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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information
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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information
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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information.
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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information.
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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