4D GIS/Engineering

Client: PJM Interconnection

Summary: Integral GIS has been on the forefront of the movement to integrate schedule and resource management systems with spatial databases. Our work with PJM Interconnection, L.L.C showcases this. PJM operates the largest wholesale electricity market in the world. Their foremost responsibility is the safe and reliable operation of the electric transmission system to ensure the reliable supply of energy from source generation to wholesale customers.

PJM was looking for a flexible way to communicate and visualize the impacts of the evolution of their power grid and present information to various stakeholders. PJM chose Integral GIS for this project because we presented a good short and long term vision that corresponded to and enhanced its business plan.

We built a system that helped PJM showcase, understand, and plan for the evolution of the electric power grid under its domain by incorporating temporal management systems, such as Microsoft Project Server, with 2D/3D GIS. This integration gave PJM a powerful analytical tool that allowed them to easily leverage mission critical information, visualize their power grid, drill down to detailed information and display it to critical stakeholders in an easy to comprehend manner.

Platform: ArcGIS, ArcSDE, Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft Project Server

Results:PJM continues to lead their industry in power grid management, setting the Gold standard. Additionally, the PJM project team received a Levels of Excellence Award (LEAP) from the organization. The LEAP award recognizes the performance of members of PJM’s leadership on a single activity that exceeds expectations in furthering an advanced technology application or organizational development and productivity.

Our relationship with PJM has continued to grow and evolve as PJM continues to realize how GIS technology adds value to their enterprise systems and processes. For more information on how Integral GIS helped PJM develop its Enterprise GIS and integrate it with mapping data, see the article titled PJM Snaps the “Big Picture” in the October 2004 issue of Transmission & Distribution World.

GIS / Schematics applied to Transmission Systems

Client: PJM Interconnection

Summary: Integral GIS has been on the forefront of designing and implementing the integration of temporal and resource management systems with spatial databases. Our work with PJM Interconnection, L.L.C showcases this. PJM Interconnection, a regional transmission organization (RTO), operates the largest centrally dispatched electric grid in the world – a region stretching from Chicago to the Atlantic Ocean and from Virginia to Pennsylvania. Different departments within PJM have their own ways of visualizing the PJM network.

In our earlier work with PJM, we designed and implemented an intelligent information system that transformed schematic drawings into geographical maps connected to real data. However, some PJM users in operations and engineering still preferred viewing information in schematic format.

A schematic format by itself is only a picture, but when generated from a Geodatabase, they become ‘smart’ and additional analytics can be generated from the layers of data attached to the schematic diagram, improving decision making processes.

Integral GIS designed and developed an ArcGIS Schematic dataset and supporting diagrams from the Geodatabase for every PJM-operated capacity zone. These diagrams include every electrical and voltage component managed by PJM—from the substation and transmission line level all the way down to the transformer and breaker level—thousands of features.

This project supports Integral GIS’s philosophy and approach, that if you build a scalable Geodatabase with a vision towards the future, you can view and examine information in many different ways in a phased approach without exorbitant cost.

Platform: ArcGIS Desktop, ArcSDE, ArcSchematics, and Microsoft SQL Server

Results: The introduction of these schematic diagrams with the additional capability for analytics and decision making greatly enhanced the levels of communication between PJM’s planning and engineering departments, broke down silos, and led to better holistic decision making processes.

Port of Tacoma Web Rail Management System

Client: Port of Tacoma

Summary: Integral GIS has demonstrated expertise in its approach to geospatial technology, and has a reputation for integrity, diligence and commitment to high levels of service. The Port of Tacoma hired Integral GIS to design, develop and implement a web-based Rail Management System. Historically, the Port of Tacoma tracked rail information manually, using a series of spreadsheets. Creating each spreadsheet was a time consuming process –data was gathered and compiled daily from many different internal and external sources. In 2002, the port set records in Auto Import/ Export, Containerized Cargo, Intermodal Activity, and Operating Revenues, reinforcing its position as the leading seaport in the Pacific Northwest. With the increase in traffic, the Port needed a system that automated the process of tracking rail assets.

Integral GIS designed and implemented a system for the Port of Tacoma which provides visual and tabular portals into rail car and container information. Integral GIS’s design created a gateway to rich, previously unleveraged rail information data that was sitting unused in a database. The data came from AEI and EDI sensors that captured real time information from the rail cars and containers. The new rail management engine provides a real-time (1 minute delay) display of the Port's rail infrastructure, as well as its inbound traffic. The web interface allows specific stakeholders to access and view the data, opening critical pathways of communication.

Platform: ArcIMS, Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft .NET

Results: The design enhanced communication between the Port and its partners, and automated rail logistics workflow, increasing productivity and efficiency. The Port of Tacoma won the 2003 'American Association of Port Authorities' Technology Award for this application.

Port of Tacoma Fiber Mapping Application

Client: Port of Tacoma

Summary: Integral GIS has demonstrated expertise in its approach to geospatial technology, and has a reputation for integrity, diligence and commitment to high levels of service. Following the success of our other projects with the Port of Tacoma, the Port hired Integral GIS to create a fiber optic management application. Similar to their rail management system, the Port used a series of engineering documents to map and manage the fiber optic network. The application we created has three main components, each with specific functionality. The map-viewer component contains a detailed map of the entire fiber optic network, and includes custom navigation and interrogation tools for retrieving detailed information on each segment of the fiber optic network. The photo grid component contains links to photographs and diagrams for selected fiber optic vaults. The query window component has various tools to query fiber optic features in the map, and edit vault comments in the vault diagrams.

The project partnership between Integral GIS, Inc. and the Port of Tacoma has continued to grow. In alignment with the Port’s technology vision, this project also adds another stepping stone to the Port’s migration towards Enterprise GIS and commitment to enhanced technology.

Platform: ArcIMS, Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft .NET

Results: The Fiber Optic Network is a critical asset for the Port of Tacoma. Creating automated processes has increased the efficiencies in adding capacity and managing the network and helps the Port of Tacoma maintain their reputation as the leading seaport in the Pacific Northwest.

4D GIS/ Engineering

Client: Walt Disney Imagineering

Summary: Integral GIS has a reputation for its ability to integrate diverse data sets, databases, and applications. Walt Disney Imagineering partnered with Integral GIS and Stanford University to develop CAD/GIS based visualization applications for construction management.

4D GIS Construction Management is a result of combining the three-dimensional capability of GIS with the one-dimensional time management capability of a scheduling program such as Primavera® or Microsoft® Project.

This combination is important for large-scale, complex construction projects, because it provides a holistic view of the project. Efficient data management, retrieval, and analysis are achieved using 4D GIS Construction Management on large projects, despite the large numbers of subcontractors and rigid schedules. For example, 4D GIS Construction Management allows a project manager to view all the components necessary to build a wall, see the resources needed for that aspect of a project, and see the schedule, all in one view. This management approach integrates document and contract management, as well as costing and cost-impact-analysis. Essentially, it is like a project management dashboard with a visual aspect and document retrieval capabilities.

Platform: ArcScene, Microsoft Project, and Primavera Project Planner

Results: The use of these technologies leads to vastly improved collective decision making among contractors, designers, and engineers.

Forensic Engineering/ Disaster Mitigation

Client: National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism

Summary: In 1999, Integral GIS received a call from a loosely connected group of people associated with the National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism. They were developing a forensic analysis program examining the Oklahoma City Bombing. In the aftermath of the bombing, the State of Oklahoma's Department of Health began an extensive data gathering and analysis program as part of a descriptive epidemiologic study of people injured by the blast, or at risk of injury. It included analysis of the remains from the Murrah building, as well as those from several adjacent buildings. The State of Oklahoma's epidemiologists made an extensive study of the effects on people in the immediate vicinity of the blast, and on those indirectly affected by it.

Those working on the project recognized that more generic tools could be developed that would improve emergency response. One of the greatest challenges in responding to disasters is managing the information associated with it. Geospatial technology allows architectural information to combine with patient attribute data so results of deep analysis of the bombing become apparent. Using Geospatial technology, researchers can model such things as the blast radii to examine the effects of the explosion's force along with factors that contributed to injury, such as proximity to windows and flying debris, and the effects of percussive waves from the blast.

Integral GIS had the right combination of engineering expertise and spatial acumen to develop a set of forensic applications that would examine injury epidemiology, blast impact, structural collapse and create deterministic modeling of blast physics.

Platform: ArcView 3.x and ArcGIS 3D Analyst

Results: Integral GIS created a suite of applications called the Oklahoma City Bombing Injury Study (OBIS). Using OBIS epidemiologists can query, analyze, and visualize their data. The use of GIS technology enabled the centralization of information associated with the Oklahoma City bombing so that it could be easily accessible to rescue, medical, and public safety workers in a central command center in case of further terrorist acts.

4D GIS/Engineering (Safeco Field)

Client: Walter Construction

Summary: Perhaps one of the most interesting aspects of GIS is its ability to integrate diverse data sets, databases, and applications. While we don't suffer from the notion that GIS is a panacea, we do believe it's an appropriate technology for many engineering related projects.

In March of 1997, work began on Seattle's new baseball stadium, Safeco Field. At a cost of more than $485 million, and with an extremely tight construction schedule, this project required efficient and organized execution if it was to be completed on time.

To help with Safeco Field's successful completion, Integral GIS, Inc. integrated its construction with the three-dimensional capability of GIS and the one-dimensional time management capability of Primavera Project Planner. This innovation led to our creation of what is now known as 4D GIS Construction Management.


Platform: ArcView 3.x, ArcGIS 3D Analyst, Microsoft Project, and Primavera Project Planner

Results: The successful construction of Seattle's Safeco Field was largely assisted by Integral GIS, Inc.'s development of four-dimensional GIS Construction Management, which joins costing, document management, and spatial and scheduling technology within an ArcView based GIS.

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Client: Accu-Crete

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4D GIS/ Location Marginal Pricing

Client: PJM Interconnection

Summary: Integral GIS has been on the forefront of integrating temporal and resource management systems with spatial databases. Our work with PJM Interconnection, L.L.C showcases this. PJM operates the largest wholesale electricity market in the world. Integral GIS worked with PJM to build an enterprise-wide GIS system. One of the projects incorporating the GIS Enterprise integrates Location Marginal Pricing (LMP) process with 2D and 3D GIS visualization.

The LMP model, developed by PJM, establishes the price of energy purchases and sales in their wholesale electricity market. LMP takes into account the real-time effects actual operating conditions have on the transmission system when determining the price of electricity at different locations in PJM's market territory. This complex information, which updates every 5 minutes, is better examined and understood in a spatial context.

Platform: ArcGIS, ArcSDE, and Microsoft SQL Server


Results: The close and trusted relationship Integral GIS developed with PJM during earlier projects fueled creativity on both sides, allowing both teams to explore and leverage the geospatial lens onto the complexity of PJM’s LMP model. As a result of this project, PJM gained deeper insight into their own operational environment by visually examining how operating conditions affect electricity prices, ultimately enabling additional improvements to business operations.

Engineering Document Management for the Port of Tacoma

Client: Port of Tacoma

Summary: Integral GIS has demonstrated expertise in its approach to geospatial technology, and has a reputation for integrity, diligence and commitment to high levels of service. Following the successful rail management system project, the Port of Tacoma hired Integral GIS to create an easy-to-use web-based Document Management System. The Port of Tacoma is the sixth largest containerized port in the world, and it has made a commitment to the development of its infrastructure using advanced technology. Due to the increased number of construction and real estate projects, the Port had tens of thousands of engineering documents that it was storing in a room at their headquarters. It needed an electronic retrieval and archival system that was flexible enough to extend to other information systems, and would allow people to easily find and use stored engineering drawings.

Integral GIS designed, created and implemented a document management system that gave the Port the ability to manage and retrieve these documents, anytime and from anywhere. The unique application integrated a spatial aspect which is not available in traditional document management systems, and enabled personnel to search and retrieve documents through both standard and spatial search methods. Spatial search methods help users easily retrieve documents associated with a specific building or land parcel simply by clicking on the location on the map.

The project partnership between Integral GIS, Inc. and the Port of Tacoma has continued to grow. The Document Management System has been extremely successful, and we've continued to expand departmental and enterprise databases throughout the Port. Success of this system relies on its ability to support executive decision making, as well as its ability to direct pertinent information to other personnel in the chain of command.

Platform: ArcIMS, Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft .NET

Results: Engineering resources are more effective with the incorporation of these newly developed technologies. Additionally, the Port’s ability to manage engineering materials in an efficient manner has improved its communication with contractors and consultants, and mitigated internal silos. These efficiencies are critical to the Port's continued growth, and increase levels of accountability to customers and Pierce County citizens.

Business Geographics

Client: Starbucks Coffee Company

Summary: Integral GIS, Inc. has demonstrated expertise in GIS modeling --integrating automated business processes into GIS software applications-- and has a reputation for integrity, diligence and commitment to high levels of service.

Starbucks was looking for an automated way to determine the best sites for retail stores in North America. Integral GIS developed a statistical analysis and site-location modeling system for the Starbucks Coffee Company that tapped into demographic and geospatial databases. These GIS applications were designed to produce analytical maps of store suitability, revealing areas in North America where locating a new store would have the greatest probability of succeeding. In an iterative manner, analysts were able to modify variables and their weights to arrive at a comprehensive understanding of store behavior.

Platform: ArcView 3.x and ArcView Spatial Analyst



Results: These applications allowed Starbucks to quickly process large areas of North America to determine store site suitability, thereby saving many months of personnel time ordinarily spent in analysis and map production. As a result of this project, Starbucks asked Integral GIS to provide ongoing support, and develop analytical applications and maps to help with internal processes. Integral GIS works with Starbucks Coffee Company regularly to produce a wide variety of spatial applications that improve efficiencies and support decision making and analysis.

Business Maptite

Client: Starbucks Coffee Company

Summary: As Integral GIS‘s relationship with Starbucks continued to expand, Starbucks asked us to develop a secure spatial analysis and reporting application.

Leaks in confidential business information or personal data can cause serious damage to a business. Starbucks needed a portable encryption-centric application to help them distribute and visualize sensitive information and data. This application was needed to allow field personnel to examine potential retail sites and other real estate offerings while minimizing the risk of critical business information falling into the wrong hands.

Platform: Microsoft MapPoint and C#.NET

Results: This new offline application (Maptite) allowed Starbucks to have a secure portable application for its field employees, and drastically decreased critical information loss.

Northwest Wind Mapping

Client: Northwest SEED

Summary: Integral GIS, Inc. reached out to Northwest SEED (Sustainable Energy for Economic Development) to suggest that NW SEED incorporate GIS technology with their ambitious goal of creating wind power maps for the western United States. The current methodology did not effectively communicate wind power distribution. Using web based GIS to communicate this information allowed them to reach a wider audience and provide deeper analysis for examining wind power at a very detailed scale.

Platform: ArcIMS, ArcGIS Spatial Analyst, Java, and HTML

Results: State-of-the-art maps of wind energy potential and resource estimates are now easily accessible to the public through an interactive GIS website.

Renewable Energy Atlas for the West

Client: Northwest SEED

Summary: Building on Integral GIS’s success in developing high-resolution web based wind maps of the western United States, the Land & Water Fund of the Rockies collaborated with the Northwest Sustainable Energy for Economic Development (SEED) and Integral GIS to produce a Renewable Energy Atlas of the West that covers wind, solar, biomass and geothermal resources in the 11-state western region. As in the prior project with NW SEED, their existing methodology did not effectively communicate renewable energy distribution.

Existing facilities and policy overlays were included with the other mapping layers to show areas where incentives and other standards have been effective in driving sustainability. Additionally, the application highlights areas with strong resources but limited development. The Renewable Energy Atlas identifies areas of transmission congestion, and develops updated power potential estimates for the various resources.



Platform: ArcIMS, ArcGIS Spatial Analyst, Java, and HTML

Results: A user-friendly website interface enables "zoom-in" capabilities, and provides interactive access to all of the renewable energy resource data and supporting information compiled in a single GIS database.

KGI Webmap System

Client: KGI Wireless

Summary: Integral GIS demonstrated knowledge and expertise in the map point web services space through its work with past clients such as Airborne Express, DHL, and Starbucks. KGI Wireless, a cell tower collocation brokerage, provides site-acquisition professionals, RF engineers, wireless carriers, tower owners, and others with state-by-state geographical views of cellular collocation opportunities. KGI asked Integral GIS to build an application that would replace their existing site location application with a true dynamic GIS web-mapping application. KGI’s old system required time consuming manual processes to update the system's content and was merely a collection of static maps.

Integral GIS developed an application that transformed KGI’s existing site location system to a dynamic real-time system using spatial technologies. The new application gives KGI the flexibility to add and display new towers immediately, and gives users the ability to dynamically interact with maps in a fun and easily operable interface environment.

Platform: Microsoft .NET, Microsoft MapPoint .NET Web Services, Microsoft Virtual Earthand Microsoft Access

Results: KGI can now offer real time collocation opportunities to its customers, providing immediate opportunities for incremental revenue increases. Additionally, KGI can concentrate on acquiring more collocation opportunities and more customers, and spend less time on cumbersome manual updates to their website. Because of Integral GIS’s integrity, creativity, and expertise in the application of spatial technologies, KGI continues to expand revenue opportunities, and our relationship with them continues to grow and deepen.

ArcGIS Server

Client: Applied Digital Mapping

Summary: Integral GIS is the industry leader in designing, implementing and developing custom software applications using ArcGIS server technology. Our proven and scalable approach to conceptualizing and developing GIS solutions inspired Applied Digital Mapping to partner with us to create a low cost subscription based GIS solution.

This subscription based service, aimed towards small to mid-size organizations, gives organizations access to rich GIS functionality at an affordable price. With this service, organizations can upload their own spatial data, create a map, and perform geospatial analysis and editing functionality without having to own a copy of ArcView. The application also allows organizations to store this data as an SDE Geodatabase, Personal Geodatabase, or as a Shapefile.

Platform: C#.NET, SQL Server, ArcSDE 9.1, and ArcGIS Server 9.1



Results: Organizations currently using this service include, Washington State Association of Fire Chiefs, Badger Mountain Water, and Evergreen Rural Water of Washington.

ArcGIS Server Design and Development

Client: RCO PRISM

Summary: Integral GIS is respected for its innovative solutions design, and easy-to-work-with professionalism. The Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO) hired Integral GIS to design and implement a new GIS-based grant management system. There were two parts to this project, with separate bids for each phase. The first phase was to architect a solution that would work seamlessly with their existing application. The second phase was to develop and implement the design.

In the old PRISM system, each time a user wanted information on a location, an RCO staff member had to manually input the spatial information for the grant. RCO wanted to update the technology to delegate this ability to the user, and add additional query capabilities and spatial components.

Integral GIS worked with the RCO project team to integrate the spatial and non-spatial databases. Because RCO was upgrading the version of the application and adding geospatial components simultaneously, there were additional layers of complexity in the project. Integral GIS provided oversight, and teamed with RCO’s outsourced development staff to ensure the new application met all requirements and deadlines. Additionally, Integral GIS performed ArcGIS Server load balancing, ArcSDE configuration and implementation, and trained RCO staff on geospatial software configuration and database maintenance.

Platform: ArcGIS Server, ArcSDE, Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft .NET

Results: The new system, PRISM.net incorporates all of these new features, saving RCO time and money. This is the State of Washington’s first public deployment of a complex ArcGIS Server application.

Product Placement using ArcGIS Server

Client: IBM

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3D PCC Kiosk

Client: T-Mobile

Summary: Integral GIS has demonstrated expertise in its innovative visualization of cellular coverage, and has a reputation for integrity, diligence, and commitment to high levels of service. T-Mobile, USA, a national provider of wireless services, wanted a mechanism that would provide its customers with an interactive and accurate coverage-check experience in their retail stores. Their existing system did not provide detailed levels of accuracy and was not interesting for their customers to use.

T-Mobile hired Integral GIS to design, develop, implement, and deploy the interactive personal coverage check kiosk. The kiosk pulls live data from T-Mobile’s enterprise Geodatabase and provides a fun and easy to use touch screen interface. Integral GIS’s agility combined with our confident and professional attitude allowed us to meet the aggressive deadlines of the project, and provide strategy and a roadmap for success despite the complexity involved in integrating with other project components and vendors.


Hardware: 32 inch HP flat panel plasma TV, 15 inch HP touch screen

Platform: ArcGIS ArcGlobe, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Virtual Earth, and ArcGIS Web Mapping Service

Results: The interactive kiosk provided T-Mobile a cool new technology not used by any other wireless provider, offering customers an easy to use, fun, and accurate way to check specific location data regarding their cell phone service coverage. This has the ability to magnify the level of service T-Mobile can offer to its customers.

Disaster Mitigation/ Emergency Response

Client: Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Summary: Integral GIS is an expert in numerical modeling and GIS application integration. In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing and 9/11, the Nation was left stunned. Because of the work DESC and Integral GIS performed during their analysis of the Oklahoma City bombing, they received a Small Business Innovative Research Grant to produce counter-terrorism tools for the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah.

This two-year grant enabled Integral GIS to develop GIS emergency response applications for the First Responder community, and the 2002 Olympics. The application provided situational and contextual intelligence to the FBI and UOPSEC (the Olympic Security Force) to help them ensure the safety of athletes and visitors.

Platform: ArcView 3.x and ArcGIS 3D Analyst

Results: The Smart Building Program was a success, and the GIS emergency response applications that we developed led to a safe and smoothly run 2002 Olympics.

Geo Surveillance System

Client: Washington Group International

Summary: Integral GIS gained a reputation as an expert in numerical modeling and GIS application integration because of the successful implementation of the Smart Building Program in the 2002 Olympics. As a result, Washington Group International asked Integral GIS to help them secure U.S. borders and critical infrastructure.

Monitoring change across large geographic areas presents significant homeland security challenges to government, regional, civil and military leaders. Integral GIS developed an application known as the Geo Surveillance System (GSS). Integrated information systems enabled consequence managers and incident commanders to confidently assess and monitor their areas of responsibility.

Hardware: pole-mounted surveillance equipment/sensors (visual and infrared) and relay towers

Platform: ArcGIS Engine, ArcGIS 3D Analyst, ArcGIS Spatial Analyst, and VB .NET

Results: The Geo Surveillance System was designed to support optimization of tower, relay, and control center placement for the Border Patrol Division of the U.S. Government.

Stop Density Analysis Tool (SDA)

Client: Airborne Express (DHL)

Summary: Integral GIS has a reputation for quality web application development. DHL Worldwide (formerly known as Airborne Express) asked Integral GIS to develop mapping and spatial data analysis functions for their existing freight delivery logistics to help them increase efficiency, accuracy, and productivity, and reduce costs.

Integral GIS created a web-based interface that started with a request to enable DHL employees to order maps and have them shipped anywhere in the world. DHL’s use of this tool, known as the Stop Density Analysis Tool, (SDA) continues to increase the sophistication of DHL's route analysis and planning as Integral GIS designs and deploys additional functionality. Extended features for SDA include a "Typical Route" routine that calculates and plots the distance and time of frequent stops, determines an "Optimal Route Trace," and uses the information to benchmark productivity and plot “best route” for pickups and deliveries. The SDA tool has also supported logistics and decisions on location of station warehouse clusters, route layouts and restructuring, and productivity assessment of stations and routes.

Platform: Microsoft MapPoint, Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft .NET

Results: The Stop Density Analysis Tool has enabled DHL to achieve very high delivery and pick-up productivity, make each stop more profitable, and support company-wide initiatives to reduce route associated costs. As the knowledge and sophistication about the tool continues to grow, Integral GIS’s role has expanded to support sales and marketing decisions, identify properties, create maps, and support legal contracts.

Spatial Decision Support System

Client: GEC

Summary: Integral GIS has a reputation for our professionalism, work quality, and integrity. GEC, Inc. is a nationally prominent consulting company specializing in integrated planning and design services. They hired Integral GIS to build an interactive decision making tool to assist in site acquisition.

The tool would replace the existing process, adding additional visual features, and faster and more robust analysis of site acquisition suitability. It was essential that the tool had a rigorous selection process to ensure that parcels with the greatest suitability for program acquisition were marked for acquisition or prioritized for funding. It required a quantitative ranking strategy that properly evaluated the relative merits of candidate parcels with respect to program suitability. GEC wanted two tools: one that allowed users to choose their own criteria and weights and create custom reports to display their data, and another that provided pre-defined weights for specific features to provide a simpler user experience.

One tool that Integral GIS developed reclassified their parcels into a raster format from polygon format, to enable them to be analyzed against existing raster features that make land more or less desirable, such as: proximity to airports, storm protection features, ecological quality, breeding bird routes, storm surge, flood zone, rivers, cities, etc.

The other tool allowed user-identified and user-weighted criteria to be applied to the parcel, and mathematically calculated different scenarios, providing a final weighted grouping that helps in the selection process. The user can then create reports and maps to show the most acquisition worthy parcels.

Platform: Microsoft .NET, and ArcGIS Desktop

Results: Coastal Forest Conservation Initiative (CFCI) tool helped decision makers create quick mathematically accurate rankings of parcels selected for acquisition or funding and share this information quickly in a formatted map.