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THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE
CENTER FOR GIS

LOCAL GIS AGENCIES


Fuller, Mossbarger, Scott & May / /Louisville and Jefferson County Information Consortium (LOJIC) / Louisville Water Company / PDR-TetraTech / PlanGraphics Inc. / Spatial Data Integrations SDI / US Army Corps of Engineers/ USGS


Fuller, Mossbarger, Scott and May Engineers, Inc.

GIS Contact: Louis Greenwell
(502) 212-5042

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Capabilities

FMSM has developed the framework to enter into the future of planning, engineering, and construction management. The center of this framework is the application of Geographic Information Systems to provide cost effective solutions to engineering problems, store and retrieve spatially-referenced information and produce high quality products that explain complex messages.

Examples of this application include:

-Hydraulic/Hydrologic Modeling - Linking HEC-1 and HEC-2 models to GIS to provide quick, accurate information for floodplain studies
-Digital Terrain Modeling - Building digital elevation models from mass point data, and performing line-of-sight, runoff, and view-shed analyses for watershed planning efforts
-Network / Routing Analysis - Creating topologically correct street centerlines and processing multiple impedance factors to provide least cost paths for solid waste routing
-Complaint Inspection & Monitoring - Geocoding and rectifying customer complaint information while also inspecting, solving, and prioritizing solutions
-Full Scale Map Production & Plotting - Mass production of thousands of color 24x36 site map sheets
-Relational Database Programming - Combing multiple datasets from diverse sources through database relationships and providing shared access in a multi-agency environment

FMSM's GIS network is powered by SUN Ultra and Pentium Workstations running the Solaris and Windows NT operating systems respectively. These workstations feature ESRI's ARC/INFO, ArcView, and MapObjects GIS software and have access to more than 80 gigabytes of networked spatial data. For more information regarding other GIS services please contact Louie Greenwell (U of L Geography Dept. Alumni, 1992) in Louisville, Kentucky at (502) 244-6519.

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LOJIC

GIS Contact: Curt Bynum (502) 540-6121
GIS Products Contact: Jane Poole (502) 540-6435

The Louisville/Jefferson County Information Consortium (LOJIC) represents a multi--agency effort to build and maintain a comprehensive GIS to serve all of Louisville and Jefferson County, Kentucky. Present LOJIC participants include the City of Louisville, Jefferson County, Louisville and Jefferson County Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD), the Property Valuation Administrator (PVA) and the Louisville Water Company. All participants are sharing the cost and effort involved in the full development and successful implementation of LOJIC.

The LOJIC network includes connections to MSD (Planning/Development, Stormwater Management, Engineering Records, Industrial Waste, Revenue, Customer Service, Data Processing); City of Louisville (Public Works, Maintenance, Solid Waste Management, Inspections/Permits/Licenses, City Police, Metro Parks, Development Authority); Jefferson County (Public Works, Divison of Planning and Development Services, Code Enforcement, Board of Elections, County Police); PVA and the Louisville Water Company.

There are over 90 data layers in the LOJIC Data Library including detailed planimetric and topographic data, property data, zoning data, census data, political district data, and digital imagery. Map products are available portraying many of these data layers.

Implementation of LOJIC has progressed and gained momentum as a source of reliable geographic information for all of Jefferson County. LOJIC is an excellent example of cooperation, communication, and coordination among various public agencies and utilities in an attempt to develop a shared GIS to the benefit, not only of the participants themselves, but the entire Louisville and Jefferson County community as a whole. LOJIC is committed to support the educational needs of our community and continues to work with the University of Lousville to fulfill those needs.

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Louisville Water Company

GIS Contact: James Bates
(502) 569-3600 ext.2225

Founded in 1856, the Louisville Water Company (LWC) is a quasi-municipal utility serving over 250,000 households and businesses in the Metropolitan Louisville Area through over 3,100 miles of water main. LWC is increasingly utilizing technologies such as GIS to enhance efforts to provide a safe and reliable water supply and to better serve its customers.

GIS is used as a major decision support tool for LWC's Main Replacement and Rehabilitation Program (MRRP) to identify and renew aging pipeline infrastructure. GIS is also being utilized in facilities/project planning, site analysis, water quality sampling, and water consumption analysis.

In December of 1996, LWC joined the Louisville/Jefferson County Information Consortium (LOJIC) as a full participant/owner. LWC is currently developing a company-wide strategy for effective implmentation of LOJIC as a data/information Resource and GIS as a whole.

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PDR-Tetratech


PDR Engineers Inc., part of the Tetra Tech Family, has offices in Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Alabama, and Indiana. PDR with a staff of more that 200 employees provides; GIS services, water and wastewater treatment, transportation, water resources, watershed management, sanitary sewer, water distribution, structural, construction engineering and management, and many other related engineering and architectural services to federal, state, and local government and commercial customers.

Tetra Tech (www.tetratech.com) is a leading provider of specialized management consulting and technical services in three principal business areas: resource management, infrastructure, and communications. Tetra Tech's clients include a diverse base of public and private-sector organizations serviced by more than 100 offices with 3800 Employees located in the United States and internationally.

PDR's GIS team performs many types of services, including:
- GIS custom application development
- GIS planning and implementation
- System, software, and network configuration
- Workflow management and centralization
- Digital base mapping
- Global Positioning System (GPS) surveying for monumentation
- Tri-services spatial data standards compliance
- Database management and administrative services
- Database development
- GIS system design and implementation.

PDR's GIS Specialists are trained in the use of ESRI and Intergraph GIS softwares to provide our clients with a full range of GIS capabilities. PDR Louisville utilizes mainly ESRI GIS including ArcView, ARC/INFO, and customized ESRI products. PDR's GIS Department utilizes the Windows NT platform for both servers and workstations.

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PlanGraphics Inc.

 

PlanGraphics is an independent consulting firm that helps clients design and implement geographic information systems (GIS) and automated mapping/facilities management (AM/FM) systems. The firm's consultants come from diverse backgrounds, giving PlanGraphics the ability to meet the needs of a great variety of clients, including local governments; investor- and publicly-owned utilities; multiparticipant groups; regional and state governments; and private industry. PlanGraphics also helps clients integrate AM/FM/GIS with other, related technologies, such as (among utilities) SCADA or CIS; or (in local governments) CAMA.
Objectivity is one of PlanGraphics' most valued characteristics. Because a consultant's role is to provide unbiased advice, the firm has always seen objectivity as a professional obligation. It is also the key to developing solutions that best meet clients' needs. Therefore, PlanGraphics does not sell hardware, software, aerial mapping, or data conversion services; nor does PlanGraphics have financial ties to companies that do.

PlanGraphics has provided a complete range of consulting services since its establishment in 1979. The firm's approach to consulting deals with both the technical and the organizational issues associated with the successful automation of geographic information:

- For clients who are just venturing into GIS and AM/FM, PlanGraphics provides strategic and conceptual design services. The firm evaluates maps and geographic data; analyzes client needs and requirements; and analyzes the potential benefits and costs of system development.
- For clients who have decided to proceed with system development, PlanGraphics provides detailed design, specification and procurement services, as well as assistance with implementation management and applications development.
- For clients with existing systems, PlanGraphics performs system audits and reviews; organizational and institutional analysis; system networking and integration and other services required to update, upgrade, or expand the capabilities of existing systems.

PlanGraphics specializes in analysis and recommendation of strategies and mechanisms for financing systems and allocating and recovering costs. PlanGraphics is a recognized national leader in addressing the emerging legal issues surrounding access to the information stored in GIS. PlanGraphics' clients and projects number in the hundreds. After 17 years of consulting, PlanGraphics enjoys a reputation for professionalism, trustworthiness, and integrity. It is a reputation based on results, not promises. PlanGraphics' consultants are frequent speakers and authors on GIS-related subjects. In addition, several of PlanGraphics' senior consultants are coauthors of "the book" on GIS, Geographic Information Systems: A Guide to the Technology, published in 1991 by Van Nostrand Reinhold.

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SDI (Spatial Data Integrations)

GIS Contact: Kim Doty
(502) 568-2591

Spatial Data Integrations (SDI) is a Louisville-based firm employing nearly 20 mapping and GIS professionals. SDI provides high-quality digital and conventional mapping and data conversion services to government, utility and private sector businesses.

Among SDI's clients are the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), Louisville Jefferson County Metropolitan Sewer District, the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the Bureau of Land Management, and South Harrison Water Corporation. In addition, SDI has a strong partnering relationship with Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI), developer of ARC/INFO and other industry-leading GIS software.

SDI offers state-of-the-art capability in GIS digital production and conversion, as well as fully-equipped cartographic and photographic laboratories.

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US Army Corps of Engineers

Contact: Terry Siemsen or Barry Vessels
(502) 582-5550

The US Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District was established in 1886 and serves the Nation with a diverse mission of civil works projects and military construction services. Primary civil works services include flood control, navigation, regulatory activities, water supply, water quality, hydropower, environmental enhancement and conservation, recreation and emergency response. Geographic Information System (GIS) databases are being developed to support the present and future planning, engineering, and operational needs of the District.

The Louisville District encompasses nearly 76,000 square miles of the Lower Ohio River Basin, including major portions of Kentucky and Indiana and smaller areas of Ohio, Illinois, and Tennessee. The District presently operates 20 multiple purpose reservoirs and fourteen locks and dams on the Ohio, Green and Kentucky Rivers. The District has constructed 119 local protection projects, projects largely operated by local governments.

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USGS Water Resources Division, Kentucky District

GIS Contact: Hugh Nelson
(502) 493-1947

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) provides the Nation with reliable, scientific information to describe and understand the Earth's natural resources. This information is important to minimize loss of life and property from natural disasters, manage water, biological, energy, and mineral resources, enhance and protect quality of life, and contribute to wise economic and physical development of those resources. The USGS provides real-time data during major floods or earthquakes, delivers more than 100,000 pages of earth and biological science information through the Internet, promotes standards for data sharing, and preserves massive archives of earth science information for long-term research and monitoring in areas of hazards, resources, and the environment. Examples of Geographic Information System (GIS) data bases available from the USGS include (but are not limited to) hydrography, digital elevation models (DEM's), landuse, and hydrologic drainage basins. For information on programs of the USGS, please contact:

District Chief, USGS
9818 Bluegrass Parkway
Louisville, 40299-1906
(502)-493-1900

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