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Emergency Management & Response


GIS is an essential tool for all components of emergency management, including readiness and planning, mitigation and response, and recovery.  To plan for and mitigate emergencies, GIS technology can model potential incidents, helping visualize critical vulnerabilities and model consequences.  As the recovery process begins, GIS can assist local, state, and federal agencies in interagency collaboration and communication.

Placing spatial intelligence at the fingertips of the CAD/911 dispatcher can greatly enhance his/her ability to dispatch and respond to local and regional events.  Using ArcGIS, emergency dispatch centers can map incidents and ensure that police, fire, and rescue respond to the correct location – every time.

Timmons Group can assist you in your emergency management needs by creating and validating addresses, integrating into your CAD system, providing data replication and transformation from your GIS to your CAD / Mapping system and building robust and rich internet-based applications.  We invite you to peruse our project profiles for ESRI’s ArcGIS Explorer integration with WebEOC, Data Replication across state and local entities, and our product suite of Parcel, Road and Web LoGIStics for data management and visualization.

 

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Project Profile

CADD to Geodatabase Migration and Enterprise GIS Implementation

Client:
Bedford County, Virginia

Location:
Bedford County, Virginia

As part of the FY 2007/2008 Virginia Wireless Services Board (WSB) grant program, Bedford County and the Bedford Communications Center, which jointly services Bedford City and County, undertook a comprehensive effort to move the County’s Geospatial program to a true Enterprise GIS environment. Undertaking a number of concurrent tasks, the County’s GIS office developed the necessary ESRI-based Land Records and E-911 Addressing and Emergency services Geodatabase models to support a variety of ongoing initiative, specifically modernization of the County’s legacy AutoCAD-based GIS.

In conjunction with Timmons Group, the County’s implementation partner, the County performed a complete CAD-to Geodatabase migration of cadastral and addressing databases, adapting the State’s Virginia Base Mapping Program (VBMP) Road Centerline (RCL) data model. The migration and subsequent deployment of COTS data maintenance tools and ArcGIS Server based Web technologies have enabled to County’s GIS office to significantly reduce the time it takes to supply changes to the County’s current and future Computer Aided Dispatch applications.

The County has also contracted Timmons Group to implement and host Web LoGIStics, Timmons Group’s internet mapping technology designed for local governments. 

Services Provided

  • System Migration planning and coordination
  • ArcGIS data model design
  • CADD to GIS data migration
  • Migration to the statewide VBMP Road network
  • CAMA / GIS Integration
  • Internet Mapping Application design, development, and hosting
  • Parcel  and Road LoGIStics Parcel Maintenance Software implementation and training

Project Profile

ArcGIS Server Replication for Automated E-911 Update

Client:
Harrisonburg/Rockingham Emergency Communication Center

Location:
Harrisonburg/Rockingham County, Virginia

Timmons Group was hired by the Harrisonburg/Rockingham Emergency Communication Center (HRECC) to design and implement a solution that supports near-real time Geospatial updates of critical infrastructure and address layers by both consolidating disparate data sets and facilitating the consumption of these layers into E-911 mapping system. The solution integrates ESRI’s ArcServer, ArcSDE, and the HRECC mapping software using ArcServer replication and automated extract, transform, and load (ETL) tools to seamlessly extract the updates from multiple sources, integrate data GIS data, and update the mapping system.

Tasks included:


  • Assessment of the current systems, work processes, and user requirements
  • Development of recommendations into a functional requirements document
  • Implementation of the infrastructure, software, applications, workflows, a defined in the recommendations



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