Geospatial Decision Support and Asset Management Tools
Earthvisionz builds asset management applications that provide 2D map and 3D virtual globe based approaches for managing resources. Assets suited for geospatial applications include large facilites, linear pathways (rail, telecom) and distributed resources. Our applications are designed to integrate with GIS, digital document libraries, exisiting asset management systems, other internal databases and remotely accessed data sources, including live feeds. In addition, custom functions allow analysis of these previously unconnected data sources, and dashboard displays rapidly convey technical and business insights. The success of our applications is measured by the cost savings resulting from increases in resource utilization and decreases in time spent decision making.
LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS
Earthvisionz has developed an Environmental Compliance Data Management System (ECDMS) for Level 3 Communications that vastly reduces the time spent managing environmental liabilities and meeting regulatory obligations. In addition to improving resource utilization, the system also minimizes environmental liability and risk potential, and enables the demonstration of sustainable business practices.
Key aspects of the project were:
Full integration with existing systems.
Creation of 1500 site profiles containing dynamic data from many sources.
Auto verification function that compares current site and asset data against all applicable regulations.
Auto alert generation whenever an asset change crosses a regulatory threshold, whenever deadlines are approaching or past, or whenever applicable regulations change.
Asset data visualized on Google Earth.
System designed for field facing mobile portals and international expansion.
This project demonstrates our ability to create enterprise scale custom applications, providing innovative solutions within the exacting requirements of existing asset management systems. We have worked closely with Level 3 to ensure the ECDMS is a robust, self-supportable and sustainable application.
U.S. AIR FORCE
Earthvisionz (then Waterstone) was retained by the Air Education Training Command (AETC) to provide scientific, regulatory, and GIS services to support facility planning, remediation, and hydrogeologic analysis at 13 bases. The scope of work included the creation of a GIS-based decision support tool (called STAR) and data collection/interpretation for the preparation of GIS libraries. Additional tasks included meeting facilitation, regulatory negotiation, optimization of long-term groundwater monitoring programs, review and update of hydrogeologic conceptual site models and numerical groundwater flow models, human and ecological risk assessments and web-based technology transfer.
STAR used a virtual globe as its visual front-end and is a system of web services. STAR’s business and scientific application software is viewed via a dashboard on the virtual globe homepage. Using the STAR platform we created many technical and management tools as well as other features and applications that included:
Digital library of documents indexed by place
Dynamic access to Civil Engineering GIS
Environmental database query and analysis
Exceedence alerts and notifications
Workflow functionality tools, live video feeds, management and contracting tools
High resolution current and historic aerial imagery
Patented state saving tool
3D object support
Real time data presentation
Designed to support NEPA Compliance
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD
Union Pacific Railroad needed to improve how they managed environmental risk in California. Earthvisionz (then Waterstone) created a user friendly application that was designed specifically for environmental regulatory permitting, monitoring and compliance. The application included and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) analysis tool, contact and jurisdictional layers for local, state and federal agencies , 100s of custom GIS Layers and 100s of environmental layers. These were also integrated into existing UPRR data management systems.
The application enabled UPR to avoid repeated fines, massively improve environmental risk management, quickly identify environmental hotspots, and allow more rapid and accurate decision making. A field facing portal allowed the effective communication of environmental issues with field crews