Integrated Forest Resource Information System (IFRIS)
Virginia Department of Forestry
IFRIS includes application modules that support enterprise computing functions, including the following: federal reporting requirements compliance, time and accomplishment reporting, forest stewardship plan management, forest lands (tracts and parcels) management, automated fiscal and strategic goal reporting and field data collection.

IFRIS will allow for the elimination of many existing paper forms, cumbersome workflows and will consolidate data capture and maintenance. Employee time and accomplishment (i.e., forestry practices) reporting are linked interactively to spatial features, including managed tracts and parcels facilitating advanced spatial decision support functions. Advanced web-based mapping functions allow for the creation and manipulation of a variety of spatial features including forest stands, tracts and parcels.

As part of the initial consulting services, Timmons Group assisted VDOF in the development of a supporting information architecture solution. The developed solution includes the use of ESRI’s ArcGIS Server®, ArcIMS® and ArcSDE® to meet spatial data management, reporting and analysis. The proposed architecture is extensible and will offer geospatial web services as part of a service oriented architecture (SOA) model. It is envisioned that the SOA geospatial web services will be consumed by other, non-spatial applications both within VDOF and other agencies in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Complex Resource Event Analysis Manager (CREAM)
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
The Complex Resource Event Analysis Manager (CREAM) was built to operate within a spatially-enabled internet map service architecture that supports the business and application needs of natural resources managers, namely those dealing with fish, wildlife, river, estuary, and coastal resource management. The purpose of this project was to create a number of robust tools to be deployed within ArcGIS Server and ArcIMS through an agency wide enterprise GIS. CREAM consists of the spatial clip along with gazetteer and mapmaker functionality to provide a means for users to draw upon multiple web-accessible GIS databases to produce aggregated tabular reports that list and detail resources that lie within any specific area of interest (AOI) demarcated by the user. The robust gazetteer allows users to quickly identify areas of interest.

CREAM enables a wide range of resource managers to generate reports simply and directly to support their resource planning emergency response work and management plans – without having to understand GIS or internet technology. A primary mission of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is to identify and protect resources at risk in the state. This includes areas at risk from spills of hazardous waste or oil, as well as activities such as dredge and fills or recreational boating which may impact seagrass beds and marine wildlife. By obtaining an accurate account of the extents and impacts to state resources, CREAM provides environmental managers with the information they need to implement regulatory and management plans.

GIS Needs Assessment related to Forestry Information Management System Requirements
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Timmons Group was selected by the State of Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Division of Forestry to perform GIS needs assessment tasks related to their Forestry Information Management System requirements.

An assessment was completed to assist the agency in performing due-diligence related to the integration of land management Geospatial technologies, including ESRI’s ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Mobile, into the DNR’s existing Forest Information Management System (WisFIRS). WisFIRS, currently in Release 1, manages many business processes for the agency in tabular format. Throughout the project, the team focused on understanding how to best leverage geospatial technologies and define the core requirements for WisFIRS Release 2 and beyond.

Enterprise Geospatial Land Management System
South Dakota Department of Game, Fish, and Parks
The South Dakota Department of Game, Fish, and Parks (GFP) contracted with Timmons Group to build a centralized, web-based enterprise information system that will integrate GIS functionality with land management activities allowing for temporal tracking of land resources, management activities, land inventory, planning and goals and objectives reporting. The application will allow GFP managers, conservation officers, and other constituents edit enterprise geodatabases online. The Enterprise Land Management Internet application will enable the agency to spatially manage all Game Production Areas (GPA’s) and their corresponding 5-year plans. In addition, the powers of geospatial analysis will enable users to easily and readily extract information out of the application through custom reporting, mapping, and querying.

Timmons Group will be building the Enterprise Land Management Internet application utilizing ESRI’s ArcGIS Server, ArcSDE, and ArcIMS software to facilitate the creation, editing, validation, storage, and management of spatial data elements. The incorporation of web services adhering to the principles of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) will allow the GFP to have access to a suite of geospatial functionality through the lands management application and provide the added benefit of a reusable design model to be leveraged by future applications.

In addition to the enterprise internet application, Timmons Group will be developing a field-based mapping and data collection application. The mobile solution will complement the web application and enable field users to check out attribute information (inventory data) for a GPA onto their mobile device and add, edit, and update data. Upon returning to the office, mobile devices can be docked and data seamlessly synchronized back to the enterprise ArcSDE database. This solution will utilize ESRI ArcGIS Mobile and SQL Server Compact technologies.

Geospatial Enterprise Platform (GEP)
Commonwealth of Virginia
Provisioned as the geospatial consulting and decision support framework for the Commonwealth, GEP provides an enterprise Architecture and Common Operating Platform for the management of multiple terabytes of geospatial information.

Supporting a number of geospatial offerings, including robust web-based applications and stand-alone geospatial decision support web services in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) model, GEP is designed to be highly scalable and fault-tolerant. The platform utilizes multiple ArcIMS®, multiple ArcGIS Server® and multiple ArcSDE Server®.

Web-Enabled GIS
Campbell County, VA
Deciding that web-enabled GIS would im