OH Oakland, CA Beaver, PA Denver, CO Harrisburg,
PA Atlanta, GA Philadelphia, PA Chicago,
IL Pittsburgh, PA Louisville, KY Austin,
TX Boston, MA Denton, TX Kansas City, MO Houston,
TX Natchez, MS Salt Lake City, UT Jackson,
MS Alexandria, VA Princeton, NJ Virginia Beach,
VA Reno, NV Seattle, WA Elmsford, NY Charleston,
WV New York City, NY Mexico City, Mexico
1. Early adoption and diffusion
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Rapid Diffusion

• Tradition of project and program level support
  for city, county, state and federal governments
• 180 county projects in the last decade
• 41 in Pennsylvania
• 21 in Virginia
• 15 in Mississippi
• 25 states supported in the last decade
• Innovative technologies
• Under review
• Under development
• Being deployed nationwide

1. Early adoption and diffusion
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Create Innovations

• Reconnaissance
• Field data collection
• Field inventory
• Geodetic control
• Flood mapping
• Patented GeoLink GPS/GIS field mapping
  software (5,214,757)
• Cited as prior artby 132 patents

2. Creation and enhancement
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Enhance Innovations

• Bakers
• Enterprise
• Architecture
• for
• Spatial
• Technologies

2. Creation and enhancement
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BEAST

• Central Citrix/ArcSDE/database server used by all
  Baker Geospatial Service Centers
• Supports connections to applications via
• LAN (internal users)
• Internet (remote users)
• Enables Baker specialists and clients to
  collaborate on projects in an effective and
  efficient work environment
• Enables editors to connect to editing
  environments from a variety of devices

2. Creation and enhancement
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GIS for Hurricane Recovery

• For Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, FEMA required
  complex integrated analysis of multiple data sets
  including
• Digital elevation models
• LIDAR data sets
• Insurance industry parcel and address data
• Other collateral data sources

3. Application
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GIS for Hurricane Recovery

• Not all data were registered
• Not all data were available through GOS
• Baker GIS professionals synthesized multiple data
  sets and analytical models to produce timely
  GIS-based solutions to help victims of the
  hurricane
• 139,000 dwellingscertified for paymentin 3
  weeks

3. Application
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FEMAs Map Modernization Program

• Flood maps have been produced and used for 35
  years under the National Flood Insurance Program
• Originally, to identify and depict flood hazard
  areas and to set flood insurance rates
• Now, used for many other purposes including local
  planning emergency preparedness and response
  and natural resource management
• MapMod a multi-year initiative directed at
  improving and updating the nations flood hazard
  identification maps

3. Application
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MultiHazard Information Platform (MIP)
http//hazards.fema.gov
3. Application
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MIP FME

• MIP hosts two ArcSDE environments
• Data production and validation
• Display of validated data via a public ArcIMS
  site
• Synchronization occurs through transactional
  replication to reduce system downtime

3. Application
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Web Services

• WMS
• Access to the national flood layer
• CSW
• Catalog service with information about national
  elevation and imagery data
• Folder Creation Service
• Web service to create folders and update
  permissions on a fileserver
• Submission Service
• Users from the production environment submit data
  for independent QA/QC

3. Application
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Map Tools Symbology Viewer
3. Application
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Imagery Elevation Registries

• Registries for digital elevation data and digital
  orthoimagery
• Systems register projects by status
• 1) Proposed
• 2) Planned
• 3) In-Work
• 4) Completed
• Functionality
• Menu driven search options
• Map interface showing project locations
• Support for project metadata catalogues

3. Application
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NDEP/NDOP Recording Project Information

• Project tracking systems
• Allows project metadata entry and search for
• Imagery
• Elevation data
• Metadata for proposed projects available in the
  NDOP Tracking System Registry

3. Application
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IE Metadata Upload in XML Format
3. Application
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IE Project Tracking
3. Application
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IE Overlapping Project Opportunities
3. Application
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NDEP/NDOP Project Trackers (In Progress)

• Building distributed metadata catalog query
  capability
• NDEP/NDOP users will be able to query metadata
  records in the RAMONA metadata catalog
• Deployment scheduled for December

3. Application
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eLOMA Determination Tool (In Progress)

• Provides web-based system to submit and print
  simple Letter Of Map Amendment (LOMA) requests
• Reduces the time to receive a determination from
  FEMA
• Implements audit procedures and automatic checks
  to ensure accuracy

3. Application
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Advisory Base Flood Elevations (In Progress)

• Hurricanes Katrina and Rita raised questions
  about the validity of effective flood maps and
  BFEs
• Flood recovery guidance and ABFEs are being
  issued to assist community rebuilding efforts
  while new flood data and maps are completed

• ABFEs
• Better reflect risk than effective BFEs
• Are a tool for state/local officials to use in
  building back stronger
• Are optional, yet many entities have adopted
  standards exceeding NFIP minimums as a result of
  their release

3. Application
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Summary

• Early adoption and diffusion of innovative
  technologies
• Creation and enhancement of innovative
  technologies
• Application of innovative technologies to solve
  real world problems

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Geospatial Information Technology Services

• Robert J. Hanson (GIT Practice Lead)
• [phone]
• rhanson_at_mbakercorp.com
• Dr. Robert Austin (Eastern US)
• [phone]
• raustin_at_mbakercorp.com
• Malcolm Adkins (Western US)
• [phone]
• madkins_at_mbakercorp.com
• Visit us at http//www.mbakercorp.com/gis