Do you know how much of your property, campus, or office complex is covered by asphalt or concrete? Discover the crucial role of high-resolution aerial photogrammetry in assessing such impervious surfaces, vital for effective stormwater management. This presentation delves into how municipalities leverage the 2D planimetric mapping of man-made and natural features derived from aerial orthoimagery to support sustainable funding strategies. One leading example is stormwater utility fee programs, which charge businesses and residences a fee proportional to the impervious surface existing on their properties. Accuracy is the name of the game, and high-res orthos with high horizontal (x,y) accuracy is the tool of choice by municipalities to avoid billing disputes and lawsuits. Join us to gain insights into the evolving landscape of stormwater management and the pivotal role that aerial photogrammetry plays in reducing flood risks to our communities.
Maximize your GIS investment by learning the benefits of integrating a CMMS with Esri’s ArcGIS platform using a modern, GIS-Centric approach. Understand how work management can be accomplished faster and more accurate as work orders are developed from the map using GIS-Centric technology. Become versed in the best practices for identifying assets in the field, creating work orders, attaching work history to assets, and analyzing the data through reporting. Get an overall picture of how budgets are being consumed and how capital planning tools can help prepare for upcoming expenditures.
Over the past two years, the Town of Concord, MA deployed Field Maps for data collection and asset management applications across multiple departments. These projects include catch basin cleaning operations for MS4 compliance in Public Works, to developing an asset management and tracking program for the Natural Resources Commission, to quarterly hydrant flushing operations with the Water department.
Field Maps has proved to be an invaluable tool for jump-starting and recovering stalled data collection projects, and has become integral to how we as a GIS team serve our colleagues in their day to day operations. In this presentation we will offer insights on deploying and maintaining Field Maps solutions for a wide array of departments. We will demonstrate the customizations we utilize in Field Maps like auto-calculated fields and logic trees for field visibility, and explain how we integrate Field Maps with other Esri and third-party applications. We will cover the benefits and challenges of the application when working across knowledge and skill bases, discuss best practices for updating solutions built from scratch, and reflect on developing custom solutions as a stand-alone GIS team within a municipality.
